Grafana 7.0 introduces new features including a tracing data viewer that allows users to view and correlate metrics, logs, and traces across data sources. It also includes new data transformations that allow users to transform data before it is queried. Additionally, Grafana 7.0 features a new plugin architecture that splits core functionality into packages and supports official backend plugins running as a separate process.

1. Grafana 7.0
Andrej Ocenas,
Observability team tech lead @GrafanaLabs

2. ● Tracing data viewer & data sources
● Data transformations
● New plugin architecture
Agenda

4. ● Tracing view available in Explore
● Support for Jaeger and Zipkin out of the box
● Transition between logs and traces
Tracing data viewer & data sources

5. Live demo

6. ● Very simple at the moment
● Precursor to fully integrated experience inside Grafana
● Correlate metrics/logs/traces across any permutation of data
sources
Data source linking

7. ● Not every datasource has rich query language
● Now you can transform your data in Grafana
● Can be chained together
Data transformations

8. Live demo

9. ● More are coming depending on the user demand
● Right now transformations are working on the frontend only
● We are working on a custom data language
● Support for backend processing and use in alerting
Again future sneak peek

10. ● Core functionality split into packages
● @grafana/ui
● @grafana/data
● @grafana/runtime
● @grafana/e2e
New plugin architecture

11. ● Official backend support
● Separate process, gRPC protocol
● Grafana Plugin SDK for Go
New plugin architecture

12. ● Tutorials
● @grafana/toolkit demo
New plugin architecture

13. Thank you

14. Questions?