At its annual convention, GrafanaCon, Grafana Labs has introduced updates to 2 of its open supply initiatives (Grafana and Loki) and introduced a brand new open supply undertaking (Grafana Alloy).
“Our objective is to make it simpler and sooner to get began for anybody – whether or not they’re touchdown on the moon or monitoring their each day commute – to get began with observability, and at the moment’s bulletins at GrafanaCON are one other massive step in that course,” stated Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs. “Grafana customers can construct a completely composable observability stack with Loki as the info backend and Alloy as the info pipeline, which then brings that information into Grafana to visualise. This interoperable open supply stack will assist customers obtain new ranges of effectivity and perception.”
Grafana 11.0 provides a number of new options, similar to Discover Metrics, which is a brand new query-less means of interacting with Prometheus metrics in order that customers can decide the foundation reason behind points, and Discover Logs, which has similarities however for Loki logs.
Different updates embody improved visualizations, less complicated alerting, 11 new information sources, integration with Tempo and Traces, a brand new Grafana App Platform, and the flexibility to configure SSO from the UI.
Loki 3.0 introduces Bloom Filters, which permits queries to go looking textual content strings, like order ID and person ID. It additionally provides native assist for OpenTelemetry.
Grafana Alloy, which is an open supply distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, was additionally introduced. The corporate views it as a “Large Tent” collector that may convey information from Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus collectively.
“We imagine that organizations ought to personal their observability technique, select their very own instruments, and have the liberty to convey all their information collectively in a single view. Grafana Alloy helps you obtain simply that as a telemetry collector that’s suitable with a collection of various indicators that may meet a big selection of various wants,” Richard Lam, director of product at Grafana, wrote in a weblog submit.
