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Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

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Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

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All good except that Grafana Cloud is super expensive when you consider it per metric. This probably is the most expensive service per bit of data!

Yes, I have started using their cloud for a personal project. Ended up going back to self-hosted. Great thing their product is open source.

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#32

Are you planning any posts on comparing your new incident tool to other services? We currently use incident.io and are happy with it but we pay a lot for Grafana Cloud right now so it's worth considering if we can reduce spend elsewhere. Edit: We're happy with incident.io but free is compelling if the product is good and having a single view for observability is useful

Hey, incident.io CEO here. Glad to hear you’re happy with the product. The people at Grafana are great - congrats on the launch! Will have to take the product for a spin sometime :)

Thanks Stephen (product marketing lead for Incident) - we are also big fans of what y'all are building!

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#33
Seems great if you're already on the Grafana platform.

One thing I'd say is that I find the "react with a robot emoji on slack to add information to the timeline" as a little kluge, hopefully that's not the only mechanism for doing that.

Also does this tool have a postmortem workflow? I didn't see one in the documentation and that seems like an important part of the incident response process.

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#34
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks really cool and since we already use Grafana it would be a good fit for us, but for on call purposes Slack isn't very useful. If we were to migrate from PagerDuty to this, we would need an app that can override do not distrub and wake people up. Do you have any plans for any such app?

hi, disclaimer I work at Grafana, We have plans to build a native mobile app for ios & android for OnCall that would let you achieve this over the next few months. OnCall is a separate product from Incident. It's available via OSS and Cloud. Incident and OnCall work well together, or you can use either as standalone!

I'm a little curious how this will work with self hosted OnCall. Will the user need to set up their own push notification accounts for apple and Google, will it used a centralized service from Grafana, will it have a background service that polls the hosted OnCall service, or something else?

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey @nikolay! I work at Grafana Labs & focus on pricing - would you be up for a 15 minute chat to discuss this further? If so, feel free to either drop me a note at divy.goel@grafana.com or let me know how best to reach you :)

We recently swapped our metrics to Grafana Cloud and were really surprised (despite being documented) that pricing is based on samples per minute not metrics series. So, for example, if we send a metric every 15s (the Prometheus default) then we get charged as if that were four separate metrics. Support was very helpful explaining everything and they reversed the charge but it still feels weird.

Thanks for the feedback! Agree that this can be made more clear and we will work on that.

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#36

Seems great if you're already on the Grafana platform. One thing I'd say is that I find the "react with a robot emoji on slack to add information to the timeline" as a little kluge, hopefully that's not the only mechanism for doing that. Also does this tool have a postmortem workflow? I didn't see one in the documentation and that seems like an important part of the incident response process.

Thanks for feedback re: robot emoji. You can also use a backslash command if you want to add a new piece of text to the timeline from Slack.

re: postmortem workflow. The timeline view is built to help postmortems, one of the ways we're doing this is making it easy to paste the info from the timeline as rich text or markdown from the timeline into your post mortem workflow. You'll see that on the top right of the timeline view. We have a lot more ideas in this area and will be investing in this.

Curious if there is specific features you'd like for postmortems?

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#37
post #36

Seems great if you're already on the Grafana platform. One thing I'd say is that I find the "react with a robot emoji on slack to add information to the timeline" as a little kluge, hopefully that's not the only mechanism for doing that. Also does this tool have a postmortem workflow? I didn't see one in the documentation and that seems like an important part of the incident response process.

Thanks for feedback re: robot emoji. You can also use a backslash command if you want to add a new piece of text to the timeline from Slack. re: postmortem workflow. The timeline view is built to help postmortems, one of the ways we're doing this is making it easy to paste the info from the timeline as rich text or markdown from the timeline into your post mortem workflow. You'll see that on the top right of the time…

Another suggestion re gathering data or threads from Slack: using Message Shortcuts for greater visibility/discoverability? https://api.slack.com/interactivity/shortcuts Might need to combine this with Slack modals for adding details (if it lets you do this)

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#38

Seems great if you're already on the Grafana platform. One thing I'd say is that I find the "react with a robot emoji on slack to add information to the timeline" as a little kluge, hopefully that's not the only mechanism for doing that. Also does this tool have a postmortem workflow? I didn't see one in the documentation and that seems like an important part of the incident response process.

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Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#39
post #36

Seems great if you're already on the Grafana platform. One thing I'd say is that I find the "react with a robot emoji on slack to add information to the timeline" as a little kluge, hopefully that's not the only mechanism for doing that. Also does this tool have a postmortem workflow? I didn't see one in the documentation and that seems like an important part of the incident response process.

Thanks for feedback re: robot emoji. You can also use a backslash command if you want to add a new piece of text to the timeline from Slack. re: postmortem workflow. The timeline view is built to help postmortems, one of the ways we're doing this is making it easy to paste the info from the timeline as rich text or markdown from the timeline into your post mortem workflow. You'll see that on the top right of the time…

Are you going to upgrade this feature to an Enterprise license one day and then revoke access without a grace period? This happened to one of our Grafana plugins and resulted in a several day outage while we scrambled to sort out the payment.

As your company has shown zero respect for its customers, I will not be using any of your systems.To be absolutely clear it is fair to charge for any of your products, however, if you change it from freemium to paid you can't just pull the plug without reaching out.

Re: Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud

#40
post #10

All good except that Grafana Cloud is super expensive when you consider it per metric. This probably is the most expensive service per bit of data!

Hey @nikolay! I work at Grafana Labs & focus on pricing - would you be up for a 15 minute chat to discuss this further? If so, feel free to either drop me a note at divy.goel@grafana.com or let me know how best to reach you :)

Recently you pulled one of our Grafana plugins without notice as you had upgraded this to an Enterprise license. We are more than happy yo pay, however, pulling production support without reaching out to negotiate a license is a d** move. We suffered an outage of several days while scrambling to get the payment approved. Luckily we didn't suffer any major outage in that window.
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