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Grafana Assistant just went GA at ObservabilityCON, and it’s already changing how developers onboard, troubleshoot, and build dashboards in Grafana Cloud. In this video, we put it to the ultimate test — a head-to-head challenge between me and the Grafana Assistant. Who can onboard an app into Grafana Cloud faster and more accurately? Chapters: Watch as we explore: How the Grafana Assistant simplifies onboarding and setup Building dashboards for Redis, Kafka, and Postgres The power of using community dashboards vs. manual configuration Whether AI can truly speed up observability workflows.

In this episode, Lisa Jung and Mischa Thompson reveal the solutions to all four hands-on missions, showing how Alloy can collect, process, and secure telemetry data with precision and style. From uncovering hidden keys to securing sensitive data this episode puts Grafana Alloy’s problem-solving skills to the test. This repo is a great resource for learning about the Grafana stack end to end, so check it out if you'd like a full end-to-end working example!

The moment to test your mad Alloy skills is here! Join Lisa Jung and Mischa Thompson from Grafana Labs for an overview of the four hands-on exercises and see how much you’ve learned throughout the series. This hands-on exercise section consists of four missions: The Hidden Key The Cardinality Crisis Attribute Alignment Redact and Protect Your mission, should you choose to accept it, awaits you in the Mission section of the series repo.

Wondering how to monitor Kubernetes with Grafana? In this “Ask the Experts” episode, Coleman walks through the easiest setup — from Grafana Cloud’s built-in Kubernetes Monitoring plugin to open source Grafana with Mixins and Helm. One command, and your cluster data comes alive.

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This Loki Community Call is about deploying Loki on Kubernetes via Helm charts. We talk about why you might want to use Helm to deploy on Kubernetes, best practices for deployment, and which Helm chart you should use! We are Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven, Developer Advocates at Grafana Labs, and we have invited Grafana Champion and Loki Helm Maintainer Jan-Otto Kröpke, Principal Cloud Architect at QualityOperations GmbH, to talk about the state of the Loki Helm Chart.

In the October edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the upcoming version 3.6 release as well as the plan for upcoming features.

Discover how Atlassian built OpsDeck, an observability platform powered by Grafana, to automate incident detection, improve response time, and reduce troubleshooting from one hour to under a minute. Hear how the Observability Insights team scaled OpenTelemetry, broke silos, and built smarter workflows for both engineers and support.

Watch the complete video about using the Grafana MCP Server.

We’re kicking off a brand-new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we dive into getting observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll dive into Declarative Config — the new way to make OpenTelemetry onboarding simple and powerful. Instead of juggling environment variables or boilerplate in your startup code, declarative config gives you a clean, language-agnostic approach that works across SDKs and unlocks future possibilities like remote configuration. Join us with Marylia Gutierrez (OTel JavaScript approver & core contributor) to explore.