timeShift(GrafanaBuzz, 1w) Issue 71

TimeShift Issue 71 covers Grafana's participation and sponsorship at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 in Seattle, where they will showcase a new open-source project and gather feedback on Grafana and its features. The latest Grafana v5.4 release highlights include enhancements such as alerting improvements, MySQL query builder upgrades, and team preferences for personalized dashboards. The issue also discusses articles on monitoring Cassandra with Prometheus and Grafana, exporting alerts from Prometheus to Grafana, and monitoring Kubernetes and server power usage using Grafana dashboards. Upcoming events include GrafanaCon in Los Angeles, featuring TSDB tracks and workshops, and a talk by David Kaltschmidt on achieving full observability with Grafana at the Seattle conference. Additionally, Grafana is expanding its European sales team and highlighted a popular feature request regarding time period highlights on Grafana graphs.