Questions¶
Open¶
- How does Grafana's AI/ML Sift feature work internally, and what are its practical capabilities vs marketing claims? — observability/grafana/how-it-works
- What is the real-world cost comparison of Grafana Cloud vs self-hosted LGTM at 1M, 10M, and 100M active series? — observability/grafana/benchmarks
- How does Mimir's query-sharding compare to Thanos's query splitting in terms of latency and resource usage? — observability/grafana/architecture
- What is the migration path from an existing ELK stack (Elasticsearch + Kibana) to Loki + Grafana? — observability/grafana/operations
- How mature is Pyroscope's continuous profiling integration with Grafana and Tempo? What is the production-readiness level? — observability/grafana/how-it-works
- What are the specific differences between Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud Enterprise? — observability/grafana/index
- How does Grafana's new Scenes framework change dashboard development for plugin authors? — observability/grafana/how-it-works
- What is the optimal label cardinality strategy for Loki when handling Kubernetes logs at 1000+ pods? — observability/grafana/operations
- How does TraceQL Metrics (experimental) compare to the span-metrics generator in Tempo? — observability/grafana/benchmarks
Answered¶
- What license is Grafana under? — AGPL-3.0 since April 2021 (was Apache 2.0), resolved in observability/grafana/index
- Can Grafana scale horizontally? — Yes, with external PostgreSQL + Redis and multiple replicas behind a load balancer, resolved in observability/grafana/operations
- What is Grafana Alloy? — The successor to Grafana Agent; a vendor-agnostic OpenTelemetry Collector distribution, resolved in observability/grafana/how-it-works
- How does Loki differ from Elasticsearch for log storage? — Loki indexes labels only (not full text), making it 10–100x cheaper but requiring label-first queries, resolved in observability/grafana/how-it-works