https://grafana.com/blog/Recent content in Grafana Labs blog on Grafana LabsHugo -- gohugo.ioenhttps://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/alloy-one-year/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssThu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/alloy-one-year/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>It&rsquo;s been <a href="/blog/2024/04/09/grafana-alloy-opentelemetry-collector-with-prometheus-pipelines/">a year since we launched</a> Grafana Alloy, our OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles.</p> <p>OpenTelemetry is quickly becoming an industry standard for telemetry collection, processing, and delivery, and we&rsquo;re committed to making Alloy the best possible collector for telemetry data, whether you&rsquo;re using it with Grafana Cloud or not.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/grafana-cloud-migration-assistant/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssThu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/grafana-cloud-migration-assistant/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>Moving your existing Grafana instance to Grafana Cloud just got dramatically simpler. </p> <p>Today, we&rsquo;re excited to announce the general availability of the <a href="/docs/grafana-cloud/security-and-account-management/migration-guide/cloud-migration-assistant/?pg=blog&amp;plcmt=body-txt">Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant</a>, a powerful yet intuitive tool designed to streamline your migration journey.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/traces-drilldown-generally-available/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssThu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/traces-drilldown-generally-available/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>When there’s an error spike in your microservices environment, every second counts. That’s why, last year, we introduced <a href="/docs/grafana/latest/explore/simplified-exploration/traces/">Grafana Traces Drilldown</a> (previously Explore Traces), an application that allows you to quickly investigate and visualize your tracing data through a simplified, queryless experience.  </p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/llm-grafana-assistant/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/llm-grafana-assistant/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>Today, as part of the <a href="/blog/2025/05/07/grafanacon-2025-announcements/">GrafanaCON 2025 keynote</a> in Seattle, we previewed Grafana Assistant, our new LLM-powered agent in Grafana Cloud that helps you learn and solve problems in Grafana easier than ever.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/grafana-12-release-all-the-new-features/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/grafana-12-release-all-the-new-features/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>Grafana 12 is here! During the <a href="/events/grafanacon/2025/keynote-grafana-12/?pg=blog&amp;plcmt=body-txt">opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2025</a>, we unveiled dozens of new reasons to fall in love with everyone&rsquo;s favorite dashboarding and visualization tool—especially if your job is to keep teams, services, and, of course, a whole lot of beautiful Grafana dashboards organized.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/git-sync-grafana-12/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/git-sync-grafana-12/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>As your Grafana instance scales, so does the challenge of maintaining dashboards. Managing dozens—or hundreds—of dashboards through the UI alone can quickly become overwhelming. Tracking changes gets murky, dashboards multiply, and consistency suffers.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/grafanacon-2025-announcements/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/grafanacon-2025-announcements/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p> <a href="/events/grafanacon/2025/?pg=blog&amp;plcmt=body-txt">GrafanaCON 2025</a> is in full swing in Seattle, where members of our open source community have gathered to explore the latest updates to Grafana Labs’ OSS projects, share their inspiring use cases, and build lasting connections at our biggest community event yet.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>Here at Grafana Labs, we have a deep and long-standing commitment to the OpenTelemetry project. Over the years, we’ve prioritized building compatibility with OTel into our products and open source projects — and <a href="/oss/beyla-ebpf/?pg=blog&amp;plcmt=body-txt">Grafana Beyla</a> has been a leading example of those efforts. </p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/dynamic-dashboards-grafana-12/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/dynamic-dashboards-grafana-12/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>In <a href="/blog/2024/04/09/grafana-11-release-all-the-new-features/">Grafana 11</a>, we migrated our dashboard architecture to the <a href="/blog/2024/10/31/grafana-dashboards-are-now-powered-by-scenes-big-changes-same-ui/">Scenes library</a>, which provides users a more stable and flexible foundation for Grafana dashboards. Over the past year, we have been building a new dashboard schema and new APIs on top of the App Platform.</p>https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/observability-as-code-grafana-12/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rssWed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/observability-as-code-grafana-12/?utm_source=grafana_news&utm_medium=rss&src=in-prod&plcmt=rss<p>Over the past few years, many as code tools have emerged from Grafana Labs and the community that enable users to manage dashboards and other resources programmatically. </p>