Taylor's in her Showgirl era — and this week, so is Grafana ✨ Using Grafana Assistant, we built a Taylor Swift dashboard — and it tells Taylor's musical story all too well. Full dashboard reveal coming this Friday!

The 4th annual Observability Survey is live! Share your (anonymous) input on tooling, AI, cost & complexity in <10 mins for a chance to win #Grafana swag 🎁 Take the survey: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/?camp=survey-2025&mdm=social&src=bs

🚀 Announced today — Grafana Labs has blasted past $400M ARR and 7,000 customers, completed a secondary transaction & more. Read about our momentum: https://grafana.com/about/press/2025/09/30/grafana-labs-surpasses-400m-arr-and-7000-customers-gains-new-investors-to-accelerate-global-expansion/

With a client list that includes Nvidia, Anthropic and Uber, the $6 billion-valued Grafana Labs is flexing with $400 million in annualized revenue — and new investment from a tender offer of up to $150 million.

Lift off! Grafana Labs has blasted past $400M ARR & 7,000 customers. We’ve also completed a secondary transaction led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Read more via @forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/09/30/grafana-labs-revenue-tender-offer/

#Observability is evolving as organizations shift to consolidated platforms, adopt OpenTelemetry, and look to AI to help troubleshoot faster. Those were just some of the takeaways from Grafana Labs Co-founder Anthony Woods, who recently appeared on the "Tech Keys by Mercari India" podcast.

We’re proud to be a bronze sponsor at @allthingsopen.bsky.social 2025 in Raleigh, NC (Oct 12–14)! 🎉 Catch us at booth #36 + hear our Grafanistas share insights on open source, Kubernetes & observability. Full schedule: https://2025.allthingsopen.org/schedule

With Grafana Cloud, Prudential SG’s SRE team turned monitoring into a scalable, secure, self-service platform ☁️ Now teams see what matters across regions — without the overhead of managing a platform. 🎥 See how they scaled observability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cBwBzNNv5E&t=1047s

Who's going to #SRECon? 🇮🇪 We're excited to be a sponsor! Come to booth 8 with your #Grafana Stack questions and pick up some swag! Don't miss Nikola's talk on auto-instrumentation for GPU performance using #eBPF. See you there!

⚡ Incidents draining your team? In our Oct. 8 webinar, see how Grafana Cloud helps you simplify SLOs, streamline response, and more. Sign up: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-incident-response-and-management-irm-and-slo/?mdm=social&src=bs

🚀 Grafana 12.2 is live! This release includes a more intuitive, LLM-powered experience for SQL expressions (public preview), data visualization updates, and more.

🛜 Learn how to perform a #DNS check in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring to continuously validate DNS resolution performance and ensure an optimal end-user experience.

One stack or many? Grafana Cloud supports both — here’s how to pick the right approach 👇 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/18/single-tenant-vs-multi-tenant-architecture-with-grafana-cloud-how-to-choose-the-right-approach/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

Meet Mimir Query Engine: faster queries, leaner memory use, and a cornerstone of Grafana Mimir 3.0. 👉 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/17/faster-more-memory-efficient-performance-in-grafana-mimir-a-closer-look-at-mimir-query-engine/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

Grafana k6 Operator 1.0 is here! 🎉 From a 2020 experiment to a community OSS project — read more about what’s new: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/16/distributed-performance-testing-for-kubernetes-environments-grafana-k6-operator-1-0-is-here/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

🚦Struggling to scale Prometheus? In our Oct. 1 webinar, learn how Grafana + Mimir make it easier to: 📈 Scale reliably 🧩Simplify workflows ✂️ Cut complexity Sign up: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/intro-to-metrics-with-grafana-prometheus-mimir-and-beyond/?mdm=social&src=bs

Grafana Cloud IRM now supports advanced webhooks for incidents. Template URLs, headers, and chained events make syncing with ServiceNow easier. Details 👇 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/15/how-to-connect-servicenow-to-grafana-cloud-irm-incidents/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

💜 We’re excited to launch the Emerging Grafana Champion Mentorship Program! This 4-month journey empowers mentees to grow into thought leaders in the Grafana community. Open to future voices in tech & OSS. Apply by Oct 3 👉 https://gra.fan/4

Earlier this year, we proudly sponsored HackUPC 2025 — one of Europe’s biggest student hackathons. Here’s the recap 👇 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/12/data-storytelling-at-hackupc-2025-celebrating-3-student-hackathon-projects-powered-by-grafana/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

Too many monitoring tools? 🛠️ See everything in one place with #Grafana. Sep 17 webinar: Connect metrics, logs & traces, build dashboards, and troubleshoot faster with LGTM + Grafana 12. 📅 Save your spot: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-lgtm-stack/?mdm=social&src=bs

Assistant, our integrated AI-powered chat agent, is quickly becoming a go-to tool inside Grafana Labs. See how our developers use it: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/11/debug-query-and-build-faster-with-grafana-assistant/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

Can AI help tame #observability complexity? 1,200+ observability experts shared how they juggle multiple tools, signals, and dashboards. AI can help highlight patterns and reduce setup overhead, as long as humans are in the loop 🤓 https://youtu.be/jdznUPEgGx8?feature=shared

A global leader in CX testing and monitoring, Cyara saved 30% in monitoring costs and scaled to handle 11 million logs in 15 minutes with Grafana Cloud. Find out how 👇 https://youtu.be/Ms_R35KpRKk?feature=shared

The Infinity data source has enabled a wide range of use cases within our community — from visualizing cloud computing costs to popular Pokémon games. Recently, we’ve made several updates to the data source to improve its functionality, performance, and ease of use.

📺 Webinar Sep 11: Kubernetes monitoring in Grafana Cloud ☁ How to collect the right telemetry, simplify metrics + logs w/ Grafana Alloy & use #Grafana dashboards + alerts to troubleshoot. https://grafana.com/go/webinar/kubernetes-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud/?mdm=social&src=bs

In 3 minutes, learn how to capture HTTP requests directly from your browser and export them as a k6 script. Kudos to #Grafana Champion Razvan Vancea on this helpful step-by-step tutorial!

🚨Heads up, Vegas! Grafana Labs is sponsoring Trace3 Evolve (Sept 30 - Oct 3). Stop by our booth to see live demos, chat with engineers, and explore how the Grafana Stack makes observability simple, scalable, and cost-effective. See you there! 👇 https://www.evolvetechconference.com/

This view really *towers* above the rest! Proud to see Grafana Labs featured in Times Square on the Nasdaq Tower for our #Cloud100 recognition again.

🏆 Grafana Labs is a 2025 Forbes #Cloud100 honoree! This year, we jumped 10 spots to come in at #13 among the world’s top private cloud & AI companies. Thanks to our community and customers for your continued support. We look forward to what’s coming next: https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/

💰 30% discount tickets are close to selling out! Purchase as a group of 2+ for even more savings. Don't miss #ObservabilityCON in London. This is *the* event to learn how to leverage Grafana Cloud as a complete, AI-powered observability solution: https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon/

How can #Prometheus handle #OpenTelemetry resource attributes better? UX designer Victoria Nduka talked to leaders for both projects and surveyed more than 100 people to find out. Nduku undertook the project as part of The Linux Foundation mentorship program.

How can #Prometheus handle #OpenTelemetry resource attributes better? UX designer Victoria Nduka talked to leaders for both projects and surveyed more than 100 people to find out. Nduku undertook the project as part of The Linux Foundation mentorship program.

✏️ School’s back in session, and so is your chance to grow. Introducing GROT Academy, your Grafana Cloud learning hub. This self-paced resource features hands-on learning built by Grafana experts with a badge to flex your skills. Join our new Technical Practitioners 101 course: learn.grafana.com

👀 Monitor your application's HTTP requests and error rates to detect bottlenecks in realtime with HTTP Performance Insights in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability. Here's how to get started.

🔁 The Grafana Labs Voice of Customer (VoC) program is a centralized effort to collect, triage, and share product feedback from our user base. Learn how we're expanding its reach to make it even more impactful.

From the public preview of Grafana Assistant to a new secrets manager in Synthetic Monitoring, we have a lot of #Grafana Cloud updates to share this month.

"A good #BYOC solution will support zero-access from the vendor accessing their raw data in their cloud under any circumstances." - Tom Wilkie, Grafana Labs CTO Here's what to know about BYOC and sovereignty + privacy issues.

📣The first-ever Grafana Labs Partner Summit 2025 is here! Join us on Oct 7 for: ⚡Strategy insights from Grafana Labs leadership ⚡Updates on our Partner Program ⚡Real-world success stories + inaugural Partner Awards 🏆 Register in your preferred time zone 👇

🎙 Webinar Sept 4: Learn how to go beyond the basics of #OpenTelemetry with Grafana. Get best practices for instrumentation, step-by-step code examples, and see how deeper #OTel data helps uncover what’s really happening in production 👇

We are aware of the supply-chain attack targeting Nx, an open source build system. 2 Grafana Labs employees were affected by the attack. We have determined that only GitHub OAuth credentials of these employees and no other secrets, systems, customer data, or Grafana Labs data were impacted. (1/2)

🚨 Alert fatigue is real — and it’s not just engineers. Grafana’s latest Observability Survey (1,200+ respondents) shows how teams fight it: SLOs, AI/ML for root cause analysis & adaptive alerts. Watch our Head of Emerging Products break it down 👇 https://youtu.be/be2OeAE4uI4

🔍 The placement of canary tokens across our systems helped us spot a recent intrusion and respond quickly. Learn more about canary tokens, and find out how you can use them to prevent serious security incidents in the future.

🏗️ What goes into building a leading #observability team? Tune in to the discussion between Standard Chartered's Nayan Omar, Jun Hong Choo from iZeno, and Alessio Basso from AWS to learn about building a culture of continuous learning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05N8s4ZlKLA&t=294s

Visibility might be tough, but your observability team is even tougher.

"Until recently, #Prometheus and #OpenTelemetry had compatibility issues. However, Prometheus now integrates well with OpenTelemetry and remains a core part of the ecosystem."

And built on open standards 🧘

💰 Bring #observability to your sales pipeline! With the #Salesforce Enterprise data source for #Grafana, you can visualize and correlate customer data with system metrics, logs, and more — all in a single dashboard.

📣 The #AI excitement continues — introducing the #Anthropic integration for Grafana Cloud! This new solution lets you get real-time insights into the cost and performance of your #Claude LLMs via pre-built dashboards and alerts. Here's how 👇

🧡 Honored to be the answer to such an important question — according to The Pragmatic Engineer Survey 2025 by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com. Thanks to our community for your continued support and trust in #Grafana. Keep those dashboards coming!

AI will likely be integral to #observability in the future. Read our POV on the role of #AI in observability & how it's shaping the tools we're building to help our users: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/08/14/ai-in-observability-at-grafana-labs-making-observability-easy-and-accessible-for-everyone/