timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 47

TimeShift's 47th issue, authored by Trent White, explores a variety of topics ranging from general monitoring principles to home automation and CERN's use of open-source projects in particle acceleration work. It highlights Grafana's latest release, version 5.1.3, which addresses a Firefox-specific scrolling issue and introduces improvements in visualizing data from disparate sources on a single dashboard. The issue features several articles, including a presentation on monitoring with Azure and Grafana, CERN's advocacy for open-source software, and techniques for building home automation systems using Grafana. It also discusses the integration of alerting capabilities in Grafana and showcases Google’s open-source project Cloudprober for black-box monitoring. Additionally, the issue promotes various upcoming events and conferences, including Monitorama PDX and InfluxDays London, while inviting interested individuals to explore job opportunities at Grafana Labs.