More than two years ago, the Google team began collaborating with Grafana Labs to build a data source plugin for Google Cloud Monitoring (then known as Stackdriver). Today, Grafana ships with built-in support for Google Cloud Monitoring, allowing users to add it as a data source and quickly get started building dashboards for Google Cloud Monitoring metrics. We’ve continued to make improvements on the plugin, and we’ll share in this blog post a few new features we’ve built.

What makes a manufacturing plant efficient? “Generally, it means that there’s no wasted materials, no wasted time, and no wasted energy,” said Grant Pinkos, President of American Metal Processing. “Unplanned downtime is minimal or nonexistent.

Grafana was made for large IT infrastructure projects, but a growing group of users rely on it for industrial/IoT projects, like monitoring physical equipment. And with good reason. According to Grafana Labs VP of Applications Ryan McKinley, “Software built by software engineers trying to know how their software is running is often nicer than industrial alternatives.” Some of the Grafana 8.0 updates were designed with industrial/IoT users in mind.

There’s something special about the interactions a train journey generates — the interesting views and perspectives that inspire insights and drive new thinking. Martin Klimmek, Head of Digital Development and Operations at Siemens Mobility and Haluk Tutuk, Data Platform Engineer with Periscube, are among 20 data scientists, data engineers, and DevOps engineers building the next generation of data-powered customer service for the rolling stock industry in the U.K. and beyond.

H-E-B is one of the largest grocery chains in the U.S. that works with roughly 137,000 partners to achieve more than $32 billion in sales each year. In the past decade, the 116-year-old, Texas-based grocer has undergone a digital transformation to reinvent and expand its business, offering services such as online bakery orders, curbside pick-up, and grocery delivery from its 420 stores.

Josh Chessman, Senior Analyst at Gartner, spoke at SquaredUp Live 2021 on the future of IT operations (IT Ops) monitoring and how monitoring teams need to change to get there. Here are some of the highlights from his talk.

The observability of metrics is a key factor for a successful operations team, allowing for increasingly effective visualizations, analysis, and troubleshooting. Google Cloud works with third-party partners, such as Grafana Labs, to make it easy for customers to create their desired observability stack leveraging a combination of different tools. More than two years ago, we collaborated with Grafana Labs to introduce the Cloud Monitoring plugin for Grafana.

From early on, Grafana has managed access control with three organizational permission levels (Viewer, Editor, and Admin) and one special global permission level of Grafana Admin. There are also configuration file options that can be globally applied to all users in an organization within an instance, as well as data source permissions and dashboard permissions.

In this post, we will discuss some key considerations and strategies to collect and analyze your AWS Lambda logs. This will include 1) what to know about logging Lambda functions, 2) how to ship log data to a centralized logging solution, and 3) how to search and visualize log data on monitoring dashboards.

The Grafana community is one of the most vibrant in all of web development. And to celebrate the conclusion of GrafanCONline, the launch of Grafana 8 and Tempo 1.0, and so much more, we’re pleased to share this dashboard showcase. (And in case you missed any of the great sessions at GrafanaCONline, the videos are available on demand now!) Each of these 12 dashboards was built by our community, for our community.

Our Kibana team has been hard at work implementing and executing on a new Kibana strategic vision to streamline the dashboard creation process and sand down the rough edges of creating visualizations for dashboards. We accomplished our goal and reduced the overall time it takes users to go from a blank slate to a meaningful dashboard that conveys insights about the data.

How much is your company losing by reacting to problems after they’ve had a negative impact on your bottom line? How many customers churn in the time it takes you to notice complaints to your call center? Proactive business monitoring allows you to detect incidents before they have a negative impact on your company’s revenue and reputation.

GrafanaCONline 2021 has ended! Thank you to everyone who tuned in and to all of our presenters. If you’d like to relive any moment, it’s not too late to sign up to get notified about on-demand access to all the session recordings, which will be available soon. If you didn’t get a chance to watch Thursday’s presentations, here’s what you missed from Day 6 of the conference.

We’ve come to the end of the Dashboard Server Learning Path. In this final instalment, let’s take a look at the remaining two tiles – the Image tile and the Web Content tile. We’ll start with the image tile first.

GrafanaCONline 2021 is still going strong and you can tune in live (for free!) or sign up to get notified about on-demand access to all the session recordings, which will be available after GrafanaCONline ends. Here’s what you missed on Day 5 of the conference.

Grafana is an extremely powerful application and infrastructure observability and health platform. The ability to quickly generate operational insights from an amalgamation of sources is compelling. Grafana also benefits from the ability to natively query a Prometheus endpoint to display time-based metrics for display in a dashboard. We’ve built the NGINX Instance Manager tool to measure the health of your NGINX instances with the help of Grafana.

Welcome to week 2 of GrafanaCONline 2021! There are three more days of programming that you can tune into live by registering here. You will also be able to watch all the videos on demand after GrafanaCONline ends on June 17. Here’s what you missed on Day 3 of GrafanaCONline.

Network visualization is the practice of creating and displaying graphical representations of network devices, network metrics, and data flows. In plain speak, it’s the visual side of network monitoring and analysis. There’s a variety of different subcategories of network visualization, including network maps, graphs, charts, and matrices. In the world of IT networks, network management software will usually have some type of network visualization features built-in.

Alerting is the part of the Grafana open source project that has received the most requests for features and improvements. For some time now, the changes have been minimal, but we’ve been listening to the community. With Grafana 8, our investment in alerting is here.

Microsoft have announced a new management pack for Office 365 – M365! It completely replaces the Office 365 management pack and is packed with new capabilities. Aakash Basavaraj, Program Manager at Microsoft, and Sameer Mhaisekar, Technical Evangelist at SquaredUp, joined Bruce Cullen, Director of Products at Cookdown, to reveal the new capabilities of the M365 management pack and the accompanying dashboard pack created for SquaredUp.

SquaredUp, Technical Evangelist In this part of the Dashboard Server Learning Path, let’s take a look at the Azure tile. This tile will allow you to connect to and query App Insights and Log Analytics workspaces using Kusto Query Language( KQL), which offers features such as sorting, projection and calculated values, which we can use to control the display of data in our dashboard. If you are new to KQL, We have a series of blogs that can help you get started.

GrafanaCONline 2021 is off to a great start! Tune in live (for free!) or sign up to get notified about on-demand access to all the session recordings, which will be available after GrafanaCONline ends. If you didn’t get a chance to watch yesterday’s presentations, here’s what you missed on Day 2 of the conference.

SquaredUp, Technical Evangelist This should be a quick one. As some of the existing SquaredUp customers might recognize, this tile is basically an enhanced version of the more generic WebAPI tile – with the enhancement being easy authentication. In comparison to the <>, configuring an integration to SNOW is much easier and more GUI based.

It’s exciting to see a project that you’ve poured so much time into progress at the rate Tempo has. Tempo is not the first piece of software I have shepherded from the very first line of code to a production release, but it is the first large-scale open source project I have led. Working with a community that is able to use and improve your software as a community is a powerful thing.

GrafanaCONline 2021 is live! Join us over the next two weeks for more than 30 virtual sessions, ranging from demos of the new Grafana 8.0 release and technical deep dives around Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo to insider looks at how companies are leveraging Grafana in observability, IoT, science, and business intelligence. GrafanaCONline 2021 runs through June 17.

Another GrafanaCON(line), another major release! And as I shared in the opening keynote today, Grafana 8.0 is the biggest, baddest release yet!

In addition to all the great talks from community members about their use cases, GrafanaCONline 2021 will include a number of sessions with the Grafana team about the latest features and use cases for Grafana. Throughout the week, we’ll continue to unveil new features, go deeper with live demos, and share our plans about the future of Grafana.

We are happy to announce that the NGINX integration is available for Grafana Cloud, our composable observability platform bringing together metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana.

If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!

If you’ve checked out SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure and decided for one reason or another that it wasn’t the right tool for you, you are in for a treat! Our latest free tool, Dashboard Server, addresses many of the same pain points, but this time, for a variety of platforms not tied to SCOM or Azure. On the flip side, if you’re currently using SquaredUp for SCOM/Azure, don’t click away!

Being able to get the big picture and immediately pivot between siloed data is one of the key values Grafana Cloud provides. Our composable observability platform integrates Prometheus and Graphite metrics, Loki logs, and Tempo traces with Grafana — and also allows you to draw data in from other sources of your choice concurrently.