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This week we highlight articles featuring the ultimate guide to monitoring Kubernetes using Prometheus and Grafana, how to build effective dashboards, and a guide to help demystify PromQL.

August is flying by, but hopefully there’ll still be time to enjoy a few more summer evenings. This week we’re sharing the video demoing the new Explore UI in Grafana from last week’s PromCon, monitoring VMWare’s VKE with Prometheus, hosting a blog on a budget and more.

PromCon was held this week in Munich, Germany, and Grafana Labs was excited to both sponsor and speak at this great conference. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, you can watch a recorded livestream of the event and download slides in the blog roundup below.

This week we announced the dates for GrafanaCon LA and officially opened up the CFP! While we can’t predict the weather, we can be almost certain it will be blizzard-free this time around. Also, if you’re going to be in Munich next week for PromCon, please be sure and say hello!

At GrafanaCon EU in March, we had the pleasure of introducing one of Grafana Labs’ newest team members, Tom Wilkie, who joined as VP, Product with the acquisition of Kausal. And he came bearing gifts: his popular talk about the RED Method of monitoring microservices, which he created in 2015.

This week’s big news is that Grafana v5.2.2 was released and includes fixes for Prometheus graphs, dashboard links, loading external plugins, SQL connection leaks, and more. Also, check out our new Grafana Flux plugin and monitor temperature and forecasts using Grafana and the openweathermap API.

Flux, the long-awaited new functional query processing engine for InfluxDB, has finally landed. If you’re curious to learn more about the hows and whys of its design, check out this GrafanaCon EU session with InfluxData Cofounder and CTO Paul Dix. Also we’d like to share a recent presentation from David Kaltschmidt, Director, UX for Grafana Labs on the new Flux support in Grafana!

This week we’re showing off 2 more brand-new plugins, plus a case study showing how PingCAP troubleshoots more than a thousand metrics from their TiDB clusters. Also, Tweet of the Week returns with a graph celebrating France’s World Cup victory. Enjoy!

It’s good to be back from our short holiday break. This week we have articles on the world’s fastest internet (with a shout out to Prometheus and Grafana), visualizing real-time and historic weather data, making teams more autonomous, and Grafana + Prometheus + Postgres + TimescaleDB.

In this guest blog post from the folks at Ballerina, Anjana shows you how you can easily visualize metrics from a Ballerina service with Grafana, walking you step by step through the installation and configuration of the components. They’ve also extended an offer for a free ticket to their upcoming Ballerinacon to the Grafana community.