A week ago, Volkov Labs and Theia Scientific published a blog post about using NFS (Network File System) Server as a solution to share external storage between containers on balenaCloud. This problem is long-standing, and this article demonstrates a solution. — Let’s set the stage, aka the problem. Following containerization best practices, the Theiascope™ platform is separated into containers deployed in host network mode and interacts with each other using TCP and/or UDP ports. The Theia web application running on the Theiascope™ hardware powered by balenaOS deals with massive data, where…

Grafana 9 was released at GrafanaCONline 2022 on June 14, and it’s the best version so far. Our open-source and commercial plugins were successfully tested using the 9.0.0-beta3 released weeks ago and updated using the latest Grafana 9 toolkit on the day it was released. — One of the topics I heard from the Grafana community it’s the hesitation to use third-party plugins: Community plugins are not updated constantly and stopped being maintained after a while.

On June 15, 2022, Mikhail Volkov from Volkov Labs and Christopher Field from Theia Scientific headlined their innovative session on the second day of GrafanaCONline 2022. — A month ago, we published the article “How Theia Scientific and Volkov Labs used Grafana and AI to analyze scientific images” on Grafana Blog and were thrilled to showcase our work at GrafanaCONline 2022. How Theia Scientific and Volkov Labs use Grafana and AI to analyze scientific images Dr. Christopher Field is Co-Founder, President, and Principal Investigator at Theia Scientific. With formal education…grafana.com

We understand the risk of data manipulation and take security concerns seriously. This article explores three secure ways to connect the Data Manipulation panel to the API Server. — The recent article and Youtube video showcased various use cases to bring your Grafana Dashboard game to the next level using the Data Manipulation plugin. This panel can insert, update application data, and modify configuration directly from your Grafana dashboard.

Working on a commercial project, we created a data manipulation panel plugin that can be used to insert, update application data, and modify configuration directly from your Grafana dashboard. — The Data Manipulation panel has been requested by the community multiple times. We decided to open-source it and submit it for review to the Grafana team to include in the Grafana repository. GitHub - VolkovLabs/volkovlabs-form-panel: Data Manipulation panel plugin for @grafana. The Custom Form Panel is a plugin for Grafana that allows the creation of customizable forms. Grafana 8.0 is required.github.com

At the beginning of the year, Daria Volkova joined the team and took over the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business. Together we created a plan and were able to complete everything on the list. — This quarter we doubled our revenue and created a pipeline until the end of the year. We designed a unique style for our website, blog, and YouTube channel. We received positive feedback from our commercial clients, and the Grafana community, and are proud of our work.

The Redis Data Source for Grafana was released two years ago to solve the specific problem. Most Redis tools allow working with a single Redis instance in a separate application and do not provide a complete view of the hardware and software stack. — The Redis Data Source and Application plugins were built on the backend platform introduced in Grafana 7 and became a part of the “Big Tent” philosophy. Starting from supporting RedisTimeSeries, a Redis time-series module, plugins were extended over the years to support native Redis types, Streams, RedisGraph, RedisJSON, RedisGears, etc.

Grafana Marketplace application is one of our favorite features introduced in Grafana 8. It allows installing registered plugins from the official Grafana repository when connected to the Internet, but how to upgrade and manage Grafana plugins without access to the external network? — With an increasing number of companies moving to the Cloud, there are still many use cases when Grafana instances are deployed offline, have firewall restrictions, and cannot connect to the official repository. Working on such a project, we examined various options to install Grafana plugins.

This week, we looked at the Checkmk, Neo4j, Node Graph API data sources, and updated Kentik, k6, Moogsoft applications. — While preparing this review, we examined each plugin on what was changed and the long-term supportability of the plugin. To track plugin updates and the interest from the community, we crafted a dashboard on our demo server. The video version of this article is available on our YouTube channel.