Dashboards

Dashboard Studio: How to Configure Show/Hide and Token Eval in Dashboard Studio

You may be familiar with manipulating tokens via `eval` or `condition`, or showing and hiding panels via `depends` in Classic (SimpleXML) dashboards, and wondering how to do that in Dashboard Studio. In this blog post, we'll break down how to accomplish these use cases in Dashboard Studio, using the same examples that were shown at.conf23.

k6 extensions updates with Ivan Szkiba (k6 Office Hours #99)

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh are joined by Ivan Szkiba, the latest Grafanista of the k6 team, to discuss the latest developments on the k6 extensions. Links shared: List of templates and extensions discussed: ⏰ TIMESTAMPS.

How to learn Grafana with Grafana Play (Grafana Office Hours #10)

If you were wondering how to learn Grafana, Grafana Play is probably the easiest way. Grafana Play is a collection of ready-made dashboards and apps that you can use without creating an account. Developer Advocates Matt Abrams, Paul Balogh, and Nicole van der Hoeven discuss how to take advantage of this awesome tool and what you can do with it.

Grafana JSON API: How to import third-party data sources in Grafana Cloud

Have you ever wanted to test out Grafana Cloud but don’t have any available data to monitor? Well, have no fear! With the Grafana JSON API plugin, you can query publicly available JSON endpoints. The JSON API is a wonderful way to start using Grafana Cloud. You can quickly see data in action, and there are a multitude of things you can build, analyze, and monitor using the JSON API.

Grafana Pyroscope 1.0 release: continuous profiling for a modern open source observability stack

When we launched Pyroscope in 2021, we had one clear goal: Give developers a powerful open source continuous profiling tool for collecting, storing, and analyzing profiling data. Grafana Labs had a similar goal when they released Grafana Phlare, a horizontally scalable, highly available open source profiling solution inspired by databases like Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, and Grafana Tempo.

Centralize AWS observability with Grafana Cloud

If you’re using AWS, you’re almost certainly using Amazon CloudWatch to collect and analyze observability data from your favorite AWS services. And while AWS remains the most broadly adopted cloud platform, not every company uses it exclusively, which means you need a tool that gives a centralized view across all your environments. With Grafana Cloud, you can do just that.

Generative AI at Grafana Labs: what's new, what's next, and our vision for the open source community

As you’d imagine, generative AI has been a huge topic here at Grafana Labs. We’re excited about its potential role in bridging the gap between people and the beyond-human scale of observability data we work with every day. We’ve also been talking a lot about where open source fits in — especially if that Google researcher is right and OSS will outcompete OpenAI and friends. What role can we play to bring the community along?

Getting started with Grafana Loki (Grafana Office Hours #09)

Senior Principal Solutions Engineer Ward Bekker talks about getting started with Grafana Loki: what Loki is, why you need log aggregation, and how it fits into the rest of the Grafana stack. He is joined by Developer Advocates Paul Balogh and Nicole van der Hoeven to tell you everything you need to know about Loki.

A complete guide to metrics cost management in Grafana Cloud

The macro economy can put a lot of pressure on organizations to reduce costs, typically with the central SRE and platform engineering teams coming under scrutiny. One common workaround we’ve seen countless teams make is compromising their observability by ingesting fewer metrics in the name of cost savings. But for centralized SRE/observability teams, the response to macro conditions should not be monitor less, but rather monitor smarter.