Grafana 3.0 Stable Released (opens in new tab)

Looks like a nice release! One thing I really miss in grafana and seems like it's not included is alerts.

It would be so damn convenient to have data visualization and alerts on the same system because usually they are strongly related from the user point of view. And, well, one thing less to setup and maintain.

However, I am aware of the debate whether alerts do actually belong to grafana, or should it be responsible for visualization only and seems like they have settled with the later. Which definitely makes sense because once you start to expand to alerting it's a whole new world and I respect the choice. So yeah, I am a bit sad as a user, however I totally get the authors.

Maybe it will be available as a plugin?

That being said... What tools HNers are using for placing alerts on data stored in graphite?

I have some random historical meteorological data (multiple time series, ~3 million values, a couple of parameters, nothing big) lying around in a MySQL database which I would love to explore. Grafana looks like a nice tool to at least visualize it.

Which supported data source would you recommend for a quick test ride?

Here are some release highlights :)

  * Big UI improvements and polish
  * Redesigned plugin architecture and SDK  
  * Grafana-cli command line tool shipped with grafana, 
    installs plugins 
  * Persisted dashboard playlists
  * Preferences like home dashboard, timezone and theme on 
    org and user level
  * New plugin types, Apps, and Panels.
  * New platform site built around Grafana at Grafana.net
    * Plugin repository
    * Dashboard repository (coming soon)
    * Hosted Grafana and Hosted metrics (coming soon)
    * Monitoring and backups of on-prem Grafana (coming soon)
  * Annotation popovers can contain clickable links
  * Templated data source Easiy reuse the same dashboard for multiple data source instances
  * OSX Homebrew support Homebrew installation instructions
  * Support for InfluxDB 0.11+ (and new functions)

Youtube screencast with feature showcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kJyQKgk_oY

I'm a very happy Grafana user. The move to a server based app worried me at first, but it's been humming along nicely the entire time. It's a shame that graphite is still so hard to install/configure (at least from rhel 6 and lower - things might be better on other distros/versions) though. If you're looking to start making some money as a business, I'd be spending a bit of time making sure the data sources are as easy to stand up as possible.

Congratulations on the new release and, really, fantastic work!

I've used grafana from a browser at a company once, and liked it a lot. However, when I've looked at installing it myself, the docs immediately start talking about other projects, like influxdb and elasticsearch, things I know little about nor want to. Conversely, the things I do want to know about, what is it written in, architecture, how to send data?, etc, are missing or buried somewhere.

Is there an easy tutorial on how to start sending it data after install? That's all I want. Also, would like to use standard tools like curl, python, and postgres, is that possible?

Things I wish were included in that release:

- Some amount of caching/pre-fetching so moving the graph around doesn't take a few seconds each time. At least in the cases where I am zooming in and all the data is already loaded on the client it shouldn't need a network round trip.

- The ability to drag the charts left and right by keeping the shift key pressed, as is the default on Dygraphs charts (dygraphs.com)

- Switch from Flot to Dygraphs would make client-side rendering faster (at least for the typical line charts)

No fullscreen mode via a URL still it seems? It's a big missing feature for when you want to setup overhead monitors and the like.

It would have been nice to warn beforehand that support for InfluxDB-0.8.X may be broken. I'm having the same issue as https://github.com/grafana/influxdb-08-datasource/issues/3 so if you are still using 0.8.x be careful with this upgrade!