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We’re back with a new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call episode, and this time we’re diving into logging with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki! Even better, we’re joined by two fantastic guests: Jack Berg, OTel logging expert, and Ed Welch, Loki guru. Getting both of them in one conversation makes for an amazing deep-dive into all things logging. Logs come in every shape and size, from simple CLI output to massive distributed systems generating petabytes of structured data. In this episode, we’ll talk about.

During ObservabilityCON 2025, we announced the GA of Grafana Assistant. It's free to use until Dec. 31, 2025. Assistant Investigations is now in Public Preview.

Upcoming 2.10/3.0 Releases New maintainer, Oleg Have questions? Please bring them! Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel -- you can do this by clicking your photo in the top right corner. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

In the December edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.6 release, the upcoming releases and features, and we include special guest, Matt Nolf, to tell us about Database Observability.

Several Grafanistas talk about their remote work experience at Grafana Labs. Being remote-first enables our team to be based where they feel most productive and to ensure that work and life aren't in competition. And remote-first is *not* remote only. Grafanistas enjoy the opportunity to come together during team offsites or in shared co-working spaces. Connection is important.

Grafana Service Center gives engineers and stakeholders a single place to ensure service reliability. In this video, Staff Product Manager Ryan Kehoe walks through how Service Center ties together alerts, SLOs, dashboards, incidents, and metadata for each service. Learn how to centralize reviews, speed up investigations, and improve visibility across your teams—all within Grafana Cloud.

For our upcoming Grafana Campfire Community Call, we'll explore Grafana Git Sync, a powerful new feature that enables seamless dashboard-as-code workflows. Git Sync bridges the gap between Grafana's UI and your version control system, allowing you to manage dashboards with the same rigor and collaboration practices you use for application code.

Unlock faster, cheaper, and more reliable AWS observability with CloudWatch Metric Streams in Grafana Cloud. In this video, Tristan from Grafana Labs gives a full walkthrough of our new AWS Metric Streaming integration, showing how to stream CloudWatch metrics directly into Grafana Cloud using Amazon Data Firehose and Terraform.

We’re back with the second Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we continue exploring how to get observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll walk through the basics of application monitoring using the OpenTelemetry Demo — a realistic example of a distributed system built on a fully open-source stack: Prometheus, Jaeger, and OpenSearch, with dashboards powered by Grafana.

Matt from Grafana’s Enterprise Data Sources team demos the SolarWinds plugin: URL/credentials setup, TLS options, health check, and built-in dashboards. See how to query SolarWinds data with SWQL in Grafana and where to learn more (docs + SolarWinds SWQL resources). As of Nov 19, 2025, this is available in public preview in Grafana Cloud (including the free tier) and Grafana Enterprise.