We are back! And ready to announce Grafana 11.1 this minor release still packs a punch with ease-of-use dashboard improvements, further redesigns to Grafana alerting and some impactful changes to the overall accessibility of Grafana.

We’ve introduced options to change the color mode for stat visualization percent changes. Want your positives to show up as red and negatives to show up as green? With this feature, now it’s possible.

This highly requested feature is now available in preview! You can now wrap text in table cells. By default, the column with the longest text is selected for wrapping. You can also configure wrapping manually using field overrides.

We’re excited to announce that the XY chart is generally available in Grafana 11.1! XY charts provide a way to visualize arbitrary x and y values in a graph so that you can easily show the relationship between two variables. Say hello to scatter plots and bubble charts.

In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez shows how you can get Grafana OSS up and running in Windows.

Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and are planning to use OpenTelemetry as your instrumentation tool of choice? Or looking for an introduction to what OpenTelemetry is? In this Zero to Hero episode, we cover the basics of instrumenting your code with the Otel SDK, the Otel Collector and the new native Otel endpoint of Loki.

In this video, we walk you through the latest features of Grafana Cloud Application Observability, designed to accelerate anomaly detection and root cause analysis. Application Observability offers an out-of-the-box solution for monitoring applications and minimizing MTTR. It natively supports both OpenTelemetry and Prometheus and allows you to seamlessly unify application and infrastructure insights.

Learn and experiment with Grafana in Grafana Play, our sandbox environment that allows you try out Grafana for yourself for free, no login required. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.

In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez shows how you can get Grafana OSS up and running in linux distributions RedHat and Fedora.

Learn how to create an OpenAI powered Panel Plugin for Grafana that can analyse the contents of your dashboard and provide valuable insights and accessibility.

This panel discussion, featuring Jenna, Director of Engineering, Reliability Platforms at Canva and Andrew, Head of Engineering at Atlassian, explored the challenges and strategies of implementing standardization in large tech companies. Atlassian, known for its software development and collaboration tools, initially faced resistance to standardization but shifted as inefficiencies and compliance issues emerged. Canva, a graphic design platform, highlighted the balance between flexibility and standardization, using observability tools for accountability.

In this talk, Roberto, a staff engineer at Dojo, outlines the company's journey toward achieving advanced observability, which has been crucial for their reliability efforts over the past three years. Dojo, a payments provider in the UK, has focused on evolving their observability practices, initially starting with basic monitoring and progressing towards comprehensive observability, encompassing metrics, traces, and logs.

In this talk, Utsav and James from Builder.ai discuss their journey in scaling their composable software platform. Builder.ai empowers users, from entrepreneurs to enterprises, to build and innovate without dealing with technical complexities. The focus of the talk is on their Developer Service platform and the integration of Grafana Cloud for monitoring and observability.

How to deploy Grafana on Kubernetes using Helm Charts, customize the default configurations from values.yaml and also debug the logs? Join Senior Developer Advocate Syed Usman Ahmad in this complete hands-on tutorial and learn to easily deploy Grafana into a Kubernetes namespace via Helm charts.

In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez shows how you can get Grafana OSS up and running in macOS.

In this video, Grafana Developer Advocate Leandro Melendez shows how you can get Grafana OSS up and running in linux SUSE or openSUSE.