Company
Date Published
Author
Michele Mancioppi and Jon Seager
Word count
1893
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Canonical has embraced the Grafana ecosystem, including Grafana, Loki, and Grafana Agent, to power its new observability stack, LMA2, designed for cloud-native environments. The decision to adopt these open-source tools is driven by their alignment with Canonical's goals of quality, scalability, and resource efficiency, as well as their cohesive user experience and ease of integration. Juju, Canonical's model-driven operations framework, plays a pivotal role by simplifying software deployment and management across various cloud environments, using Charmed Operators that automate application operations. The new LMA2 stack aims to offer comprehensive monitoring capabilities by leveraging the strengths of the Grafana projects, focusing on metrics, logs, alerts, and expanding into other telemetry types such as distributed tracing. By building on the Grafana ecosystem, Canonical aims to provide a robust, scalable, and efficient monitoring solution that can operate seamlessly across Kubernetes, virtual machines, and other infrastructures, enhancing the ease of operations and reducing the cognitive load on operators.