At its annual convention, GrafanaCon, Grafana Labs has introduced updates to 2 of its open supply tasks (Grafana and Loki) and introduced a 3rd (Grafana Alloy).
“Our aim is to make it simpler and quicker to get began for anybody – whether or not they’re touchdown on the moon or monitoring their every day commute – to get began with observability, and at the moment’s bulletins at GrafanaCON are one other huge step in that path,” stated Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs. “Grafana customers can construct a totally composable observability stack with Loki as the information backend and Alloy as the information 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, akin to Discover Metrics, which is a brand new query-less approach of interacting with Prometheus metrics in order that customers can decide the basis reason behind points, and Discover Logs, which is analogous however for Loki logs.
Different updates embrace improved visualizations, easier alerting, 11 new information sources, integration with Tempo and Traces, a brand new Grafana App Platform, and the power 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 consumer 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 can carry information from Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus collectively.
“We consider that organizations ought to personal their observability technique, select their very own instruments, and have the liberty to carry 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 alerts that may meet a big selection of various wants,” Richard Lam, director of product at Grafana, wrote in a weblog submit.