ObservabilityCON 2025: A guide to all the announcements from Grafana Labs
New in Grafana Cloud: AI-powered incident response, Adaptive Telemetry for cost control, Database Observability, and enterprise-ready security and...
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A Star Wars dashboard deep dive: How to build your next visualization in less than 12 parsecs
Nerd out with our Star Wars-themed dashboard and all its nods to a galaxy far, far away. Plus, get some tips to make your next dashboard is the chosen...
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Continuous profiling for native code: Understanding the what, why, and how
Learn how continuous profiling can offer deep visibility into the performance of a highly optimized codebase, as well as provide clear targets for...
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Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability
Help your developers, SREs, and DBAs quickly assess how SQL queries are contributing to your system's performance.
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Performance testing best practices: How to prepare for peak demand with Grafana Cloud k6
To ensure system reliability under peak load and traffic surges, consistent and early performance testing is key. Here’s how to do just that with...
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Grafana Mimir 3.0 release: performance improvements, a new query engine, and more
Grafana Mimir 3.0 marks a new era for the open source time series database, delivering dramatic improvements in both reliability and performance.
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Grafana Tempo 2.9 release: MCP server support, TraceQL metrics sampling, and more
The latest release of Grafana Tempo brings a number of exciting updates, including MCP server support, which lets you leverage LLMs to access and...
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Grafana 12.2 release: LLM-powered SQL expressions, updates to canvas and table visualizations,...
Grafana 12.2 includes a more intuitive, LLM-powered experience for SQL expressions, data visualization updates, and so much more. Here are the...
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Grafana 12.1 release: automated health checks for your Grafana instance, streamlined views in...
Grafana 12.1 includes a public preview of Grafana Advisor for automated health checks on data sources, a number of new visualization and alerting...
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Grafana Mimir 3.0 release: performance improvements, a new query engine, and more
Grafana Mimir 3.0 marks a new era for the open source time series database, delivering dramatic improvements in both reliability and performance.
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Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: Get more precision from your Grafana visualizations
Prometheus native histograms are now generally available, giving you greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing latency,...
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SQL expressions in Grafana: Combine and manipulate data from multiple sources
SQL expressions are a versatile and powerful feature that opens up all sorts of creative possibilities by manipulating and combining data from...
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Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability
Help your developers, SREs, and DBAs quickly assess how SQL queries are contributing to your system's performance.
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Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: Get more precision from your Grafana visualizations
Prometheus native histograms are now generally available, giving you greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing latency,...
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SQL expressions in Grafana: Combine and manipulate data from multiple sources
SQL expressions are a versatile and powerful feature that opens up all sorts of creative possibilities by manipulating and combining data from...
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A Star Wars dashboard deep dive: How to build your next visualization in less than 12 parsecs
Nerd out with our Star Wars-themed dashboard and all its nods to a galaxy far, far away. Plus, get some tips to make your next dashboard is the chosen...
Read more
Continuous profiling for native code: Understanding the what, why, and how
Learn how continuous profiling can offer deep visibility into the performance of a highly optimized codebase, as well as provide clear targets for...
Read more
Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability
Help your developers, SREs, and DBAs quickly assess how SQL queries are contributing to your system's performance.
Read more
Performance testing best practices: How to prepare for peak demand with Grafana Cloud k6
To ensure system reliability under peak load and traffic surges, consistent and early performance testing is key. Here’s how to do just that with...
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Grafana Mimir 3.0 release: performance improvements, a new query engine, and more
Grafana Mimir 3.0 marks a new era for the open source time series database, delivering dramatic improvements in both reliability and performance.
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Hacking for better observability at scale: How Geotab quickly improved their monitoring with Grafana
See how a Grafana-focused hackathon helped Geotab's engineers build the newest iteration of their observability platform, and get some tips you can...
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Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: Get more precision from your Grafana visualizations
Prometheus native histograms are now generally available, giving you greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing latency,...
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SQL expressions in Grafana: Combine and manipulate data from multiple sources
SQL expressions are a versatile and powerful feature that opens up all sorts of creative possibilities by manipulating and combining data from...
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Grafana Labs at KubeCon: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation, Prometheus deep dives, and more
Meet us at KubeCon North America 2025! Our observability experts are participating in multiple sessions throughout the week, and you can find us at...
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Faster, more collaborative data exploration: Introducing saved queries in Grafana Cloud
By saving and reusing queries in Grafana Cloud, you help new team members get up to speed faster and ensure your entire organization benefits from...
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Grafana and Grafana Cloud release cycle: An end-of-year update
Grafana Labs will implement two separate release cycle freezes between November 2025 and January 2026 to help ensure stability for everyone during the...
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Grafana Tempo 2.9 release: MCP server support, TraceQL metrics sampling, and more
The latest release of Grafana Tempo brings a number of exciting updates, including MCP server support, which lets you leverage LLMs to access and...
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Making logs work smarter: Evolving your observability strategy
There are some challenges that come with a logs-first approach in Grafana Cloud. See how you can optimize your stack to avoid the typical gotchas.
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Show me the (meeting) money: How to monitor the real-time costs of a meeting in Grafana
Want an easy way to calculate the real-time financial costs of a meeting, one second (and one buzzword) at a time? There’s a Grafana dashboard for...
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From pillars to rings: How interconnected observability in Grafana Cloud optimizes performance and...
The opinionated solutions in Grafana Cloud combine telemetry signals to optimize performance, minimize waste, and help you focus on the data that...
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