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Grafana Loki 2.8 is here — and it’s at least 0.1 better than Loki 2.7! Jokes aside, this release includes a number of improvements users will appreciate. In addition to graduating our TSDB index from Experimental to General Availability, we’ve added a number of nifty LogQL features, and we’ve made the Loki deployment and management experience much easier. This also marks the release of Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL) 1.7.

We often see questions about how to template alerts. In Grafana, you can template information about your alerts with custom labels and annotations, and you can also template how notifications look and what information they contain with notification templates. Many users confuse the two, despite being separate features with different use cases.

As a developer, I’m always thinking about ways I can make my work on projects better, faster, and more organized. Over the years, I’ve learned that tracking development metrics is a really helpful way to do that.

There are many aspects of application performance, but they broadly fall into two categories: frontend performance and backend performance. As a tester, it’s important to know the differences between the two and how that impacts the way you approach your tests. In this blog, I’ll provide a high-level overview of frontend performance testing and backend performance testing, including pros and cons of each one.

Prometheus is an open source and free to use metrics collection and storage solution. It's used extensively in the industry for monitoring many different technologies. In this article I will show you how to get Prometheus up and running as a binary, a container running in Docker, and inside Kubernetes.

Compliance is a term commonly associated with heavily regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunication. But in reality, it touches nearly every business today as governments and other regulatory agencies seek to enact tighter controls over the use of our collective digital footprint. As a result, more and more companies need to retain a record of every single digital transaction under their control.

When we introduced Grafana Mimir into the open source ecosystem, we weren’t shy about our ambitions. Once we got past answering some of the easier questions (For the record, the name Mimir comes from Norse mythology, and it’s pronounced /mɪ’mir/.), we quickly got to work making good on our promise to deliver the most scalable, most performant open source time series database (TSDB) in the world.