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No matter where or how you work, we all have the same goal when an incident occurs: to get it resolved effectively and efficiently—and as quickly as possible. However, the way we achieve that goal isn’t always the same. We understand that different organizations operate differently, so you need flexibility from your IRM tooling.

The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger. Today at its annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, a new service that provides Azure users with Grafana dashboards natively integrated in the Azure Portal at no additional cost and with little administrative overhead required.

One of our biggest goals at Grafana Labs is to help you unify and derive value from your data, regardless of where that data lives. As a result, we’re fully committed to making Grafana an open, composable, and extensible observability platform. Last week at GrafanaCON 2025, where we celebrated the launch of Grafana 12, we highlighted one of the key ways we deliver on this promise of openness and extensibility: our broad ecosystem of Grafana data sources.

We’re excited to share that SCIM provisioning is available in public preview for Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud Advanced! This powerful feature, introduced last week at GrafanaCON 2025 as part of the Grafana 12 release, transforms how organizations manage users and teams in Grafana, bringing automated user lifecycle management and enhanced security to your observability platform.

As part of our big tent philosophy at Grafana Labs, we think you should be able to dig into your data and find meaningful insights — wherever that data happens to live. For many of our users, that data lives in Databricks, the open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.

Prometheus is one of the most popular open source monitoring tools due to its powerful flexibility for collecting time series metrics. But raw metrics aren’t always helpful on their own. That’s where Grafana Cloud comes in. By connecting Prometheus to Grafana Cloud, you get rich visualizations, alerts, and dashboards that make your data actionable without having to manage any additional infrastructure.

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.

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.

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 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.