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Top 3 tools for DORA metrics reporting: SquaredUp vs Power BI vs Jira

What is it that makes a high-performing software engineering team successful? This was the challenge undertaken by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team around 2015, who created a set of metrics that could provide a reliable, data-driven way to measure and improve software delivery performance.

Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: from self-hosted to the cloud in minutes

Moving your existing Grafana instance to Grafana Cloud just got dramatically simpler. Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant, a powerful yet intuitive tool designed to streamline your migration journey. Traditionally, migrating from Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise to Grafana Cloud required technical expertise with Grafana’s HTTP API or command-line tools like Grizzly.

Grafana Alloy at 1: What's new and what's next for our OpenTelemetry Collector distribution

It’s been a year since we launched Grafana Alloy, our OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in Prometheus pipelines and support for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. OpenTelemetry is quickly becoming an industry standard for telemetry collection, processing, and delivery, and we’re committed to making Alloy the best possible collector for telemetry data, whether you’re using it with Grafana Cloud or not.

Exciting Updates in Ivanti Neurons Dashboard Designer

Exciting Updates in Dashboard Designer Features New features in Dashboard Designer include a patch management dashboard and improved datasets for flexible charting. Enhanced fields support better analysis of device and people scores. Users can now schedule reports with flexible options and receive email notifications. Report templates have been upgraded with unique device counts and filtering for failed deployments. The audit trail is now available, offering additional events and export capabilities for in-depth analysis.

Grafana 12 release: observability as code, dynamic dashboards, new Grafana Alerting tools, and more

Grafana 12 is here! During the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2025, we unveiled dozens of new reasons to fall in love with everyone’s favorite dashboarding and visualization tool—especially if your job is to keep teams, services, and, of course, a whole lot of beautiful Grafana dashboards organized. Grafana 12.0: Download now!

GrafanaCON 2025: A guide to all the announcements from Grafana Labs

GrafanaCON 2025 is in full swing in Seattle, where members of our open source community have gathered to explore the latest updates to Grafana Labs’ OSS projects, share their inspiring use cases, and build lasting connections at our biggest community event yet.

Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: More precise, easier to use, and better compatibility

Histograms help you monitor and visualize the distribution of values for key metrics, such as response times or request sizes of a service. They’re frequently used to gain insights into data patterns, anomalies, and trends, making them an important tool for observability.