Grafana

New York, NY, USA
2014
  |  By Joe Elliott
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!
  |  By David Allen
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.
  |  By Quynton Johnson
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.
  |  By David Ellis
Service-level objectives (SLOs) can be a great way to ensure you’re hitting your goals, but many software teams struggle to set realistic targets when they first set up the service-level indicators (SLIs) that underpin those efforts. Sometimes management has a decree that all services will operate with “three 9s” of availability; other times engineers pick a number out of thin air.
  |  By Marylia Gutierrez
As the new year rolls in, it’s a great time to reflect and think big. What were some of your notable achievements in 2024, and what are your goals for 2025? We often do this in our personal lives — but why not apply this same line of thinking to observability, as well?
  |  By Grafana Labs Team
We introduced Grafana Alloy last year in an effort to create the best possible open source “big tent” telemetry collector. A continuation of our work on Grafana Agent Flow, we designed Alloy to simplify observability at scale and to easily integrate with the OpenTelemetry and Prometheus ecosystems. We’ve seen lots of interest since Alloy was announced at GrafanaCON 2024, and industry observers are taking notice, too.
  |  By Trevor Jones
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is famous for operating the world’s largest particle accelerator, but did you know that CERN is also at the heart of the world’s largest computing grid? And with such unprecedented computing demands comes some serious observability needs.
  |  By Grafana Labs Team
Like the fit your friend got on ASOS? There’s a good chance Grafana Cloud had something to do with that. Each year, more than 20 million customers come to the UK-based online retailer to fill their digital carts, and they expect a seamless online experience as they shop and check out. ASOS can consistently provide that with the help of Grafana Cloud. “There are alerts set up for many of our customer-facing journeys,” said Dylan Morley, Lead Principal Engineer at ASOS.
  |  By Yasir Ekinci
At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to empower users with the tools they need to build their own observability solutions. Our big tent philosophy embodies this mission by allowing you to choose the tools and technologies that best suit your needs. In this post, we want to share an update to our LLM plugin that reflects this philosophy in action.
  |  By Umesh Pawar
Umesh Pawar is a Senior Cloud Engineer at Searce, and is also the co-organizer of the Grafana and Friends Delhi Group. Umesh has been focused on infrastructure and app modernization, as well as observability solutions including the Grafana LGTM Stack, for the past two years. With the Google BigQuery data source plugin for Grafana, you can easily query and visualize data from BigQuery directly in Grafana.
  |  By Grafana
In this video, Joe Elliott does a deep dive demo into the experimental TraceQL features in Grafana Tempo 2.7.
  |  By Grafana
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.
  |  By Grafana
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.
  |  By Grafana
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.
  |  By Grafana
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.
  |  By Grafana
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.
  |  By Grafana
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.
  |  By Grafana
In this video, Ida, a software engineer from the AWS Data Sources squad, introduces an exciting feature in the CloudWatch data source plugin. With Opensearch SQL and Opensearch PPL now supported, you can leverage familiar query languages to explore and visualize your AWS CloudWatch data alongside the existing Logs Insights query language. Learn how to: Availability.
  |  By Grafana
Over the past few years, Actian has shifted from offering a solely on-premises data integration, management, and analytics product to supporting hybrid and multi-cloud environments as well. To keep up, the team needed a customisable observability tool, and found it in Grafana Cloud. Lead Cloud Operations Engineer Suleyman Kutlu will share his team’s journey, starting with metrics and logs, and venturing into load testing, frontend observability, IRM, and more.
  |  By Grafana
An in-depth conversation with a panel of observability leaders from Sky, Just Eat Takeaway.com, and BlackRock. The panelists share stories about their organizations’ observability journeys, their perspectives on scaling observability across an enterprise, and their opinions on the current trends in the space.

Grafana provides a powerful and elegant way to create, explore, and share dashboards and data with your team and the world. Grafana is most commonly used for visualizing time series data for Internet infrastructure and application analytics but many use it in other domains including industrial sensors, home automation, weather, and process control.

Grafana has a robust plugin architecture built for extensibility. Visualize data from more than 40 data sources, including commercial databases and web vendors, and add new graph panels with rich data visualization options. There is built in support for many of the most popular time series data sources. It works with Graphite, Elasticsearch, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, InfluxDB and more.

Grafana Labs is the company behind Grafana, the leading open source software for visualizing time series data. Grafana Labs helps users get the most out of Grafana, enabling them to take control of their unified monitoring and avoid vendor lock in and the spiraling costs of closed solutions.