timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 18
Welcome to another issue of timeShift. This week we released Grafana 4.6.0-beta2, which includes some fixes for alerts, annotations, the Cloudwatch data source, and a few panel updates. We're also gearing up for Oredev, one of the biggest tech conferences in Scandinavia, November 7-10. In addition to sponsoring, our very own Carl Bergquist will be presenting "Monitoring for everyone." Hope to see you there - swing by our booth and say hi!
#### Latest Release
- ColorPicker display
- Alerting test
- Cloudwatch improvements
- CSV export
- Text panel enhancements
- Annotation fix for MySQL
Download Grafana 4.6.0-beta-2 Now
From the Blogosphere
Screeps and Grafana: Graphing your AI: If you’re unfamiliar with Screeps, it’s a MMO RTS game for programmers, where the objective is to grow your colony through programming your units’ AI. You control your colony by writing JavaScript, which operates 24/7 in the single persistent real-time world filled by other players. This article walks you through graphing all your game stats with Grafana.
ntopng Grafana Integration: The Beauty of Data Visualization: Our friends at ntop created a tutorial so that you can graph ntop monitoring data in Grafana. He goes through the metrics exposed, configuring the ntopng Data Source plugin, and building your first dashboard. They’ve also created a nice video tutorial of the process.
Installing Graphite and Grafana to Display the Graphs of Centreon: This article, provides a step-by-step guide to getting your Centreon data into Graphite and visualizing the data in Grafana.
Bit v. Byte Episode 3 - Metrics for the Win: Bit v. Byte is a new weekly Podcast about the web industry, tools and techniques upcoming and in use today. This episode dives into metrics, and discusses Grafana, Prometheus and NGINX Amplify.
Code-Quickie: Visualize heating with Grafana: With the winter weather coming, Reinhard wanted to monitor the stats in his boiler room. This article covers not only the visualization of the data, but the different devices and sensors you can use to can use in your own home.
RuuviTag with C.H.I.P - BLE - Node-RED: Following the temperature-monitoring theme from the last article, Tobias writes about his journey of hooking up his new RuuviTag to Grafana to measure temperature, relative humidity, air pressure and more.
Early Bird will be Ending Soon
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Grafana Plugins
This week we have updates to two panels and a brand new panel that can add some animation to your dashboards. Installing plugins in Grafana is easy; for on-prem Grafana, use the Grafana-cli tool, or with 1 click if you are using Hosted Grafana.
Geoloop Panel - The Geoloop panel is a simple visualizer for joining GeoJSON to Time Series data, and animating the geo features in a loop. An example of using the panel would be showing the rate of rainfall during a 5-hour storm.
Breadcrumb Panel - This plugin keeps track of dashboards you have visited within one session and displays them as a breadcrumb. The latest update fixes some issues with back navigation and url query params.
Influx Admin Panel - The Influx Admin panel duplicates features from the now deprecated Web Admin Interface for InfluxDB and has lots of features like letting you see the currently running queries, which can also be easily killed.
Changes in the latest release:
- Converted to typescript project based on typescript-template-datasource
- Select Databases. This only works with PR#8096
- Added time format options
- Show tags from response
- Support template variables in the query
Contribution of the week:
Each week we highlight some of the important contributions from our amazing open source community. Thank you for helping make Grafana better!The Stockholm Go Meetup had a hackathon this week and sent a PR for letting whitelisted cookies pass through the Grafana proxy. Thanks to everyone who worked on this PR!
Tweet of the Week
We scour Twitter each week to find an interesting/beautiful dashboard and show it off! #monitoringLoveSee all #kubernetes development metrics on grafana https://t.co/lqe5tmkkDG pic.twitter.com/NgjEOayTkn
— Giancarlo Rubio (@gianrubio) October 16, 2017
This is awesome - we can't get enough of these public dashboards!
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