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In case you haven’t heard about it yet, FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a huge, free, gathering for open-source software enthusiasts that happens every February in Brussels, Belgium. It’s a non-profit event put together by the community, and it’s one of the biggest of its kind - we’re talking about around 10,000 people from all over the world coming to hang out and talk about all things open source.

InfluxDB 3 builds on open-source technologies—Flight, DataFusion, Arrow, and Parquet—but even if a developer made their own time series database using the same technologies, they would not be able to replicate InfluxDB 3. The FDAP stack provides many of the building blocks required for a high-performance database, such as the fast, multi-threaded, streaming, columnar execution engine that defines InfluxDB 3.

Open source is one of the most exciting, but often misunderstood, innovations of our modern world. I still remember the first time I installed linux on my laptop, saw the vast array of packages I could install on it, all the utilities and libraries that make it work, all the forum threads filled with advice and debugging and troubleshooting, and I thought: “Wait, all of this is free???” It’s free, you can use it, and it’s awesome.

Log management tools provide visibility into the performance and behavior of systems, applications, networks, and infrastructure components. By collecting and analyzing logs, you can monitor for anomalies, track trends, and identify potential issues before they escalate. Choosing the right log management solution requires careful consideration of several factors to ensure that it meets your specific needs and goals. Here are the most popular open source log management tools to help you choose.

New InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise products now available for alpha testing. Today we’re excited to announce the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core (download), the new open source product in the InfluxDB 3 product line along with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise (download), a commercial version that builds on Core’s foundation. InfluxDB 3 Core is a recent-data engine for time series and event data.

Open source has always been the bedrock for everything we build here at Grafana Labs, going all the way back to Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard’s first commit in December 2013. Ten years after Grafana Labs was founded, open source continued to be our driving force as we worked to develop and evolve our core OSS tools and technologies in 2024.