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Grafana LLM plugin updates: choose the LLM models and providers that work best for you

At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to empower users with the tools they need to build their own observability solutions. Our big tent philosophy embodies this mission by allowing you to choose the tools and technologies that best suit your needs. In this post, we want to share an update to our LLM plugin that reflects this philosophy in action.

How to securely connect Grafana to Google BigQuery using Workload Identity Federation

Umesh Pawar is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Searce, and is also the co-organizer of the Grafana and Friends Delhi Group. Umesh has been focused on infrastructure and app modernization, as well as observability solutions including the Grafana LGTM Stack, for the past two years. With the Google BigQuery data source plugin for Grafana, you can easily query and visualize data from BigQuery directly in Grafana.

How to Maximize Customer Retention with Grafana Cloud SLOs | Demo | Alert Management | Incidents

In this video, Mark Covelo, a Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, demonstrates how Grafana Cloud SLO empowers organizations to improve customer retention by simplifying the adoption of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). SLOs provide critical insights into the customer experience, enabling teams to prioritize and resolve user-impacting issues effectively.

How to Control Observability Costs with Grafana Cloud | Demo | Adaptive Telemetry | Loki | Profiling

In this video, Grafana Labs demonstrates how Grafana Cloud addresses the challenges of rising observability costs faced by organizations worldwide. As observability costs grow and logging architectures become increasingly resource-intensive, teams are forced to make difficult decisions about coverage, often leaving critical blind spots. Grafana Cloud offers a cost-effective, end-to-end observability solution that eliminates the need for compromise on efficiency or performance.

2025 observability predictions and trends from Grafana Labs

From AI to eBPF, 2024 reshaped the observability landscape. As we peer into 2025, Grafana Labs’ experts predict another year of innovation that will redefine how teams understand and optimize their systems, from profiling to platform engineering. Their insights align with what the community is saying, according to early responses from our third annual Observability Survey. Do you agree or disagree with the trends our team believes will transform the world of observability next year?

PromQL vector matching: what it is and how it affects your Prometheus queries

Dawid Dębowski is a software engineer at G2A.COM and a Grafana Champion. Holding an MS of Computer Science, Dawid’s main fields of interest related to observability are PromQL and data visualizations using Grafana. Have you ever created an awesome query in PromQL, expecting it to return the exact results you’re looking for, only to receive the “No data” response when you run it? If so, you might have fallen into the trap of PromQL vector matching.

Grafana Labs: Top 10 moments of 2024

2024 was a year of making connections. The open source community gathered in person for GrafanaCON for the first time in five years — meeting in Amsterdam to celebrate Grafana 11, Loki 3.0, a new open source project (cue Grafana Alloy), and more. TailCtrl, an early-stage company that specializes in adaptive trace sampling, joined Grafana Labs to advance our Adaptive Telemetry story (welcome, founder Sean Porter!).

Analyze This! Notes from the Gartner IOCS Conference

There was a lot going on at November’s Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference, but the central theme was inevitably the transformational impact of the AI revolution. IOCS is a major event bringing together leading vendors and thousands of practitioners for a mix of vendor-led sessions, expert presentations, keynotes, roundtables and one-to-one consultations.