Visualizations with InfluxDB 3: More Options Than Ever Before
We’ve been working on a number of items here at InfluxData to give you even more options for creating visualizations and dashboards for your time series data in InfluxDB 3.
How to automate sending SquaredUp dashboards to Slack with the Notification API
SquaredUp's existing notifications fire when monitors change state. With Notification API, you control the trigger. Send dashboards on a schedule, before meetings, or on-demand through chat commands. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to automate sending SquaredUp dashboards to Slack. I’ll use Power Automate as the example, but the same approach works with other automation tools such as Zapier, Make, n8n, or even a custom script, as long as it can send an HTTP request.
The observability maturity curve: How IT leaders are shifting from tools to outcomes
Observability has come a long way from its origins in monitoring logs and metrics. Today, it sits on a maturity curve: Organizations move from fragmented tool stacks to unified platforms to proactive engineering practices that tie reliability to business outcomes. To better understand where IT leaders are on this curve, Grafana Labs surveyed 150 decision-makers across industries in advance of ObservabilityCON 2025.
Mimir October 2025 Community Call
Let's talk about discuss Mimir! Specifically we'll discuss Mimir 3.0, which is coming soon.
New Dashboards and Reports for Kubernetes Monitoring
This is just a quick blog to draw attention to some new and enhanced monitoring dashboards and reports we have added to eG Enterprise in our latest release (v7.5) to provide quick and powerful overviews when monitoring a range of Kubernetes technologies. As with all our dashboards, color-coded overlays provide guided drilldown for help desk operators and administrators.
A closer look at Grafana k6 browser: alignment with Playwright, modern features for frontend testing, and what's next
Over the years, we’ve seen our community embrace Grafana k6 browser as a key component of their frontend testing strategies. By helping collect frontend web vitals, capture custom metrics, and simulate user actions like clicking buttons or completing forms, the module offers teams a deeper understanding of performance and availability from their end users’ point of view.
Observability - Not Just Dashboards and Alerts | Why Teams Like Uber & Salesforce Use Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform built on open source and open standards. From Fitbits to power grids, it helps teams monitor systems, cut through noise, and act faster. With 150+ integrations, Grafana Cloud unifies logs, metrics, and traces, giving visibility from backend to frontend. AI-powered guidance accelerates root cause analysis and simplifies on-call, while customers like Citigroup, Salesforce, Uber, and ASOS scale with confidence.
How to boost observability ROI with continuous profiling and Grafana Drilldown
For the longest time, observability was centered around logs, metrics, and traces, but the growth of more complex systems has made continuous profiling another essential part of maintaining healthy systems. It provides insights into resource usage and latency down to the code level, delivering key insights to improve performance.
Grafana Campfire - UI Extensions: Enabling Cross-App Workflows (Grafana Community Call -Sept 2025)
In this upcoming Grafana Campfire Community Call, we will talk about the Grafana UI Extensions, where we will discuss how the Framework enables plugins to interoperate by adding links, components, or functions into defined places (extension points) in Grafana. We will talk about (but not limited to):What are UI Extensions and where you find the resourcesHow it can be leveraged to deliver fun new featuresAdding custom actions, links, and components to various parts in UI and much more.....
k8s-monitoring-helm Chart Office Hours (September 2025)
In the September edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.4 and 3.5 releases as well as the plan for upcoming features.