This week, we're talking about how you can do load testing on Kubernetes with k6 Private Load Zones, a new feature on Grafana Cloud k6 that leverages the k6 Kubernetes operator to allow you to run distributed load tests against applications behind a firewall. Here to discuss this new feature are Senior Software Engineer Olha Yevtushenko, Product Manager Daniel González Lopes, Developer Advocate Paul Balogh, and Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven.

Grafana Cloud Application Observability provides an out-of-the box experience to monitor application performance and minimize MTTR. With its native support of the open standards OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, Application Observability unifies signals across the full stack, accelerating root cause analysis while removing proprietary formats and vendor lock-in. Watch this demo of how to use Application Observability in Grafana Cloud.

Grafana SLO makes it easy to create, manage, and scale service level objectives, SLO dashboards, and error budget alerts in Grafana Cloud. Watch a detailed demo of how Grafana SLO works — and learn how you can identify the most important issues in your system and resolve them quickly.

The eBPF-based OSS auto-instrumentation tool Grafana Beyla makes it easier to get started with application observability. Beyla provides RED (Rate, Errors, Duration) metrics through OpenTelemetry or Prometheus for your existing web services, whichever language they are written in. You don’t need to change any line of application code or configuration; you only need to deploy the Beyla in the same host as the service that you want to monitor. Collecting monitoring data with the eBPF autoinstrument tool has very low overhead, and allows you to capture data about your runtime, which is impossible with manual code instrumentation. Watch this in-depth demo of how to use Grafana Beyla to get started with application observability.

Adaptive Metrics is a cost management feature in Grafana Cloud that helps enterprises control Prometheus cardinality and reduce their observability spend by identifying and eliminating unused metrics. Grafana Cloud customers using Adaptive Metrics see 20-50% reduction in their observability bill.

In this episode of Grafana Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Nicole van der Hoeven speak with John Hill, a Web UI Test Engineer and Grafana k6 champion, to talk about how the Grafana and k6 ecosystems can be used to ensure performance in mission-critical applications like NASA’s Open MCT.

When you are getting started with observability, the jargon and concepts used to explain observability may go straight over your head. Let’s take out the complexity and talk about observability in the simplest terms possible. Join Lisa Jung, a senior developer advocate at Grafana, to get your learning on with the Grafana for Beginners series. You will learn about concepts such as observability and DevOps and how Grafana can be used to observe your system as a part of your DevOps practice.

In this demo, Joe Elliott, Principal Engineer - Tempo, introduces some new TraceQL features available in Tempo 2.3.

Have you heard of Grafana Faro and how it can help in providing insights into your real user experience? Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Marie Cruz chat with Software Engineers Kostas Pelelis and Marco Schaefer to discuss what Grafana Faro is, why it's important to have a real user monitoring solution, and how to get started with Grafana Faro.

Dive deep into the enhancements in Grafana 10.2. From embedding interactive buttons within Canvas visualizations to utilizing AI for dashboard titles and descriptions, this release brims with features designed to optimize your Grafana experience. In this video, discover how to: Stay with us through this playlist to delve deeper into each addition and maximize your Grafana 10.2 experience.