Dashboards

Improving Graphite rollup and runtime consolidation in Metrictank and Grafana 7.0 with lineage metadata

The Grafana and Metrictank/Graphite teams have been hard at work to deliver an exciting new feature for the upcoming Grafana v7.0 release: a rollup indicator and series lineage metadata breakdown for Metrictank. This blog will cover the new functionality around Metrictank metadata, the rollup indicator, and the lineage visualization coming in 7.0.

Grafana 7.0 sneak peek: Query history in Explore

Grafana v7.0 is coming next month! Here’s a sneak peek of one of its features: the query history in Explore. Query history lets you view the history of your querying. All queries that have been starred in the Query history tab are displayed in the Starred tab. This allows you to access your favorite queries faster and to reuse these queries without typing them from scratch.

How Cortex uses the Prometheus Write-Ahead Log (WAL) to prevent data loss

Since the beginning of the Cortex project, there was a flaw with the ingester service responsible for storing the incoming series data in memory for a while before writing it to a long-term storage backend. If any ingester happened to crash, it would lose all the data that it was holding.

Remote Workforce Monitoring Dashboards 101

It's more important than ever to ensure your applications, tools and services are available for your remote workforce. Having visibility into the health and performance of these business-critical applications and infrastructures is critical for IT to maintain business continuity. With visibility into cloud applications like Zoom and Office 365, as well as the performance of critical services like VPNs and other tools, your team can quickly respond to issues and prevent outages.

Grafana 7.0 sneak peek: New table panel for dashboards

Grafana v7.0 is coming next month! Here’s a sneak peek of one of its features: a brand-new table panel. The current (old) table panel has accumulated a ton of feature requests over the years, and we are excited to finally close many of them in 7.0 with this new table panel. Among the many new things this panel can do is to include other visualizations inside cells. For example, you can configure a cell style (per column) to render the value as a bar gauge.