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Text box variables let users type whatever they want -- great for text filtering and searching! In this video we'll look at how to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards. 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.

Watch a deep-dive demo of Grafana k6 Studio, an open source desktop application that helps you create k6 test scripts quickly and easily via a visual interface.

In this video, Joey Orlando, Engineering Manager at Grafana, walks you through Grafana Cloud Incident Response Management (IRM)—a new powerful solution that unifies Grafana OnCall and Grafana Incidents into one seamless experience. You'll learn how to: Set up on-call schedules and escalation chains Configure integrations for your monitoring systems Respond to alerts efficiently with automated workflows Migrate from PagerDuty or Splunk On-Call to Grafana IRM.

Learn how to gain real-time visibility into your web applications with Grafana Faro! In this hands-on tutorial, we’ll walk through instrumenting a JavaScript app with Faro.

Microsoft Azure Cloud monitoring has never been more streamlined! In this video, Vasil Kaftandzhiev, Product Manager for Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud, walks you through how easy it is to monitor Azure Cloud Services with Grafana. With out-of-the-box dashboards, you can instantly visualize key metrics for essential Azure services like: API Gateway Queue Storage Virtual Machines Log Storage Events Hub Network Load Balancers SQL.

See how we're improving the apps to help you quickly get insights into your logs, metrics, traces, and profiles, and find out why we changed the name from Explore apps to Drilldown. 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.

Want to monitor your Google Cloud infrastructure more effectively? Join Vasil Kaftandzhiev as he introduces Grafana Cloud’s new application designed specifically for Google Cloud observability. In this video, you'll discover how to: Optimize and troubleshoot your Google Cloud services Leverage out-of-the-box dashboards with key metrics and thresholds Set up comprehensive alerting for real-time incident response Streamline log management with an all-in-one logs view for faster root cause analysis Configure logs and metrics effortlessly using Grafana Alloy.

Learn how to set up a ping check using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring to monitor service availability and network performance.

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) should be more than just numbers on a dashboard—they should help your team deliver real value to your users. In this video, Jake Swiss from Grafana Labs walks you through three simple steps to create SLOs that align with business goals and drive better decision-making. Step 1: Understand What Really Matters – Align SLOs with customer expectations Step 2: Define Clear, Measurable Targets – Use RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) to track meaningful performance Step 3: Continuously Iterate & Fine-Tune – Adjust SLOs based on historical data and team feedback.

Cut Through Alert Noise with SLOs! Tired of endless alerts that don’t reflect real issues? SLOs (Service Level Objectives) help reduce noise by focusing on what truly impacts users. Instead of reacting to every minor spike, set SLOs to trigger alerts only when reliability is at risk.