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Microsoft Azure Cloud monitoring has never been more streamlined! In this video, Vasil Kaftandzhiev, Product Manager for Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud, walks you through how easy it is to monitor Azure Cloud Services with Grafana. With out-of-the-box dashboards, you can instantly visualize key metrics for essential Azure services like: API Gateway Queue Storage Virtual Machines Log Storage Events Hub Network Load Balancers SQL.

See how we're improving the apps to help you quickly get insights into your logs, metrics, traces, and profiles, and find out why we changed the name from Explore apps to Drilldown. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Want to monitor your Google Cloud infrastructure more effectively? Join Vasil Kaftandzhiev as he introduces Grafana Cloud’s new application designed specifically for Google Cloud observability. In this video, you'll discover how to: Optimize and troubleshoot your Google Cloud services Leverage out-of-the-box dashboards with key metrics and thresholds Set up comprehensive alerting for real-time incident response Streamline log management with an all-in-one logs view for faster root cause analysis Configure logs and metrics effortlessly using Grafana Alloy.

Learn how to set up a ping check using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring to monitor service availability and network performance.

Service Level Objectives (SLOs) should be more than just numbers on a dashboard—they should help your team deliver real value to your users. In this video, Jake Swiss from Grafana Labs walks you through three simple steps to create SLOs that align with business goals and drive better decision-making. Step 1: Understand What Really Matters – Align SLOs with customer expectations Step 2: Define Clear, Measurable Targets – Use RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) to track meaningful performance Step 3: Continuously Iterate & Fine-Tune – Adjust SLOs based on historical data and team feedback.

Cut Through Alert Noise with SLOs! Tired of endless alerts that don’t reflect real issues? SLOs (Service Level Objectives) help reduce noise by focusing on what truly impacts users. Instead of reacting to every minor spike, set SLOs to trigger alerts only when reliability is at risk.

In this session of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the freshly released version 2.0 and what has happened since. We also show some details about our plan for the v2.1 release. Finally, we end with Q&A.

Grafana 11.5 is here, packed with exciting updates to enhance your workflow! This release focuses on three main areas: Sharing visualizations with streamlined workflows for exporting dashboards and panels, enhanced PDF reporting options, and the ability to share links with sample images. Managing data with upgraded ad-hoc filters and powerful transformations for extracting and organizing messy data. Migrating to the cloud with the new Grafana Cloud migration tool that supports all plugins and Grafana alerting (now in public preview).

Updates to the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: Plugins and Alerts! Thinking about moving to Grafana Cloud? Whether you're an OSS user exploring cloud benefits or an enterprise customer transitioning a large deployment, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant makes it simpler and faster than ever.

In Grafana version 11.5, we've completely redesigned the dashboard sharing experience to make it more intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient! This update is available in all editions of Grafana. Join Natacha (Product Designer) and Juani (Senior Software Engineer) from the Grafana Labs Sharing Squad as they walk you through these updates and demonstrate how to streamline your sharing workflow in Grafana 11.5.