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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).

Happy New Year Everyone. We are kicking off Grafana Campfire Grafana Community Calls for 2025. David Kaltschmidt, Carl Bergquist, Mat Ryer, and Syed Usman Ahmad will talk about the year 2024 as what we have accomplished in such a short time and what is exciting to come in the year 2025. Today, Mich Seaman who is the Product Director will be joining us and will share some insights as well.

Happy New Year from the Loki Engineering team. To kick off 2025, Nicole and Jay will be joined by Poyzan Taneli from the Loki Engineering team to discuss how to run Loki at scale on Kubernetes. If you are currently running Loki in microservices mode or preparing to do so, we will be discussing best practices for scaling its components to meet the demands of production use cases.

In this video, Joe Elliott does a deep dive demo into the experimental TraceQL features in Grafana Tempo 2.7.

Managing telemetry can quickly spiral out of control, leading to ballooning costs and overwhelming data volumes. But what if you could save time, reduce costs, and maintain the critical insights your team relies on? In this video, learn how Adaptive Telemetry helps you: Sign up for a free Grafana Cloud account today and unlock the potential of distributed tracing in your performance testing workflow.

In this session of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the upcoming version 2.0, the latest changes and the timeline for release. We also cover two potential changes and open things up for feedback on them. Finally, we end with Q&A.

In this video, Mark Covelo, a Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs, demonstrates how Grafana Cloud SLO empowers organizations to improve customer retention by simplifying the adoption of Service Level Objectives (SLOs). SLOs provide critical insights into the customer experience, enabling teams to prioritize and resolve user-impacting issues effectively.

In this video, Grafana Labs demonstrates how Grafana Cloud addresses the challenges of rising observability costs faced by organizations worldwide. As observability costs grow and logging architectures become increasingly resource-intensive, teams are forced to make difficult decisions about coverage, often leaving critical blind spots. Grafana Cloud offers a cost-effective, end-to-end observability solution that eliminates the need for compromise on efficiency or performance.

Performance Testing with Grafana Cloud k6: Seamlessly Integrated into CI/CD Pipelines In this video, Grafana Solutions Engineer Sean Carolyn demonstrates how Grafana k6 integrates with CI/CD pipelines to make performance testing an effortless part of the development workflow.

In this December's Loki Community Call, Cyril Tovena, Senior Principal Engineer and LogQL guru walks us through a Grafana Loki query tutorial with LogQL, the Log Query Language used for Loki. He talks about the key "Dos and Don'ts" of LogQL, offering practical tips to help you write better queries, boost performance, and sidestep common mistakes. Whether you’re tuning up your current setup or just diving into LogQL, Cyril’s got you covered.