Smarter observability with Grafana Cloud: Collect the data you need, when you need it, and know what it costs

In this session, you’ll learn how Grafana Cloud ensures that you’re collecting exactly the data you need, when you need it – and that you understand what it costs, too.

Grafana Labs VP Engineering Dee Kitchen, Distinguished Engineer Sean Porter, and Staff Product Manager Rich Kreitz will demo the latest additions to the Adaptive Telemetry suite, which dynamically adjusts what data gets ingested based on your usage patterns and signals from your infrastructure. Building on the success of Adaptive Metrics and Adaptive Logs, Adaptive Traces and Adaptive Profiles are designed to make every byte worthy of your attention. They will also showcase new capabilities that help you understand what that data means, including automated performance and cost-optimization recommendations from your profiling data, and an LLM-powered approach to trace analysis that surfaces patterns and spans of interest, so you can spend less time searching and more time solving.

Finally, they’ll introduce our revamped billing experience, featuring granular cost attribution, support for the open source FOCUS standard, and a new alerting flow that helps you avoid surprise bills. These improvements are built with FinOps in mind – empowering teams to understand and own their share of observability costs. Whether you’re chasing performance, reliability, or efficiency, Grafana Cloud’s telemetry backends built on Loki, Tempo, Mimir, and Pyroscope are evolving to do more of the heavy lifting for you.