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Re: Grafana 7.0

#71

Post by gempir » Tue, May 19, 2020, 5:50 AM UTC

btmiller wrote: post #70

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Hi Torkel, this issue has been open since 2016[1]. There is incredible demand for it yet complete silence from Grafana on committing to the effort. Can I get official word on this please? [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6983

Have there been no efforts to add this with a PR? I mean Grafana is open source and if the project leads wants to focus on other things that's his choice.

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by jesterson » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:19 AM UTC

PaulWaldman wrote: post #52

rossmohax wrote: post #30

Company I am working at has moved from dozens of graphanas across multiple teams to Datadog and I miss it dearly.

Why did they move away from Grafana?

I'd suggest they got a director/manager who was BSed into "fascinating" presentation from Datadog salesmen. A lot of great opensource projects are killed pretty much the same way.

Disclaimer: datadog may (or may not) be a good product, it's irrelevant in the case.

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by torkelo » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:56 AM UTC

btmiller wrote: post #70

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Hi Torkel, this issue has been open since 2016[1]. There is incredible demand for it yet complete silence from Grafana on committing to the effort. Can I get official word on this please? [1] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6983

The reason is we want to move alert rules out of the dashboard. To be their own thing, have their own UI & workflow for editing and updating.

Once that is done, we plan to add the ability to link an alert rule to 1 or more dashboard panels.

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by torkelo » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:56 AM UTC

thruhiker wrote: post #51

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your work on Grafana. It's an indispensable tool that I couldn't do my job without!

Thank you!

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by torkelo » Tue, May 19, 2020, 6:56 AM UTC

imwill wrote: post #16

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Hi Torkel, Just finished watching the GrafanaCon 7.0 Release talk. There are some great Usability improvements and new functionality which will be definitely useful for my upcoming project. Thanks for the great work!

Thanks!

Re: Grafana 7.0

#76

Post by adamcharnock » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:10 AM UTC

errantspark wrote: post #36

I have a Grafana dashboard set up for all of my power/hvac/internet infrastructure (I live off grid) and it's an amazing tool. I'm excited to try out some of the new features. Without Grafana I wouldn't have been able to diagnose a charge issue my solar controller has on partially cloudy days. Very grateful to the devs, thank you all for the hard work.

I do exactly the same! I love it, it is so useful. I keep my solar grafana dashboard as a pinned tab and it is amazing.

I actually developed a python library for reading data from my Outback Mate3[1]. I have ambitions to manage and automate a lot more this way, but I need to improve my electronics skills first.

https://github.com/adamcharnock/mate3/

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by redis_mlc » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:20 AM UTC

guanzo wrote: post #68

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Zero experience with Grafana here. I have a mongodb database with several collections. All collections share a set of fields: "createdAt", "channelId", "status", etc. How easy would it be to dump all this data into Grafana, and then be able to slice and dice these collections by any combination of the shared fields. Basically, I'm tired of writing mongo queries whenever I want to inspect my data. I want to point and…

Grafana is a UI, not a database (it doesn't store any data.)

Plugins are used for showing pie charts, etc.

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by morb » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:21 AM UTC

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Will Grafana ever add direct support for rrd datasources?

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by viraptor » Tue, May 19, 2020, 7:59 AM UTC

guanzo wrote: post #68

torkelo wrote: post #2

Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Zero experience with Grafana here. I have a mongodb database with several collections. All collections share a set of fields: "createdAt", "channelId", "status", etc. How easy would it be to dump all this data into Grafana, and then be able to slice and dice these collections by any combination of the shared fields. Basically, I'm tired of writing mongo queries whenever I want to inspect my data. I want to point and…

I've never tried this one, but the mongo datasource plugin exists: https://github.com/JamesOsgood/mongodb-grafana

Maybe you can use it directly this way? (if you don't mind the BI-equivalent hammering your primary data source)

Re: Grafana 7.0

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Post by h91wka » Tue, May 19, 2020, 8:06 AM UTC

rossmohax wrote: post #30

Company I am working at has moved from dozens of graphanas across multiple teams to Datadog and I miss it dearly.

Kinda the same situation here, but we managed to keep our dear Grafanas, by telling: "ok, give us budget to migrate all the dashboards". I can confirm that DD marketing is aggressive and full of BS and they will try to sell you missing features, since I attended a DD "workshop" (aka sales presentation) once.