This release has been long in the making. We started on Alerting way back in March this year and it's finally released! Read more about all the highlights in the release here: <a href="http://grafana.org/blog/2016/11/09/grafana-4.0-beta-release/" rel="nofollow">http://grafana.org/blog/2016/11/09/grafana-4.0-beta-release/</a><p>Oh, and if your in New York tomorrow, signup for GrafanaCon: <a href="http://grafanacon.org" rel="nofollow">http://grafanacon.org</a>
Influx + Telegraf + Grafana is such a simple, sweet stack. No work to maintain, trivial to set up, I can ship just about anything I want into it, and reporting is fast.<p>With alerting in place now, I'm even happier than ever. A huge thank you to the Grafana team for solving a huge pain point!
Quick note for the ones who are tired of the giant clusterfuck of open-source tools for monitoring + alerting + storage + other, which is no less than:<p>- statsd<p>- collectd<p>- graphite<p>- whisper<p>- carbon<p>- prometheus<p>- grafana<p>- seyren<p>- riemann<p>- nagios<p>- icinga<p>- zabbix<p>There are multiple modern SaaS software that will do all of that in a single tool with better integrations, more polish, less work and no maintenance.<p>1) See <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.datadoghq.com</a> and last news <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/investors-feed-datadog-a-hefty-94-5-million-round/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/12/investors-feed-datadog-a-h...</a><p>2) <a href="https://signalfx.com/" rel="nofollow">https://signalfx.com/</a> and last news <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/12/signalfx-emerges-from-stealth-to-modernize-cloud-application-monitoring/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2015/03/12/signalfx-emerges-from-stea...</a><p>3) <a href="http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/it-solutions/truesight.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.bmcsoftware.uk/it-solutions/truesight.html</a> if you're not anti entreprisey (that was the "Boundary" startup, bought by BMC a few years ago and integrated in their offerings).<p>And don't think that they are "new" fancy tools. They've been around for many years.
What's new in v4: <a href="http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v4/" rel="nofollow">http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v4/</a>
When you team Grafana up with a general purpose database like Crate.io
some pretty amazing things can happen. Not only can crate just "roll
with the punches" of auto-sharding whilst dynamically scaling
performance over N number of database nodes, it also possesses
powerful aggregation capabilities. If that weren't enough, crate also
dynamically gzips data by default which is impressive given its zippy
performance.<p>You get all of this for free with Crate.io without giving up the
flexibility of a general purpose SQL database...<p>Wanna start storing log data in crate as well? No problem! Just design
your table schema, and API ingest layer (My favorite is NodeJS) but
you can use any language you like.<p>Or if security (facing the public) isn't an issue (if you're on a
subnet safe from the public internet) then you can certainly just use
the built-in REST API which crate exposes.<p>With Crate, I've been able to store hundreds of GB of systems log data
without worrying about silly things like table-bloat (the autosharding
of partitioned tables handles the spectre of bloated table shards for
me for free).<p>Thanks to the amazing developers over at Crate.io for taking the best
of Elasticsearch and making it sane, fast, and chock-ful of SQL
goodness!<p>Also a big thank you to the Grafana team for recognizing the potential
synergies that Crate.io & Grafana could catalyse for unifying time-series & log data streams.
Grafana really looks interesting, and it is interesting that you can add all the different backends to it, for an example I didn't know you can use Elasticsearch as a timeseries backend.<p>Is it correct that Grafana works best with Graphite? At least that seems to be my impression, and it is a bit sad, since I think Graphite is cool, but it really has a lot of moving parts.
I'm currently using Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager. I'm a big fan of the linux terminal, versioned config files, and separation of concerns but the rest of my team prefers web interfaces so I'm basically the only one maintaining Alertmanager. Grafana Altering looks appealing.<p>What have other people had success with?
I can't be the only one who laughed out loud while reading the ad for GrafanaCon. It contains the word "democratization" and takes place on an aircraft carrier..
Is anyone using a log management tool in conjunction with Grafana? I.e. if you see something anomalous or see an alert triggered, how do you investigate what's going on?
It'd be nice if this meant being able to use Grafana as a frontend to alertmanager.<p>(Writing those "ALERT ..." requires a steep learning curve.)
Do users still have issues full access to data sources, regardless of what dashboards they have access to? This is what keeps me from using Grafana to expose some data to clients.
I've had alerting via grafana built and deployed for the last 16 months. Not sure what took so long... but cool to see it native now. Keep up the good work.