diff --git a/sources/news/20221103.5 ⭐️ Grafana Phlare is a New Scalable Open-Source Database to Enhance Observability.md b/sources/news/20221103.5 ⭐️ Grafana Phlare is a New Scalable Open-Source Database to Enhance Observability.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8a36782a27 --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/news/20221103.5 ⭐️ Grafana Phlare is a New Scalable Open-Source Database to Enhance Observability.md @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +[#]: subject: "Grafana Phlare is a New Scalable Open-Source Database to Enhance Observability" +[#]: via: "https://news.itsfoss.com/grafana-phlare/" +[#]: author: "Sourav Rudra https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/" +[#]: collector: "lkxed" +[#]: translator: " " +[#]: reviewer: " " +[#]: publisher: " " +[#]: url: " " + +Grafana Phlare is a New Scalable Open-Source Database to Enhance Observability +====== + +Grafana Phlare aims to be a scalable, durable, cheap, and open-source database for continuous profiling data. + +![Grafana Phlare is a New Scalable Open-Source Database to Enhance Observability][1] + +[Grafana][2] is a popular open-source data visualization tool that supports various object storage and cloud services. + +To improve on what they offer, Grafana has announced a **new open-source database for continuous profiling data** that helps enhance the monitoring of servers (or your application), making life easier for performance engineers and enterprises. + +### Open Source Database for Continuous Profiling + +![Introducing Grafana Phlare][3] + +Credits: Grafana Labs + +> 💡Continuous Profiling is a dynamic method of analyzing key performance metrics of a server, such as CPU utilization, memory usage, and more, at any period of time. + +Grafana Phlare is a highly scalable database that aims to provide users with a long-term storage solution for continuous profiling data. + +The core features involve: + +- **Easy to install** +- **Horizontal scalability** +- **High availability** +- **Cheap, durable profile storage** +- **Natively multi-tenant (enabling independent teams to share the same database)** + +You would say that: there are already a few similar open-source projects. And you wouldn't be wrong. + +But, the team behind Phlare mentioned that those tools were not reliable or scalable enough to meet Grafana Labs' continuous profiling needs. + +> So we decided to get to work creating a database for continuous profiling telemetry, based on the design principles that have made our other open source observability backends, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir, so successful: horizontally scalable architecture and use of object storage.- Cyril Tovena, Software Engineer at Grafana + +As for the technical tidbits of Phlare, it uses object storage to store profiling data and supports various object storage services such as[Amazon S3][4], [Google Cloud Storage][5], [OpenStack Swift][6], and more. + +Also, Cyril mentions that Grafana Phlare is incredibly easy to install: + +> It’s easy to install with just one binary and no additional dependencies, just like [Prometheus][7]. + +![grafana phlare][8] + +Credits: Grafana Labs + +**Furthermore**, it can natively integrate with Grafana to show users a detailed view of the whole stack and includes various observability signals such as metrics, logs, and traces. + +To complement Phlare, the team also added a new Flame graph panel to better visualize system resources data via various data sources. + +![grafana phlare flame graph panel][9] + +Credits: Grafana Labs + +**As a bonus**, Grafana also announced a data source plugin for another open-source continuous profiler called '[Parca][10]'. + +### 👨‍💻 Try Grafana Phlare + +Grafana Phlare is made available as a single binary and can be procured from the official [GitHub repository][11]. + +You may want to review its [official documentation][12] to learn more about it. + +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +via: https://news.itsfoss.com/grafana-phlare/ + +作者:[Sourav Rudra][a] +选题:[lkxed][b] +译者:[译者ID](https://github.com/译者ID) +校对:[校对者ID](https://github.com/校对者ID) + +本文由 [LCTT](https://github.com/LCTT/TranslateProject) 原创编译,[Linux中国](https://linux.cn/) 荣誉推出 + +[a]: https://news.itsfoss.com/author/sourav/ +[b]: https://github.com/lkxed +[1]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/size/w1200/2022/11/grafana-phlare-opensource-scalable-db.png +[2]: https://grafana.com/grafana/ +[3]: https://player.vimeo.com/video/766320003?h=8c877d70d4&app_id=122963 +[4]: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/ +[5]: https://cloud.google.com/storage +[6]: https://github.com/openstack/swift +[7]: https://grafana.com/oss/prometheus/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt +[8]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/11/Grafana-2.png +[9]: https://news.itsfoss.com/content/images/2022/11/Grafana.png +[10]: https://www.parca.dev +[11]: https://github.com/grafana/phlare +[12]: https://grafana.com/docs/phlare/latest/