Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Grafana

The concise guide to Loki: How to get the most out of your query performance

Thanks for joining me for Part 3 of “The concise guide to Grafana Loki,” a series of blog posts that takes a closer look at best practices for various aspects of using the log aggregation system. Today’s post is my holiday present for all the folks out there running Loki who would like to get the most query performance they can out of their cluster.

How to integrate Grafana Alerting and Telegram

Grafana Alerting helps you identify issues almost immediately after they occur — and you don’t have to constantly check your system to get the insights you need. Instead, Grafana Alerting sends alert notifications to reach you wherever you are, whether that’s in a Slack channel or in a messaging app like Telegram. Telegram is a viable option for receiving alerts, especially when you want personal or individual notifications rather than those sent to a team.

Grafana dashboards in 2023: Memorable use cases of the year

As the number of Grafana users grows each year, so does the variety of reasons people are using Grafana dashboards. During 2023, members of the our community — both inside and outside of the company — shared some of their incredible professional and personal projects, including how Grafana has allowed them to successfully launch a rocket, cut back on carbon emissions, and even help balance a national power grid.

Grafana Cloud 2023: Year in review

Open source is the foundation of everything we do here at Grafana Labs, and that was on full display this year as we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Grafana and continued to improve and expand our lineup of OSS projects. But 2023 was also a banner year for Grafana Cloud, as more organizations than ever turned to the fully managed stack to carry out their observability strategies more easily and quickly.

The concise guide to Grafana Loki: Everything you need to know about labels

Welcome to Part 2 of the “Concise guide to Loki,” a multi-part series where I cover some of the most important topics around our favorite logging database: Grafana Loki. As I reflect on the fifth anniversary of Loki, it felt like a good opportunity to summarize some of the important parts of how it works, how it’s built, how to run it, etc. And as the name of the series suggests, I’m doing it as concisely as I can.

Get started with continuous profiling: Grafana Cloud Profiles

Watch a step-by-step demo of how to get started with Grafana Cloud Profiles, the hosted continuous profiling tool that gives you a cost-efficient way to better understand the resource usage of code. Plus, get tips on how to best leverage continuous profiling for better visibility into your observability stack.