I have been meaning to write about Grafana for years. I started a half-dozen articles on it but ended up abandoning them because I couldn't get it to do a relatively simple task: making a graph from a ...

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Since the advent of cloud computing, IT teams have focused on using application performance monitoring (APM) to understand application performance issues. This frameworks aggregates sampled ...

In a previous article, I looked at Grafana, a free, open-source data visualization tool. In the past, I tried (and failed) to use it to create a simple graph using CSV files, which is a bit of an ...

Grafana Labs unveils alert management and trace data additions to its commercial product portfolio around the open-source Grafana platform. Grafana Labs, developer of the popular Grafana open-source ...

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Raintank Inc.’s Grafana Labs, which is the lead developer of the Grafana and Loki open-source projects used to visualize time series data, today announced the general availability of Grafana 7.0 with ...

Information technology monitoring startup Grafana Labs has announced a long list of updates to its platform in order to help companies to address some of the key challenges around Kubernetes ...

Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard traces the open-source project’s journey to help developers visualize what’s going on inside distributed cloud-native infrastructure. Back in 2014, when the wave of ...

Adaptive Traces, which reached general availability in October 2025, uses tail sampling to ensure that traces with errors, high latency, or other signals of interest are always retained, while noise ...