timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 24
Welcome to TimeShift
It’s hard to believe it’s already December. Here at Grafana Labs we’ve been spending a lot of time working on new features and enhancements for Grafana v5, and finalizing our selections for GrafanaCon EU. This week we have some interesting articles to share and a number of plugin updates. Enjoy!
#### Latest Release
Grafana 4.6.2 is now available and includes some bug fixes:
- Prometheus: Fixes bug with new [Prometheus](/oss/prometheus/) alerts in Grafana. Make sure to download this version if you're using Prometheus for alerting. More details in the issue. #9777
- Color picker: Bug after using textbox input field to change/paste color string #9769
- Cloudwatch: build using golang 1.9.2 #9667, thanks @mtanda
- Heatmap: Fixed tooltip for "time series buckets" mode #9332
- InfluxDB: Fixed query editor issue when using
>or<operators in WHERE clause #9871
Download Grafana 4.6.2 Now
From the Blogosphere
Monitoring Camel with Prometheus in Red Hat OpenShift: This in-depth walk-through will show you how to build an Apache Camel application from scratch, deploy it in a Kubernetes environment, gather metrics using Prometheus and display them in Grafana.
How to run Grafana with DeviceHive: We see more and more examples of people using Grafana in IoT. This article discusses how to gather data from the IoT platform, DeviceHive, and build useful dashboards.
How to Install Grafana on Linux Servers: Pretty self-explanatory, but this tutorial walks you installing Grafana on Ubuntu 16.04 and CentOS 7. After installation, it covers configuration and plugin installation. This is the first article in an upcoming series about Grafana.
Monitoring your AKS cluster with Grafana: It’s important to know how your application is performing regardless of where it lives; the same applies to Kubernetes. This article focuses on aggregating data from Kubernetes with Heapster and feeding it to a backend for Grafana to visualize.
CoinStatistics: With the price of Bitcoin skyrocketing, more and more people are interested in cryptocurrencies. This is a cool dashboard that has a lot of stats about popular cryptocurrencies, and has a calculator to let you know when you can buy that lambo.
Using OpenNTI As A Collector For Streaming Telemetry From Juniper Devices: Part 1: This series will serve as a quick start guide for getting up and running with streaming real-time telemetry data from Juniper devices. This first article covers some high-level concepts and installation, while part 2 covers configuration options.
How to Get Metrics for Advance Alerting to Prevent Trouble: What good is performance monitoring if you’re never told when something has gone wrong? This article suggests ways to be more proactive to prevent issues and avoid the scramble to troubleshoot issues.
Thoughtworks: Technology Radar: We got a shout-out in the latest Technology Radar in the Tools section, as the dashboard visualization tool of choice for Prometheus!
GrafanaCon Tickets are Going Fast
Tickets are going fast for GrafanaCon EU, but we still have a seat reserved for you. Join us March 1-2, 2018 in Amsterdam for 2 days of talks centered around Grafana and the surrounding monitoring ecosystem including Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxData, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, and more.
Grafana Plugins
We have a number of plugin updates to highlight this week. Authors improve plugins regularly to fix bugs and improve performance, so it’s important to keep your plugins up to date. We’ve made updating easy; for on-prem Grafana, use the Grafana-cli tool, or update with 1 click if you’re using Hosted Grafana.
Clickhouse Data Source - The Clickhouse Data Source received a substantial update this week. It now has support for Ace Editor, which has a reformatting function for the query editor that automatically formats your sql. If you're using Clickhouse then you should also have a look at CHProxy - see the plugin readme for more details.
Influx Admin Panel - This panel received a number of small fixes. A new version will be coming soon with some new features.
Some of the changes (see the release notes) for more details):
- Fix issue always showing query results
- When there is only one row, swap rows/cols (ie: SHOW DIAGNOSTICS)
- Improve auto-refresh behavior
- Show 'message' response. (ie: please use POST)
- Fix query time sorting
- Show 'status' field (killed, etc)
Gnocchi Data Source - The latest version of the Gnocchi Data Source adds support for dynamic aggregations.
BT Plugins - All of the BT panel plugins received updates this week.
Upcoming Events:
In between code pushes we like to speak at, sponsor and attend all kinds of conferences and meetups. We have some awesome talks and events coming soon. Hope to see you at one of these!
- Cloud native applications and computing
- Containers
- Microservices
- Central orchestration processing
- And more
Tweet of the Week
We scour Twitter each week to find an interesting/beautiful dashboard and show it off! #monitoringLoveFor a minute I was really worried that I spotted @grafana pic.twitter.com/cIL7W49xL4
— Raj Dutt (@nopzor) November 30, 2017
YIKES! Glad it's not – there's good attention and bad attention.
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