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Re: Grafana 7.0

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

have you seen any implementations of internal tracing like APM being used with Grafana? I think lack of a good open source alternative to New Relic or Datadog APM kinda killed OSS monitoring for my company. The Jaeger integration is a good step in the right direction though, kudos!

What more would you like to see than what Jaeger provides?

Re: Grafana 7.0

#62
post #23

It would be nice to have yearly, monthly, weekly and other recurring graph, I tried to hack it with sql window function, but it gives lot of problems. https://community.grafana.com/t/yearly-monthly-weekly-and-ot...

To get graphs for this week and the last 3 weeks in the same panel you could use something like this:

  SELECT i::text as metric, l1.*
    FROM 
    (SELECT
    g1 AS i,
    g1 * '1week'::interval AS interval,
   '1 week'::interval AS span,
    now() AS start
  FROM generate_series(0,3) g1) g1
  JOIN LATERAL (
    SELECT
   time + interval AS time,
   value
  FROM metrics
  WHERE time > start - (span+interval) AND time 

Re: Grafana 7.0

#63
Congrats! I used Grafana for two projects and I really liked it. I am thinking of providing an easy way to use Grafana as a "custom UI" for by analytics platform, so you could either view the normal charts in the analytics app itself or create your own dashboards in Grafana using the data already collected. I assume this could be easily done my connecting the MySQL database as a datasource and providing the users with some example queries to get started, right?

Re: Grafana 7.0

#64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

have you seen any implementations of internal tracing like APM being used with Grafana? I think lack of a good open source alternative to New Relic or Datadog APM kinda killed OSS monitoring for my company. The Jaeger integration is a good step in the right direction though, kudos!

What more would you like to see than what Jaeger provides?

Jaeger is used for traces between distributed systems (external)

Traditional APM products are internal traces

Re: Grafana 7.0

#65
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Torkel, First off, Grafana is amazing! So keep up the good work. Question: Currently alerts are fairly limited both in applicable panels and how they export/share relevant data to the chosen notification channel, as well as more advanced conditions. Is there any work going on with improving alerts?

Also to mention frequently asked feature: alerts using queries and templated variables [1][2]. Creating even simple generic dashboards with alerts is not possible, unless variables are hardcoded in hidden queries. [1] https://community.grafana.com/t/template-variables-are-not-s... [2] https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6557

Agreed. If Grafana alerts supported templated variables I would migrate a decent chunk of my monitoring stack. But without templated variables the alert system feels half baked and I almost prefer it not even be a feature.

Re: Grafana 7.0

#66
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Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

Hey! Thanks for grafana, and especially a HUGE thank you for the user usage metrics!

Now if only you could persuade kibana to do the same :-)

Re: Grafana 7.0

#67
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Hi, my name is Torkel Ödegaard. Grafana project creator & lead. Here to answer any questions.

when you post release announcements that possibly get posted snd forwarded to other places, please include a short description about what grafana is.

and maybe also add one to your home page. (make it link to the features)

when i see any release anouncement about a product i am unfamiliar with, the first question i have is what kind of product it is, so i can decide if i want to check it out

Re: Grafana 7.0

#68
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 click around a beautiful UI, with data visualizations and easy filtering/aggregation. Is this easy to do with Grafana?

Re: Grafana 7.0

#69
post #68
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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 don't believe grafana will help you here.

If you have mongodb enterprise you can use Mongo bi connector and connect it with any bi tool. I recommend metabase since it is open source and very good for slice and dice and reports.

The mongodb bi connector is a postgres with foreign data wrapper to mongodb. So even if you don't have a mongodb subscription, you may be able to pull this off using the OS version https://github.com/EnterpriseDB/mongo_fdw

Re: Grafana 7.0

#70
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

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