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New in Grafana 7.0: Trace viewer and integrations with Jaeger and Zipkin

Moving to a scalable, distributed microservice architecture poses a great deal of challenges for any organization. It gets harder to understand the system and pinpoint where errors originate. Logs get much messier, and stitching together a coherent picture of a particular request can be time-consuming or downright impossible. Distributed tracing can help with all of that.

GrafanaCONline Day 6 recap: The power of Tanka, and a peek into the world of beehive monitoring with Grafana dashboards

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great online sessions we have planned. If you aren’t up-to-date on the presentations, here’s what you missed on day 6 of the conference.

Cortex v1.1 released with improved reliability and performance

Today we’re releasing Cortex 1.1, the first (minor) release since Cortex went GA in March, over 6 weeks ago. This release represents more than 140 commits by over 30 different authors from 9 different companies. In this post we’re going to give you some of the highlights of this release.

GrafanaCONline Days 3 & 4 recap: All about Grafana v7.0, the future of Prometheus, and the observability tools every company needs

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great online sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t had a chance to tune in lately, here’s what you missed on days 3 and 4 of the conference.

Grafana v7.0 released: New plugin architecture, visualizations, transformations, native trace support, and more

We are thrilled to announce that Grafana 7.0 has been released for general availability. Join us as Torkel Ödegaard, the creator of Grafana, hosts a full demo of 7.0 during GrafanaCONline today. With Grafana v7.0, our goal was to extend on the Grafana platform by making it easier and more consistent for existing users, and intuitive and simple for those not familiar with Grafana.

GrafanaCONline Day 2 recap: The future of worldPing and an industrial IoT use case of Grafana

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great online sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. After Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product (and Cortex co-creator) Tom Wilkie kicked off the conference with a keynote discussing the future of Grafana and the upcoming Grafana 7.0 release, GrafanaCONline continued with a focus on Grafana’s global reach.

GrafanaCONline Day 1 recap: Opening keynote with Grafana Labs leadership

GrafanaCONline is live! We hope you’re able to catch the great sessions we have planned over the next couple of weeks. The conference kicked off yesterday with a keynote from Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, and VP of Product (and Cortex co-creator) Tom Wilkie.

An (only slightly technical) introduction to Loki, the Prometheus-inspired open source logging system

Every application creates logs. Web servers, firewalls, services on your Kubernetes clusters, public cloud services, and more. For companies, being able to collect and analyze these logs is crucial. And the growing popularity of microservices, IoT, cybersecurity, and cloud has brought an explosion of new types of log data. That’s why log management is a huge $2-billion-plus market that’s growing 14% YoY.