Grafana Labs named a Leader again in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Grafana Labs has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms—for the second year in a row.
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Single-tenant vs. multi-tenant architecture with Grafana Cloud: A guide to choosing the right...
Learn the pros and cons of each approach so you and your organization come to an informed decision about the architectural approach that best fits...
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Faster, more memory-efficient performance in Grafana Mimir: a closer look at Mimir Query Engine
By processing queries in a streaming manner without loading all samples at once, Mimir Query Engine boosts performance and memory-efficiency within...
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Distributed performance testing for Kubernetes environments: Grafana k6 Operator 1.0 is here
Starting as an experiment back in 2020, k6 Operator has grown into a powerful open source project that makes it easier to run and manage distributed...
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How to connect ServiceNow to Grafana Cloud IRM incidents
Learn the new way to set up webhooks based on Grafana Cloud IRM incident events so you can template URLs, headers, and data, as well as chain...
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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 12 release: observability as code, dynamic dashboards, new Grafana Alerting tools, and more
With the latest major release, Grafana introduces new tools that help bring together teams into a unified observability platform, which you can then...
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Reliable, predictable, and scalable performance testing: Grafana k6 1.0 is here
With the first major release of Grafana k6, we’re doubling down on our commitment to make performance and reliability testing more predictable,...
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Grafana 11.6 release: new data visualization features, LBAC for metrics data sources, alerting...
Grafana 11.6 includes a number of new dashboarding features, LBAC for metrics data sources, alerting updates, and more. Here’s a look at the...
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Faster, more memory-efficient performance in Grafana Mimir: a closer look at Mimir Query Engine
By processing queries in a streaming manner without loading all samples at once, Mimir Query Engine boosts performance and memory-efficiency within...
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Data storytelling at HackUPC 2025: Celebrating 3 student hackathon projects powered by Grafana
Grafana Labs was a proud sponsor of the HackUPC event, where students from around the world built some innovative, Grafana-powered dashboards to track...
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Learn OpenTelemetry tracing through a grand strategy game: introducing Game of Traces
Game of Traces is a grand strategy game you can play to learn the key concepts of OpenTelemetry tracing — and, of course, heroically defend a few...
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Grafana Cloud products and updates
Measuring service response time and latency: How to perform a TCP check in Grafana Cloud Synthetic...
TCP checks in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring can be your first line of defense against service failures and network connectivity issues. Here’s...
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AWS metric ingestion for less: Save money and get near real-time stream into Grafana Cloud
You can now stream metrics into the AWS Observability app in Grafana Cloud in near-real-time thanks to our new integration with Amazon CloudWatch and...
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Inside Grafana Labs’ Voice of Customer program: what’s new and what’s next
With our Voice of Customer program, we can tighten the loop between what our users ask for and what we prioritize in R&D. Here’s a look at some recent...
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Single-tenant vs. multi-tenant architecture with Grafana Cloud: A guide to choosing the right...
Learn the pros and cons of each approach so you and your organization come to an informed decision about the architectural approach that best fits...
Read more
Faster, more memory-efficient performance in Grafana Mimir: a closer look at Mimir Query Engine
By processing queries in a streaming manner without loading all samples at once, Mimir Query Engine boosts performance and memory-efficiency within...
Read more
Distributed performance testing for Kubernetes environments: Grafana k6 Operator 1.0 is here
Starting as an experiment back in 2020, k6 Operator has grown into a powerful open source project that makes it easier to run and manage distributed...
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How to connect ServiceNow to Grafana Cloud IRM incidents
Learn the new way to set up webhooks based on Grafana Cloud IRM incident events so you can template URLs, headers, and data, as well as chain...
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Data storytelling at HackUPC 2025: Celebrating 3 student hackathon projects powered by Grafana
Grafana Labs was a proud sponsor of the HackUPC event, where students from around the world built some innovative, Grafana-powered dashboards to track...
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Debug, query, and build faster with AI: How we use Grafana Assistant at Grafana Labs
See how Grafana Labs uses Grafana Assistant internally to find data, simplify queries, explain logs, accelerate onboarding, and improve dashboarding.
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A smarter filter for Grafana Alerting: Introducing a new way to find your alerts
Quickly and easily find the alert rules you need with the new filtering experience in Grafana Alerting that provides a cleaner UI and more filtering...
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Measuring service response time and latency: How to perform a TCP check in Grafana Cloud Synthetic...
TCP checks in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring can be your first line of defense against service failures and network connectivity issues. Here’s...
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Managing access in Grafana: a single stack journey with teams, roles, and real-world patterns
Learn how putting all users in a single Grafana Cloud stack and managing access with teams, roles, and folders can help you and your organization stay...
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Tiger teams: How we tackle urgent, cross-functional challenges at Grafana Labs
See why tiger teams have become our go-to model for tackling urgent, high-impact issues that don't fit neatly into a single team's backlog, and get...
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What’s new in the Infinity data source for Grafana: support for JQ parser, additional HTTP methods,...
The latest updates to the Infinity data source for Grafana enhance its flexibility, performance, and compatibility with Grafana’s backend features.
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AWS metric ingestion for less: Save money and get near real-time stream into Grafana Cloud
You can now stream metrics into the AWS Observability app in Grafana Cloud in near-real-time thanks to our new integration with Amazon CloudWatch and...
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Actionable insights into the end-user experience: an overview of Grafana Cloud Frontend...
Getting started with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability? Here’s a breakdown of the key metrics and visualizations you’ll find on our pre-built...
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Project Bob: The autonomous boat attempting to circle the globe with open source and Grafana
Meet Project Bob, which aims to be the first autonomous boat to circumnavigate the globe, thanks, in part, to Grafana.
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How should Prometheus handle OpenTelemetry resource attributes?
Check out the results of a Prometheus mentorship project focused on understanding how Prometheus handles OpenTelemetry resource attributes and how...
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