• Grafana Adds Enterprise Logs to Its Managed Observability Stack
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Grafana adds enterprise-class logging services to its visualization product stack

Grafana Labs recently released a new log aggregation module for its commercial data visualization platform, Grafana Enterprise Stack.

This new product, Grafana Enterprise Logs, captures and stores Logs from applications and other components. When this new module is used with other components in the Grafana Enterprise Stack, users can configure dashboards to display data and metrics. Engineers can also view measurements from other commercial tools, such as Splunk and New Relic, in Grafana Enterprise Logs.

Anthony Woods, CTO and co-founder of Grafana Labs, explained the importance of logging for distributed systems teams. In the long run, engineers will be tasked with sifting through ever-growing logs for valuable information.

In an interview with DevClass, Woods said that Grafana Enterprise Logs attempts to implement a “workflow that is closer to SRE developers, simply searching existing Logs with grep filters to do the job.” He points out that this works well when people don’t know what they want, but know exactly what they don’t want. People can filter out what they don’t want, filtering through until they find the logs and errors they need.

Grafana Enterprise Logs also adds two other modules to the Grafana Enterprise Stack: Grafana Enterprise, an enhanced version of Grafana, and Grafana Enterprise Metrics, a scalable measurement system compatible with Prometheus.

There are no shortage of monitoring and logging tools available for large enterprises. A Gartner research report last year estimated that application performance monitoring is a $4.48 billion market with a 1.1% cagR through 2023. In the report, Gartner advises IT industry leaders to make the following assumption: “By 2025, 50 percent of new cloud-native application monitoring systems will replace vendor-specific offerings with open source tools to improve interoperability.” That would be well up from 5% in 2019.

Grafana is trying to stand out in such a red Sea market with its open source Grafana Loki project. Loki is at the heart of the new logging capabilities. They described Loki as “a horizontally scalable, highly available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus”. Rather than indexing every log row, Loki aims to improve the performance and efficiency of log aggregation systems by indexing the metadata of logs.

Grafana Enterprise Logs combine role-based authentication and quotas. It can also integrate with OIDC authentication vendors.

The Grafana Enterprise Stack can be deployed in two ways: self-managed in your own infrastructure, or in a fully managed version through the Grafana Cloud.

Grafana Labs is not the only vendor offering hosting services based on Grafana and Prometheus. AWS released Grafana and Prometheus versions of Amazon Managed Services in January 2021. Open source versions of Grafana are available on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

If you want to learn more about Grafana Enterprise Logs, check out their official documentation. Pricing details for the Grafana Cloud-based managed version can be found on the Pricing page. You can also try the 50 GB free version.

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