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Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

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Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#2
Here are some release highlights :)

  * Big UI improvements and polish
  * Redesigned plugin architecture and SDK  
  * Grafana-cli command line tool shipped with grafana, 
    installs plugins 
  * Persisted dashboard playlists
  * Preferences like home dashboard, timezone and theme on 
    org and user level
  * New plugin types, Apps, and Panels.
  * New platform site built around Grafana at Grafana.net
    * Plugin repository
    * Dashboard repository (coming soon)
    * Hosted Grafana and Hosted metrics (coming soon)
    * Monitoring and backups of on-prem Grafana (coming soon)
  * Annotation popovers can contain clickable links
  * Templated data source Easiy reuse the same dashboard for multiple data source instances
  * OSX Homebrew support Homebrew installation instructions
  * Support for InfluxDB 0.11+ (and new functions)
Youtube screencast with feature showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kJyQKgk_oY

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#3
Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts.

It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain.

However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsible for visualization only and seems like they have settled with the later. Which definitely makes sense because once you start to expand to alerting it's a whole new world and I respect the choice. So yeah, I am a bit sad as a user, however I totally get the authors.

Maybe it will be available as a plugin?

That being said... What tools HNers are using for placing alerts on data stored in graphite?

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#4
post #2

Here are some release highlights :) * Big UI improvements and polish * Redesigned plugin architecture and SDK * Grafana-cli command line tool shipped with grafana, installs plugins * Persisted dashboard playlists * Preferences like home dashboard, timezone and theme on org and user level * New plugin types, Apps, and Panels. * New platform site built around Grafana at Grafana.net * Plugin repository * Dashboard repos…

You (and the other contributors) are a machine. Congratulations on the release!

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#5
post #3

Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts. It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain. However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsibl…

I'd love to hear how others manage it too. I have a bunch of little python scripts in cron jobs that pull / compare numbers from graphite and then post to slack. Adhoc but at least there was nothing much to set up / maintain and it's totally flexible.

As things expand though I'd definitely like to move to something to look after it for me.

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#6
post #5
post #3

Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts. It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain. However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsibl…

I'd love to hear how others manage it too. I have a bunch of little python scripts in cron jobs that pull / compare numbers from graphite and then post to slack. Adhoc but at least there was nothing much to set up / maintain and it's totally flexible. As things expand though I'd definitely like to move to something to look after it for me.

You could try Seyren https://github.com/scobal/seyren

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#8
post #3

Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts. It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain. However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsibl…

I've only had a cursory glance over it but there's Moira for creating alerts based off graphite metrics

http://moira.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#9
post #3

Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts. It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain. However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsibl…

Alerting is in the pipeline according to https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2209

Re: Grafana 3.0 Stable Released

#10
post #5
post #3

Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts. It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain. However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsibl…

I'd love to hear how others manage it too. I have a bunch of little python scripts in cron jobs that pull / compare numbers from graphite and then post to slack. Adhoc but at least there was nothing much to set up / maintain and it's totally flexible. As things expand though I'd definitely like to move to something to look after it for me.

We're extremely happy campers here combining the Grafana dashboard with https://prometheus.io/ Datastore and Alerts. That project has some serious traction and is one of just a few that seems actually built for the cloud and distributed systems first, as it's primarily role and not host based.
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