OpenTelemetry support for .NET 10: A behind-the-scenes look

At Grafana Labs, we are fully committed to the open source OpenTelemetry project and are actively engaged with the OTel community. Many Grafanistas spend a large proportion of their time contributing directly to OpenTelemetry upstream projects, helping make observability more powerful, reliable, and accessible for everyone as part of our big tent philosophy.

16 new integrations - powered by AIready Low Code Plugins

Today marks a big milestone in our mission to bring more data, more context, and more visibility into a single, unified view. We’re excited to announce 16 brand‑new integrations, extending the range of data sources you can connect with just a few clicks. But the integrations themselves are only half the story.

The evolution of OpenTelemetry: A deep dive with co-founder Ted Young

Sometimes the biggest challenges in software aren’t about code — they’re about consensus. What do we call things? What do we standardize? And how do you evolve a system that thousands of companies depend on without breaking everything along the way?

OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Standards, Tracing, and the Future of Observability | Big Tent S3E6

OpenTelemetry co-founder Ted Young joins Grafana’s Big Tent podcast to explain how observability evolved beyond logs, metrics, and traces. Learn why tracing is just logging with context, how OpenTelemetry became a standard, and what’s next for zero-touch instrumentation and AI-driven observability.

Dashboarding Azure: SquaredUp vs Grafana

If you’re looking for a dashboarding solution today, chances are you’ve looked at Grafana or SquaredUp — or both. Grafana is a popular open source dashboarding tool with on-prem and cloud variants, while SquaredUp is the SaaS, cloud-based unified dashboarding solution. Both offer a comprehensive list of data sources that they can plug into and build dashboards. As such, they both also offer an integration with Azure - which is the focus of our discussion today.

A new perspective on dashboard sprawl

Dashboards are supposed to answer questions, not create more of them. But investigations don't stop at a single view. The moment you want to understand one specific thing in detail like a failing VM, a degraded service, a slow pipeline, dashboards start to break down. You end up either building yet another dashboard or searching through many different ones. SquaredUp's Perspectives changes this.

Investigate Issues in Slack: Grafana Cloud Slack App with AI

The Grafana Cloud app for Slack brings observability and incident response closer to where you and your teams already collaborate Ask questions about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate with full context.