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AWS Taps Grafana Labs to Launch Managed Observability Service

Avatar photoBy: Mike Vizard on December 23, 2020 4 Comments

Amazon Web Services (AWS), in collaboration with Grafana Labs, has added a preview of managed service based on the Grafana observability platform to its portfolio of tools for managing cloud applications and infrastructure.

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The Grafana platform is based on an implementation of the open source Prometheus monitoring platform being advanced under the auspices of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The implementation curated by Grafana Labs is designed to centralize observability across multiple clusters using the same console.

Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt said organizations running workloads on AWS can now more easily invoke an observability platform that runs on the same cloud platform on which they have deployed application workloads.

In addition, Dutt noted IT organizations running workloads on AWS can seamlessly upgrade to Grafana Enterprise, which can pull information from third-party data from platforms including ServiceNow, Splunk, Snowflake, Datadog, MongoDB, Oracle, New Relic, Dynatrace, Wavefront and AppDynamics.

Grafana Labs already offers both an on-premises edition of its platform in addition to a software-as-a-service edition. The edition that AWS is running provides access to an observability platform for applications running on AWS platforms. Organizations that want to apply the Grafana Labs platform to manage applications running on multiple platforms would employ the existing offerings available from Grafana Labs.

The company also earlier this year added a distributed tracing platform dubbed Grafana Tempo that makes it possible to leverage existing object storage platforms and services to analyze traces. Grafana Labs also rolled out version 2.0 of Loki, which normalizes different structured, unstructured or JSON log formats in a way that allows DevOps teams to extract additional labels as well as enable additional filtering and grouping.

In general, interest in observability is on the rise in direct proportion to the rate at which IT environments are becoming more complex. As more microservices-based applications are deployed, the level of dependency between them starts to increase exponentially. Attempting to correlate data generated by multiple monitoring tools is next to impossible, so IT organizations are starting to shift toward observability platforms that unify the collection of application and infrastructure metrics in a way that provides more context.

Competition among providers of these platforms is already fierce, so the alliance with AWS is a notable endorsement of the approach being pursued by Grafana Labs. Less clear is to what degree IT teams will be replacing many of their existing monitoring tools once observability platforms are deployed more widely. Most existing monitoring tools are optimized for a specific class of infrastructure or application; in many cases, eliminating the licensing fees for those platforms would pay for the cost of standardizing on a single observability platform.

Regardless of the path chosen, the way IT is managed is fundamentally changing. Each IT organization will need to adjust their IT management processes to keep pace with the rate at which IT is now becoming more complex. In fact, the next big issue may not be choosing which observability platform to select as much as it is navigating the profound changes to the internal IT culture that are sure to follow.

Filed Under: Blogs, DevOps in the Cloud Tagged With: AWS, cloud service, managed service, observability

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