Grafana
@grafana.bsky.social
π€ 2505
π₯ 7
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Open and composable observability.
https://grafana.com/
β¨ 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.
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A Star Wars dashboard deep dive: How to build your next visualization in less than 12 parsecs | Grafana Labs
Nerd out with our Star Wars-themed dashboard and all its nods to a galaxy far, far away. Plus, get some tips to make your next dashboard is the chosen one.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/11/14/a-star-wars-dashboard-deep-dive-how-to-build-your-next-visualization-in-less-than-12-parsecs/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
2 days ago
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Grafana Labs is a Leader + Outperformer in the 2025 GigaOm Radar for Cloud Performance Testing π― See why we ranked highest in both the Emerging Features Comparison & Business Criteria Comparison. π
https://portal.gigaom.com/reprint/gigaom-radar-for-cloud-performance-testing-v5-grafana-labs
4 days ago
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π Weβre proud to be a finalist across 6 categories in the 2025 DevOps Dozen Awards β including Best Observability Solution, Best Open Source Project, & Best AI Application! Weβd love your support β cast your votes by Dec 31:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DevOps-Dozen-2025
4 days ago
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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
5 days ago
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Getting started with observability? Letβs 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. π₯ Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtvoc6iQVE
5 days ago
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π―π΅ Introducing Grafana Labs Japan, a new subsidiary in Tokyo! Japanβs already been building incredible things with
#Grafana
, from JAXAβs lunar mission to DENSOβs smart factories. This expansion brings open observability closer to more innovators across the country:
grafana.com/about/press/...
5 days ago
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π₯ 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: πΈ Why it's important + the common adoption challenges πΈ Basic OTel automatic & manual instrumentation + more
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How to get started with OpenTelemetry and Grafana | Grafana Labs
This webinar covers the essentials of instrumentation and demonstrates how to visualize OpenTelemetry data seamlessly within Grafana and Grafana Cloud.
https://grafana.com/go/webinar/how-to-instrument-apps-with-otel-and-grafana-emea/?mdm=social&src=bs&camp=webinar-how-to-instrument-apps-with-otel-and-grafana-emea
6 days ago
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βοΈ 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
6 days ago
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"[With Grafana Cloud], weβre getting maximum value per dollar and weβre 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
7 days ago
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#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.
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How I Solved Production Issues with OpenTelemetry And How You Can Too by Cees Bos
YouTube video by Devoxx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5SEnaUKABw
8 days ago
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π€ 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.
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Setup of Grafana MCP Server with VS Code and GitHub Co Pilot Agent
YouTube video by Bhoopesh Sharma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBY3aHj7ag
9 days ago
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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. π
https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-incident-response-and-management-irm-and-slo-apac
9 days ago
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As a top 3 contributing company to
#OpenTelemetry
, weβre excited to be at
#KubeCon
next week at booth #444. Donβt miss talks from our Grafanistas with topics ranging from OTel and Prometheus to debugging. See them all π
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KubeCon North America 2025 | Grafana Labs | Grafana Labs
Grafana is a proud silver sponsor of this yearβs KubeCon North America event, including Observability Day 2025.
https://grafana.com/events/kubecon/?mdm=social&src=bs
10 days ago
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The 1st alpha of
@opentelemetry.io
eBPF instrumentation (OBI) is live π 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/
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OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation Marks the First Release
Following a significant collaboration between Grafana Labs, Splunk, Coralogix, Odigos and many other community members, we are thrilled to announce the first alpha release of OpenTelemetry eBPF Instru...
https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/obi-announcing-first-release/
10 days ago
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π¨ 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. π Register:
https://grafana.com/go/webinar/intro-to-alerting-with-grafana
11 days ago
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π 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.
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Faster, more collaborative data exploration: Introducing saved queries in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs
By saving and reusing queries in Grafana Cloud, you help new team members get up to speed faster and ensure your entire organization benefits from consistent, well-crafted queries.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/28/faster-more-collaborative-data-exploration-introducing-saved-queries-in-grafana-cloud/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
11 days ago
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βWe're not [load] testing to celebrate every green light.. we load test to uncover failures.β 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
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11 days ago
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Grafana
Matt Cowley
11 days ago
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.
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Grafana Cloud
Welcome to Grafana Cloud
http://grafana.com/launch/explore
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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 Grafanaβs LGTMP stack to observe your environment! π₯
https://youtu.be/fZRwVwCvLAg
12 days ago
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Grafana Mimir 3.0 is here! π 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.
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Grafana Mimir 3.0 release: performance improvements, a new query engine, and more | Grafana Labs
Grafana Mimir 3.0 marks a new era for the open source time series database, delivering dramatic improvements in both reliability and performance.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/11/03/grafana-mimir-3-0-release-all-the-latest-updates/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
12 days ago
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From π 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
12 days ago
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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.
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How to get started with tracing and Grafana Tempo
In this webinar, we'll show you how to get started setting up Grafana Tempo, our open source, easy-to-use and high-volume distributed tracing backend.
https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-tracing-and-grafana-tempo/?mdm=social&src=bs
12 days ago
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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...
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Grafana Pyroscope: Diff view & Metrics from Profiles (November 2025 Community Call)
YouTube video by Grafana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozf2dtUtohE
12 days ago
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As part of the 4th Annual Observability Survey, weβre introducing a series where we pair your responses to one of the things we all love to observe β landmarks & world wonders. π Which world wonder best reflects your response? See the thread to find out.
13 days ago
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βοΈ Headed to
#KubeCon
North America? Book a meeting with the Grafana Labs team to talk observability, Kubernetes, and whatβs new in Grafana Cloud. β‘οΈ
https://events.grafana.com/2025-11-kubeconnorthamerica-meetingrequest
Canβt make it? Learn more:
https://grafana.com/solutions/kubernetes
13 days ago
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π£
#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.
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Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: Get more precision from your Grafana visualizations | Grafana Labs
Prometheus native histograms are now generally available, giving you greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing latency, duration, and other distributions.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/30/get-more-precision-from-your-grafana-visualizations-with-prometheus-native-histograms-in-grafana-cloud/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
14 days ago
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π° 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 β by 30-50% on average.
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Maximize data value and cut costs: Adaptive Telemetry for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs
With Adaptive Traces now generally available and Adaptive Profiles in private preview, the Adaptive Telemetry suite in Grafana Cloud extends across your end-to-end observability stack, reducing both n...
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/08/adaptive-telemetry-suite-in-grafana-cloud/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
14 days ago
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π 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.
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SQL expressions in Grafana: Combine and manipulate data from multiple sources | Grafana Labs
SQL expressions are a versatile and powerful feature that opens up all sorts of creative possibilities by manipulating and combining data from different data sources.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/30/sql-expressions-in-grafana-combine-and-manipulate-data-from-multiple-sources/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
14 days ago
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Weβre 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 β no backend needed!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apis-to-om...
14 days ago
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Weβre 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 β no backend needed!
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APIs to OMG: Transform your API data to fun Grafana dashboards
Learn to connect Grafana to APIs, create beautiful dashboards, and turn raw data into interactive graphs. Bring your laptop!
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/apis-to-omg-transform-your-api-data-to-fun-grafana-dashboards-tickets-1738049124719
14 days ago
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π We canβt 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!
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Grafana Labs at KubeCon: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation, Prometheus deep dives, and more | Grafana Labs
Meet us at KubeCon North America 2025! Our observability experts are participating in multiple sessions throughout the week, and you can find us at booth #444 in the sponsor solutions showcase.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/29/grafana-labs-at-kubecon-opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-prometheus-deep-dives-and-more/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
17 days ago
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π Through open standards and Grafana Cloud, telecom company C Spire achieved a 30% reduction in CPU usage & 95% adoption across C Spireβs 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
17 days ago
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π Finally...
#Halloween
costumes that are both heroic *and* scary. IYKYK. Wishing our community a happy and safe Halloween this week!
17 days ago
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β 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.
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From pillars to rings: How interconnected observability in Grafana Cloud optimizes performance and reduces telemetry waste | Grafana Labs
The opinionated solutions in Grafana Cloud combine telemetry signals to optimize performance, minimize waste, and help you focus on the data that truly matters.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/16/from-pillars-to-rings-how-interconnected-observability-in-grafana-cloud-optimizes-performance-and-reduces-telemetry-waste/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
18 days ago
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π§© Ready make your Grafana dashboards turn heads? Join us for our Oct. 31 webinar on building advanced dashboards β from data transformations to dynamic drilldowns and annotations. Sign up:
https://grafana.com/go/webinar/building-advanced-grafana-dashboards/?mdm=social&src=bs
18 days ago
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π§© 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. π₯
https://youtu.be/fN0uwuwm1Fo
19 days ago
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π§ββοΈ 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...
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20 days ago
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πͺ΅ 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.
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Making logs work smarter: Evolving your observability strategy | Grafana Labs
There are some challenges that come with a logs-first approach in Grafana Cloud. See how you can optimize your stack to avoid the typical gotchas.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/20/making-logs-work-smarter-evolving-your-observability-strategy/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
20 days ago
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π£ The
#ObservabilityCON
2025 talks are now available on demand! The themes of our sessions this year include: πΈ *Actually useful* AI πΈ SaaS economics reimagined πΈ Complexity, simplified Watch the deep dives, customer stories, and more:
https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon/2025/
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21 days ago
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reposted by
Grafana
OpenObservability Talks ποΈ
22 days ago
π’ October episode is out! π’ Unveiling
#OpenTelemetry
#eBPF
Instrumentation With
@horovits.bsky.social
hosting the project's co-creator and maintainer; Pr. SW Eng
@grafana.bsky.social
π§
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ope...
πΊ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-J3...
Recap post: π
medium.com/p/377cb0432bf1
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The Adaptive Telemetry suite helps teams maximize data while cutting costs. We added more with Adaptive Traces (GA) + Profiles (Private Preview). π
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/14/managing-observability-costs-at-scale-a-look-at-the-latest-cost-management-features-in-grafana-cloud/
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21 days ago
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π 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
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24 days ago
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New release: Grafana Tempo 2.9 We're introducing: π§ MCP server support β‘ TraceQL metrics sampling π οΈ Multi-tenant improvements π
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
26 days ago
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reposted by
Grafana
The New Stack
26 days ago
Learn how OTel project OBI is redefining how observability fits into developer workflows and platform engineering strategies. Thanks to CNCF and
@grafana.bsky.social
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How eBPF Is Powering the Next Generation of Observability
Learn how OTel project OBI is redefining how observability fits into developer workflows and platform engineering strategies.
https://bit.ly/4ngelG4
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Telemetry collection can get messy β multiple collectors, complex configs, endless juggling. π΅βπ« Thatβs where Grafana Alloy comes in πͺ 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
26 days ago
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"This meeting could've been an email." π This
#Grafana
dashboard helps you monitor the real-time costs of your meetings β in actual dollars and cents. It also helps you track your team's favorite corporate buzzwords. Buzzword Bingo, anyone?
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Show me the (meeting) money: How to monitor the real-time costs of a meeting in Grafana | Grafana Labs
Want an easy way to calculate the real-time financial costs of a meeting, one second (and one buzzword) at a time? Thereβs a Grafana dashboard for that.
https://grafana.com/blog/2025/10/17/show-me-the-meeting-money-how-to-monitor-the-real-time-costs-of-a-meeting-in-grafana/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs
28 days ago
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π 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
28 days ago
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#HugOps
to those dealing with today's outage and those impacted by it.
28 days ago
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Proud to see Grafana, Loki, and Tempo highlighted in the 2025
@pragmaticengineer.com
survey β alongside projects we contribute to like OpenTelemetry & Prometheus. Deep dive from
@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com
π
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey-part-3
about 1 month ago
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Observability shouldnβt be an afterthought. Grafana Labsβ Nikola Grcevski shares how the OpenTelemetry eBPF-based Instrumentation project is making it automatic & built in. Read more via
@thenewstack.io.
π
https://thenewstack.io/how-ebpf-is-powering-the-next-generation-of-observability/
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How eBPF Is Powering the Next Generation of Observability
Learn how OTel project OBI is redefining how observability fits into developer workflows and platform engineering strategies.
https://thenewstack.io/how-ebpf-is-powering-the-next-generation-of-observability/
about 1 month ago
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