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Explore Traces app now in public preview | Grafana

In this video, Mat Ryer, Senior Principal Engineer at Grafana Labs, provides an overview of the Explore Traces app for Grafana, which lets you automatically surface insights from your traces with an intuitive, point-and-click interface. Mat demonstrates how you can use the Comparison view to quickly identify the source of errors, and how to drill down to see a full trace in detail to gain a more comprehensive understanding of your system.

Contextual root cause analysis in Grafana Cloud

In this video, you will learn how to troubleshoot your application faster with Grafana Cloud Asserts, which provides contextual root cause analysis in Grafana Cloud. You'll learn how SLO alerts, the RCA (root cause analysis) Workbench, and prebuilt Grafana dashboards for Grafana Cloud solutions seamlessly work together to help you quickly investigate an issue.

Lower observability bills, reduced MTTR, and more: why companies migrate to Grafana Cloud

There are a lot of factors that go into choosing an observability solution. And even after all that careful consideration, sometimes the platform you initially invest in doesn’t meet your needs, especially as your organization grows and evolves. For that very reason, we’ve seen users begin their observability journeys with another tool, and then decide to migrate to Grafana Cloud, our fully managed cloud-hosted observability platform.

How to monitor metrics and logs from Altinity.Cloud in Grafana Cloud

Doug Tidwell is the Director of Content at Altinity, responsible for creating useful content for ClickHouse users in general and Altinity customers in particular. He has more than 30 years of experience in databases, CI/CD systems, development tools, and middleware. When it comes to visualizing, monitoring, and logging ClickHouse clusters, there’s no easier way to accomplish all three than with Grafana Cloud, the open and composable observability stack powered by open source.

Grafana OpenTelemetry distributions: prioritizing simplicity, sticking to OSS values

The OpenTelemetry (OTel) project offers numerous components and instrumentations that support different languages and telemetry signals. However, this flexibility can be overwhelming, and new users often struggle to choose the right components and configure them properly for their specific use cases. To address this, OpenTelemetry defines the concept of a distribution, a tailored and customized version of OpenTelemetry components.

Bloom filter changes for Grafana Loki (Loki Community Call Sep 2024)

In this Community Call, Senior Software Engineer Christian Haudum talks to us about bloom filter changes for Grafana Loki, including the deprecation of the bloom compactor and a pivot towards creating bloom filters for structured metadata. Bloom filters are a probabilistic data structure that we're using to improve query performance in Loki. Community Calls are monthly meetings that are open to everyone interested in the development of Loki. They are an opportunity for software engineers working on Loki to discuss new features as well as for open-source users of Loki to ask questions.

OpenTelemetry and vendor neutrality: how to build an observability strategy with maximum flexibility

One of the biggest advantages of the OpenTelemetry project is its vendor neutrality — something that many community members appreciate, especially if they’ve spent huge amounts of time migrating from one commercial vendor to another. Vendor neutrality also happens to be a core element of our big tent philosophy here at Grafana Labs. We realize, however, that this neutrality can have its limits when it comes to real-world use cases.

The Catchpoint Enterprise data source for Grafana: key features and how to get started

Earlier this year, we were thrilled to announce that Catchpoint is now available as an Enterprise data source for Grafana! With the public preview release of the Catchpoint Enterprise data source, you can seamlessly bring Catchpoint’s extensive Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) capabilities into your Grafana dashboards, enhancing your ability to visualize and analyze performance metrics in real-time.

Grafana access management: How to use teams for seamless user and permission management

If you’re looking to simplify user access and permissions in your Grafana instance, then this blog post is for you.That’s because we’re going to walk through how to set up a streamlined system for managing user permissions with Grafana teams. We’ll focus on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) as our user repository and identity provider, but these steps can be adapted to other identity providers as well, including Okta and Keycloak.