3 years ago

Grafana’s new plugin for Elasticsearch further adds to the cloud native observability tool’s growing roster of data sources under what Grafana Labs describes as a “big tent” of supported platforms. Before the Elasticsearch plugin became available, many Grafana users had “hacked together solutions of their own,” to work with the Elasticsearch scalable search and analytics engine, Raj Dutt, CEO and co-founder at Grafana Labs, told The New Stack.

Under what Grafana describes as its “big tent,” Dutt said Grafana Labs’ main philosophy is for users “to have full control over their observability strategy, extending to the specific tools that they prefer to use,” Dutt said. Our role at Grafana Labs is to allow them to bring them together and understand all their data, no matter where it lives,” Dutt said.

Since then, that list of data sources has expanded to include everything from Graphite and Prometheus to GitLab and Splunk — and yes, Elasticsearch,” Dutt said.