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As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Shavonn, a developer on the plugins team.

Check out three of the most popular questions—and answers!—on the Grafana Labs community board.

Lazy loading of dashboard panels has been a popular feature request from the Grafana community for many years, and it was finally added in v6.2. Here’s a closer look.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Josue, a backend engineer.

Show us the monitors! The post-geographical Grafana Labs team members show off personal workspaces—and their best home office hacks.

VictorOps' Melanie Postma on how teams can leverage VictorOps and Grafana dashboards to reduce MTTR.

Design Engineer Jordan J. Hamel explains how Amgen uses Grafana to create fair and equal on call rotations—and decrease employee burnout.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Alex, a fullstack developer.

At InfluxDays, Grafana Labs' David Kaltschmidt showed how Grafana's Explore feature allows users to visualize metrics and logs using Influx. Here's a recap.

From time to time, we’ll be spotlighting community datasources. First up: the BigQuery plugin developed by the folks at DoiT.

GitLab is so 'ridiculously transparent' that it shares all of its metrics on a public Grafana dashboard. Backend Engineer Ben Kochie explains how and why.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Marcus, who works mostly in backend development.

Monitoring synthetic metrics can optimize the user experience on your application. Here's how Grafana makes that easier

Metrics for all -- and all for metrics. Grafana Labs is on a mission to empower more people with access to data. Here's how and why

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Peter, a frontend developer.

At GrafanaCon, AMMP Technologies Cofounder Svet Bajlekov talked about his vision for an open technology stack for industrial IoT.

Here are six lessons from Icinga CPO Blerim Sheqa for successful visualization.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Dominik, a frontend developer.

TimescaleDB's Diana Hsieh makes a convincing case for using SQL in time series monitoring.

In case you missed it, all the highlights from KubeCon + CouldNativeCon EU from the Grafana Labs team.

At KubeCon last week, Weaveworks' Bryan Boreham and I gave a talk about how we've improved Cortex's query performance. Here's a recap.

Grafana Labs' David Kaltschmidt shares his best tips for creating foolproof Kubernetes dashboards so no one loses sleep over on calls ever again.

The Grafana 6.2 stable release includes improved security, enhanced provisioning workflow, a new Bar Gauge panel, Elasticsearch 7 support, and lazy loading of panels, among other things.

Verizon once had 500,000 lines of code for stored procedures. Here's how Grafana, MySQL, and new technical innovations simplified analytics and automated development efforts at the company.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Johannes, a frontend developer.

Check out these cool Grafana dashboards that organizations are using and sharing with the public.

Your monitoring stack should not cost you stacks. At GrafanaCon, Sensu Software Engineer Nikki Attea demonstrated one effective way to collect and monitor data using Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana.

Monitoring emergency services vehicles is a matter of life or death, so Trapeze uses Grafana to make dozens of data sources more accessible.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Andrej, a fullstack developer.

Last month, we released Grafana 6.1.5, which included an important security fix. We want to share with users our incident review.

Instead of grepping through logs, Grafana Labs Software Engineer Callum Styan explains how Loki makes log aggregrgation for incident investigation easier.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Leonard, a backend developer.

The Internet of Things has transformed people’s lives, and now a startup called AMMP Technologies is using it -- and Grafana -- for electrification projects across rural Africa.

Today we release Grafana 5.4.4 and 6.1.5 which include an important security fix. We recommend that you install this version

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Patrick, who works with UX/UI design and frontend development.

When an executive sees a Grafana dashboard and asks, 'What does this really mean for business?' Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev shows you how to effectively answer that question.

SevOne, a 14-year-old company in the network monitoring space, started using Grafana for self-monitoring and fell in love with it. Now they've developed a feature to live stream data sources.

As Grafana Labs continues to grow, we'd like you to get to know the team members who are building the cool stuff you're using. Meet Hugo, a fullstack developer.

'People seem to notice when the Bloomberg Terminal doesn't work,' said Stig Sorenson, Head of Production Visibility Group at Bloomberg. 'We have had a few outages that were high profile, so about three years ago we decided to embark on a journey where we took telemetry a bit more seriously.'

When Grafana Labs built Loki, the team was determined to incorporate the best of both worlds, making it much simpler to use, whether you want to run a single process on bare metal or microservices at hyperscale.

A new panel and component architecture is finally starting to bear fruit in terms of new visualizations and capabilities. Get a sneak peak of our new visualizations and learn how you can try them out right now.

The DigitalOcean Marketplace lets you launch a range of open source software, including Grafana, with just a few clicks. Here's how we automated the building of the images.

In the beginning, the mission of the logging and monitoring team at eBay was simple: “to give out APIs that the developers in the company could use to instrument their applications [in order] to send logs,” Vijay Samuel said during his talk at GrafanaCon about eBay’s journey to using Grafana plugins. “We had our own developers who built out UIs for being able to search view and debug their issues.

With the recent release of Azure Monitor and Google Stackdriver plugins, the engineers at Grafana Labs have their heads in the clouds.

v6.1 Stable released! A few weeks have passed since the excitement of the major Grafana 6.0 release during GrafanaCon, which means it’s time for a new Grafana release. Grafana 6.1 iterates on the permissions system to allow for teams to be more self-organizing. It also includes a feature for Prometheus that enables a more exploratory workflow for dashboards. What’s New in Grafana v6.1 Ad hoc filtering for Prometheus - A new query-focused workflow for ad hoc data exploration and troubleshooting.

Where we left off: AWS had taken the Elasticsearch software and launched their own cloud offering in 2015, and Elastic N.V. had doubled down on an 'open core strategy.'

Two years ago, when it was time for the L.A.-based company to find and implement a perfect metrics monitoring partner, the process proved to be more slow-burn love affair versus whirlwind romance.

In this blog post we will go through how you can create plugins for Grafana using ReactJS.

At GrafanaCon EU 2018, Booking.com System Administrator Vladimir Smirnov gave a talk about why the company started to use Graphite almost five years ago, and how he and his team scaled it to handle millions of metrics per second.

The emergence of a new breed of commercial open source company, challenging the dominance of public cloud, has set off a licensing war that calls into question the very meaning of open source.

The rest of the city may still have been in a post-Oscars haze, but nearly 300 monitoring mavens gathered in downtown L.A. bright and early on Feb. 25 to kick off GrafanaCon 2019.

How Grafana is enabling Washington D.C. to reduce energy costs as well as its carbon footprint.

v6.0 Stable released! GrafanaCon LA is underway! Check out the live stream on the Grafana youtube channel. I am proud to announce that we are releasing Grafana v6.0 stable today. Before every major release I feel super excited about the progress that has been made and with this release, this is especially true. Grafana v6.0 brings many new and exciting features and enhancements and at the same time includes a new React platform and architecture for panels & plugins that will fundamentally change Grafana’s future as a platform.

We are excited to announce the availability of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Source for Grafana.

You’ve used Grafana to visualize what’s happened in the past, or what’s currently happening. But what about what might happen in the future?

To make it even easier for you to get the debian and rpm packages you need we're moving to our own repository. Armv7 and arm64 included.

Loki and Grafana are a perfect match. The backend is kept lean and space-efficient, while the user interface allows ad-hoc field parsing and simple statistics. This post details some of the UX goals we had to deliver logs simpler and faster.

Loki: Prometheus-inspired, open source logging for cloud natives. The motivations, architecture, and the future of logging in Grafana!

v5.4 Stable released! Grafana v5.4 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements. Alerting Limit false positives with the new For setting Google Stackdriver Now with support for templating queries MySQL gets a new query builder! Graph Panel Highlight time regions and more Team Preferences Give your teams their own home dashboard Alerting Grafana v5.4 ships with a new alert rule setting named For which is great for removing false positives.

Quality assurance is a priority at Evolution Gaming, the world leader in live casino gaming, and as Andrejs Kalnacs, Lead Software Developer in Test, said during his GrafanaCon EU talk in March, Grafana has been a game changer.

Today we release Grafana 5.3.3 and 4.6.5 which include an important security fix. We recommend that you install this version

Erwin de Keijzer, gave a talk at GrafanaCon EU about how he used Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the power usage… of his washing machine.

The new graphical query editor in Grafana v5.3 for PostgreSQL offers a visual interface and TimescaleDB compatibility

v5.3 Stable released! Grafana v5.3 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements. Google Stackdriver as a core datasource! TV mode is improved and more accessible Alerting with notification reminders Postgres gets a new query builder! OAuth support for Gitlab is improved Annotations with template variable filtering Variables with free text support Google Stackdriver Grafana v5.

If you’ve attended GrafanaCon before, you already know how awesome it is. But if you’ve never been and you’re on the fence, read on to find out just what we can pack into a two-day conference.

Grafana Labs has created the Explore UI, which allows you to iterate quickly through Prometheus queries, while leaving your dashboards intact. This post will walk you through a demo and show you how to try it out yourself.

Monitoring mixins: A solution for packaging together templates for Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts related to a specific piece of software.

Today we release Grafana 5.2.3 and 4.6.4 which include an important security fix. We urge everyone using LDAP or OAuth authentication to upgrade immediately.

VP, Product at Grafana Labs, Tom Wilkie, discusses the RED Method - his microservices-oriented monitoring philosophy.

Flux, the long-awaited new functional query processing engine for InfluxDB, has finally landed, and you can try it out now with Grafana's new Flux Plugin!

Learn how to create a beautiful and elegant dashboard in Grafana for Ballerina metrics without any hassle.

At GrafanaCon EU, we gathered representatives of the Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxDB, and Timescale projects in the hopes of starting a spirited conversation about the current state of Time Series Databases. They didn’t disappoint!

With 5,000 engineers, 325,000 customers running its software, 2 data centers fully owned and operated, 200 node sites around the world, and a diverse architecture developed over almost four decades, Bloomberg has that many reasons to be committed to monitoring.

The recent 5.1 release focused on smoothing out the rough edges from the 5.0 release. The major highlights of the Grafana 5.2 release are two much-requested, long-awaited features.

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.

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.

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.

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.

v5.0 Stable Released We have been working on Grafana v5 for most of 2017 and it’s finally ready! This release is important in a different way than previous releases as main focus has been on improving the core Grafana features and attributes. That means vastly improved UX and page design, easier and more flexible dashboard building enabled by a new grid layout system. Better support for large installations with the addition of Dashboard Folders, Teams and Permissions.

Staying Busy Between Code Pushes. Maintaining a regular cadence of pushing out releases, adding new features, implementing bug fixes and staying on top of support requests is important for any software to thrive; but especially important for open source software due to its rapid pace. It’s easy to lose yourself in code and forget that events are happening all the time – in every corner of the world, where we can learn, share knowledge, and meet like-minded individuals to build better software, together.

Grafana Launches Microsoft Azure Data Source Microsoft is a whole new company. Way back in college, I remember that they were vehemently anti-Linux, with Steve Ballmer even going so far as to call open source a “cancer”. More recently, I’ve been watching with a sense of astonishment and admiration at some of their moves and announcements. I’ve been particularly impressed with the rise of Azure, and how they’ve come to embrace open source and open standards.

Release Highlights The Grafana 4.6 release contains some exciting and much anticipated new additions: The new Postgres Data Source Create your own Annotations for the Graph panel Cloudwatch Alerting Support Prometheus query editor enhancements This is a big release so check out the other features and fixes in the Changelog section below. Annotations Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events.

Grafana v4.5 is now available for download. This release has some really significant improvements to Prometheus, Elasticsearch, MySQL and to the Table panel. Prometheus Query Editor The new query editor has full syntax highlighting. As well as auto complete for metrics, functions, and range vectors. There is also integrated function docs right from the query editor! Elasticsearch: Add ad-hoc filters from the table panel Table cell links!

Grafana v4.4 is now available for download. Release Highlights The main highlight of this release is the new Dashboard History feature that was co-developed with Walmart Labs. Big thanks to them for this massive contribution! Dashboard History This features introduces version control for dashboards. Every time a dashboard is saved, a copy of the dashboard is saved as a previous version. A dashboard version can be compared with other versions and a previous version can be restored.

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?

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.

Grafana v4.1 Beta 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-beta1 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.

Grafana v4.0.2 is stable is now available for download. After about 4 weeks of beta fixes and testing are proud to announce that Grafana v4.0 stable is now released and production ready. This release contains a ton of minor new features, fixes and improved UX. But on top of the usual new goodies is a core new feature: Alerting! Read on below for a detailed description of what’s new in Grafana v4!

Grafana v4.0 Beta is now available for download. As usual this release contains a ton of minor new features, fixes and improved UX. But on top of the usual new goodies is a core new feature: Alerting! Read on below for a detailed description of what’s new in Grafana v4! Alerting Alerting is a really revolutionary feature for Grafana. It transforms Grafana from a visualization tool into a truly mission critical monitoring tool.

I know many are awaiting the next Grafana release, which will include the long anticipated alerting feature along with many other improvements. Besides data visualization, we hope alerting will be a fundamental feature in Grafana; a feature that will continue to evolve and improve for many years. That is why we have really taken the time get the design of the alert rule model and execution engine as solid and future proof as possible.

Grafana 3.1.0 stable is now available for download! Release Highlights Dashboard Repository at Grafana.net. You can now discover and upload dashboards. Dashboard time range and variables values are now always synced with URL. Constant Template Variable have been added to make dashboard sharing easier (use as metric prefix). Singlestat can now map ranges to text. Metrics Grafana now supports sending metrics about itself. Full changelog Download Grafana 3.

Grafana 3.1 beta is now available for download! In this release we have focused on making monitoring more collaborative by enabling Grafana users to easily share and discover dashboard definitions. There is now a dashboards section no Grafana.net where you can discover and share dashboards for popular infrastructure and server applications. Release Highlights Dashboard Repository at Grafana.net. You can now discover and upload dashboards. Dashboard time range and variables values are now always synced with URL.

Grafana 3.0 Stable is now available for download! Over the past month we’ve been polishing features, fixing bugs and making sure everything is working the way it’s supposed to. We’ve been overwhelmed by the excitement and response around this release. See the features below to get a more in-depth look at what 3.0 has to offer, and check out what else we’ve been up to. Download Grafana 3.0. Live Demo.

In part 1, I wrote a simple Clock Plugin. However, it’s too simple to be usable for most people. In this post, I will show how to make this plugin customizable and at the same time explain more about how plugins can hook into Grafana. To make the clock panel more usable, we should be able to: choose a 12 or 24 hour clock set the background color set the font size set date/time formats  Then after that we’ll add some more features.

NOTICE: DISCONTINUATION OF SNAP TELEMETRY PROJECT. The Snap Telemetry project will no longer be maintained by Intel. Intel will not provide or guarantee development of or support for Snap, including but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases or updates. Patches to this project are no longer accepted by Intel. If you have an ongoing need to use Snap, are interested in independently developing it, or would like to maintain patches for the community, please create your own fork of the project.

Last Thursday was a big day for the raintank team. Not only did we release a beta of Grafana 3.0 and a preview of Grafana.net, but we also announced our partnership with Intel (more on that later). A trifecta. Grafana 3.0 will represent our biggest release ever, with over 1,500 commits from more than 30 developers around the world. Read more about the Grafana 3.0 beta release on the Grafana blog

People have been asking for a Clock Panel in Grafana so I thought I’d give it a try and at the same time show how to build plugins for Grafana. Grafana 3.0 introduces a new plugin system architecture and these plugins can be shared with everyone through Grafana.net. TL;DR If you just want a clock panel for Grafana then the finished Clock Panel plugin is here. Check out the current version of the code on GitHub here.

Today is the day! We are pleased to announce that Grafana 3.0 beta is released along with a preview of Grafana.net! Since our last release approximately 3 months ago, we’ve been extremely busy. This is the biggest update to Grafana ever, with over 1500 commits by over 30 contributors. Read on below to learn more about what’s new in 3.0 or: Download Grafana 3.0. Live Demo. Release Highlights Commercial Support Commercial Support subscriptions for Grafana are now generally available.

NOTICE: DISCONTINUATION OF SNAP TELEMETRY PROJECT. The Snap Telemetry project will no longer be maintained by Intel. Intel will not provide or guarantee development of or support for Snap, including but not limited to, maintenance, bug fixes, new releases or updates. Patches to this project are no longer accepted by Intel. If you have an ongoing need to use Snap, are interested in independently developing it, or would like to maintain patches for the community, please create your own fork of the project.

Covered in this article: Lucene Query Format Templated Queries Sawtooth-Like Graphs Incomplete data at the beginning and the end of a graph Sum function broken About one year after I created an issue at Grafana’s GitHub page, we finally have support for using Elasticsearch as a time series database! At that time, I was trying to lower the burden of adopting the open source Java performance monitoring tool stagemonitor which I’m the project lead of.

At raintank, all our software is open source. We haven’t talked much about how the whole stack will fit together (more on that soon…), but starting with Grafana, every piece of it is being developed in the open. Our core revenue model is OpenSaaS: We couple our software with optional hosted services that we provide. These services are also powered by software that is open source. Most of our users will simply choose to download our open source software, and won’t pay us anything.

We are proud to announce the v2.6.0 stable release. This release includes a new Table panel, an example of which you can see below. This new flexible panel enables multiple ways for visualizing time series and logs in a tabular format. The release also includes a new InfluxDB query editor, support for Elasticsearch pipeline aggregations, support for multiple Cloudwatch credentials and a ton of minor fixes and improvements. Check out the What’s New In Grafana v2.

Ever Since Grafana 2.0 was released with its own backend, we’ve added many ways to help you board and authenticate users. It’s easy to use Grafana as a hub to invite and manage users across multiple Organizations. We’ve also added LDAP support to allow for external authentication. But what if you want to do something else? SSO? TACACS? ActiveDirectory? Something custom that you’re running already? Would the new backend make it hard for those use cases?

Release highlights This release adds a new panel, namely the top requested Table Panel. Yes it is finally here! The reason for the beta release status is because the release also includes a new and more powerful InfluxDB query editor. This new editor works very differently from the previous one and requires more feedback and testing before a stable release can be made. Download Grafana 2.6 beta now The main documentation pages have yet to be updated with information about how to use the new table panel and the new InfluxDB editor so for now refer to this blog post for guidance.

This fall has been busy, exciting and at times just plain crazy at raintank. We’ve been campaigning on both sides of the Atlantic, spreading the democratize metrics message. The whirlwind kicked off at Velocity East, NYC on Oct 12. Litmus is our first OpenSaaS app for Grafana. If you care about your global performance and availability, you should check it out. A preview was announced at Monitorama in June, and we’ve boarded hundreds of early access users since then.

Release highlights Download Grafana 2.5 now This is an exciting release, and we want to share some of the highlights. The release includes many fixes and enhancements to all areas of Grafana, like new Data Sources, a new and improved timepicker, user invites, panel resize handles and improved InfluxDB and OpenTSDB support, LDAP improvements, Graph panel units. New time range controls A new timepicker with room for more quick ranges as well as new types of relative ranges, like Today, The day so far and This day last week.

We’ve been working to implement many of the features you’ve requested since the release of 2.0, and are excited to announce the release of Grafana 2.1 today. We recommend that all Grafana users upgrade to this release. Grafana 2.1 brings improvements in three core areas: dashboarding, authentication, and data sources. As with every Grafana release, there is a whole slew of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. Download Grafana 2.

Grafana 2.0 stable is now released and available for download. We provide deb, rpm and generic binary tar packages for download as well as APT and YUM repositories. If your platform is not included, check the Building from source guide. Download page Installing on Debian / Ubuntu Installing on RPM-based Linux (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuse, RedHat) Installing via Docker Migrating from 1.x to 2.x What’s New in Grafana v2.

On March 1st 2015, we asked the Grafana community for a favor. We published a public survey to solicit feedback on the current state of the product to better understand how Grafana is being used and to weigh in on some new features we were considering. The number and the quality of responses exceeded our expectations. Lots of really useful feedback on what is missing and what could be better.

Today is an exciting day for the Grafana project, Grafana 2.0-beta1 is released! So much hard work during the last 5 months has gone in to making this release. Grafana 2.0 comes with its own backend server (written in Go). So upgrading requires a little more than for previous upgrades. Dashboards are 100% backward compatible. We provide deb, rpm and regular binary tar packages for download. If your platform is not included, check the Building from source guide.

As some of you already know, at least those who read the previous blog post on the future of Grafana, we have been working on a backend for the Grafana 2.0 release. A backend is really essential if Grafana is to be able to expand its capabilities to support alerting, PNG rendering of panels, and of course user managment and authentication. A backend will also make it easier to install and get started with Grafana as you will no longer need to learn how to configure nginx or deal with complex CORS issues for Graphite or OpenTSDB.

Torkel and the rest of the team have been hard at work on the next generation of Grafana, which is the foundation for what we’re building here at raintank. We’re really excited about the many new features and capabilites that Grafana 2.0 brings to the table, but they all have big implications from a UI/UX perspective. Our first task at raintank in a post-capacity world was clear: make sure that new functionality didn’t negatively impact the UI/UX.

This is a semi long blog post about my experience working on Grafana during 2014 and the plans for 2015. So if you want to skip the personal & history stuff jump to the end for some news and plans for 2015. In the beginning Grafana has now been in development for a little over one year. The first commit dates to Dec 5 2013. It started just as a late night hack trying to get Graphite to work with the histogram panel in Kibana.

New release today! v1.9.0-rc1 is now available for download. play.grafana.org is updated to run 1.9.0-rc1. There is also a New features in v1.9 dashboard that highlights some of the new features. No breaking changes, so update should be problem free. But this is a release candidate so there could be some bugs. Release highlights 1) Singlestat panel This release marks the introduction of a new panel! A multitude of options makes this panel pretty flexible.

New release today! v1.8.0-rc1 is now available for download. This is probably the biggest release since the first version was released. So many new features, enhancements and general UI improvements that this will likely be a very long blog post. play.grafana.org is updated to run 1.8.0-rc1, now with InfluxDB demo dashboards. There is also a New features in v1.8 dashboard that highlights some of the new features. Release highlights 1) Mixed graph styling You can override any display setting for a specific series using the series name or a regex pattern.

New release today! v1.7.0-rc1 is now available for download. This is a big release with a many new features and improvements. There are also a large number of architectural changes (hence the release candidate status). Release highlights InfluxDB can now be used as dashboard storage InfluxDB can be used as a data source for annotations InfluxDB series aliasing improvements (alias patterns) Elasticsearch can be used as an annotation data source New graph legend options: Align as table and Right side.

New release today! v1.6.0 is now available for download. This is a pretty big release with a many of small improvements and new features. OpenTSDB This release marks the first release with initial support for OpenTSDB as a metrics datasource. Checkout the docs article for how to configure opentsdb. Dashboard editing improvements Adding, moving and changing row settings as well as adding panels is much improved. The row edit icon on the right of the row has been changed into a menu with quick options to move the panel up/down, set height, add panel and delete.

The Monitorama conference was a blast. If you did not get a chance to attend you can still checkout all the presentations at vimeo.com/monitorama. In the end of the presentation I talk a little bit about the future for Grafana. Especially noteworthy is the fact that I will be working full time on Grafana and related things by the end of July. I apologize for the slow progress on pull requests.

New release today! v1.5.4 is now available for download. Some small new features and enhancements. Check the download page for a complete changelog. One notable change is the unsaved changes tracking. You now get a warning when moving to another dashboard without having saved your changes, or when you close tab / window. The progress for bigger new features and improvements has been slow. There are a number of pull requests that are wating for review.

On Saturday I am flying to Portland for what I am hoping to be a great conference, Monitorama PDX. The last day of the conference is full hackathon day with workshops and lightning talks. I will present a workshop on Grafana that I hope to fill with some project background, demos, tips and ticks, interesting ways to use graphite, questions and answers. I was added kind of late to the speaker line up so it has been a busy week trying to get a publicly accessable demo and playground ready so everyone can try and play with Grafana.

Just pushed a new release! v1.5.3 is now available for download. There is no big new feature, just a collection of small improvements and bugfixes. Been too busy making this new site to have time for any big new features. Some notable new features in this release is a new error inspector. Now when you get the "Oops! Graphite HTTP Request Error" banner you will also get a view details link that will open the inspector.