Hello again! We are Eldin and Christine – or, as our lovely editor has dubbed us, Regis and Kelly – jumping back in for another post. This week, to highlight the big tent and community theme, we are going to write about how our Datadog plugin allows you to “see it all in one place.” Datadog is a popular monitoring and analytics platform that allows you to easily install an agent so you can get started with collecting metrics right away.

In the midst of a complex and challenging global environment, I’m proud and excited to announce General Availability for Logz.io Infrastructure Monitoring, our new metrics monitoring and analytics solution based on Grafana. Additionally, we’re supporting Early Availability for our new Distributed Tracing offering powered by Jaeger. The release represents a huge next step in our mission to provide the best open source for observability as a fully managed, cost-effective cloud service.

Greetings! This is Eldin and Ronald reporting in from the Solutions Engineering team at Grafana Labs. You’ve probably seen some previous posts from our colleagues Christine and Aengus or maybe some of the fantastic Loki videos that Ward has put up on YouTube. This week, Ronald and I will walk through how to leverage Prometheus and Loki as data sources to create a simple but awesome Grafana dashboard that enables quick searches of logs.

In this article, learn: Given that enterprises use a mix of physical, virtual, and cloud native infrastructure, it can be a struggle to maintain the availability and performance of digital services. OpsRamp's Topology Explorer delivers visual representations of dependency relationships between application components and hybrid infrastructure that feed into both service maps and service-centric AIOps.

This blog post will pit Grafana vs Graphite against each other, two of the most popular observability tools on the market today. R&D organizations typically implement a wide technology stack. They include varying services, systems, or tools to support their production and development environments. Most, if not all, of these companies have SLAs requiring R&D to provide high availability solutions and the ability to respond to incidents in real time.

Even though search is the primary function of Elasticsearch, getting search right can be tough — and sometimes even confusing. To retrieve your data in the most efficient way from Elasticsearch, sometimes you’ll need to overcome some Lucene’s obstacles. While you need to familiarize yourself with Lucene Query Syntax for advanced Kibana use, Lucene’s implementation within Elasticsearch still has some challenges.

We’re happy to announce that Cortex v1.0 has been released! The horizontally scalable, durable, and fast Prometheus implementation is now generally available for production use. At Grafana Labs, we’ve been using Cortex in production for almost three years, including to power the Prometheus backend for the Grafana Cloud managed logging and metrics platform.