Grafana 7.0 Delivers Major Visualization Upgrades and Empowers Users to Unite & Transform Data from All Sources Ranging from Metrics and Logs to…

NEW YORK, May 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Grafana Labs is announcing the general availability of Grafana 7.0 with significant enhancements to simplify the development of custom plugins and drastically increase the power, speed and flexibility of visualization. This latest release helps organizations realize their monitoring, visualization and observability goals even faster. Open source Grafana is among the worlds most popular dashboard solutions and boasts more than 550,000 active installations and millions of dashboards in use across the globe. Grafana 7.0 is an accumulation of effort commencing after 6.0 spanning nearing 18,000 commits and 3,699 pull requests from 362 contributors around the world. Additionally, there are hundreds of company, commercial and community data-source plugins and thousands of sample dashboards.

The Grafana 7.0 enhancements heavily focus on helping users and organizations across these key areas:

(Easier to) Connect and Unify All Your Data

(Much More Power and Control to) Process and Transform Your Data

(Faster Ways to) Visualize Your Data Even Traces

Search, Discover, and Secure Your Dashboards with New Enterprise Features

This is truly a major release for us not just a .0 or laundry list of features, but a fundamental, system-wide advancement. With this release, users are going to experience an increase in speed to visualization, along with a host of capabilities that will give them one place, at the user level, to perform simple and complex functions and transformations on their data. For example, by chaining a simple set of point-and-click transformations, users will be able join, filter, re-name, and calculate to get the results they need. Grafana is becoming an ideal tool to speed and ease data transformations and reduce the need to perform disjointed transformations through a variety of query languages outside the dashboard. Torkel degaard, creator of Grafana and co-founder and CGO of Grafana Labs

We believe vendors shouldnt own observability strategies; users and organizations do. We are focused on helping them in their journey through an open and composable framework that can unite an organizations complex environments. With Grafana, they can bring together their own custom APIs, open source metrics like Prometheus or Graphite along with Loki and Elasticsearch for logs, and proprietary systems like Datadog, Splunk, NewRelic, Oracle, and ServiceNow. Raj Dutt, co-founder and CEO of Grafana Labs.

Grafana 7.0 is available immediately for Grafana Cloud customers, through a free 30-day cloud trial, and for download.

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About Grafana LabsGrafana Labs supports organizations monitoring, visualization and observability goals through an open and composable platform built around Grafana, the open source software for beautiful monitoring and metric analytics and visualization. There are now more than 550,000 active installations of Grafana, and the instantly recognizable dashboards have become ubiquitous. Grafana Labs commercial products include Grafana Enterprise, with key features and support for large organizations, and Grafana Cloud, a hosted Grafana-based stack that includes Prometheus and Graphite (for metrics) and Loki (for logs). Today, more than 1,000 customersincluding Bloomberg, eBay, PayPal, and Sonyturn to Grafana Labs to help bring their data together, all through software that is vendor-neutral. Grafana Labs is backed by leading investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lead Edge Capital. Follow Grafana on Twitter at @grafana or visit http://www.grafana.com.

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