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Pro Tips: Using Grafana in Quality Assurance

Quality assurance is a priority at Evolution Gaming, the world leader in live casino gaming, and as Andrejs Kalnacs, Lead Software Developer in Test, said during his GrafanaCon EU talk in March, Grafana has been a game changer. While Kalnacs and his team have found Grafana to be invaluable in many areas, here are three best practices they’ve learned throughout their journey.

Grafana 5.3.3 and 4.6.5 released with important security fix

Today we are releasing Grafana 5.3.3 and 4.6.5. These patch releases include an important security fix for all Grafana installations between 4.1.0 and 5.3.2. We also release 5.3.4 at the same time containing some fixes and improvements that we have been holding off for a while to release 5.3.3.

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 68

The team was busy speaking at events in Europe and the US this week, showing off new Grafana features and talking about what’s to come. Check out the presentation on logging in Grafana below; we’ll share the video once it’s available. Also in this week’s issue we have 2 new plugins to share, and your weekly dose of Grafana related blog articles and videos.

Pro Tips: Using Prometheus and Grafana for Monitoring Power Usage

Sure, thousands of technologists around the world are using Prometheus and Grafana to monitor their business systems. But how about putting these technologies to work at home? Erwin de Keijzer, a Linux engineer at the Dutch consulting firm Snow, gave a talk at GrafanaCon EU about how he used Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the power usage… of his washing machine. “This is a talk that’s a bit different scale than we’ve heard so far” at GrafanaCon, he quipped.

timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 66

All Things Open, a conference focused on open source technologies, was held in Raleigh, NC this week and was bursting at the seams with over 4,500 attendees. Grafana Labs’ own Tom Wilkie gave his RED Method: How to instrument your services talk to a standing-room only crowd. We were excited to speak at and sponsor ATO and look forward to next year.

Make time-series exploration easier with the PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB query editor

Grafana v5.3 comes with a new visual query editor for the PostgreSQL datasource. The query editor makes it easier for users to explore time-series data by improving the discoverability of data stored in PostgreSQL. Users can use drop-down menus to formulate their queries with valid selections and macros to express time-series specific functionalities, all without a deep knowledge of the database schema or the SQL language.