Introduction To Browser Checks | Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

May 14, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Learn how to set up browser checks using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring. In this video, we walk through how to create a browser check and analyze test results. Browser checks simulate real user interactions to track critical workflows and catch issues early.
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Getting started with ServiceNow dashboards

May 14, 2025 By Sameer Mhaisekar In Squared Up
ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform that streamlines IT service management, operations, and various business workflows across organizations. Dashboards in ServiceNow can play a valuable role by offering a clear view of key metrics, trends, and performance indicators. While there are dashboards locally in ServiceNow portal, they often fail to provide a fuller picture of the impact of the incidents in context with other key metrics from external tools.
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Visualize Databricks in Grafana: write custom SQL queries, build interactive dashboards, and more

May 13, 2025 By Kristin Knapp In Grafana
As part of our big tent philosophy at Grafana Labs, we think you should be able to dig into your data and find meaningful insights — wherever that data happens to live. For many of our users, that data lives in Databricks, the open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.
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How to easily connect Prometheus to Grafana Cloud

May 13, 2025 By Shawn Pitts In Grafana
Prometheus is one of the most popular open source monitoring tools due to its powerful flexibility for collecting time series metrics. But raw metrics aren’t always helpful on their own. That’s where Grafana Cloud comes in. By connecting Prometheus to Grafana Cloud, you get rich visualizations, alerts, and dashboards that make your data actionable without having to manage any additional infrastructure.
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How to Visualize and Explore Your Datalake: Databricks Enterprise Data Source for Grafana

May 13, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Ready to bring your Databricks data lakehouse to life? In this Grafana quick start, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Databricks to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin, available on all tiers — including Cloud Free. We’ll cover: Setting up the Databricks data source Retrieving your Host, HTTP Path, and Token from the Databricks App Exploring data with SQL builder and custom queries in Grafana Creating a cross functional dashboard using live Databricks data.
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Real-Time Monitoring Solutions for Modern Web Applications

Real-Time Monitoring Solutions for Modern Web Applications

May 11, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Web applications have evolved from simple static sites into complex distributed systems spanning multiple servers, services, and geographical locations. This evolution has created new challenges for monitoring these applications effectively. Today's web stacks require comprehensive visibility across all layers to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
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SQL analytics - unified querying across any API

May 10, 2025 By John Hayes In Squared Up
SQL is just for querying relational data, right? Well, not necessarily! With our SQL Analytics feature, you can run SQL queries over all types of data from all kinds of backend stores. This gives you incredible flexibility and power – you can even combine different types of entity (e.g. a pull request and a pipeline run) in a single query. Equally, I could have datasets with job tickets from Jira, ServiceNow and Zendesk and combine them in a single query.
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The Best Open-Source Dashboard Tools for 2025: Expert Guide to Choosing the Right One

May 8, 2025 By Vipul Gupta In MetricFire
Table of Contents In today’s digital operations, dashboards aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re essential. Teams across engineering, product, operations, and business intelligence rely on real-time data visibility to monitor systems, analyze trends, and catch anomalies before they escalate. For many organizations, open-source dashboard tools offer the best combination of flexibility, transparency, and cost-efficiency.
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Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: from self-hosted to the cloud in minutes

May 8, 2025 By Daniel Ken Lee In Grafana
Moving your existing Grafana instance to Grafana Cloud just got dramatically simpler. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant, a powerful yet intuitive tool designed to streamline your migration journey. Traditionally, migrating from Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise to Grafana Cloud required technical expertise with Grafana’s HTTP API or command-line tools like Grizzly.
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Grafana Alloy at 1: What's new and what's next for our OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

May 8, 2025 By Sam Alipio In Grafana
It’s been a year since we launched Grafana Alloy, our OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. OpenTelemetry is quickly becoming an industry standard for telemetry collection, processing, and delivery, and we’re committed to making Alloy the best possible collector for telemetry data, whether you’re using it with Grafana Cloud or not.
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