timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 56

TimeShift's latest edition highlights events from PromCon in Munich, where Grafana Labs sponsored and presented talks, and celebrates the Prometheus project's graduation as a CNCF project. It details the release of Grafana 5.2.2, which includes fixes for Prometheus graph panel issues and updates for Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL connections. The edition features various blog entries, including insights into Grafana's new explore UI, Prometheus Monitoring Mixins using Jsonnet, and a tutorial on using TimescaleDB with Prometheus for monitoring CockroachDB. It also covers Fortnite's data analytics pipeline and cost management on Kubernetes using Grafana and Prometheus. Additionally, the edition announces new plugins for Grafana, job openings at Grafana Labs, and upcoming events such as the London Hashicorp User Group and the CloudNative London 2018 conference, where Prometheus monitoring will be discussed. The edition concludes with a highlighted tweet about Grafana's new explore UI and invites feedback from readers.