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GrafanaCon Recap: Running a Power Plant with Grafana A water and energy innovation company founded in 2005, Natel Energy builds hydropower turbines and designs resilient and distributed hydropower systems. In his talk at GrafanaCon EU, Natel Developer Ryan McKinley gave us a fascinating look at how the company is using Grafana to help run these next-generation power plants. “It’s a different model for turbine than you’re used to seeing,” McKinley said.

v5.1 Stable Release The recent 5.0 major release contained a lot of new features so the Grafana 5.1 release is focused on smoothing out the rough edges and iterating over some of the new features. Download Grafana 5.1 Now Release Highlights There are two new features included, Heatmap Support for Prometheus and a new core data source for Microsoft SQL Server. Another highlight is the revamp of the Grafana docker container that makes it easier to run and control but be aware there is a breaking change to file permissions that will affect existing containers with data volumes.

Welcome to TimeShift This week’s roundup highlights videos from Monitorama, making your own Grafana Plugins, NetApp’s fully open source monitoring stack and more. Have an article you’d like to have included in an upcoming TimeShift? Contact Us. Latest Beta Release: Grafana 5.2.0-beta1 In addition to Elasticsearch alerting, we have a number of other enhancements including: Downloads now available for ARM, Mac platforms Improved Docker image Prometheus improvements Discord alert notifications Dashboard and panel improvements Please try it out and let us know what you think.

Welcome to TimeShift We were in Portland this week attending Monitorama - one of our favorite annual conferences. We got the chance to catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and be part of an amazing community of passionate data and monitoring aficionados. Looking forward to Monitorama AMS in September! Also this week we released Grafana v5.2.0-beta1 and… Elasticsearch alerting has arrived! Download it today and let us know what you think.

Welcome to TimeShift We cover a lot of ground this week with posts on general monitoring principles, home automation, how CERN uses open source projects in their particle acceleration work, and more. Have an article you’d like highlighted here? Get in touch. We’re excited to be a sponsor of Monitorama PDX June 4-6. If you’re going, please be sure and say hello! Latest Release: Grafana 5.1.3 This latest point release fixes a scrolling issue that was reported in Firefox.

Monitoring with Azure and Grafana What is whitebox monitoring? Why do we monitor our systems? What is the Azure Monitor plugin and how can I use it to monitor my Azure resources? Recently, I spoke at Swetugg 2018, a .NET conference held in Stockholm, Sweden to answer these questions. In this video you’ll learn some basic monitoring principles, some of the tools we use to monitor our systems, and get an inside look at the new Azure Monitor plugin for Grafana.

Welcome to TimeShift The day has finally arrived; GDPR is officially in effect! These new policies are meant to provide more transparency about the data companies collect on users, and how that data is used. I for one am just excited that the onslaught of "We’ve updated our privacy policy" emails arriving in my pummeled inbox is nearing its end. Grafana Labs is no exception. We encourage you to check out our privacy policy, and if you have any questions, feel free to contact us at privacy@grafana.

Øredev - Carl Bergquist - Monitoring for Everyone What is monitoring? What do the terms log, metric, and distributed tracing actually mean? What makes a good alert? Why should I care? At a recent developer conference in Malmö, Sweden, I gave a presentation on monitoring and observability to discuss the high level concepts and common tools that are out there. Monitoring and observability can easily become quite complex, but at the heart of it, we simply want to know how our systems are performing, and when performance drops – be able to find out why.

Welcome to TimeShift In addition to our weekly roundup of Grafana-related articles and upcoming events, we’re pleased to announce Grafana v5.1.3 has been released! Also - We’re hiring! Be sure to check out our open positions. Latest Release: Grafana 5.1.3 This latest point release fixes a scrolling issue that was reported in Firefox. In Graph panels, the legend text shifted with each move of the scrollbar (#11830). See what else is new in Grafana v5.

Welcome to TimeShift Grafana v5.1.2 is available and includes an important bug fix for MySQL, plus an update for GDPR compliance. See below for more details and the full release notes. Also, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 videos are now available including talks from members of the Grafana Labs team! Check out these talks below. If you would like your article highlighted in our weekly roundup, feel free to send me an email at hello@grafana.