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Grafana’s plugin tools help developers extend Grafana’s core functionality and create plugins faster, with a modern build setup and zero configuration. Grafana Scenes, meanwhile, is a new front-end library, introduced with Grafana 10, that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within Grafana application plugins.
Cribl Search is reshaping the data search paradigm, empowering users to uncover and analyze data directly from its source. Cribl Search can easily reach out and query data already collected in Amazon S3 (or S3 compatible), Amazon Security Lake, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage, and more. By searching data where it lives, you can dramatically speed up your search process by avoiding the need to move data before analyzing it.
Today's enterprise networks are diverse and complex. Rather than the simple network perimeter of old, bad actors can attack through multiple entry points, including cloud-based applications. Not to mention, these networks generate massive amounts of transactional data. Because enterprise networks have become larger, they're more difficult to secure and manage. As a result, IT operations teams and security analysts seek better ways to deal with the massive influx of information to improve security and observability.
In the first part of our 2023 PromCon recap, we spent OpenObservability Talks exploring the Perses open source project. We found heavy users of open source Grafana who found themselves grappling with issues arising from managing a vast number of dashboards, and the need to manage dashboards as code in a GitOps fashion.
In the intricate web of modern software systems and full-stack observability, knowing how requests flow and interact across distributed components is paramount. Distributed tracing tools can help you. To better understand how distributed tracing works and benefits, here’s our selection of top distributed tracing tools to choose from.
I have worked as a helpdesk specialist, cyber security analyst, information systems security engineer, professional services consultant, etc. At this point in my career, I have seen enough to relate with anyone in the IT world. Let’s narrow our focus and chat about monitoring system health and troubleshooting. Tool sprawl is the standard.
The term Server Monitoring, whilst put simply can be defined as the practice of obtaining into the behavior of your servers both physical and virtual, can be deemed complex. This is purely due to the vast range of servers that exist. Due to this, it is difficult to place a ‘one size fits all’ approach to Server Monitoring.
