Logging is coming to Grafana
summary
Grafana adds a built-in logging data source that uses a node logging agent daemonset to forward raw log lines to a logging service while storing labels in an labels-as-metadata inverted index for fast filtering the Explorer provides a query-centric UI with Prometheus integrations like auto-converting counters to rates and histogram buckets to histograms you can run Explorer behind a feature flag in 5.3 the OSS logging beta ships next month and the plan includes emitting time series from log pattern matches and a hosted logging option.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Grafana
- 1:03Grafana platform overview
- 5:06New features since release 5
- 7:23The troubleshooting journey
- 10:35Exploring the new Explorer
- 15:13Grafana logging solution
- 21:12Future roadmap and beta
- 23:11Future panel improvements
- 25:30Q&A session
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