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New year, new Grafana release! Grafana 11.5 is here with new features to enhance how you can share, migrate, and alert on all your data in Grafana. Grafana 11.5: Download now Below are just some of the highlights from the latest Grafana release. If you are looking for more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation.

Hundreds of organizations have migrated from legacy incident response tools to Grafana IRM in recent years as they look to improve production reliability, reduce costs, and consolidate their tooling. Grafana IRM, our incident response and management product, has helped organizations such as LATAM Airlines simplify stressful incidents with observability-native workflows, but every organization has its reservations about the actual migration process.

From real-time asset monitoring to observing smart robots, Grafana has become a go-to visualization tool for industrial automation and IIoT.

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team and he is a Grafana Champion. Wilfried focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Nowadays databases are commonly used to build information systems. Relational or NoSQL, self-managed or as-a-service, those databases often play a critical role in the overall health of your applications.

The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart 2.0 is here, and it comes with some exciting changes to improve your experience collecting observability data. The Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart makes it easy to start gathering telemetry data from your Kubernetes clusters. With one deployment, you can capture all of the metrics, logs, traces, and profiles from your cluster and the applications running on it!

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up (the first of 2025!) of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.

The promise of observing your application without writing code (i.e., auto-instrumentation) is not new, and it’s extremely compelling: run a single command in your cluster and suddenly application telemetry starts arriving at your observability backend. What else could you ask for? The OpenTelemetry Operator aims to fulfill such a dream for Kubernetes environments by using a set of well known patterns such as operators and custom resources.

Grafana Tempo 2.7 is here, and while the latest release is primarily focused on performance and operational improvements, we managed to sneak in some new TraceQL features, too!

It’s hard to believe Grafana Play has been around for almost a decade. The platform continues to be a great way to demo Grafana, play around with new features, learn what’s possible, and simply have fun with data. Grafana Play provides a publicly available version of Grafana Cloud, and requires no login for access. It’s preloaded with a wide range of sample dashboards that teach users how to work with data sources, create visualizations, and explore advanced Grafana features.

As your applications scale, so too does the flood of logs, metrics, profiles, and traces—along with the costs to store and manage them. Collecting everything might feel like the safest bet, but it often leaves you buried in noise and struggling to find the signals that matter, all while costs spiral out of control.