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Grafana, with its huge amount of data sources and plugins, has all the capabilities one needs to create accurate graphs. Although creating dashboards is easy, interpreting each panel is hard if it’s not correctly visualised. Misinterpretation is one of the most common causes of wrong conclusions that make us hunt ghosts during debugging sessions. There are many common pitfalls which we can avoid if we follow some rules.

Loki is a logging backend, optimized for users running Prometheus and Kubernetes. It's the latest 100% open source project from the team at Grafana Labs that's lets you search, visualize and explore your logs natively in Grafana.

Carl Bergquist kicks off day 2 of GrafanaCon and shows some of the new provisioning features in Grafana 5.

This talk will show how you can use grafanalib to manage your dashboards, some cool things you can do with it, and talk a little bit about its design & internals.

How Grafana can be used to visualize future data, although default usage is focussed on historical data.

Erik Nordstrom provides an update of TimescaleDB.

Building a company around an open source project is not for the faint of heart. Find out what we've been up to since our last GrafanaCon, How the team has grown, our view on the open source software landscape, and what's to come for Grafana Labs.

The new InfluxDB query language is functional in nature. Conceptually it looks like D3 or jQuery. Functions are chained off each other. This gives greater flexibility for what the language can do and opens up new possibilities for UI builders. This talk will cover the details of the language and user interface ideas that can pair up nicely with it. We'll look at query examples that perform math on metrics, interpolation, and similarity measures.

The launch of Grafana v5 is probably the single biggest enhancement of the project's history. New features include a totally revamped layout engine, dashboard folders, and some foundational UX/UI improvements.

Paul Dix talks about some of the new updates in InfluxDB.