In this talk, we take a somewhat heretical stance in the monitoring world, and describe why and how we chose to use PostgreSQL as a Prometheus backend to support complex queries (and get a full SQL interface).

Carl Bergquist kicks off day 2 of GrafanaCon and shows some of the new provisioning features in Grafana 5.

This talk will show how you can use grafanalib to manage your dashboards, some cool things you can do with it, and talk a little bit about its design & internals.

How Grafana can be used to visualize future data, although default usage is focussed on historical data.

Erik Nordstrom provides an update of TimescaleDB.

The new InfluxDB query language is functional in nature. Conceptually it looks like D3 or jQuery. Functions are chained off each other. This gives greater flexibility for what the language can do and opens up new possibilities for UI builders. This talk will cover the details of the language and user interface ideas that can pair up nicely with it. We'll look at query examples that perform math on metrics, interpolation, and similarity measures.

Paul Dix talks about some of the new updates in InfluxDB.

In this talk Dimitri will talk about their experience integrating Grafana with Prometheus and deploying it at scales - the obstacles they had to overcome and exciting possibilities Grafana has offered Percona.

This story is about how the art of data visualisation can change your whole perspective and help you find the right answers

Amgen has been on a journey to confront the multi-million dollar elephant in the room. Technical debt that had been passed down for 10 years in their monitoring portfolio. But how to overcome inertia and a failure to understand how to maximize internal value for data that belongs to organization to begin with?