Centralize observability with Amazon Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins
Observability is a critical aspect for maintaining the health and performance of any distributed system. Organizations rely on data from diverse sources, including AWS services as well as third-party ISVs (independent software vendor) to gain insights into their system’s health. Establishing secure connections to these diverse data sources enables visualization and analysis of observability data in a single pane of glass view, driving data-driven decision making.
Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service for Grafana, a popular open-source analytics platform that enables you to query, visualize, and alert on data from a wide variety of data sources. Grafana offers an extensible architecture, with plugins that can be used to enhance user experience with a wide range of functionalities such as querying data from external data sources for better insights and improved visualizations. Enterprise plugins are exclusive data source plugins, built and maintained by Grafana Labs, connecting to proprietary tools or platforms, such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or Databricks. Enterprise plugins provide simplified user experiences, enabling you to query these systems alongside AWS services within a Grafana dashboard. For example, you could correlate your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) performance metrics from A mazon Managed Service for Prometheus, application logs and traces from A mazon OpenSearch Service with your incidents in ServiceNow for effective troubleshooting.
With Amazon Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins, you can upgrade your Amazon Managed Grafana workspace to access third-party enterprise data source plugins, directly from the Amazon Managed Grafana console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or AWS SDK. An Amazon Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins license costs an additional $45 per active user per workspace, and this gives you access to support and on-demand training directly from Grafana Labs, in addition to all the Enterprise plugins listed in Enterprise data sources available with Amazon Managed Grafana Enterprise plugins. With the pay-as-you-go pricing model, Enterprise plugins upgrade have no upfront fees or minimum commitments, you will pay only for what you use, based on an active user per workspace. You can easily identify the monthly usage and costs of using Enterprise plugins with the consolidated billing report.
Unified observability experiences in a hybrid environment
The architecture diagram below shows one of customer’s environments, utilizing Amazon Managed Grafana to visualize data from AWS as well as third party Enterprise data sources.
