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In this Campfire community call, we will talk about the new and the future of AI in the field of Observability space and also discuss about the Grafana MCP server to provide access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem. Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, Carl Bergquist, David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session. Special guests: Sarah Zinger, Cyril Tovena and Ben Sully.

In this video, we break down Core Web Vitals in Grafana Cloud’s Frontend Observability and Grafana Faro.

Join us for a dynamic panel from Observability Sessions Boston where leaders from CarGurus, Nearform, and Grafana Labs share their real-world experiences with observability. In this candid discussion, David Frankel (CarGurus) and Joe Szodfridt (Nearform) delve into the challenges of implementing scalable observability practices, moving from centralized models to federated teams, and navigating cloud migration with a focus on performance and cost.

AI-powered observability means you can *poof* create dashboards out of thin air.

In this candid and insightful talk from Observability Sessions Boston, Laban Eilers, a platform engineer at SimpliSafe, takes us on a practical deep dive into the evolution of observability—from the traditional “three pillars” model to the emerging promise of Observability 2.0.

A dynamic discussion with Grafana experts and local observability leaders sharing successes, setbacks, and next steps in their observability journeys.

Are you a Go programmer? Come join Christian Simon from the Grafana Pyroscope team to learn about how you can use the Grafana Pyroscope GitHub integration to help you understand your line-by-line resource usage of resources in Go programs.

In the evolving landscape of DevOps, observability is no longer optional—it’s a fundamental pillar of success. During this session, Gunter from Datev explores the critical mindset shift required to make observability an integral part of DevOps practices.

In this Grafana Office Hours, we talk about the state of observability databases (Grafana Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) and where they're going. We talk about current and upcoming architectural changes in all four, how we're making them more performant, how compatible they are with OpenTelemetry, and what we're working on next for each database. In this conversation are Dee Kitchen (VP of Engineering for Databases) and Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven.

Learn how to set up browser checks using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring. In this video, we walk through how to create a browser check and analyze test results. Browser checks simulate real user interactions to track critical workflows and catch issues early.

Ready to bring your Databricks data lakehouse to life? In this Grafana quick start, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Databricks to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin, available on all tiers — including Cloud Free. We’ll cover: Setting up the Databricks data source Retrieving your Host, HTTP Path, and Token from the Databricks App Exploring data with SQL builder and custom queries in Grafana Creating a cross functional dashboard using live Databricks data.

Our GrafanaCON co-chairs take you on a backstage tour through GrafanaCON 2025 Day 1 — sneak peeks, activities, and the conference magic. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the need for meta-monitoring Loki: why Loki needs to be monitored, what to watch out for, and how to do it. We talk about different ways to get information from Loki that allow you to make it reliable, consistent, and performant, including a Helm chart to deploy a meta-monitoring stack on Kubernetes. We discuss the Loki mixin for Grafana and how to use it to visualize data about Loki. On the call are Jay Clifford, Nicole van der Hoeven, and Dylan Guedes from Grafana Labs.

So. Many. Announcements! Grafana 12 is massive. Tune in live to see what it's all about and get a sneak peak of everything we're releasing. We ran into a hiccup during the Git Sync demo. Relevant links: Follow us for the latest and greatest on all things Grafana and our other OSS projects.

Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

In this demo video, Gyorgy Krajcsovits, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, shows you how to use Prometheus native histograms in Grafana.

In this walkthrough, Grafana’s Ryan Kehoe dives into the biggest improvements designed to help teams create, manage, and route alerts with less friction and more power. Whether you're wrangling multi-source queries or managing alerts across large environments, these updates are for you.

In the April edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the recent updates to version 2.0, We also discuss the plan for the v2.1 release, where we go into some more detail about the implementation plan and the utilization of the Alloy Operator. Finally, we end with Q&A.

Just because your app is up doesn’t mean it’s working. Behind the scenes, users could be facing failed checkouts, broken workflows, or slow page loads — and you may not know until it’s too late. In this video, we’ll show you how Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring helps you proactively simulate real user behavior and monitor the performance of your critical user flows, websites, and APIs from locations around the world — so you can catch issues before your users do.