Grafana Labs made a splash at ObservabilityCON 2024 in New York City, showcasing a suite of new features designed to simplify observability, empower users, and reduce costs. Here’s a breakdown of the key announcements:
1. Explore Apps for Queryless Data Exploration:
- Streamlined data exploration and visualization with intuitive UIs (Explore Metrics, Logs, Traces, Profiles).
- Users can drill down and analyze data without needing complex query languages.
- Delivers a more accessible experience for all skill levels.
2. Contextualized Root Cause Analysis with Grafana Cloud:
- Integration of Asserts technology (acquired in 2023) offers AI/ML-powered anomaly correlation.
- Unified workflows across infrastructure and application layers streamline troubleshooting.
- Simplifies understanding and diagnosing issues in complex systems, even for junior engineers.
- Available to all Grafana Cloud Advanced customers starting October 2nd.
3. Reducing Costs with Adaptive Telemetry:
- Adaptive Logs (generally available): Analyzes ingested log patterns to recommend log sampling, lowering observability costs.
- Adaptive Metrics (previously announced): Reduces metrics costs by 35% on average through AI/ML analysis.
- Adaptive Traces (in Research phase): Acquisition of TailCtrl accelerates development for trace optimization.
5. Advancing AI/ML in Observability:
- Monitoring Large Language Models (LLMs):
- Open-source tool tracks performance and monitors application logs for LLM training.
- Integrates with open source tools like OpenLIT SDK for LLM observation.
- eBPF-based GPU monitoring provides fine-grained information without manual instrumentation.
- Incident Rooms use LLMs for real-time transcription and incident summarization.
6. Enhanced Monitoring and Testing Capabilities in Grafana Cloud:
- Synthetic Monitoring and Load Testing Unification:
- k6 Studio (experimental) enables GUI-based test creation without coding.
- Scripted Monitoring (public preview) allows complex user journey simulations.
- Browser Monitoring (generally available) captures Web Vitals, screenshots, and timings.
- Multi-cloud Monitoring with Cloud Provider Observability:
- Now generally available, simplifying multi-cloud monitoring across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Provides a single, out-of-the-box solution for comprehensive cloud service insights.
These advancements demonstrate Grafana Labs’ commitment to simplifying observability and empowering users to build efficient, cost-effective, and intelligent monitoring solutions.
Reference to the Article- Grafana Labs
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