Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 12:00 noon, CDT (UTC−5:00)
Special Topic:
4D Server Monitoring using Grafana and Prometheus – Thomas Maul
Grafana is a well-known, open source tool to visualize data metrics such as CPU load, disk IOPS or network traffic. People have used Grafana to create some pretty incredible dashboards for tracking anything from Kubernetes container-orchestration system, to home energy usage, to website performance, to GitHub repository activity, to Covid-19 cases, and on and on.

Prometheus, also open source, is used to fetch and store raw metrics in the form of time series and can be used for event monitoring and alerting. Grafana and Prometheus are easily used together to generate beautiful and informative dashboards that will offer powerful insight into performance data.
In this meeting, Thomas Maul, the VP of Product Strategy for 4D and Managing Director for 4D Germany, will demonstrate how 4D, Grafana, and Prometheus make a power trio that rocks.
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