Executive Buy-In is Driving Observability Maturity: 2025 Observability Survey Results | Grafana Labs

Apr 3, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
In this video, CTO Tom Wilkie from Grafana Labs breaks down some of the most compelling findings from our third annual Observability Survey, based on over 1,200 industry responses. The big takeaway? Executive involvement is on the rise—and it’s accelerating adoption of advanced observability practices like distributed tracing, profiling, and SLOs. He also explores how SaaS adoption, the maturation of central observability teams, and new instrumentation methods like eBPF and Beyla are reshaping the observability landscape.
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New Google Cloud Run Visualization in Grafana Cloud | Demo | How to Monitor Google Cloud Run

Apr 2, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Perfect for troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cost optimization, this new feature helps you stay in control of your Cloud Run workloads. With this sophisticated dashboard, you can: Monitor CPU, memory, network traffic, and active requests at a glance Drill down into individual services and containers with a single click Identify resource usage spikes and optimize performance Use the Right-Sizing View to find the top resource-heavy services & containers.
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Adaptive Metrics in Action: How The Trade Desk Optimized Observability Costs | Grafana Labs

Apr 2, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Managing observability costs at scale is no easy task — especially when metrics volume grows fast. In this talk, Paul Givens, Head of Observability at The Trade Desk, shares how they implemented Adaptive Metrics to control costs without sacrificing visibility. How Adaptive Metrics works to reduce cardinality and cost Real-world implementation lessons from a high-scale AdTech environment Key takeaways for teams managing large Prometheus-like metric sets.
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How to Install a PowerPoint Plugin for Charts in Under 5 Minutes

How to Install a PowerPoint Plugin for Charts in Under 5 Minutes

Apr 2, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Creating clean, compelling visuals doesn't have to take hours. If you're tired of fiddling with default PowerPoint tools, a plugin can help you produce stunning graphics in minutes. In fact, you can install one in under five minutes and start transforming your data into presentations that wow your audience. Whether you're presenting to your boss, your teacher, or your classmates, it helps to transform ordinary slides into something much more impressive. In this guide, we'll show you step-by-step how to do that quickly and easily.
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Kubernetes Monitoring: One view for observing all your storage volumes

Apr 1, 2025 By Stephen Lang In Grafana
If you want to observe your entire Kubernetes environment, you need visibility into all of your resources, including storage volumes. But monitoring Kubernetes storage hasn’t always been easy, especially if you wanted to see how it related to other parts of your infrastructure.
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Getting started with InfluxDB dashboards

Apr 1, 2025 By Dan Watts In Squared Up
InfluxDB is a powerful open-source time-series database widely used for monitoring system performance, IoT metrics, and application telemetry. With SquaredUp's InfluxDB plugin, you can effortlessly visualize and monitor your InfluxDB data, gaining real-time insights into your metrics alongside your other tools and services. This guide will walk you through connecting InfluxDB with SquaredUp, creating dashboards, setting up monitoring, and sharing your visualizations.
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How to prevent performance bottlenecks in Google Compute Engine: CPU spikes, RAM waste, and network overload

Mar 31, 2025 By Vasil Kaftandzhiev In Grafana
Cloud computing is all about efficiency. You need to get the most out of your resources without overspending or causing performance issues. For example, if you’re running virtual machines in Google Compute Engine, you need to size your instances correctly, optimize your workloads, and monitor your network traffic to prevent unexpected failures. However, when resources aren’t properly managed, things can quickly spiral out of control.
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