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Grafana 12.3 release: Interactive learning experiences, new and improved logs visualizations, and more

Grafana 12.3 is here, delivering new features for interactive learning, deeper insights into logging data, and so much more. Overall, a big theme in the latest minor release is to make data exploration easier, faster, and more customizable. Grafana 12.3: Download now! Below are just some of the highlights from Grafana 12.3. If you want to explore all the latest updates, please refer to the changelog or our What’s New documentation, and be sure to check out the TL;DR video below.

Grafana Data Visualization Update: Panel Time Settings & Time Comparison in 12.3

The new panel time settings drawer gives you greater control over time ranges and shifts at the panel level without editing the dashboard. The time comparison feature, in particular, was a request from the community, and allows you to easily perform time-based (for example, month-over-month) comparative analyses in a single view. This eliminates the need to duplicate panels or dashboards to perform trend tracking and performance benchmarking.

Monitor SolarWinds in Grafana: Demo + Setup

Matt from Grafana’s Enterprise Data Sources team demos the SolarWinds plugin: URL/credentials setup, TLS options, health check, and built-in dashboards. See how to query SolarWinds data with SWQL in Grafana and where to learn more (docs + SolarWinds SWQL resources). As of Nov 19, 2025, this is available in public preview in Grafana Cloud (including the free tier) and Grafana Enterprise.

Making Your Business Resilient Against Cloudflare Like Outages

Cloudflare-like outages can cost your business a significant amount of money. This week’s Cloudflare global outage is a wake-up call for business resilience. You can stay resilient against such outages by regularly performing resilience testing and updating your application or infrastructure configurations.

The metrics product we built worked - But we killed it and started over anyway

Two years ago, Sentry built a metrics product that worked great on paper. But when we dogfooded it, we realized it was not what our customers really needed. Two weeks before launch, we killed the whole thing. Here’s what we learned, why classical time-series metrics break down for debugging modern applications, and how we rebuilt the system from scratch.

Introducing The Enhanced CloudZero Academy: Learn, Grow, And Level Up Your FinOps Skills

If there’s one thing we’ve learned at CloudZero, it’s that success in FinOps isn’t just about having the right tools. It’s about knowing how to use them, and understanding the “why” behind every number, dimension, and dashboard.

AWS Cost Categories Explained (How To Allocate AWS Spend Accurately)

If you’ve ever tried to make sense of your AWS bill, you know how fast things get messy. Different accounts, hundreds of services, random tags, and suddenly, no one can say for sure who’s spending what or why the total looks so high. It’s not that teams don’t care about costs — it’s that AWS billing data isn’t always easy to interpret. Finance wants accountability. Engineering wants visibility. And somewhere between the two, ownership disappears.