Best of Grafana Labs — July 2024

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   Monitor these Kubernetes signals to help rightsize your fleet

   Organizations using Kubernetes should focus on optimizing resource usage for both cost efficiency and environmental sustainability. Key indicators to monitor for under-provisioning include high CPU or memory utilization, high disk I/O, network latency, and frequent pod evictions. Over-provisioning can be detected through low resource utilization and high costs without proportional usage. Implementing best practices like regular monitoring, autoscaling, and setting resource quotas can help in maintaining an optimal balance.

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   How to set up Grafana Mimir using Ansible

   This post provides a comprehensive guide on setting up Grafana Mimir using Ansible. It covers the prerequisites, installing the Grafana Ansible collection, creating an inventory file, using the Mimir Ansible role, and configuring Mimir for high availability. Additionally, it explains how to check metrics in Grafana to ensure a successful setup.

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   Getting started with Grafana: best practices to design your first dashboard

   Observability is crucial for understanding and optimizing complex systems, and Grafana dashboards are a powerful tool for achieving this. Key principles for effective dashboard design include knowing your audience, leveraging visual hierarchies, and selecting appropriate metrics. Techniques like the RED and USE methods can help prioritize which metrics to display. Always iterate your designs based on feedback and changing requirements. For more detailed guidance, check out the provided on-demand webinar and additional resources.

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   Industrial IoT visualization: Why United Manufacturing Hub chose Grafana to power its IIoT platform

   United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) has chosen Grafana for its industrial IoT (IIoT) platform due to its flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use. Unlike traditional industrial tools, Grafana offers visually compelling dashboards and an extensive online community for support. Integrating seamlessly with TimescaleDB, it allows for real-time data visualization from various sources. While Grafana cannot directly interface with industrial controllers, workarounds exist to facilitate this communication. UMH also leverages Grafana Cloud for monitoring internal systems.

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   CI/CD observability: A rich, new opportunity for OpenTelemetry

   Continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) are central to modern software delivery, but observability in these processes remains limited. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is changing this by enabling deeper visibility throughout the whole CI/CD pipeline, from building and testing to deploying. Shifting observability focus 'left' helps detect and address issues early, increasing efficiency and reducing downtime. The introduction of new semantic conventions and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for CI/CD observability marks a significant step forward in this area.

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