Grafana

You have Grafana. You have Prometheus metrics. You have logs in Loki and traces in Tempo. You also have 47 dashboards that nobody looks at. Dashboard rot is real. Teams create dashboards for every possible metric, every service, every potential issue. Six months later, nobody remembers what half of them show or why they exist. Good dashboards are different. They get opened daily. They answer questions before you ask. They help you understand your system, not just display numbers. ...

You’ve got Prometheus for metrics. You can see what’s happening across your clusters. But when something breaks, metrics tell you that something is wrong — logs tell you why. The traditional answer is Elasticsearch. It’s powerful, flexible, and… expensive. It indexes everything, which means you pay for every byte of log data in CPU, memory, and storage. Loki takes a different approach: index labels, not content. It’s the same philosophy that makes Prometheus efficient for metrics, applied to logs. ...