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Manage your OpenTelemetry Collectors with Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud

If you’ve built your telemetry pipelines around OpenTelemetry Collectors, you’ve already invested in a collector distribution, YAML configuration, and a deployment model that fits your infrastructure. As that deployment grows, managing it means keeping shared configuration consistent, accommodating different workloads, and understanding whether your collectors are healthy. Fleet Management in Grafana Cloud brings those tasks together in one place.

Manage synthetic checks at scale: Introducing folders in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

As your use of Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring grows, so does the number of checks you need to manage across services, environments, and teams. Eventually, a single flat list of checks becomes difficult to navigate, and even simple questions get harder to answer: Which checks belong to the payments team? Can I disable everything in staging during a maintenance window? Who should be able to edit the checks for this service?

Grafana Mobile to Desktop Companion App

The Grafana Mobile App lets you triage alerts with help from Assistant from your phone. You can declare an incident or trigger an investigation into an incident in order to get more information so that by the time you get to your desktop, everything is ready for you. Grafanistas Ignacio and Florian go through a use case deep dive, demonstrating the value of the Grafana Mobile Companion app by triggering an investigation, talk to Assistant, and have all the data you need to resolve an incident - all from your phone.

Tempo 3.1 release: new features for Kafka, TraceQL metrics updates, trace redaction, and more

Building on the major release of Tempo 3.0, Tempo 3.1 is here, delivering community-contributed Kafka client improvements, query-based trace redaction, sampling-aware TraceQL metrics, and more. Together, the updates in 3.1 make it easier to operate Tempo, get accurate insights from your trace data, and investigate issues more efficiently. You can continue reading and check out the video below to learn more about the latest features.

What is the Grafana Knowledge Graph and How Does It Help AI Agents? (Demo)

Grafana's Knowledge Graph builds a contextual layer on top of your telemetry data, automatically extracting entities and relationships so you can see how your services actually connect. In this deep dive, Jia show how it powers root-cause investigation both in the Grafana UI and through agentic workflows using gcx and Claude Code. Learn more about Grafana's observability tools and try Knowledge Graph for your own telemetry data at grafana.com.