✨ A new hope (for your dashboards). In celebration of Life Day, the Wookiee holiday on Nov 17, we're sharing Ronald McCollam's blog on how he built a #StarWars dashboard. May the logs be with you, and may your metrics stay far away from the dark side.

Grafana Labs is a Leader + Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Cloud Performance Testing 🎯 See why we ranked highest in both the Emerging Features Comparison & Business Criteria Comparison. 🔗 https://portal.gigaom.com/reprint/gigaom-radar-for-cloud-performance-testing-v5-grafana-labs

🏆 We’re proud to be a finalist across 6 categories in the 2025 DevOps Dozen Awards — including Best Observability Solution, Best Open Source Project, & Best AI Application! We’d love your support — cast your votes by Dec 31: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Dozen-2025

Grafana Labs is at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon NA 2025 in Atlanta this week! Come visit us at booth #444 to chat about Kubernetes monitoring & all things observability, see live demos & grab some Grafana swag. Or learn more about Kubernetes Monitoring here: https://grafana.com/solutions/kubernetes

Getting started with observability? Let’s take a closer look at how to work with logs! In the latest episode of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, Lisa Jung walks through how to collect, process & export infrastructure logs with Alloy, step by step. 🎥 Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtvoc6iQVE

🇯🇵 Introducing Grafana Labs Japan, a new subsidiary in Tokyo! Japan’s already been building incredible things with #Grafana, from JAXA’s lunar mission to DENSO’s smart factories. This expansion brings open observability closer to more innovators across the country: grafana.com/about/press/...

🥉 Grafana Labs is a top 3 contributor to #OpenTelemetry, so of course we have a webinar to help your teams get started with OTel & #Grafana. Join us on Nov 26 at 14:00 CET to learn: 🔸 Why it's important + the common adoption challenges 🔸 Basic OTel automatic & manual instrumentation + more

☁️ AWS here, Azure there, GCP somewhere else? Get a unified view, without moving your data. Join us for a webinar on Nov. 19 to learn how to simplify cloud monitoring with Grafana Cloud and OpenTelemetry. Sign up: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/cloud-infrastructure-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud

"[With Grafana Cloud], we’re getting maximum value per dollar and we’re spending on a platform where the skills the team is developing are useful to engineers working in this space." Check out AuditBoard's success story: https://grafana.com/success/auditboard

#OpenTelemetry can enhance #Java application reliability by uncovering hidden production issues through real-time observability and tracing. Watch and learn practical techniques to diagnose problems and improve performance, especially in cloud-native and microservice environments.

🤖 New to #MCP? It's an open source standard for connecting #AI applications to external systems. In this video, Grafana Champion shows how to set up a #Grafana MCP server using VS Code. Check out his tutorial.

Too many alerts, not enough insight? Join our Nov. 13 webinar to see how Grafana IRM & SLOs in Grafana Cloud cut through the noise with AI-powered RCA & automated incident response. 🔗 https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-incident-response-and-management-irm-and-slo-apac

As a top 3 contributing company to #OpenTelemetry, we’re excited to be at #KubeCon next week at booth #444. Don’t miss talks from our Grafanistas with topics ranging from OTel and Prometheus to debugging. See them all 👇

The 1st alpha of @opentelemetry.io eBPF instrumentation (OBI) is live 🎉 Originally Grafana Beyla, OBI brings zero-code, zero-downtime telemetry to any app. Read the blog post: https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/obi-announcing-first-release/

🚨 Looking for best practices on alerting in Grafana? Join us Nov 13 for Intro to Alerting with Grafana, a live webinar covering how to cut alerting toil, use adaptive alerts, & focus on what matters most. 🔗 Register: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/intro-to-alerting-with-grafana

🎉 You can now save and reuse queries in #Grafana Cloud! Save time, help new team members get up to speed faster, and ensure your entire organization benefits from consistent, well-crafted queries.

“We're not [load] testing to celebrate every green light.. we load test to uncover failures.” Senior SRE Christopher Orchard shared how Just Eat Takeaway.com built a blameless culture around reliability & why Grafana Cloud k6 is central to it. https://youtu.be/qG5tCR4OS9g?si=UuEKfvUbeOWlB2RV

This is exciting; the team behind the @grafana.bsky.social Cloud portal landed a feature I originally built as my first hackathon project, an instance picker! Go to grafana.com/launch/explore, pick a Grafana Cloud instance, and you'll land on the explore page. Any route after /launch works.

Before you can build Alloy pipelines, you need your playground! In Ep. 4 of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, Lisa Jung shows how to set up a learning environment that generates metrics, logs, traces & profiles, plus Grafana’s LGTMP stack to observe your environment! 🎥 https://youtu.be/fZRwVwCvLAg

Grafana Mimir 3.0 is here! 🎉 The release marks a new era for the open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB), delivering dramatic improvements in both reliability and performance.

From 🍕 apps to production: Grafana k6 Studio records real interactions & turns them into automated performance tests. Great blog from a Grafana Champion: https://medium.com/@monish.correia/from-recording-to-reality-how-k6-studio-transforms-manual-testing-into-automated-performance-4891b1069e61

You've got a handle on logs and metrics... but what about traces? If you're new to Grafana Tempo, join the webinar on Nov 7. We'll demo how to use logs and #Prometheus exemplars to find traces effectively in Tempo.

This month's Pyroscope Community Call is happening on Nov 6 at 5 pm CET/8 am PT! Join the call as the team discusses diff view + metrics from profiles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozf2...

As part of the 4th Annual Observability Survey, we’re introducing a series where we pair your responses to one of the things we all love to observe — landmarks & world wonders. 🌏 Which world wonder best reflects your response? See the thread to find out.

☁️ Headed to #KubeCon North America? Book a meeting with the Grafana Labs team to talk observability, Kubernetes, and what’s new in Grafana Cloud. ➡️ https://events.grafana.com/2025-11-kubeconnorthamerica-meetingrequest Can’t make it? Learn more: https://grafana.com/solutions/kubernetes

📣 #Prometheus native histograms are now GA in Grafana Cloud, giving you greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing your metrics. Discover how they improve on the classic Prometheus histograms.

💰 The Adaptive Telemetry suite in Grafana Cloud enables organizations to capture and surface the data that delivers business value. This helps eliminate noise, reduce operational complexity, and cut down observability costs — by 30-50% on average.

🚀 SQL expressions are now available in public preview in #Grafana OSS & Grafana Cloud! This is a powerful feature that opens up all sorts of creative possibilities by manipulating & combining data from different data sources.

We’re proud to team up with Coding Black Females on a hands-on workshop in London on Nov. 13. Learn how to turn API data into interactive dashboards — no backend needed! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apis-to-om...

We’re proud to team up with Coding Black Females on a hands-on workshop in London on Nov. 13. Learn how to turn API data into interactive dashboards — no backend needed!

👋 We can’t wait to see you at #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025! See our around #Prometheus, #OpenTelemetry, and more, and swing by booth #444 in the sponsor solutions showcase to meet the team and score some swag!

🛜 Through open standards and Grafana Cloud, telecom company C Spire achieved a 30% reduction in CPU usage & 95% adoption across C Spire’s App Dev teams, spanning over 1,000 service/VMs. Watch their story: grafana.com/events/obsessions/2025/atlanta/how-c-spire-migrated-their-observability-platform

🎃 Finally... #Halloween costumes that are both heroic *and* scary. IYKYK. Wishing our community a happy and safe Halloween this week!

✋ Stop thinking about #observability in terms of siloed pillars. With Grafana Cloud's opinionated solutions, you can combine your signals to optimize performance, minimize waste, and help you focus on the data that truly matters.

🧩 Ready make your Grafana dashboards turn heads? Join us for our Oct. 31 webinar on building advanced dashboards — from data transformations to dynamic drilldowns and annotations. Sign up: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/building-advanced-grafana-dashboards/?mdm=social&src=bs

🧩 Configuring Grafana Alloy is like assembling LEGO blocks. Each component can be mixed & matched to build your observability pipeline! In Ep. 3 of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, we break down the language used to instruct Alloy how to collect, process & export data. 🎥 https://youtu.be/fN0uwuwm1Fo

🧛‍♂️ What scares Count Grotula more than downtime? Deploying on #Halloween this Friday. Beware. If you're batty for Count Grotula, find them and their past costumes on GIPHY: giphy.com/grafana/tric...

🪵 Logs. This blog post gets into some of the challenges that come with taking a logs-first approach in Grafana Cloud and how you can optimize your stack to avoid the typical gotchas.

📣 The #ObservabilityCON 2025 talks are now available on demand! The themes of our sessions this year include: 🔸 *Actually useful* AI 🔸 SaaS economics reimagined 🔸 Complexity, simplified Watch the deep dives, customer stories, and more: https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon/2025/

📢 October episode is out! 📢 Unveiling #OpenTelemetry #eBPF Instrumentation With @horovits.bsky.social hosting the project's co-creator and maintainer; Pr. SW Eng @grafana.bsky.social 🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope... 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-J3... Recap post: 👉 medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1

The Adaptive Telemetry suite helps teams maximize data while cutting costs. We added more with Adaptive Traces (GA) + Profiles (Private Preview). 🔗 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/14/managing-observability-costs-at-scale-a-look-at-the-latest-cost-management-features-in-grafana-cloud/

🌍 After wrapping up our most successful #ObservabilityCON yet, we're thrilled to extend the excitement to 1-day events around the world! Save the date or register for an ObservabilityCON on the Road event near you: grafana.com/events/observabilitycon-on-the-road

New release: Grafana Tempo 2.9 We're introducing: 🧠 MCP server support ⚡ TraceQL metrics sampling 🛠️ Multi-tenant improvements 🔗 https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/22/grafana-tempo-2-9-release-mcp-server-support-traceql-metrics-sampling-and-more?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

Learn how OTel project OBI is redefining how observability fits into developer workflows and platform engineering strategies. Thanks to CNCF and @grafana.bsky.social

Telemetry collection can get messy — multiple collectors, complex configs, endless juggling. 😵‍💫 That’s where Grafana Alloy comes in 💪 In this video, Lisa Jung breaks down what Alloy is & how you can use it to collect logs, metrics, traces, and profiles, in one place. https://youtu.be/bFyGd_Sr5W4

"This meeting could've been an email." 🙃 This #Grafana dashboard helps you monitor the real-time costs of your meetings — in actual dollars and cents. It also helps you track your team's favorite corporate buzzwords. Buzzword Bingo, anyone?

📊 Oct. 22 webinar: Getting started w/ logging using Grafana Loki See how Loki 3.0 makes logging faster, simpler & more cost-effective. Sign up: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-logging-and-grafana-loki/?mdm=social&src=bs

#HugOps to those dealing with today's outage and those impacted by it.

Proud to see Grafana, Loki, and Tempo highlighted in the 2025 @pragmaticengineer.com survey — alongside projects we contribute to like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus. Deep dive from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com 👇 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey-part-3

Observability shouldn’t be an afterthought. Grafana Labs’ Nikola Grcevski shares how the OpenTelemetry eBPF-based Instrumentation project is making it automatic & built in. Read more via @thenewstack.io. 🔗 https://thenewstack.io/how-ebpf-is-powering-the-next-generation-of-observability/