David Kaltschmidt

Director of Engineering and UX @grafana. Working on Loki/Explore. Formerly @kausalco, @weaveworks, @oracle. Fuelled by cheesecake.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

My take on the last year. It’s been challenging but feeling insanely lucky to work at that place.

[Grafana @grafana]

"Leadership was in full support of putting our employees' physical and mental health first... Now having this backing from the top is one thing, but to personally feel that it’s OK to finish early one day and support your spouse is another thing." @davkals https://t.co/Wv4GnDlnrM

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@juliusvolz @grafana We're actually working on data sinks, and they needed a home :)

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@__alter123 @juliusvolz @grafana Hi, I run the Grafana team. What has gotten more difficult for you?

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@__alter123 @juliusvolz @grafana Let me look into this...

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@juliusvolz @grafana We're actually doing more UX testing than ever, and a lot of changes benefit less experienced users (including using more industry terms like "connection"). I understand how this can be confusing to expert users who return after a while.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@_tessr chatgpt taking my job!!!

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@LiliCosic I think you're right, we've been focussing on visual builders and might have made the query builders too complex. If it's alright, I'll reach out to you to get an expert user's eye our recent editor.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@torkelo @aspyker @datadoghq @grafana I think @bboreham could find that useful.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@AlexJonesax Great feedback! We'll check how we can introduce the new query builders for Loki and Prometheus more gently.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@ivanahuckova @arduino @grafana @make Congrats, looks amazing 🤩

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@Dieter_be @myrleKrantz Then I'd start getting interested in work-related fields, read some papers, watch some talks, get inspired. I'd try to find intrinsic motivation to go back to work. There is no point returning until that's there.
It might take months, I hope you find it. 🫶

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@Dieter_be +1 to what @myrleKrantz said.
For concrete advice, I'd take weeks or months off, until I solidly stop thinking about work. I'd get into poetry, music, painting, cycling, learn how to sail. A complete reset. I'd keep going until I haven't though about work for a couple of weeks.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@Avinash920602 @grafana Take a look at Template Variables

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@Avinash920602 @grafana It looks like you might need a bit more support than is possible over Twitter. Please send me a mail to [email protected] and I can put you in touch with the right people.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@jtheory @grafana Excited for you to join!! 🎉✨🚀

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@Avinash920602 @grafana It looks like a common pattern is to write to BigQuery from Dataflow. Then you can use the BigQuery datasource in Grafana to query the metrics.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@pauldix @InfluxDB 🔥 Loving the developer focus with the client lib code snippet on the homepage.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

@Avinash920602 Hi, we have company shutdown day today @grafana for Valentine’s Day. Will get back to you tomorrow.

[David Kaltschmidt @davkals]

Demoing live data streaming in @grafana and the new canvas panel to control a fleet of devices (or a data center). Amazing work by the Grafana Edge team 🎉

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Today on the blog, @Atif_ShoukatAli shares an experimental project that demos how remote drone tracking and management are possible with a Grafana dashboard https://t.co/vGVBY8YMAl