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Managing access in Grafana: a single stack journey with teams, roles, and real-world patterns

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

When multiple teams use Grafana, it can start to feel a bit messy. Dashboards pile up, permissions become unclear, and teams accidentally overwrite each other’s work.

Tiger teams: How we tackle urgent, cross-functional challenges at Grafana Labs

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A year ago, we hit a wall.

Our Grafana OSS releases were excruciating to execute. The process was confusing and hard to follow, security patches were non-trivial, and many engineering hours were lost to an overly manual process. We needed to move fast, cut through ambiguity, and pull in just the right people without waiting on roadmaps or org charts. That’s when I pitched the idea of forming the first ever “tiger team” at Grafana Labs, a small and focused group designed to tackle high-priority, cross-functional problems with speed and clarity.

What’s new in the Infinity data source for Grafana: support for JQ parser, additional HTTP methods, and more

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Since its launch in 2020, the Infinity data source for Grafana has become the go-to solution to seamlessly query and visualize data from JSON, CSV, XML, and GraphQL endpoints within Grafana.

AWS metric ingestion for less: Save money and get near real-time stream into Grafana Cloud

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a new way to ingest AWS metrics into Grafana Cloud that makes observing your AWS resources more cost-effective, easier to operate, and more accurate.

Actionable insights into the end-user experience: an overview of Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability dashboards

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the biggest challenges in frontend development is identifying when and why users encounter performance issues, whether it’s slow page loads, JavaScript errors, or failed HTTP requests.

Project Bob: The autonomous boat attempting to circle the globe with open source and Grafana

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Andrew McCalip works with satellites and spacecraft, so he’s no stranger to ambitious engineering challenges. His latest side project may be his boldest yet.

Project Bob aims to be the first autonomous boat to circumnavigate the globe. Open source tools will monitor every detail on the 14-foot, solar-powered vessel, from power levels to location and heading, in real time. And it will use onboard cameras, sensors and a Starlink antenna to stream live video and telemetry data to the public via a custom Grafana Cloud dashboard.

How should Prometheus handle OpenTelemetry resource attributes?

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the OpenTelemetry blog. Victoria Nduka is user experience designer and open source contributor making her way into the cloud native space. She writes about design, accessibility, and open source with the same curiosity she brings to her work.

Optimize application performance at the network layer: introducing HTTP Performance Insights in Frontend Observability

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Imagine you’re a frontend engineer monitoring the user experience for an e-commerce app. You notice your checkout flow has a 15% abandonment rate. Your API responses are inconsistent. Your users are frustrated, and you’re drowning in data and complex queries trying to figure out why. Sound familiar?

Inside Grafana Labs’ Voice of Customer program: what’s new and what’s next

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

At Grafana Labs, openness isn’t just our approach to building software — it’s a core company value that reflects how we engage with our community. This includes being transparent about how we collect product feedback, how it’s reviewed, and how it informs what we build.

Canary tokens: Learn all about the unsung heroes of security at Grafana Labs

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve written at length about a recent security incident tied to a GitHub action, but what we haven’t publicized yet is how we found the trail left by the attacker: canary tokens.