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	<p>We also closed the CFP window this week for talks at <a href="https://grafanacon.org" target="_blank">GrafanaCon EU</a>. We received a tremendous number of great submissions, and will spend the next few weeks making our selections. As speakers are confirmed, we'll add them to the website, so be sure to keep an eye out. We're thrilled that the community is so excited to share their knowledge of Grafana and open source monitoring.</p>
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Grafana 4.6.1 adds some bug fixes:

• Singlestat: Lost thresholds when using save dashboard as #96816
• Graph: Fix for series override color picker #97151
• Go: build using golang 1.9.2 #97134
• Plugins: Fixed problem with loading plugin js files behind auth proxy #95092
• Graphite: Annotation tooltip should render empty string when undefined #9707

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From the Blogosphere

FOSDEM 2018 Monitoring & Cloud Devroom CFP: The CFP is now open for the Monitoring & Cloud Devroom at FOSDEM 2018, held in Brussels, Belgium, Feb 3-4, 2018. FOSDEM is the premier open source conference in europe, and covers a broad range of topics. The Monitoring and Cloud devroom was a popular devroom last year, so be sure to submit your talk before the November 26 deadline!

PRTG plus Grafana FTW!: @neuralfraud has written a plugin for PRTG that allows you to view PRTG data directly in Grafana. This article goes over the features of the plugin, beautiful dashboards and visualization options, and how to get started.

Grafana-based GUI for mgstat, a system monitoring tool for InterSystems Caché, Ensemble or HealthShare: This is a continuation of the previous article Making Prometheus Monitoring for InterSystems Caché where we examine how to visualize the results from the mgstat tool. This article is broken down into which stats are collected and how these stats are collected.

Using Grafana & InfluxDB to view XIV Host Performance Metrics: Allan wanted to get an unified view of what his hosts were doing, however, the XIV GUI only allowed 12 hosts to be displayed at a given time– which was extremely limiting. This is the first in a series of articles on how to gather and parse host data and visualize it in Grafana.

Service telemetry with Grafana and InfluxDB - Part I: Introduction: This is the first in a new series of posts which will walk you through the process of building a production-ready solution for monitoring real-time metrics for any application or service, complete with useful and beautiful dashboards.

GrafanaCon General Admission Now Available!

Early bird tickets are no longer available, but you can still lock in your seat for GrafanaCon! Join us March 1-2, 2018 in Amsterdam for 2 days of talks centered around Grafana and the surrounding monitoring ecosystem including Graphite, Prometheus, InfluxData, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, and more.

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Grafana Plugins

Keeping your Grafana plugins up to date is important. Plugin authors are often adding new features and fixing bugs, which will make your plugin perform better. We’ve made updating easy; for on-prem Grafana, use the Grafana-cli tool, or update with 1 click if you’re using Hosted Grafana.

UPDATED PLUGIN

Piechart Panel - The latest version of the Piechart Panel has the following fixes:

• Add "No data points" description for pie chart with 0 value
• Donut now works with transparent panel
• Can toggle to hide series from piechart
• On graph legend can show values. Can choose how many decimals
• Sort pie slices upon sorting of legend entries
• Fix for color picker for Grafana 4.6

Update

Contribution of the Week:

@akshaychhajed
We got an amazing PR this week. Grafana has lots of docker-compose files for internal testing that were created using a very old version of docker-compose. @akshaychhajed sent a PR converting them all to the latest version of docker-compose. Huge thanks from the Grafana team!

Upcoming Events:

11.7.17 - 11.10.17 | Malmö, Sweden - Øredev

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Join Carl Bergquist, Principal Engineer at Grafana and Neil Gehani, Director of Product at Weaveworks to discover best practices on how to get started with monitoring both your application and infrastructure.

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		<p>Beautiful - I want to build a real-life version of this using a block of wood, some nails and colored string... or maybe have it cross-stitched on a pillow :)</p>
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