OpenTelemetry Is Too Complicated, VictoriaMetrics Says

To say the folks at VictoriaMetrics aren’t big fans of OpenTelemetry after implementing its metrics library would be putting it mildly. “OpenTelemetery is so complicated and bloated,” said Aliaksandr Valialkin, the Read more…

Why Roblox Picked VictoriaMetrics for Observability Data Overhaul

With more than 200 million active monthly users, Roblox is one of the most popular gaming platforms on the Internet. But all that global traffic means an enhanced need for infrastructure and application observability. Th Read more…

Observability Overload: Grafana Labs Survey Builds a Case for Centralized Solutions

Grafana Labs released new survey findings that reveal DevOps and SRE teams are facing an overload of observability tools and data sources, leading them to seek more centralized observability solutions. “Grafana Labs Read more…

AWS Charts a Multi-Pronged Path to IT Observability

There are scale problems in IT, and then there are AWS-scale problems. The size and complexity of the world’s largest public cloud provider dwarfs pretty much everything else. So when it comes to collecting and analy Read more…

Grafana Labs Upgrades Observability Platform

Grafana Labs’ new enterprise stack released this week incorporates a metrics service for Prometheus, the machine data storage and monitoring platform for cloud-native deployments, along with a log aggregation tool base Read more…

Grafana Labs Pushes Open Source to the Cloud

Grafana Labs is building on its recent cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services via expanded cloud services that can be used with the Prometheus monitoring platform in an observability stack that also tracks logs and t Read more…

AWS Launches Managed Services for Grafana, Prometheus

Grafana Labs, developer of a popular open source tool for visualizing logs and metrics, joins a growing list of Amazon Web Services partners, allowing AWS customer to run Grafana’s dashboards natively as a managed ser Read more…

Scylla Looks Beyond Cassandra to Challenge DynamoDB

NoSQL database vendor Scylla continues to target Apache Cassandra workloads with its latest open source release promoted as moving beyond “feature parity” with Cassandra while offering a “drop-in” alternative to Read more…

Cortex, a Prometheus Spinoff, Boosts Data Monitoring

An open source monitoring system released this week by Grafana Labs is compatible with and inspired by the de facto standard Prometheus machine data storage and monitoring platform for cloud-native deployments. Grafan Read more…

Investors Like Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic, the machine data analytics vendor, said its most recent funding binge that included two new investors pushed its venture capital total to $345 million over investment six rounds. The analytics service prov Read more…