k8s-monitoring-helm Chart Office Hours (September 2025)
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.
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Lighting up your dashboards: How to visualize the CheerLights IoT project in Grafana Cloud
I recently joined the Developer Advocacy team here at Grafana Labs, and have been exploring ways to accelerate my Grafana learning journey. Like many others in the Grafana community, my introduction to the open source project happened when I needed a way to easily visualize data that resided in external databases, mostly using SQL queries.
Grafana Labs Co-founder Woods: Market maturity, OpenTelemetry, and AI are reshaping observability
As organizations navigate increasingly complex tech environments, unified observability practices have become essential. That was one of the main takeaways from Grafana Labs Co-founder Anthony Woods’ recent appearance on “Tech Keys by by Mercari India,” a podcast hosted by Vaibhav Khurana, Head of Platform Engineering at Mercari India.
Infinity Data Source Now Supports Auth for Actions | Grafana 12.2
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.
Visualize Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines: Introducing the New Jenkins Data Source Plugin 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.
New Grafana One-Page Report (Public Preview) | Grafana 12.2
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.
Create New Alert Rules Without PromQL Queries in Grafana 12.2 | Metrics Drilldown
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.
Grafana 12.2 release: LLM-powered SQL expressions, updates to canvas and table visualizations, simplified reporting, and more
Grafana 12.2 has arrived, delivering new features to help you and your team move from data to decisions faster than ever. Grafana 12.2: Download now! Below are just some of the highlights from the latest Grafana release.
Mute timing vs. silences in Grafana Alerting: How to pick the best fit for your use case
Have you ever been in a situation where know your team is going to run their weekly maintenance window and you silence your notifications to prevent a flood of false positives from pinging your inbox? If you are associated with a team that uses any type of alert system, you know how easily alert fatigue can happen. The incessant and unpredictable (or even, at times, predictable) pings, emails, and notification alerts can drive even the most serene worker totally batty.
How to perform real-time DNS monitoring in Grafana Cloud
When DNS or domain name server resolution processes fail, or become sluggish, users can experience timeouts, connection errors, and degraded performance — often without clear indication of the root cause. This is where DNS checks in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring come in, allowing you proactively monitor domain name resolution, verify that domains resolve to the correct IP address, and even measure how quickly that resolution occurs.