Grafana 8.0 was released. Among other improvements, it centralizes alerting information, introduces library panels and real-time streaming.

The latest stable release of Grafana comes with a new and improved pie chart panel, alerting support for Loki, a Grafana Tempoo backend data source, and many other improvements.

Short post-mortem on a Grafana Cloud Prometrheus outage.

More than 1.55 million room nights are reserved on the Booking.com platform every day. It’s a staggering amount of traffic, and not surprisingly, the Amsterdam-based travel e-commerce company has a lot of knowledge to share about handling metrics at scale.