The latest News and Information on Databases and related technologies.
Starting around June this year, we upgraded our Grafana databases in Grafana Cloud from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, due to MySQL 5.7 reaching end-of-life in October. This project involved tens of thousands of customer databases across dozens of MySQL database servers, multiple cloud providers, and many Kubernetes clusters.
Redis, as an in-memory data store, excels at providing high-speed data access and manipulation. However, without effective monitoring, the potential advantages of Redis can be compromised due to performance bottlenecks, scalability issues, and resource constraints. By closely scrutinizing key metrics, Redis monitoring allows you to proactively detect and address potential problems, ensuring the stability, reliability, and high-performance operation of your Redis environment.
We’re happy to announce a landmark 320% growth in 2023! VictoriaMetrics, our open source time series database and monitoring solution, already hit 268 million downloads this year (still counting), and received close to 13,000 stars on GitHub.
Grafana Tempo 2.3 has been unleashed upon the world, bringing with it the latest iteration of the vParquet backend! Tempo 2.3 has a little bit of everything, but the headline item here is vParquet3 and new features that improve search speeds. Watch the video above for all the details, or continue reading to get a quick overview of the latest updates in Tempo. If you’re looking for something more in-depth, don’t hesitate to jump into the changelog or our Grafana Tempo 2.3 release notes.
