Query caching in Grafana and Amazon Timestream: Faster and more cost-effective dashboards

Co-authored by experts from Amazon Timestream and Grafana Labs, the blog post discusses how integrating Amazon Timestream, a scalable and secure time series database, with Grafana's query caching can enhance the performance and cost-effectiveness of operational dashboards crucial for applications in DevOps, Security, and IoT. By leveraging Grafana's caching feature, which stores frequently accessed data, users can experience significantly reduced dashboard load times and lower query costs. This caching mechanism checks for data locally before querying the database, offering near-instantaneous reloads for similar time ranges. The post also explains how to set up Amazon Timestream with Grafana, including enabling cache settings, and highlights potential considerations like cache stampedes. Suggestions for overcoming these limitations and plans for future updates to Grafana are mentioned, alongside resources for getting started with both Amazon Timestream and Grafana.