As a Grafanista, you tend to find things to visualize — databases, microservices, classic video games, etc. It’s part of our “big tent” philosophy. So when our December hackathon rolled around, some of us in our internal homelab Slack channel decided to take a look at how we could get metrics out of our Plex Media Servers.  We all run servers that we share with friends and family, and we were curious about finding better ways to understand: What content is popular or stale and could be deleted When are popular times for watching so we can minimize interruptions If we’re getting the best ..read more

Three times a year, Grafanistas around the world step away from their daily responsibilities for one week and put their creative energy into what has quickly become a cultural touchstone at Grafana Labs: Our company-wide hackathon.  In just 8 months, Grafana Labs has hosted three hackathons that average about 130 participants and have produced more than 150 different projects, from exciting new features that have been added to our roadmap to answering life’s most pressing questions, such as “Can Grafana run Doom?” (Answer: Yes!) In the latest episode of “Grafana’s Big Tent” — our new pod ..read more

Update: Due to popular demand in the past 24 hours since we posted this blog, the Grafana Labs team behind Doomfana has made their code public, and we have updated the info below. Happy demon hunting! It started as all good projects do … with Rick Astley.  After seeing the project about how to Rickroll your friends with Grafana — in which a seemingly innocent hyperlink surprises users with the music video for Astley’s classic “Never Gonna Give You Up” rendered with Prometheus and Grafana — a question arose: Can Grafana run Doom? As the latest company-wide hackathon at Grafana Labs appro ..read more