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In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the need for meta-monitoring Loki: why Loki needs to be monitored, what to watch out for, and how to do it. We talk about different ways to get information from Loki that allow you to make it reliable, consistent, and performant, including a Helm chart to deploy a meta-monitoring stack on Kubernetes. We discuss the Loki mixin for Grafana and how to use it to visualize data about Loki. On the call are Jay Clifford, Nicole van der Hoeven, and Dylan Guedes from Grafana Labs.

So. Many. Announcements! Grafana 12 is massive. Tune in live to see what it's all about and get a sneak peak of everything we're releasing. We ran into a hiccup during the Git Sync demo. Relevant links: Follow us for the latest and greatest on all things Grafana and our other OSS projects.

Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

In this demo video, Gyorgy Krajcsovits, Senior Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, shows you how to use Prometheus native histograms in Grafana.

In this walkthrough, Grafana’s Ryan Kehoe dives into the biggest improvements designed to help teams create, manage, and route alerts with less friction and more power. Whether you're wrangling multi-source queries or managing alerts across large environments, these updates are for you.

In the April edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the recent updates to version 2.0, We also discuss the plan for the v2.1 release, where we go into some more detail about the implementation plan and the utilization of the Alloy Operator. Finally, we end with Q&A.

Just because your app is up doesn’t mean it’s working. Behind the scenes, users could be facing failed checkouts, broken workflows, or slow page loads — and you may not know until it’s too late. In this video, we’ll show you how Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring helps you proactively simulate real user behavior and monitor the performance of your critical user flows, websites, and APIs from locations around the world — so you can catch issues before your users do.

In this demo video, Virginia Cepeda, senior software engineer at Grafana Labs, walks through the k6 browser checks feature in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring.

Grafana Labs' Jen Villa shares the latest insights into how organizations are rethinking their observability strategies — with cost now taking center stage. This video covers: Chapters: Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Creating dashboards in Grafana gives you some very good built-in features to manipulate your data by using transformations, variables, filtering, overriding,, annotations for your data and with addition of Community plugins (data sources, panels and apps) increases the user experience to a whole next level. Still, many users do not either know about these features or do not use it correctly and why is the reason?