timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 45
In addition to our weekly roundup of Grafana-related articles and upcoming events, we’re pleased to announce Grafana v5.1.3 has been released!
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Getting more value from your Stackdriver logs with structured data
Logs contain some of the most valuable data available to developers, DevOps practitioners, Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and security teams, particularly when troubleshooting an incident. It’s not always easy to extract and use, though. One common challenge is that many log entries are blobs of unstructured text, making it difficult to extract the relevant information when you need it.
Instrument Your Go App In Minutes with the Honeycomb Beeline for Go
Want magical per-request instrumentation to roll effortlessly out of your Go app without even looking like you’re trying? Meet the Honeycomb Beeline for Go!
Sumo Logic: The Machine Data Analytics Platform for Modern Applications
You've decided to run your business in the cloud to leverage all the benefits the cloud enables – speed to rapidly scale as your business grows; elasticity to handle the buying cycles of your customers; and the ability to offload the data center management headaches to someone else so you can focus your time, energy and innovation on building a great customer experience.
A Fluent Bit Tutorial: Shipping to Elasticsearch
What the Beats family of log shippers are to Logstash, so Fluent Bit is to Fluentd — a lightweight log collector, that can be installed as an agent on edge servers in a logging architecture, shipping to a selection of output destinations.
Garbage Collection Settings for Elasticsearch Master Nodes
Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC tuning, especially when it turns out there simply isn’t enough heap, there are exceptions. We found that G1 GC, for example, works well on big heaps. This allows you to have less, bigger nodes, which in turn means less network traffic in a large cluster.
Sumo Logic Announces Search Templates to Improve the Customer Experience with Better, Faster Application Insights
Providing the ultimate customer experience is the goal of every modern company, and to do that they need complete visibility into every aspect of their business. At Sumo Logic, we make it our mission to democratize machine data and make it available for everyone, which allows organizations to gain the required visibility at each step. That’s why today, we are excited to announce the availability of Search Templates to our customers.
The Power of Centralized Logging
In a world where IT infrastructure becomes more complex with each additional layer, knowing what is happening in your infrastructure becomes more complicated every day.
Add Custom Markers from the Query UI
When it comes to observing systems, it helps to have tools that quickly and efficiently allow you to highlight events, anomalies, or simply changes to the code base. Enter Markers.
Distributed Tracing with Zipkin and ELK
While logs can tell us whether a specific request failed to execute or not and metrics can help us monitor how many times this request failed and how long the failed request took, traces help us debug the reason why the request failed, or took so long to execute by breaking up the execution flow and dissecting it into smaller events.