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Full-stack observability in Grafana Cloud: How to investigate issues across services and infrastructure

Many times, the hardest part of troubleshooting isn’t fixing the actual problem. It’s figuring out where to start. As engineers, it’s easy to lose count of how many times we’ve opened logs, then 10 metrics tabs, and another 10 tabs with trace queries, only to end up back in the logs trying to find a root cause.
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From Dashboards to Conversational AI: The Evolution of UI in IT Products

The way IT teams interact with technology has changed dramatically over the years. From early text-based interfaces to today's dashboards and now conversational AI, each stage has reshaped how we monitor, diagnose, and understand complex IT environments. But while dashboards gave us visibility, they often led to more questions than answers. In this post, we briefly explore the evolution of UI in IT products and how conversational AI is bridging the gap between data and understanding.

Getting started with Microsoft Defender dashboards

Microsoft Defender does a great job protecting you and your organization from online threats. It is constantly working to detect and collect security data so you don’t have to worry about falling behind on incidents and vulnerabilities. The Defender portal can also provide great insights into that data, but connecting it to the rest of your stack is difficult.

Chart Your Team's Analytics Journey with Customizable Dashboards in DX NetOps

DX NetOps now features customizable dashboards that give all users some important new features and capabilities. In addition, with the solution’s new integration capabilities, DX NetOps enables users of current analytics and reporting tools to add standardized dashboards over time.

Overview of AI Evaluation (The Context Window #05)

Can you actually trust an AI agent? In this pre-recorded episode of The Context Window, Nicole van der Hoeven sits down with Yas Ekinci, an engineer on the Grafana AI team, to talk about evals — how Grafana measures the quality and reliability of the AI it ships. They get into the difference between online and offline evals, why reviewing AI-generated code has become the real bottleneck, the "final answer problem" of plausible-but-wrong outputs, and o11y-bench, Grafana's open benchmark for observability agents. Along the way.

How Grafana Cloud Ingests Your Data | Data Sources, Alloy & OTel Explained

Learn the two main ways to get data into Grafana Cloud. In this video, we break down how Grafana Cloud connects to over 150 external data sources (like Salesforce, Postgres, and CloudWatch) where your data stays in place, and how you can send raw telemetry into Grafana’s fully managed databases for logs, metrics, traces, and profiles.

Grafana 13.1 release: observability as code updates, extending Grafana Assistant across more data sources, and more

Earlier this year, Grafana 13 laid the groundwork for making it easier and faster than ever to turn your data into actionable insights. With our latest minor release, Grafana 13.1, we're building on that foundation, expanding observability as code, bringing Grafana Assistant to more data sources, and streamlining the everyday workflows teams rely on to visualize, analyze, and act on their data. Download Grafana 13.1 Below are just some of the highlights from Grafana 13.1.