Grafana 2021: Year in review
Numbers don’t lie — and the data shows that in a year in which we, once again, endured unpredictable changes, Grafana experienced unparalleled success with:
- 374 Grafana contributors
- 7,000 PRs for Grafana OSS
- 22 new plugins published
- 293 plugins updated
- 42 million plugins downloaded
In June, we introduced Grafana 8.0, which included unified alerting, new visualizations, real-time streaming, and more. Since then we have introduced a host of new features as well as new data source plugins that only reinforce Grafana’s commitment to our “big tent” philosophy.
Here is a recap of the new features, plugins, and integrations that were added to Grafana this year. We can’t wait to collaborate with the Grafana community and see what the new year will bring!
Grafana releases and features
Grafana 8.3 released: Recorded queries, panel suggestions, new panels, added security, and more
New in Grafana 8.2: Test contact points for alerts before they fire
Grafana 8.2 released: Dynamic plugin catalog, new fine-grained access control permissions, and more
New in Grafana 8.1: Gradient mode for Time series visualizations and dynamic panel configuration
What’s new in Grafana 8.1: Geomap panel
Streaming real-time sensor data to Grafana using MQTT and Grafana Live
Grafana 8.1 released: New Geomap and Annotations panels, updated plugin management, and more
New in Grafana 8.0: Streaming real-time events and data to dashboards
The new unified alerting system for Grafana: Everything you need to know
Grafana 8.0: Unified Grafana and Prometheus alerts, live streaming, new visualizations, and more
Grafana 7.5 released: Loki alerting and label browser for logs, next-generation pie chart, and more!
You should know about… transformations in Grafana
Grafana 7.4 released: Next-generation graph panel with 30 fps live streaming,
Prometheus exemplar support, trace to logs, and more
The new Grafana Cloud: the only composable observability stack for metrics,
logs, and traces, now with free and paid plans to suit every use case
Grafana data source plugins and integrations
Monitor all your Redshift clusters in Grafana with the new Amazon Redshift data source plugin
Introducing the Sentry data source plugin for Grafana
Identify operational issues quickly by using Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights
Query and analyze Amazon S3 data with the new Amazon Athena plugin for Grafana
Introducing the AWS CloudWatch integration, Grafana Cloud’s first fully managed integration
The 18 most popular data source plugins for Grafana in 2021
Introducing new integrations to make it easier to monitor Vault with Grafana
How to use AWS IoT SiteWise Edge and Grafana to collect and monitor industrial data on-premises
Introducing the Lightstep Metrics plugin for Grafana
Introducing the Honeycomb plugin for Grafana
Monitor key metrics and visitor demographics in NGINX with the new Grafana Cloud integration
Monitor and alert on essential RabbitMQ cluster metrics with the new Grafana Cloud integration
New plugins connect almost all of Redis for monitoring and visualization in Grafana
What’s new in the updated Strava plugin for Grafana
Easily monitor and alert on your Kubernetes clusters with the new Grafana Cloud integration
Get instant Grafana dashboards for Prometheus metrics with the Elixir PromEx library
Easily monitor your Tencent Cloud services with the new Grafana plugin
Troubleshoot problems using GitLab activity data with the new plugin for Grafana
The Splunk plugin for Grafana now supports data links for jumping directly from logs to traces
Webinars and talks
How to connect and monitor your Raspberry Pi with Grafana
Easy DIY IoT projects with Grafana
Intro to metrics with Grafana: Prometheus, Graphite, and beyond
Unite your end-to-end observability workflow beneath Grafana’s first pane of glass
Intro to the Grafana Stack: Correlate your metrics, logs, and traces with Grafana
Grafana plugins demo: GitLab, JIRA, ServiceNow, and more
Intro to unified alerting in Grafana
Getting started with Grafana dashboard design
Getting started with Grafana 8.0
Community stories
Visualizing IoT security metrics with Grafana at Network to Code
“Open source done right”: Why Canonical adopted Grafana, Loki, and Grafana Agent for their new stack
How Sitech builds modern industrial IoT monitoring solutions on Grafana Cloud
With Grafana and InfluxDB, CSS Electronics visualizes CAN IoT data to monitor vehicles and machinery
How BasisAI uses Grafana to monitor model drift in machine learning workloads
How to use Grafana and Prometheus to Rickroll your friends (or enemies)
How Pernod Ricard uses Grafana and Loki to scale and monitor its global e-commerce business
How Salesforce manages service health at scale with Grafana and Prometheus
Monitoring UV sensors on the International Space Station with Grafana
Using Grafana, academics created a next-level dashboard tracking the impact of Covid-19 in Romania
How Siemens uses IoT sensor data and Grafana to optimize train maintenance, capacity, and more
IoT monitoring with Grafana: How Eurac observes climate change in the Alps
