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In the September edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.4 and 3.5 releases as well as the plan for upcoming features.

Grafana 12.2 introduces actions authentication with the Infinity data source — giving you more secure and flexible ways to trigger actions. Previously, actions were limited to browser-based HTTP requests subject to CORS. Now you can choose between browser requests or Infinity connections, leveraging preconfigured authentication settings. This update makes actions more powerful and reliable in Grafana 12.2.

Grafana 12.2 introduces the new Jenkins data source plugin, giving you real-time insights into your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. With easy setup, you can connect your Jenkins instance and explore two built-in dashboards: See how Jenkins data becomes instantly actionable inside Grafana.

Grafana 12.2 introduces a redesigned reporting feature, now in public preview. The new one-page report creation flow replaces the old multi-step wizard, making it easier and more intuitive to schedule and share insights. You can now: Check out how the new reporting experience simplifies sharing data in Grafana 12.2.

Grafana 12.2 makes alert creation simpler by integrating the Metrics Drilldown app with the Alert Rule Query Editor. Instead of writing PromQL from scratch, you can now use a queryless workflow: explore metrics, add labels, and generate queries directly from Drilldown. This helps teams move faster and makes alerting more accessible for those new to PromQL.

In this talk, we’ll introduce the Kafka Data Source plugin we developed for Grafana, which enables users to query and visualise Kafka topic data directly in their dashboards—without the need for intermediate storage or external services. We'll share how the idea came about, how we collaborated with the Grafana community and developers to bring it to life, and the challenges we faced along the way. We'll also discuss our vision for the plugin’s future and its role in the evolving observability landscape.

Join Dell Technologies, TekStream Solutions, and Grafana Labs for a candid panel on scalining observability. Learn how enterprise teams scale observability, balance centralized vs. decentralized models, and accelerate adoption. The panel explores challenges with culture, governance, tool sprawl, and how AI is reshaping monitoring and incident response.

In Grafana’s 3rd annual Observability Survey, over 1,000 engineers and leaders shared their challenges — tool sprawl, complexity, rising costs, and nonstop alerts — and their hopes for how AI can help.

From AWS to Zendesk, and across all teams, Ove at CLAAS explains a variety of approaches that go beyond traditional app monitoring. By focusing on the data itself, one can deliver deeper insights and a fuller understanding of your entire system.

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