timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 55

TimeShift's Issue 55 highlights several key updates and events related to Grafana, including the announcement of GrafanaCon LA with a call for papers now open, and PromCon in Munich, featuring talks on monitoring strategies like the RED Method and Prometheus Monitoring Mixins. The latest stable release, Grafana 5.2.2, addresses various bug fixes across dashboards, Prometheus, and database connections. The newsletter also outlines blog posts on diverse topics such as Plaid.com's large-scale integration monitoring, IoT efficiency improvements using Protocol Buffers, and setting up Grafana for Ubuntu server monitoring. Additionally, the Instana plugin has been updated to enhance its application model, and the newsletter encourages submissions for interesting articles, while also promoting open positions at Grafana Labs and upcoming events like the Sensu Summit and CloudNative London 2018.