How People Approach Grafana

Compared to the Honeycomb baseline.

Grafana was already approached. A decade ago someone needed to graph something and did so. Since you can put it in front of whatever data store, it shows up in lots of places.

In recent years, Grafana (the firm) has created Grafana Cloud, gobbled up backends like Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope. They’re now presenting as a batteries-included observability solution. Let’s dig into that!

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What Can You Know About Your Systems?

It's time to scrutinize a bunch of things to compare observability workflows.

Each observability tool tends to lead users toward a specific workflow. In the same way that working with computers on Windows or MacOS has very different starting points, Logs, Metrics, and Traces each have several entry points.

I want to dig into the benefits and drawbacks of each default workflow.

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