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GrafanaCONline: Strava: the Venn diagram of observability

In the era of services architecture, reliability engineering, and container orchestration, the word “observability” is widely used but rarely clearly defined. What is “observability” really? Of the various observability concepts and tools, what are the distinctions and overlaps in various technologies?

GrafanaCONline Day 2 recap: The future of worldPing and an industrial IoT use case of Grafana

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great online sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. After Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product (and Cortex co-creator) Tom Wilkie kicked off the conference with a keynote discussing the future of Grafana and the upcoming Grafana 7.0 release, GrafanaCONline continued with a focus on Grafana’s global reach.

Elastic's Guide to Data Visualization in Kibana

Practitioners the field of data visualizations often talk about 2 types of visualizations: exploratory vs explanatory. To quote Google definitions, “Exploratory data visualizations (EDVs) are the type of visualizations you assemble when you do not have a clue about what information lies within your data. Nov 19, 2018” Explanatory visualization, by contrast, is defined as “what happens when you have something specific you want to show an audience” (Storytelling with data blog, April 2014)

GrafanaCONline Day 1 recap: Opening keynote with Grafana Labs leadership

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. The conference kicked off yesterday with a keynote from Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product (and Cortex co-creator) Tom Wilkie.

GrafanaCONline: Fillet your herrings using Grafana

Datask, founded in 2019, has been using Grafana to monitor real time production results for one of the largest fishery companies in the Netherlands. This company has developed its own automatic Fillet machine, which is unique for the fishery industry. These machines will be exported to several countries in the world. We are using industrial IOT technology to monitor these machines and present performance figures to various stakeholders.

Introducing template variable saved views for dashboards

Datadog dashboards provide immediate visibility and insight into your environments. Setting template variables enables you to filter your dashboard graphs on the fly to visualize specific sets of tagged objects. Now, with saved views, you can save sets of frequently used template variables in order to easily find the data you most care about with just a few clicks.

Grafana 7.0 sneak peek: Inspect drawer lets you get raw data and download as CSV

Grafana v7.0 is coming soon! Here’s another sneak peek of one of its features: the inspect drawer. The inspect drawer is a feature that every panel will support, including internal as well as external community plugins. In this new drawer, you will be able to view the raw data in a table format, apply some predefined transformations, and download as CSV. “Download as CSV” previously only existed as a custom feature for the Graph & Table panel.

Kibana 7 and Beyond Logz io Enhancements for Success

Kibana 7 introduced some new changes to the popular visualization platform, and this webinar will address how those updates are reflected in Logz.io. The recent enhancements included a cross-app dark theme, a new time picker, new filtering, a better dashboarding experience, and a significant boost in performance. But have the changes impacted your Logz.io user experience? We will dig in and detail how you can avoid common pitfalls and challenges. Expect to learn about.

Grafana 7.0 preview: New image renderer plugin to replace PhantomJS

Many Grafana users export images of their dashboard panels. This feature powers the ability to receive alerts with a rendered image of the panel attached, which is valuable for quickly spotting if something is about to go sideways in production. Since Grafana v2.0, when support for server-side rendering of dashboard panels as images was introduced, PhantomJS has served as the built-in image renderer that enables this feature.