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Use Grafana Alloy to collect Azure metrics with less hassle

May 8, 2024 By Kyle Eckhart In Grafana
Are you using the Azure metrics exporter to ship telemetry data to Grafana Cloud? Are you overwhelmed with the amount of configuration and complexity necessary to avoid being rate limited? Well, did you know that with Grafana Alloy, our distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, you can now: Let’s look at how these two features can reduce the complexity of your Alloy configuration.
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Logs with Firehose: Stream logs to the AWS Observability app cheaper and easier

May 7, 2024 By Pablo Balbi In Grafana
AWS is an essential part of many organizations’ tech stacks today, which is why we continue to make it easier to observe your environment in Grafana Cloud. We recently launched AWS Observability, a fully managed application for visualizing and alerting on dozens of AWS offerings. And with our latest update, we’re making it cheaper and simpler to ingest and query your AWS logs.
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How to Stream AWS Logs to Grafana Cloud via Amazon Data Firehose | Grafana

May 7, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
In this video, we show you the steps to configure your Grafana account so you can start streaming AWS logs to Grafana Cloud using Amazon Data Firehose. It takes just a few minutes to set up so you can see your logs in Grafana Explore. Save money and time by using this new approach!
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Grafana Incident: new tools for faster, simpler incident response

May 6, 2024 By Mack Górski In Grafana
At Grafana Labs, we’re committed to helping teams dramatically improve how they manage and respond to incidents. Through Grafana Incident Response & Management (IRM), we provide tools to empower teams, streamline processes, and enhance the effectiveness of incident management strategies—and we’re constantly looking for ways to make our solution even better.
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Data source security in Grafana: Best practices and what to avoid

May 6, 2024 By Simon Crute In Grafana
Recently, an incorrect security report was published, claiming that there’s a SQL injection attack in Grafana. As we have communicated to the security researcher, this report is wrong. Authenticated users in Grafana have the same permissions as the user configured for the underlying data source.
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Understanding Dashboards in Grafana | Panels, Visualizations, Queries, and Transformations

May 5, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Gain a fundamental understanding of what Dashboards are in Grafana and how they can be used to visualise your data to ensure your systems remain healthy and operational. We'll cover the must know concepts, including panels, visualizations, queries, and transformations, that will ensure you have all the tools you need to build awesome dashboards in Grafana. Chapters: ☁️ 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.
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Setting up your Grafana k6 performance testing suite: JavaScript tools, shared libraries, and more

May 2, 2024 By Pepe Cano In Grafana
Editor’s note: This blog post is the second in a series of posts about organizing your performance testing suite with Grafana k6. If you haven’t already, be sure to check out the first post in the series, which explores how to implement reusable test patterns and other best practices within your testing suite.
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Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring: How to simulate user journeys to ensure the best possible end-user experience

May 1, 2024 By Peter Schretlen In Grafana
Here at Grafana Labs, we have a long-standing commitment to helping our users understand how their applications and services behave from an external point of view. This critical practice — known as synthetic monitoring — has been a key focus of ours for nearly a decade. Back in 2015, we released worldPing, our first product to help measure the user experience and improve website performance.
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Proactively monitor user journeys with Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

May 1, 2024 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring proactively monitors the performance of your APIs and web applications from the user's perspective. Powered by Grafana k6, Synthetic Monitoring combines GUI-based and as-code monitoring to improve efficiency, collaboration, and application reliability. Watch this demo of how to use Synthetic Monitoring in Grafana Cloud.
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