Best of Grafana — August 2024

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   Grafana Labs·2y

   How Japan's space agency used Grafana to monitor its first moon landing in real time

   Japan's space agency JAXA successfully conducted its first lunar landing on January 19, 2024. Using Grafana for real-time monitoring, JAXA tracked critical SLIM spacecraft functions like navigation and heater status. Satoshi Nakahira showcased the dashboards at GrafanaCON 2024, highlighting their integration with InfluxDB for enhanced observability. The dashboards helped monitor power, navigation, and landing maneuvers, providing visually impressive and easily editable insights that were crucial during the mission.

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   eBPF·2y

   Monitoring Inter-Pod Traffic at the AZ Level with Retina (an eBPF based tool)

   The post provides a comprehensive guide on analyzing inter-pod traffic in Kubernetes, with a focus on cross-AZ communication to reduce AWS costs. It leverages eBPF technology using tools like Retina, Prometheus, and Grafana. The article covers the setup of a sample environment, configuration of monitoring tools, and how to capture and analyze traffic metrics to optimize network performance across Kubernetes clusters.

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   Grafana Labs·2y

   Grafana Alloy 1.3 release: Debug pipelines in real time

   Grafana Alloy 1.3 introduces live debugging for real-time monitoring and troubleshooting of data pipelines. This feature, experimental in the current release, allows users to visualize data transformations, identify errors, and analyze pipeline behaviors. It can be enabled by adding a live debugging block in the config and setting the stability level to experimental. Supported components include loki.process, loki.relabel, otelcol.processor, otelcol.receiver, and prometheus.relabel. The previous requirement to build entire pipelines before checking data has been removed, allowing for step-by-step pipeline construction and verification.

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