When deploying an application using Kubernetes, you get used to all your resources being manageable by describing them to the Kubernetes API. Whether it’s deployments, secrets, configurations, or entire machines, everything exists as code somewhere. Introducing a cloud service into such an environment often means introducing additional ways to configure it, which can become cumbersome, given the rising number of cloud services modern applications depend on. By combining Grafana Cloud with the Grafana Operator, however, you get the best of both worlds: peace of mind by not having to host teleme ..read more

Grafana Labs is once again headed to KubeCon, and we want to see you there! KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 will run from Tuesday, March 19 to Friday, March 22 at the Paris Expo Porte De Versailles. The conference, which is the CNCF’s flagship event, brings together open source enthusiasts from around the world. Grafana Labs is a proud silver sponsor of this year’s KubeCon Europe event, including Observability Day 2024 on March 19. If you plan to attend, drop by booth L6 at KubeCon’s sponsor solutions showcase to meet the team and grab some swag. You can also contact us to set up a meetin ..read more

Despite the widespread adoption of Kubernetes, many DevOps teams and SREs still struggle to troubleshoot issues because of all the complexity that comes with the open source container orchestration platform. That’s why we developed Kubernetes Monitoring, an application in Grafana Cloud you can use to visualize and alert on your Kubernetes clusters. We continue to invest in providing a more opinionated experience so you can troubleshoot issues faster and easier, and we’re excited to tell you about a new, simplified alerting experience to help you respond to incidents and anomalies in your clust ..read more

This blog post by Grafana Labs Senior Software Engineer Milan Plžík was originally published on the Kubernetes.io blog on Nov. 16, 2023. There’s been quite a lot of posts suggesting that not using Kubernetes resource limits might be a fairly useful thing (for example, For the Love of God, Stop Using CPU Limits on Kubernetes or Kubernetes: Make your services faster by removing CPU limits ). The points made there are totally valid – it doesn’t make much sense to pay for compute power that will not be used due to limits, nor to artificially increase latency. This post strives to argue that limits ..read more

At Grafana Labs we meet our users where they are. We run our services in every major cloud provider, so they can have what they need, where they need it. But of course, different providers offer different services — and different challenges. When we first landed on AWS in 2022 and began using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), we went with Cluster Autoscaler (CA) as our autoscaling tool of choice. It’s open; it’s simple; it’s been battle tested by countless other people before us. However, it wasn’t long before we realized it was not the right tool for us. In this blog, we’ll dig ..read more

Kubernetes offers unparalleled flexibility and scalability for containerized orchestration. However, this dynamism can also lead to unexpected costs if you don’t efficiently manage your corresponding cloud resources.  In this blog, we’ll outline a series of best practices for Kubernetes cost optimization that will help you keep your infrastructure running smoothly while staying within your budget. We’ll also provide examples in YAML so you can see how these techniques are implemented, and we’ll point you to additional resources so you can take a closer look at any of these topics. So let ..read more

Andreas Gerstmayr is a Software Engineer at Red Hat. He’s working on simplifying the deployment and operations of a modern distributed tracing stack using Tempo and OpenTelemetry on OpenShift. I’ve been working with Grafana Tempo for about half a year now, and one thing I like about it is that Tempo requires only object storage for storing traces, which is easy to set up in both cloud environments and on-premises. Another outstanding feature is TraceQL, which allows searching for relevant traces with a powerful query language. Now, let’s imagine you’re a busy system administrator who wants to ..read more

Greetings, Kubernetes Time Lords! Through a series of recent updates to our multi-purpose Kubernetes Monitoring solution in Grafana Cloud, we’ve made it easier than ever to assess your resource utilization, whether you’re looking at yesterday, today, or tomorrow. All companies that use Kubernetes, regardless of size, should monitor their available resource utilization. If a fleet is under-provisioned, the performance and availability of applications and services are at serious risk. On the flip side, fleets with over-provisioned resources run the systemic risk of wasting money and resources th ..read more

As your Kubernetes infrastructure — and your business — grows, so too does the headache of managing your stack. And since controlling costs is crucial for your organization’s well-being, you need visibility into your complex system to ensure you’re spending your money wisely.  That’s why we’re excited to introduce Kubernetes cost monitoring as a new feature in Grafana Cloud. Inspired by our internal experience managing costs, Kubernetes cost monitoring measures and allocates infrastructure and container costs in real time. It also complements our recently released resource utilization eff ..read more

Grafana Agent v0.33 is here! This new release includes a lot of exciting features, such as a powerful way to configure Grafana Agent with Flow Modules and the ability to monitor Kubernetes pods in your cluster with an Operator Flow component. We also added many more Flow components making the Flow ecosystem bigger! Flow Modules: How to build reusable pipelines Modules are a new way to create Grafana Agent Flow configurations that can be loaded as a component. Modules are also a great way to set parameters for a configuration to create reusable pipelines. Let’s see an example of how modules can ..read more