We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack: Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. With GrafanaCON 2025 — and the release of Grafana 12 — earlier this month, there are a ton of Grafana Cloud updates to share.

With the 3.0 release, Prometheus firmly established itself as the leading metrics database for OpenTelemetry. A lot of work has gone into integrating the two open source projects, including a major Prometheus enhancement we’re really excited about: resource attribute promotion.

No matter where or how you work, we all have the same goal when an incident occurs: to get it resolved effectively and efficiently—and as quickly as possible. However, the way we achieve that goal isn’t always the same. We understand that different organizations operate differently, so you need flexibility from your IRM tooling.

The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger. Today at its annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, a new service that provides Azure users with Grafana dashboards natively integrated in the Azure Portal at no additional cost and with little administrative overhead required.

SolarWinds is a popular IT infrastructure monitoring tool deployed on-prem, most well-known for its network and server monitoring capabilities. While it offers rich telemetry, it’s easy to miss the bigger picture. SquaredUp turns this complex monitoring data into clear, shareable dashboards that make it easier to spot trends, catch issues early, and keep everyone on the same page.