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We cover a lot of ground in this week’s timeShift. From diving into building your own plugin, finding the right dashboard, configuration options in the alerting feature, to monitoring your local weather, there’s something for everyone. Are you writing an article about Grafana, or have you come across an article you found interesting? Please get in touch, we’ll add it to our roundup. From the Blogosphere Going open-source in monitoring, part III: 10 most useful Grafana dashboards to monitor Kubernetes and services: We have hundreds of pre-made dashboards ready for you to install into your on-prem or hosted Grafana, but not every one will fit your specific monitoring needs.

The summer seems to be flying by! This week’s timeShift has a lot of great articles to share, including a Grafana presentation from one of our software engineers, Kubernetes monitoring, dashboard exports and backups via grafcli, scaling Graphite on AWS and a lot more. If you’ve come across a recent article about Grafana, or are writing one yourself, please get in touch, we’d be happy to feature it here. From the Blogosphere Democratizing Metrics with Grafana: Grafana Labs software developer Alexander Zobnin, recently gave a great talk at the Big Monitoring Meetup in St.

Many in the US were on holiday for Independence Day earlier this week, but that didn’t slow us down: team Stockholm even shipped a new Grafana release. This issue of timeShift has plenty of great articles to highlight. If you know of a recent article about Grafana, or are writing one yourself, please get in touch, we’d be happy to feature it here. Grafana 4.4 Released Grafana v4.4 is now Available for download Dashboard history and version control is here!

Grafana v4.4 is now available for download. Release Highlights The main highlight of this release is the new Dashboard History feature that was co-developed with Walmart Labs. Big thanks to them for this massive contribution! Dashboard History This features introduces version control for dashboards. Every time a dashboard is saved, a copy of the dashboard is saved as a previous version. A dashboard version can be compared with other versions and a previous version can be restored.

A big thank you to everyone for the likes, retweets, comments and questions from last week’s timeShift debut. We were delighted to learn that people found this new resource useful, and are excited to continue to publish weekly issues. If you know of a recent article about Grafana, or are writing one yourself, please get in touch, we’d be happy to feature it here. From the Blogosphere Monitoring a MariaDB server using Prometheus and Grafana: In this post Sameer outlines the process of adding a Prometheus endpoint to an existing chart (MariaDB in this case) and use Grafana to monitor the performance.

Introducing timeShift TimeShift is a new blog series we’ve created to provide a weekly curated list of links and articles centered around Grafana and the growing Grafana community. Each week we come across great articles from people who have written about how they are using Grafana, how to build effective dashboards, and a lot of discussion about the state of open source monitoring. We want to collect this information in one place and post an article every Friday afternoon highlighting some of this great content.

Grafana v4.3 is now available for download. Release Highlights New Heatmap Panel Graph Panel Histogram Mode Elasticsearch Histogram Aggregation Prometheus Table data format New MySQL Data Source (alpha version to get some early feedback) Dashed lines in the Graph Panel 60+ small fixes and improvements, most of them contributed by our fantastic community! Check out the New Features in v4.3 Dashboard on the Grafana Play site for a showcase of these new features.

Tuesday, May 23 6-9pm - Grafana Labs & NS1 invite you to join us for a special Monitorama Afterparty on Tuesday after the talks conclude at Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade, just a short walk from the conference venue. We’re unlocking all of your favorite arcade games for free-play, and will provide refreshments, friendly competition and a chance to win a classic Mini Nintendo Entertainment System. Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade: 115 NW 5th Ave, Portland OR, 97209

Grafana v4.3 Beta is now available for download. Release Highlights New Heatmap Panel Graph Panel Histogram Mode Elasticsearch Histogram Aggregation Prometheus Table data format New MySQL Data Source (alpha version to get some early feedback) 60+ small fixes and improvements, most of them contributed by our fantastic community! Check out the New Features in v4.3 Dashboard on the Grafana Play site for a showcase of these new features.

The Dream I have, for a long time, wished there was a way to easily export GitHub issues and comments to Elasticsearch. The standard GitHub graphs for commits and traffic are great but I have really been missing graphs and analytics on issues and comments. If we had issues & comments in Elasticsearch, with a well-defined index mapping, we could do some interesting analytics. For example: Look at project history in terms of issues created Look at project history in terms of comments (can be a measure of community engagement) See how different labels trend over time.