Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (in Preview)

As we speak, in partnership with Grafana Labs, we’re excited to announce in preview, Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG), a totally managed service that makes it straightforward to create on-demand, scalable, and safe Grafana workspaces to visualise and analyze your information from a number of sources. If you happen to’d wish to learn extra about this thrilling partnership, try this weblog by Grafana Lab’s CEO, Raj Dutt.

Grafana is among the hottest open supply applied sciences used to create observability dashboards to your purposes. It has a pluggable information supply mannequin and assist for various sorts of time sequence databases and cloud monitoring distributors. Grafana centralizes your utility information from a number of open-source, cloud, and third-party information sources.

Lots of our clients love Grafana, however don’t need the burden of self-hosting and managing it. AMG manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, model upgrades and safety patching of Grafana, eliminating the necessity for patrons to do it themselves. AMG robotically scales to assist 1000’s of customers with excessive availability.

With AMG, you’re going to get a totally managed and safe information visualization service the place you’ll be able to question, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs and traces throughout a number of information sources together with cloud providers akin to AWS, Google, and Microsoft. AMG is built-in with AWS information sources, akin to Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, AWS X-Ray, AWS IoT SiteWise, Amazon Timestream, and others to gather operational information in a easy method. AMG can be tightly built-in with the newly introduced Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP), offering clients a complete observability answer for container based mostly purposes. Moreover, AMG additionally offers plug-ins to connect with well-liked third-party information sources, akin to Datadog, Splunk, ServiceNow, and New Relic by upgrading to Grafana Enterprise straight from the AWS Console.

AMG integrates straight into your AWS Organizations. You’ll be able to outline a AMG workspace in a single AWS account that permits you to uncover and entry datasources in all of your accounts and areas throughout your AWS group. Creating dashboards in Grafana is simple as all these totally different datasources are discoverable in a single place.

Clients actually like Grafana for the benefit of making dashboards, it comes with many built-in dashboards to make use of whenever you add a brand new information supply, or you’ll be able to reap the benefits of its broad group of pre-built dashboards. For instance, you’ll be able to see within the following picture a very nice dashboard that AMG created for me from one in every of my AWS Lambda operate.

Considered one of my favourite issues from AMG is the built-in safety features. You’ll be able to simply allow single sign-on utilizing AWS Single Signal-On, limit entry to information sources and dashboards to the suitable customers, and entry audit logs through AWS CloudTrail to your hosted Grafana workspace. With AWS Single Signal-On you’ll be able to leverage your current company directories to implement authentication and authorization permissions.

One other highly effective characteristic that AMG has is assist for Alerts. AMG integrates with Amazon Easy Notification Service (SNS) so clients can ship Grafana alerts to SNS as a notification vacation spot. It additionally has assist for 4 different alert locations together with PagerDuty, Slack, VictorOps and OpsGenie.

There aren’t any up-front investments required to make use of AMG, and also you solely pay a month-to-month lively consumer license price. This implies you could provision many customers to entry to your Grafana workspace, however will solely be billed for lively customers that log in and use the workspace that month. Customers granted entry however that don’t log in, won’t be billed that month. You can too improve to Grafana Enterprise utilizing AWS Market, to get entry to enterprise plugins, assist, and coaching content material straight from Grafana Labs.

Availability

This service is obtainable in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Eire) areas. To study extra go to the AMG service web page, and you should definitely be part of our re:Invent session tomorrow 12/16 from eight:00am – eight:30am PST for a demo!

AMG is now obtainable in preview; to get entry to this service fill out the registration kind right here.

— Marcia