Aiven now offers Grafana® 9 as a managed service. Let’s take a look at how we’re bringing it to you and what the key improvements are.
Hoang Minh Vo
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With our commitment to open source, Aiven always strives to bring the best open-source tools to our customers. We believe that Grafana® 9 is the best open-source visualization technology to date.
The new Grafana release brings a wealth of new capabilities, such as:
Grafana 9 simplifies your monitoring process tremendously.
Prometheus is a technology agent widely used to pull metrics from different sources. At Aiven, we also use it for our Metrics integration solution. PromQL is not the easiest language, however, and has a steep learning curve. Grafana 9 tackles this problem by bringing the PromQL query builder into the picture.
This is how PromQL query builder makes your life easier:
PromQL query builder also keeps the code-based user interface for those hard-core developers.
Time series data is an essential part of monitoring and observability. It carries crucial information about your services throughout a given period of time and gives you insights into how your services performed. The heatmap in Grafana helps to visualize the massive amounts of time series data as a histogram.
In Grafana 9, the way heatmaps are displayed has been revamped. The new heatmap panel brings multiple new features:
In addition, the new heatmap is several orders of magnitude faster than the old one.
Dashboard previews is a new enhancement coming to live in Grafana 9. Instead of relying on Title name, customers can now have a graphical representation of their dashboard to better differentiate between multiple dashboards.
This feature is available as an opt-in feature in Aiven Console for Grafana service, under “Advanced Configuration”.
An improved search capability for your list of panels. This feature is also enabled as an opt-in feature in Aiven Console for Grafana service, under “Advanced Configuration”.
Easier access to your favorite dashboard straight from the navigation. This feature is enabled in Aiven for Grafana by default.
Some of the changes to Grafana 9 can break builds. Take a look at the full list of Grafana 9 changes to find potential problem areas.
Grafana 9 is available in the Aiven Console, and we have provided a safe upgrade path from Grafana 8. You can either upgrade your Aiven for Grafana manually, or wait for the next scheduled update.
If you’re still looking for a great managed Grafana service, check out our Aiven for Grafana product page!
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