timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 19

Grafana 4.6 Stable is now available! The Grafana 4.6 release contains some exciting and much anticipated new additions:

• The new Postgres Data Source
• Create your own Annotations from the Graph panel
• Cloudwatch Alerting Support
• Prometheus query editor enhancements

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From the Blogosphere

Lyft’s Envoy dashboards: Lyft developed Envoy to relieve operational and reliability headaches. Envoy is a “service mesh” substrate that provides common utilities such as service discovery, load balancing, rate limiting, circuit breaking, stats, logging, tracing, etc. to application architectures. They’ve recently shared their Envoy dashboards, and walk you through their setup.

Monitoring Data in a SQL Table with Prometheus and Grafana Joseph recently built a proof-of-concept to add monitoring and alerting on the results of a Microsoft SQL Server query. Since he knew he’d eventually want to monitor many other things, from many other sources, he chose Prometheus and Grafana as his starting point. In this article, he walks us through his steps of exposing SQL queries to Prometheus, collecting metrics, alerting, and visualizing the results in Grafana.

Crypto Exchange Trading Data Discovering interesting public Grafana dashboards has been happening more and more lately. This week, I came across a dashboard visualizing trading data on the crypto exchanges. If you have a public dashboard you’d like shared, Let us know.

GrafanaCon EU Early Bird is Ending

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Grafana Plugins

Each week we review updated plugins to ensure code quality and compatibility before publishing them on grafana.com. This process can take time, and we appreciate all of the communication from plugin authors. This week we have two plugins that received some major TLC. These are two very popular plugins, so we encourage you to update. We’ve made updating easy; for on-prem Grafana, use the Grafana-cli tool, or update with 1 click if you are using Hosted Grafana.

UPDATED PLUGIN

Zabbix App Plugin - The Zabbix App Plugin just got a big update! Here are just a few of the changes:

• PostgreSQL support for Direct DB Connection.
• Triggers query mode, which allows counting active alerts by group, host and application, #141.
• sortSeries() function that sorts multiple timeseries by name, #447, thanks to @mdorenkamp.
• percentil() function, thanks to @pedrohrf.
• Zabbix System Status example dashboard.

Update

UPDATED PLUGIN

Wroldmap Panel Plugin - The Worldmap panel also got a new update. Zooming with the mouse wheel has been turned off, as it was too easy to accidentally zoom in when scrolling the page. You can zoom in with the mouse by either double-clicking or using shift+drag to zoom in on an area.

• Support for new data source integration, the Dynamic JSON endpoint #103, thanks @LostInBrittany
• Fix for using floats in thresholds #79, thanks @fabienpomerol
• Turned off mouse wheel zoom

Update

Upcoming Events:

11.1.17 | New York, NY - Cloud Native in the Datacenter: Why, How & Who

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11.7.17 - 11.10.17 | Malmö, Sweden - Øredev

Carl Bergquist - Monitoring for Everyone | Once your product starts to provide value you might want to make sure that the system is behaving and performing as you expect. That's when you start looking for something to verify that everything is working as expected. Aka monitoring. But what is monitoring? What kind of monitoring tools are there? How have they evolved lately?

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11.14.17 | San Francisco, CA - InfluxDays

Dan Cech - Data Visualization & Alerting with Grafana | Using Grafana with InfluxDB to create compelling data visualizations and easily incorporate alerting & notifications based on the data being visualized.

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		<p>Nice - but dashboards are meant for sharing! You should upload that to our list of <a href="https://grafana.com/dashboards?search=Icinga" target="_blank">Icinga2 dashboards</a>.</p>
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