I've been messing with the @redisinc.bsky.social plane tracker @grafana.bsky.social dashboard again, now tracking highest/fastest & hoping to see a niche aircraft such as A330 Beluga XL. B737 is currently "rarest seen" as that refers to specifically the 737-700 not other more common variants.

Grafana Assistant isn’t just for engineers. Product and sales teams are using it to ask real questions about their data, ChatGPT style, but with live #Grafana Cloud context.

Proud moment: Grafanistas Martin Costello and Bryan Boreham made it to the 2026 OpenUK Honours List! This list celebrates some of the individuals supporting the UK’s leadership in Open Technology: https://openuk.uk/honours/ Congratulations, Martin and Bryan!

A new year and a new chance to focus on storing high-value traces. In this blog post, we explain the difference between tail sampling and head sampling in distributed tracing, and how Adaptive Traces in Grafana Cloud delivers the benefits of tail sampling without the complexity.

Most teams only notice instrumentation gaps during an incident. Hear why Grafana Labs’ Director of Product predicts that AI can help close said gaps 👇

Jan 1, 2026 is the last day to complete the Observability Survey anonymously and be part of the upcoming report: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/ You'll have the option to enter to win Grafana swag. A special thanks to all those who've already taken it!

🪵 Time to generate logs from traces! In Ep. 12 of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, Mischa Thompson shows how to use Alloy to turn your application traces into clean, structured log lines, and send them into Loki for analysis. 🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/r4qawjD7j4M?si=MDTBjf8ARuR1m-Pp

You've heard that high cardinality can be bad, but do you really know why? Take a closer look at this telemetry challenge and get tips for mitigating issues to help keep down costs and improve your queries.

Your users shouldn't be the first to know when your application goes down! HTTP checks in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring can help you proactively monitor your endpoints, verify that they're online, measure response times, and more.

Modern observability demands both breadth and depth, and no single instrumentation technique delivers it all. Here’s why you should combine #eBPF and SDKs for #OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

Modern observability demands both breadth and depth, and no single instrumentation technique delivers it all. Here’s why you should combine #eBPF and SDKs for #OpenTelemetry instrumentation: https://grafana.com/blog/why-opentelemetry-instrumentation-needs-both-ebpf-and-sdks/

AI in observability is powerful, but building trust still matters. Keeping humans in the loop is how we make it work when it matters most.

📝 Time to bring in application logs! In Ep. 11 of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, Mischa Thompson shows how to ingest logs from your app services, process them through Alloy, and send them into your observability setup. 🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/EpJSBPlW-iA?si=KHqgTyyx08NJd6ix

With the year coming to an end, we're excited to share 2025's memorable #Grafana use cases and dashboards. With all the innovative ways the community used our dashboards this year, it begs the question: What can't you do with Grafana? See them all: grafana.com/blog/grafana...

Our 4th annual Observability Survey is closing on Jan 1, 2026. Help the community understand the state of observability — take the survey! Your responses will be anonymous and you can opt in for your chance to win #Grafana swag: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/?mdm=social

📈 Learn how to extract, process, and visualize survey data in #Grafana. You can use the same techniques for corporate reporting and sales figures, event attendance, or any other information you want to represent in a beautiful and interactive way.

New to logging and not sure how Grafana Loki differs from other traditional logging tools? Grafana Champion Kedarnath Grande's blog covers the basics of Loki and how it uses a different type of indexing to overcome some common observability challenges.

In this blog post by Grafana Champion Jorge de la Cruz, he walks through how to monitor an unofficial Veeam ONE Node Exporter using #Grafana, #InfluxDB, and #Telegraf.

’Twas the Friday before the holidays, when all through Grafana, The charts were steady (a rare kind of nirvana). Observability was set with attentive care — Happy holidays to you, and smooth systems everywhere!

2025 was the year we at Grafana Labs went all-in on #AI — and what a year it was! Look back at how we've been building actually useful AI, spearheaded by our development of Grafana Assistant.

“How did Prometheus go from a SoundCloud side project to 3.0?” Ep. 2 of our Big Tent podcast features Julius Volz, co-creator of #Prometheus and founder of PromLabs & #PromCon & “RichiH” Hartmann, Sr.Developer Programs Director at Grafana Labs. Watch: https://youtu.be/XvvBkhSasH4

What a year! 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ From launching #Grafana Assistant to hosting our first-ever #GrafanaCON Science Fair with plenty of clever #IoT creations, 2025 was full of standout moments for Grafana Labs and our #opensource community.

Home labs... candle monitoring.. what could go wrong? Or better yet. What could go right? Catch the new episode of the Big Tent podcast featuring homelabs gone wild! YouTube: https://youtu.be/p22K_Q0SAlo Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3beQvS8to0rYs1gxOnPrfD

📉 Time to add application traces to your Alloy pipelines! In Ep. 10 of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, Mischa Thompson shows how to ingest spans from your services, batch them, and send them into Tempo for analysis. 🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/0Twbc69n03A?si=uQnRAJXBMnzKs_dK

There’s a special place in the snow for observability issues that ruin everyone’s day. We've got just the thing. The name's Grafana Assistant.

“80% of the data you store is never used — and no vendor tells you which 80%.” - Tom Wilkie, CTO at Grafana Labs At #reInvent, Tom broke down how Adaptive Telemetry + AI are changing what’s possible in observability. 🎥 Watch the interview: https://youtu.be/PHHYZ1z0Igs?si=Mo4xMKoS6EHFC0xG

😱 The Grinch is sabotaging Santa’s infrastructure! Your mission: fix the chaos with the help of Grafana Assistant. Play our new browser game where you tackle observability challenges inside Santa’s workshop to save Christmas — all while getting hands on with AI-powered #observability👇

You: I have questions about AI in observability, and want to speak to the [product] manager! Us: Join our first ever Grafana Assistant webinar on Dec 17, 2025: https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-assistant Sign up to join live or to receive the recording.

Starting Jan 1, 2026, Grafana Assistant will bill based on active users each month. There's still time to use it for free! The Grafana Cloud free tier includes 3 Grafana Assistant users with limited messages; paid plans include 3 users with fair-use and $20 per additional active user.

🚨 Alert fatigue. Is it still public enemy #1 when it comes to faster incident response? This is one of things we want to find out in the 4th annual Observability Survey. Share your perspective by Jan 1, 2026 and you can opt in to win #Grafana swag: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/

Infrastructure & application code have version control, but Grafana dashboards often don’t. Git Sync in #Grafana 12 (experimental) enables version control for dashboards while keeping the familiar UI-based editing. Grafana Champion Muhammed Iqbal shares how to set it up and when to use it.

Working with a lot of different data formats like JSON, CSV, XML, GraphQL and HTML endpoints? #Grafana Champion Donald Le shares why Grafana Infinity is a must-have data source and how to use it.

🤖 This is your sign to try Grafana Assistant. In this blog, CSS Electronics shares how to get started and ways you can use Grafana Assistant to accelerate your data analysis and dashboard creations: https://www.csselectronics.com/pages/grafana-assistant-can-bus-data-ai-llm-dashboards

🇪🇸 Sagrada Famili-YEAH: #GrafancON 2026 is heading to Barcelona! Want 1st dibs on 50% discount tickets? Sign up for notifications: https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon It's our biggest community conference of the year — all about the OSS observability ecosystem: #Grafana, #OTel, #Prometheus + more.

Great news - I made a @grafana.bsky.social dashboard that visualizes our carbon intensity using the free carbon intensity API. Looking OK at the moment! play.grafana.org/d/siw7lpj/uk...

#Grafana + #OpenTelemetry = ❤️‍🔥 We’ve launched a new Community Call diving into all things OTel + Grafana. Next up on Dec 17 → Logging Best Practices. Missed the first episodes? Catch up here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Join us & help shape the future of OTel + Grafana!

Many Grafana users like to share their favorite dashboards or panels in emails or presentations. The #Grafana Image Renderer is a backend service for Grafana that helps you do just — and with recent updates, it's even more performant and reliable.

📊 Time to level up your app observability! In Ep. 9, Mischa Thompson walks through how to use Alloy to scrape application metrics from your services and get them flowing into your dashboards. 🎥 Watch: https://youtu.be/73Y2LwucXNg?si=Gi0B6_FUmcQ0XIqi

🤝 We're partnering with CoreWeave on Mission Control, their unified operating standard to run large-scale #AI workloads efficiently, securely, and reliably.

Has your #OpenTelemetry usage increased in the last year? What about #Prometheus? These are the questions we're asking in the 4th annual Observability Survey. Share your perspective & you could win Grafana swag! We'll publish a report & analysis in 2026: https://grafana.com/observability-survey/

New to #Grafana? Our popular "Getting Started with Grafana" webinar is back! Join us on Dec 10. We'll show you how to build your first dashboard, and how you can connect to a wide range of data sources, regardless of where it lives, to get a unified view of your data in a single dashboard.

Back in May, we introduced Grafana Drilldown Investigations in private preview, a feature intended to help Grafana OSS & Cloud users accelerate their incident response. As we head into 2026 we’ve made the difficult decision to deprecate this feature from OSS & deprovision it from Grafana Cloud.

🕰️ We're going back in time (with the time machine that never happened)... to the recording of #Grafana's Big Tent S3E1. Catch the new episode on homelabs: YouTube: https://youtu.be/p22K_Q0SAlo Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3beQvS8to0rYs1gxOnPrfD

You can now send OpenTelemetry traces and logs from Cloudflare Workers to Grafana Cloud ☁️ Our new integration also offers pre-built dashboards, allowing you to quickly visualize and get value from your data. This includes the ability to drill down into traces and logs based on attributes.

🛎️ The new Grafana Cloud Service Center is a comprehensive hub for all service-related activities. Monitor performance trends, minimize disruptive alerts, analyze past incidents, and understand on-call page load — all in one place.

🎨 Some dashboards are more than charts. They're art. And they deserve the spotlight. Enter the #GoldenGrot Awards with a #Grafana dashboard you're proud of — personal or professional: https://grafana-labs.typeform.com/to/Msv9tSgC Learn about the awards: https://grafana.com/golden-grot-awards

🧑‍🎓 The new Interactive Learning feature in Grafana 12.3 brings learning resources directly into the #Grafana platform. Find the answers you're looking for easily as you run into questions — no context switching required.

🖥️ Meet the Alloy UI: your new debugging superpower. In Ep. 8 of Grafana Alloy for Beginners, Lisa Jung shows how to use Alloy’s UI to inspect component health, watch live telemetry flow, explore the visual pipeline graphs & debug issues fast. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-5bcVlVuMY

🪵 Logs can tell us so much about the state of our systems, but they can also be a bit overwhelming. See how Grafana Logs Drilldown can help you get the most out of your logs — whether you're new to Loki or highly proficient in #LogQL.

“The features available in Grafana Cloud are tremendous: Application Observability, k6, Grafana IRM, Fleet Management… All things we didn’t even see in the paid enterprise version we were evaluating. They all looked so useful that we couldn’t pass them up.” – Zachary Sistrunk, C Spire