2 years ago

Grafana Labs’ Grafana 8.0 release features a number of new features, including the combination of different types of alerts in a single interface and a wider range of visualization options. Grafana Labs’ alerts rethink involves how Grafana alerts from Grafana, as well as from Prometheus and other observability options are combined in a single user interface (UI), thus bridging the different alerts types that can be viewed simultaneously in the console.

Grafana 8.0 also bridges together the different Grafana and Prometheus alerts for Grafana’s cloud, enterprise and open source stack. This allows users to configure and edit alert rules for Grafana-compatible Cortex alerts and Loki alerts, as well Prometheus-compatible data sources.

Users had to find external plugins of varying quality and behaviors to solve these use cases, said Torkel Ödegaard, co-founder of Grafana Labs and project lead for the Grafana open source project.