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Grafana Play updates: A redesigned homepage to celebrate our community

Grafana Play is a free, publicly accessible sandbox environment where anyone can explore and learn about Grafana, no setup or sign-in required. It comes preloaded with sample dashboards demonstrating how to connect to data sources, build visualizations, and experiment with Grafana’s advanced features. Hosted on Grafana Cloud, Grafana Play has grown significantly over the years. With thousands of public dashboards, it’s now a go-to destination for Grafana learning and exploration.

Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability

It’s widely acknowledged that most application performance problems stem not from the application itself, but from the underlying database. Slow or inefficient database queries are often the primary cause of these issues, acting as the biggest driver of application performance incidents. If you’ve been troubleshooting slow API calls or sluggish services, chances are the root cause likely resides within your database layer.

Performance testing best practices: How to prepare for peak demand with Grafana Cloud k6

For many organizations, periods of high customer activity are anything but relaxing. Events like Black Friday, product launches, or major sales can put intense strain on the software and infrastructure systems that support a company’s web applications. Without proactive performance testing, these moments can quickly turn into poor user experiences and lost revenue.

Can a Human Beat Grafana's AI at Its Own Game?

Grafana Assistant just went GA at ObservabilityCON, and it’s already changing how developers onboard, troubleshoot, and build dashboards in Grafana Cloud. In this video, we put it to the ultimate test — a head-to-head challenge between me and the Grafana Assistant. Who can onboard an app into Grafana Cloud faster and more accurately? Chapters: Watch as we explore: How the Grafana Assistant simplifies onboarding and setup Building dashboards for Redis, Kafka, and Postgres The power of using community dashboards vs. manual configuration Whether AI can truly speed up observability workflows.

Solutions to hands on exercises | Grafana Alloy for Beginners Ep 14

In this episode, Lisa Jung and Mischa Thompson reveal the solutions to all four hands-on missions, showing how Alloy can collect, process, and secure telemetry data with precision and style. From uncovering hidden keys to securing sensitive data this episode puts Grafana Alloy’s problem-solving skills to the test. This repo is a great resource for learning about the Grafana stack end to end, so check it out if you'd like a full end-to-end working example!

Hands on Exercises Overview | Grafana Alloy for Beginners Episode 13

The moment to test your mad Alloy skills is here! Join Lisa Jung and Mischa Thompson from Grafana Labs for an overview of the four hands-on exercises and see how much you’ve learned throughout the series. This hands-on exercise section consists of four missions: The Hidden Key The Cardinality Crisis Attribute Alignment Redact and Protect Your mission, should you choose to accept it, awaits you in the Mission section of the series repo.

Grafana Mimir 3.0 release: performance improvements, a new query engine, and more

In 2022, we introduced Grafana Mimir, our open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB) designed for long-term storage of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. Over the years, Mimir has become a go-to metrics backend within the open source community, with 30 project maintainers and more than 4.7k GitHub stars.

SQL expressions in Grafana: Combine and manipulate data from multiple sources

One of Grafana’s greatest strengths is its ability to provide a consistent monitoring experience for all your data sources. But not everyone wants to go through the process of transforming that data and setting up a data warehouse to make that happen, especially for complex analyses.

Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: Get more precision from your Grafana visualizations

In May, we announced the public preview of Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud, unlocking greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing latency, duration, and other distributions. Since then, we’ve seen incredible adoption across industries—from financial services companies to e-commerce platforms. Last week, during PromCon EU 2025, the Prometheus developers announced that native histograms are now stable, after three years of intense testing and improvements.