To kick off the GrafanaCon user conference, taking place in New York this week, The New Stack held a special pancake and podcast panel discussion, to mull over these very topics.

For the event, the panel was comprised of Paul Dix, chief technology officer for InfluxData, keeper of the InfluxDB time-series database; Raj Dutt, cofounder and CEO of Raintank, which offers a commercial distribution of the open source Grafana visualization monitoring software; Theodore Staack, a software developer at office supply retailer Staples; and Matthew Brender, Intel developer advocate.

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/grafanacon-pancake-podcast-intricacies-composing-new-monitoring-stack/