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The emergence of a new breed of commercial open source company, challenging the dominance of public cloud, has set off a licensing war that calls into question the very meaning of open source. We debated this topic at last month’s GrafanaCon Los Angeles, where I participated in a spirited panel. Since then, the battle lines have been redrawn. Last week, Amazon announced its Open Distribution for Elasticsearch. And MongoDB Inc. abandoned OSI approval of its new SSPL license.

The rest of the city may still have been in a post-Oscars haze, but over 350 monitoring mavens gathered in downtown L.A. bright and early on Feb. 25 to kick off GrafanaCon 2019. The next two days were filled with 40+ talks, including Grafana end user stories from companies like Bloomberg and Tinder.

TimeShift is back after a few weeks away with a lot of updates to share. Nearly all of the Videos and presentations from GrafanaCon LA are available, so please check them out and let us know what you think. Also, if you hadn’t heard, Grafana v6.0 stable was recently released which has lots of new features and enhancements. Download the latest version v6.0.1 and read about the highlights below.

Grafana isn’t just being used for monitoring applications. Andrew Rodgers, Senior Systems Architect at New City Energy, spoke in Amsterdam at GrafanaCon EU 2018 about how his organization is using Grafana to measure energy usage in municipal buildings in Washington D.C. for the Department of General Services (DGS).

v6.0 Stable released! GrafanaCon LA is underway! Check out the live stream on the Grafana youtube channel. I am proud to announce that we are releasing Grafana v6.0 stable today. Before every major release I feel super excited about the progress that has been made and with this release, this is especially true.

We only have a handful of general admission tickets to GrafanaCon LA before angel tickets go on sale, but you still have time to grab one of the last remaining GA tickets. We’re really excited how the schedule has shaped up and hope you can join us!

Time is running out to get your ticket to GrafanaCon LA, but you can still grab one of the last remaining seats. We’re really excited how the schedule has shaped up and hope you can join us!

Grafana v6.0 Beta1 was released this week, and it’s packed with new features! This is one of the biggest updates to Grafana and introduces a new way to explore your data, support for log data, and includes tons of other enhancements. We hope you’ll give v6.0 Beta1 a try and let us know what you think. You can see a few of the highlights below, but check out all of the updates in the What’s new in Grafana v6 documentation.

We’ve added more info on the upcoming talks at GrafanaCon LA and are excited to see the schedule shaping up. Grab your ticket while the last and join us February 25-26 for two days of great talks and hands-on workshops. This week we’re happy to share articles on how to view Azure Monitor Log Analytics data in Grafana, a proof of concept to visualize Fitbit data, how to quickly get up and running with Prometheus and more.

This week we share news about the Azure Data Explorer plugin for Grafana, updates to the GrafanaCon LA speaker list, new functionality added to the polystat panel plugin and more.