https://grafana.com/blog/Recent content in Grafana Labs blog on Grafana LabsHugo -- gohugo.ioenhttps://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/08/ci/cd-observability-a-rich-new-opportunity-for-opentelemetry/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssMon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/08/ci/cd-observability-a-rich-new-opportunity-for-opentelemetry/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssEditor’s note: This article was originally published on The New Stack. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) are the backbone of modern software delivery, but there’s still limited visibility into their processes. Here’s how that’s changing with OpenTelemetry (OTel), and why those changes are so exciting. There are different definitions of CI/CD depending on whom you ask, but the consistent part is that it’s continuous — a never-ending feedback loop that’s all about reducing manual processes, generating deployable software and rooting out issues before they reach production.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/05/how-to-customize-your-loki-deployment-with-ansible/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssFri, 05 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/05/how-to-customize-your-loki-deployment-with-ansible/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssMichal Vaško is a DevOps engineer at cloudWerkstatt, with a passion for open source technology and a deep love for observability. While operations or platform teams have long relied on visibility into metrics to react swiftly, the idea of doing the same thing with logs was once just a dream. Thankfully, Grafana Loki has revolutionized the logging stack, giving you the same level of visibility with logs that you get with metrics.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/03/getting-started-with-grafana-best-practices-to-design-your-first-dashboard/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/03/getting-started-with-grafana-best-practices-to-design-your-first-dashboard/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssAt its core, observability is about helping humans understand and optimize complex systems. It enables engineering teams to ask questions on the fly, and to learn not only when something goes wrong but why. Observability also allows organizations to proactively identify and address performance issues — before their end users even have a chance to notice. For over a decade, Grafana dashboards have empowered organizations to achieve these (and more) observability goals by unifying and displaying data in beautiful graphs, charts, and other visualizations.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/02/identify-anomalies-outlier-detection-forecasting-how-grafana-cloud-uses-ai/ml-to-make-observability-easier/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssTue, 02 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/02/identify-anomalies-outlier-detection-forecasting-how-grafana-cloud-uses-ai/ml-to-make-observability-easier/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssAt Grafana Labs, our No. 1 approach when building AI/ML tools is to enable humans (a.k.a. all of us!) to understand complex systems. In other words, we want to make observability still human, but less complicated. (Our second use case? Making social media more fun.) We believe that AI/ML tools in observability should work towards minimizing toil and the need for everyone in your organization to have the same deep domain knowledge about your increasingly complex stack.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/01/industrial-iot-visualization-why-united-manufacturing-hub-chose-grafana-to-power-its-iiot-platform/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssMon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/07/01/industrial-iot-visualization-why-united-manufacturing-hub-chose-grafana-to-power-its-iiot-platform/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssDenis Gontcharov is a data consultant who helps aluminum smelters break down data barriers. For the past five years, he has supported the aluminum industry with IT and data services as an independent consultant. Denis also works as a Developer Advocate at the United Manufacturing Hub. Jeremy Theocharis is co-founder and CTO at United Manufacturing Hub. He is an expert in industrial IoT with over seven years of experience leading large-scale IIoT projects in various industries.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/27/grafana-security-update-grafana-loki-and-unintended-data-write-attempts-to-amazon-s3-buckets/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssThu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/27/grafana-security-update-grafana-loki-and-unintended-data-write-attempts-to-amazon-s3-buckets/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssEditor’s note: We have updated the copy to reflect changes from our partners at Google. (June 27 19:00 UTC) Out of an abundance of caution, we are publishing this as a security advisory. You may have read or heard about the Medium blog post, “How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode,” which described how unauthorized write attempts to an Amazon S3 storage bucket led to a $1,300 bill, and the news that AWS subsequently made a change to S3 in which unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate are free of charge.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/26/observabilitycon-2024-register-and-reserve-your-spot-today/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 26 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/26/observabilitycon-2024-register-and-reserve-your-spot-today/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssStart spreading the news: registration is officially open for ObservabilityCON 2024, taking place September 24-25 in New York City! Join us at our flagship observability event to explore all the latest updates to the Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics), connect with industry experts, and get actionable advice to advance your organization’s observability strategy. You can register now to take advantage of early bird pricing and save 50% on a standard full-price ticket.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/25/grafana-11.1-release-new-visualization-features-grafana-alerting-updates-and-more/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssTue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/25/grafana-11.1-release-new-visualization-features-grafana-alerting-updates-and-more/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssThe Grafana 11.1 minor release comes on the heels of unveiling Grafana 11 at GrafanaCON, but it packs in some ease of use visualization improvements, updates to Grafana Alerting (I spy a new settings page), and some impactful changes to the overall accessibility of Grafana. Grafana 11.1: download now! For even more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation. New in Grafana dashboards and visualizations Text wrapping in table panel Available in public preview across all editions of Grafanahttps://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/24/grafana-cloud-updates-new-visualization-options-performance-test-analysis-grafana-alerting-improvements-and-more/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssMon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/24/grafana-cloud-updates-new-visualization-options-performance-test-analysis-grafana-alerting-improvements-and-more/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssWe consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/21/shorten-your-feedback-loop-java-observability-with-opentelemetry-grafana-cloud-and-digma.ai/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssFri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2024/06/21/shorten-your-feedback-loop-java-observability-with-opentelemetry-grafana-cloud-and-digma.ai/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rssRon Dover is CTO and co-founder of Digma.ai, an IDE plugin for code runtime AI analysis to help accelerate development in complex code bases. Ron is a big believer in evidence-based development and a proponent of continuous feedback in all aspects of software engineering. Traditionally, software developers have relied on simple logs to understand code execution and troubleshoot issues. Metrics, traces, dashboards, and gauges have predominantly been the domain of IT and infrastructure teams, leaving developers with limited visibility into their application’s performance.