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Grafana for business intelligence: How Grafana Labs uses dashboards for more than observability data

Having joined Grafana Labs as one of our first data & analytics hires, I spent much of my time in the first few months considering how we should structure our data stack to optimize for a quick path to value, while allowing our small data team to scale going forward.

Survey: Are You Using an Observability Solution, Implementing One, Actively Planning for it or Thinking About it?

Whether you’ve just started your observability journey or haven’t started one at all, Techstrong Research is here to help the industry gain insights into observability with their “Observability at the Speed of Innovation 2022” survey, sponsored by StackState. Techstrong Research, an industry analyst and consulting group focused on the business outcomes of disruptive technologies, is researching where organizations are in their observability journey.

Become a Telegraf Pro with a New Course from InfluxDB University

Telegraf, InfluxData’s open source data collection agent, is a key tool for managing data pipelines. Users around the world rely on Telegraf’s flexibility to collect, clean, transform, and send data. But even with Telegraf’s immense popularity, we continue to look for ways to make it even easier to use. That’s why, when we launched InfluxDB University, we knew that Telegraf would be a key ingredient.

Why API Monitoring is a Business Necessity

This article will discuss API Monitoring, the definition of APIs and how they would affect your business if there is a failure, and how to protect APIs or your services. Everything on the web is powered by an API nowadays. APIs are an essential part of the web to connect different services that help customers complete their actions. This article will help you understand the importance of API and why API monitoring is a business necessity.

What is OpenTelemetry

You may have previously heard about OpenTelemetry (also known as OTel) if you have looked into improved ways of standardising different data types. In this article, we’ll delve into the key things you need to know about OpenTelemetry and how this unified standard may become the future of how logs, metrics, events and traces are all handled.

How to Troubleshoot Routing Problems

Routing problems tend to emerge when you’re first setting up a new piece of network equipment, and when something has failed. Usually, routing problems are caused by some sort of configuration or design error. Troubleshooting routing problems is tricky because the usual tools like ping and traceroute don’t always tell you what you need to know.

Netdata Machine Learning Meetup

This video livestream meetup by Netdata takes a deep dive into the fundamentals of Machine Learning in DevOps Infrastructure Monitoring. It also covers the Netdata way of approaching Machine Learning. The Anomaly Advisor major update to Netdata is introduced as a valuable troubleshooting tool for any DevOps or Site Reliability Engineer looking for anomalies in their infrastructure. The hosts share real-world infrastructure monitoring & troubleshooting examples, as well as early feedback from the community on the Anomaly Advisor.

Cloud Data Fusion: Concepts of Networking

To understand implementation, security, and connectivity in Cloud Data Fusion, it’s helpful to first understand the networking concepts. In this episode of Networking End to End, Lorin Price goes over what Cloud Data Fusion is, Public IP vs Private IP, and more. Be sure to look out for more videos on the Concepts of Networking for Google Cloud’s managed services! Chapters

Introducing native support for OpenTelemetry in Jaeger

The latest Jaeger v1.35 release introduced the ability to receive OpenTelemetry trace data via the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), which all OpenTelemetry SDKs are required to support. This is a follow-up to the previous announcement to retire Jaeger’s “classic” client libraries. With this new capability, it is no longer necessary to use the Jaeger exporters with the OpenTelemetry SDKs, or to run the OpenTelemetry Collector in front of the Jaeger backend.