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Introduction to Ingesting Logs into Loki with Fluentd and Fluent Bit | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and plan to use FluentD or Fluent Bit as your telemetry collector? Or are you trying to decide which agent is right for you? In this "Zero to Hero" episode, we cover the basics of FluentD and Fluent Bit, highlighting their differences and helping you determine when to use one over the other. Additionally, we guide you through configuring both agents' Loki plugins to write logs directly into Loki.

New: Explore Profiles Demo - A Queryless Experience to Manage and Analyze Profiling Data | Grafana

In this video, Ryan Perry (Co-founder of Pyroscope and Engineering Director at Grafana Labs) demonstrates Explore Profiles, a Grafana app plugin that helps you quickly and easily derive insights from your profiling data — without having to use complex query languages. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

The new, queryless UI for Grafana Pyroscope: Introducing Explore Profiles

We are excited to share a significant update for Grafana Pyroscope users and the broader open source community: the launch of Explore Profiles, a new application that makes it easier and faster to surface meaningful insights from your profiling data. Explore Profiles is a Grafana app plugin designed to integrate seamlessly with Grafana Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling backend, providing a smooth, queryless experience to browse and analyze your profiling data.

A complete guide to LLM observability with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud

In the fast-paced world of technology, change is constant — and nowhere is that more evident today than in the flood of new features and advancements involving large language models (LLMs). They power various applications, from chat bots to advanced copilots. And as these LLMs and applications become more sophisticated, it will be vital that they work well and reliably. This is where observability, with the help of OpenTelemetry (using OpenLIT), plays an essential role.

Get insights from logs without writing a query: Explore Logs is in Public Preview

Whether it’s 3 in the morning and you’re trying to resolve an outage, or you’re testing a new feature and you need to resolve a recurring issue so you can move on to your next task: time is of the essence. Wouldn’t it be great if your observability tooling could direct you to your “aha” moment, without you needing to fumble with writing a query?

Explore Logs - A new queryless experience for Loki | Grafana

Mat Ryer takes you through the new way to explore your logs using a queryless, click-based user experience for Grafana Loki. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

How to visualize Azure Resource Graph data with KQL

Using SquaredUp, you can query Azure Resource Graph with KQL to pull Change history, Azure Service Health and maintenance schedules. For the uninitiated, Azure Resource Graph is a series of tables holding information on Azure resources and how they are related. Its data is used many places within Azure itself (such as the Azure Portal’s native search) and it’s data can help us with many use cases as it is designed to help with queries at scale.

Grafana Cloud updates: Kubernetes Monitoring enhancements, browser tests in Grafana Cloud k6, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

SQUPCAST Ep. 8: Relayed from behind enemy lines

In this episode we're chatting with Matthew Long from our engineering team about how our Relay Agent get's behind enemy lines to surface all your juicy on-prem enterprise data into our fancy cloud dashboards. We'll cover the classic server deployment and chat about some container-based options too.

Performance testing with Grafana k6 and GitHub Actions

By running performance tests continuously and automatically, you can identify and correct performance regressions as they occur. One way to do this is by integrating performance testing into your development process. In this step-by-step post, we explore how to do just that, using Grafana k6 and GitHub Actions. k6 is an open source load testing tool to test the performance of APIs, microservices, and websites.