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Grafana Labs favors MTTR because as they say in Formula 1 racing: It’s easier to make a fast car reliable than make a reliable car fast.

Today we're releasing Cortex 1.1, the first (minor) release since Cortex went GA in March. We've improved reliability and performance -- read more to …

On March 16, Grafana Cloud’s Hosted Prometheus service experienced a 12-minute outage. Here's our incident postmortem.

The first GA release for Cortex features production documentation, turn-key Grafana dashboards and Prometheus alerts, and an easy-to-use single …

At KubeCon, Tom Wilkie presented an updated version of his talk about blazin' fast PromQL. Here's a recap and steps to reproduce the results in your …

Tom Wilkie offers a recap of the talk he gave at PromCon about the different approaches Cortex and Thanos take to address the same Prometheus …

If you missed PromCon, here’s our roundup of talks given by Grafanistas and more.

For PromCon this year, we made a donation to offset 200% of the carbon emissions from all conference goers’ travel and food.

Wondering how much storage you need for your metrics? Here’s a guide to estimating the size of your system.

Cortex v0.1 has been released. Here’s what’s new with the CNCF Sandbox project.

On July 19, Grafana Cloud’s Hosted Prometheus service experienced a 30-minute outage. Here’s our incident postmortem.

At KubeCon last week, Weaveworks' Bryan Boreham and I gave a talk about how we've improved Cortex's query performance. Here's a recap.

At KubeCon this week, Tom Wilkie is giving two talks on Cortex. ICYMI, here’s the latest news about the technology used in Grafana Cloud’s Hosted …

A customer asked for advice about whether to use a containerized Prometheus environment or a VM-based one. We thought we’d share our answer here too.

In the Prometheus 2.7 release, Ganesh Vernekar added a feature called Prometheus Subqueries. In this post we'll share a couple of real-life examples …