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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.

Grafana v4.2 Stable is now available for download. Just like the last release this one contains lots bug fixes and minor improvements. We are very happy to say that 41 of 53 issues was closed by pull requests from the community. Big thumbs up! Release Highlights Hipchat: Adds support for sending alert notifications to hipchat #6451, thx @jregovic Telegram: Added Telegram alert notifier #7098, thx @leonoff LINE: Add LINE as alerting notification channel #7301, thx @huydx Templating: Make $__interval and $__interval_ms global built in variables that can be used in by any datasource (in panel queries), closes #7190, closes #6582 Alerting: Adds deduping of alert notifications #7632 Alerting: Better information about why an alert triggered #7035 Orgs: Sharing dashboards using Grafana share feature will now redirect to correct org.

Today is a momentous day for the Grafana project and for raintank, the company behind Grafana. We’re rebranding as Grafana Labs, and announcing something we’ve been working on for the better part of a year: GrafanaCloud. First the rebrand The growth and momentum of Grafana, and the popularity of the Grafana brand, has been unbelievable since we started raintank (indeed, accelerating the growth of Grafana is raintank’s #1 mission). As we mentioned at GrafanaCon, we’re tired of saying we are raintank, you know, the company behind Grafana?

Grafana v4.2 beta Grafana v4.2 Beta is now available for download. Just like the last release this one contains lots bug fixes and minor improvements. We are very happy to say that 27 of 40 issues was closed by pull requests from the community. Big thumbs up! Release Highlights Hipchat: Adds support for sending alert notifications to hipchat #6451, thx @jregovic Telegram: Added Telegram alert notifier #7098, thx @leonoff LINE: Add LINE as alerting notification channel #7301, thx @huydx Templating: Make $__interval and $__interval_ms global built in variables that can be used in by any datasource (in panel queries), closes #7190, closes #6582 Alerting: Adds deduping of alert notifications #7632 Alerting: Better information about why an alert triggered #7035 Orgs: Sharing dashboards using Grafana share feature will now redirect to correct org.

Last November we held the second GrafanaCon. This time it was actually a real conference and not a glorified meetup (like GrafanaCon 2015). It was a full two day conference, with over 200 attendees, 10 sponsors, 30 talks covering a diverse set of topics from the Grafana ecosystem & user community. We also had an awesome and unique venue aboard the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum which is an aircraft carrier that has been converted into a museum highlighting US naval and air force history (it also has the spaceship Enterprise on board).

Grafana v4.1 is now available for download. The new version contains a lot of improvement and the majority of them come from pull requests. The fact that we can release 4.1.0 so quickly after 4.0 is all thanks to the Grafana community and all the contributors. Big thumbs up! Release Highlights Graph: Support for shared tooltip on all graphs as you hover over one graph. #1578, #6274 Victorops: Add VictorOps notification integration #6411, thx @ichekrygin Opsgenie: Add OpsGenie notification integratiion #6687, thx @kylemcc Cloudwatch: Make it possible to specify access and secret key on the data source config page #6697 Elasticsearch: Added support for Elasticsearch 5.