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k8s-monitoring-helm Chart Office Hours (April 2026)
In the April edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss updates to the version 4.0 release, the upcoming 4.1 feature release, and we discuss the upcoming deprecation of the 1.x and 2.0 versions.
Secure performance testing at scale: Introducing secrets management for Grafana Cloud k6
To simulate real user behavior, performance tests often rely on API keys, tokens, or credentials to interact with real systems. But as your testing suite grows, this sensitive data can start to sprawl across scripts, configs, and environments, increasing the risk of exposure and making tests harder to manage and maintain. To address this challenge, we’re rolling out secrets management for Grafana Cloud k6, the fully managed performance testing platform powered by k6 OSS.
Get observability in the terminal, for you and your agents, with the gcx CLI tool
The way you write code is changing, which means the way you observe your systems and respond to issues needs to change, too. Engineers today spend much of their day working via command line, as agentic tools like Cursor and Claude Code have become highly effective at handling many day-to-day engineering tasks. This greatly accelerates code generation, but it doesn't solve for the context switching that comes when you have to jump into another tool that's not part of this new, faster workflow.
Customize preconfigured views for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud
Part of what makes Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud really useful is that it gives you prebuilt dashboards and drill-downs for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Out of the box you get service overviews, instance-level views, and quick links to explore your data. However, you might already have dashboards you trust, want a view tailored to your team’s workflow, or need to change which panels show up when you drill into a single instance.
Grafana Assistant: Now Available in Self-Managed Environments
You can now access Grafana Assistant in self-managed environments! See why the feedback has been so strong.
k6 Script Authoring mode for Grafana Assistant
Here's Senior Software Engineer Vicente Ortega showcasing something he's built: the new k6 Script Authoring mode for Grafana Assistant.
Alloy, OpenTelemetry & Instrumentation Community Call LIVE from GrafanaCON 2026
Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Alloy, OpenTelemetry & Instrumentation Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening across Alloy and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, alongside special guests Ted Young, Mischa Thompson, and Liudmila Molkova. In this session: We take a look back at Alloy’s rapid growth and adoption Explore the introduction of the new OpenTelemetry Engine Dive into fleet management, instrumentation, and onboarding at scale.
Loki Community Call LIVE from GrafanaCON 2026
Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Loki Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening in the Loki ecosystem, alongside special guests Poyzan Taneli, Ben Clive, and Trevor Whitney. In this session: We take a look back over the last year in Loki Explore the brand new “Thor” architecture Dive into what’s coming next for logging at scale From a completely new columnar storage format and Kafka-based ingestion, to a redesigned query engine and improved support for high-cardinality data—Loki is evolving to meet the demands of modern logging.
Pyroscope Community Call LIVE from GrafanaCON 2026
Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Pyroscope Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening in the Pyroscope ecosystem, alongside special guest Alberto Soto. In this session: We take a look back over the last year in Pyroscope What’s new in continuous profiling What’s coming next From multi-language source code integration and symbolization improvements to OpenTelemetry profiles and performance gains, Pyroscope has evolved rapidly over the past year.
Smarter Visualization Suggestions in Grafana 13
Grafana 13 upgrades visualization suggestions — now the default way to pick a panel type — with grouped options and full previews that help you find the right visualization faster.
Grafana 13 TL;DR - What's New (and Worth Your Time)
Grafana 13 is here! In this video, we walk through the biggest updates and improvements, from faster ways to build dashboards to new features that make Grafana easier to manage at scale. We cover things like: If you’ve ever struggled with broken dashboards, messy layouts, or just getting started from scratch, this release focuses on making those workflows a lot smoother. This is a TL;DR, so we’re just scratching the surface—but it should give you a solid sense of what’s new and what’s worth checking out.
It's Here! Grafana Dynamic Dashboards: Now GA with Tabs & Auto Grid | Grafana 13
Grafana Dynamic Dashboards are now generally available — replacing the old default with a structured, flexible dashboarding experience built for teams at scale.
GrafanaCON 2026 announcements: A guide to all the latest news from Grafana Labs
GrafanaCON 2026 kicked off in Barcelona, which is a fitting city to reveal the latest updates in Grafana 13. In 2013, Grafana Labs Co-founder Torkel Ödegaard made the first commit for what would become Grafana while he was on vacation in the Catalan city. "I was traveling here for the Christmas holiday and I got a cold and spent most of the day in bed coding and working on Grafana," said Torkel during the opening keynote of GrafanaCON, our biggest community event of the year.
AI Observability in Grafana Cloud: A complete solution for monitoring your agentic workloads
The observability industry has developed great tools for using metrics, logs, traces, and profiles to monitor the cloud native applications that have dominated the last decade of software development. But when it comes to understanding what an AI system is actually doing, we’re often left reading raw conversations, guessing at quality, and reacting too late. And that’s a problem.
Introducing o11y-bench: an open benchmark for AI agents running observability workflows
Evaluating agents is hard. Verifying observability tasks is harder. Yes, AI agents have gotten dramatically and quantifiably better at coding and tool use, but observability presents a different kind of challenge. In a real incident, the hard part is rarely just writing a query. It's deciding which signal matters, figuring out whether a spike is noise or symptom, correlating metrics with logs and traces, and sometimes making a change in Grafana without breaking the dashboard another engineer depends on.
Grafana 13 release: get value from your data faster, manage operations at scale, and more!
Who says 13 is unlucky? With the release of Grafana 13, we're giving the community the most streamlined, flexible, and intuitive Grafana experience yet. Unveiled during the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2026, the latest major release is all about helping you get value from your data faster, whether you’re spinning up dashboards, operating Grafana at scale, or extending the platform as your requirements change. Download Grafana 13.
Git Sync: Observability as code built for scale | Demo | Grafana Labs
In this video, Fabrizia Rossano and Roberto Jiménez demonstrate Git Sync, a feature that provides you with the power of Git version control right in your Grafana instance. Git Sync enables you to submit changes in your dashboards as pull requests and get them reviewed by your team directly from Grafana or from Git.
Monitor Databricks with Grafana Cloud for instant visibility into your workloads
If you're running Databricks workloads, you've probably asked yourself these types of questions: How much is this costing me? Why did that job fail last night? Why are my dashboard queries suddenly slow? We've been there, too. Databricks is fantastic for data engineering, ML, and analytics. But once you start running jobs, pipelines, and SQL queries at scale, you need a way to keep tabs on what's happening. That's why we built the Databricks integration for Grafana Cloud.
Bring observability into Slack with Grafana AI
Resolve issues faster without leaving Slack. This video shows how Grafana Assistant delivers real-time insights, automates troubleshooting, and helps you investigate and act on incidents directly where your team already works. Thanks for watching!
Troubleshoot and monitor services with Grafana AI
Quickly diagnose issues and understand your systems with context-aware analysis. This video shows how Grafana Assistant helps you troubleshoot services, analyze dashboards, and generate new ones, all from simple prompts. Thanks for watching!
Turn knowledge into team-wide automation with Grafana AI
Make Grafana Assistant work your way by adding rules that capture your team’s context and best practices. This video shows how to customize behavior, improve efficiency, and turn tribal knowledge into repeatable workflows. Thanks for watching!
Grafana Alerting: Respond faster and get situational awareness with alert enrichment in Grafana Cloud
Alerts are meant to help teams respond quickly to problems, but too often they arrive without enough context to be immediately useful. An alert that says “CPU usage is high” still leaves the on-call engineer asking critical follow-up questions: Which service? Which environment? Where do I look next? Validating the alert and triaging the situation is the first step for every engineer. It's a manual step that takes time, extending every potential incident.
A faster way to pinpoint performance bottlenecks: Using Profiles Drilldown with Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph
When you identify CPU or memory spikes in your services, it’s critical to understand why they’re happening. But switching between tools or crafting complex queries can slow you down when trying to pinpoint a root cause. This is why we’re excited to share that Profiles Drilldown, an application that lets you easily explore profiling data through an intuitive, point-and-click interface (no queries required), is now integrated with Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph.
Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart v4: Biggest update ever!
The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart is the easiest way to send metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from your Kubernetes clusters to Grafana Cloud (or a self-hosted Grafana stack). And version 4.0 is the biggest update the chart has ever received. Representing nearly six months of planning and development, it's designed to solve real pain points that users have hit as their monitoring setups have grown.
How to manage synthetic monitoring checks as code with Terraform and Grafana Cloud
As teams scale, managing synthetic monitoring checks manually in the UI becomes difficult and error-prone. When you're dealing with dozens of checks across multiple environments, teams experience inconsistent configurations, lack of version control, and difficulty tracking changes.
Start with Grafana AI Assistant and ask your observability stack anything
Ask a question, get a system-wide answer. Grafana Assistant maps your architecture, builds service diagrams, and runs queries behind the scenes, so you can troubleshoot faster without writing complex code or hunting through dashboards.
Make Grafana AI Assistant work your way
Make Grafana AI Assistant work your way.
Business metrics in Grafana Cloud: Get an AI assist to help securely analyze your data
For today's modern businesses, the data landscape demands security and flexibility. You need to connect your observability platform to rich, proprietary datasets that often reside in private networks without compromising security or managing complex network infrastructure. You may also face an extra layer of complexity in order to effectively query and visualize that data. Luckily, modern artificial intelligence tools have made these previously complicated processes much simpler.
Get better results from AI
Get more accurate results with Grafana Assistant. Use specific prompts, set context with @, and enhance intelligence with MCP and memory to build dashboards and insights tailored to your environment.
From a single prompt to comprehensive dashboard in minutes
Create full monitoring dashboards from a single prompt. Grafana Assistant analyzes your stack, builds key metrics instantly, and suggests next steps, so you skip complex queries and move straight to actionable insights.
Query fair usage in Grafana Cloud: What it is and how it affects your logs observability practice
In Grafana Cloud we use a simple yet generous formula that lets you query up to 100x your monthly ingested log volume in gigabytes for free. This works for the vast majority of our customers, but if you aren’t careful and strategic with your usage, you could find yourself with an overage bill.
Observability in Go: Where to start and what matters most
Sometimes the hardest part of debugging a system isn’t fixing the problem—it’s figuring out what’s actually happening in the first place.