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Cyril Tovena

Principal Software Engineer

At Grafana Labs, Cyril mainly focuses on Loki, an open source logs aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. He previously worked at Ubisoft, scaling dedicated game servers in the cloud using Kubernetes. Cyril also contributed to Agones creation, an open source project to scale dedicated servers on Kubernetes.

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Mat Ryer · 7 May 2025 · 7 min read

A context-aware LLM agent built directly into Grafana Cloud: Introducing Grafana Assistant

With our new integrated AI agent you can write in natural language to ask observability questions, see certain data, build dashboards, and make...

AI/ML

Grafana Cloud

Cyril Tovena · 19 Apr 2023 · 8 min read

How to troubleshoot memory leaks in Go with Grafana Pyroscope

Continuous profiling

Grafana Pyroscope

Cyril Tovena · 2 Nov 2022 · 5 min read

Announcing Grafana Phlare, the open source database for continuous profiling at massive scale

Continuous profiling

Grafana Phlare

Cyril Tovena · 12 May 2022 · 6 min read

10 things you didn’t know about LogQL

Helpful — and surprising! — facts about using LogQL in Grafana Loki

Loki

Cyril Tovena · 9 Aug 2021 · 4 min read

New in Loki 2.3: LogQL pattern parser makes it easier to extract data from unstructured logs

Loki

Logging

Cyril Tovena · 5 May 2021 · 2 min read

How to search logs in Loki without worrying about the case

Here's an easy solution to run a case-insensitive search in Loki.

Loki

Logging

Cyril Tovena · 11 Jan 2021 · 4 min read

How to use LogQL range aggregations in Loki

Logging

Loki

Cyril Tovena · 5 Jan 2021 · 3 min read

How to escape special characters with Loki's LogQL

Loki

Cyril Tovena · 8 Dec 2020 · 5 min read

How to create fast queries with Loki’s LogQL to filter terabytes of logs in seconds

Logging

Loki

Cyril Tovena · 16 Oct 2020 · 3 min read

How Grafana Labs' remote-first culture allows me to put family first

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A context-aware LLM agent built directly into Grafana Cloud: Introducing Grafana Assistant

How to troubleshoot memory leaks in Go with Grafana Pyroscope

Announcing Grafana Phlare, the open source database for continuous profiling at massive scale

10 things you didn’t know about LogQL

New in Loki 2.3: LogQL pattern parser makes it easier to extract data from unstructured logs

How to search logs in Loki without worrying about the case

How to use LogQL range aggregations in Loki

How to escape special characters with Loki's LogQL

How to create fast queries with Loki’s LogQL to filter terabytes of logs in seconds

How Grafana Labs' remote-first culture allows me to put family first