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Grafana community dashboards: Memorable use cases of 2025

Every year, Grafana dashboards surface in new corners of the world. And this year, they even reached beyond this world—helping one team land on the moon and another monitor the planet’s health with orbiting satellites. Meanwhile, back here on Earth, the community used Grafana to track everything from wind turbines and wastewater to March Madness and Taylor Swift’s worldwide tour. Here’s a look back at some of the most memorable Grafana community dashboards of 2025.

Get started with Grafana Alerting: Link alerts to visualizations

In this tutorial you will learn how to link alert rules to time series panels for better visualization. Don't miss the rest of the "Get started with Grafana Alerting" series! Each part dives into a different feature to help you get the most out of alerting in Grafana.

How To Leverage Tech To Achieve Faster Mortgage Freedom

Buying a home is a huge milestone, but the real win is paying it off sooner. Today's tools make it easier to find savings, stay consistent, and measure progress without guesswork. Use simple tech habits and a few smart settings to speed up your timeline without turning your life upside down.

Creating Dashboards for Complete IT Asset Lifecycle Visibility

Tracking IT assets across their entire lifecycle gets messy fast. Spreadsheets don’t scale, and manually checking where devices are, who’s using them, or what needs replacement quickly turns into noise. In this video, Matt Beran, Product Specialist at InvGate, walks us through how an IT Asset Lifecycle dashboard helps you stay on top of asset location, status, costs, and upcoming replacements — all in one place.

How to share and analyze survey data (or other business metrics) in Grafana

Our annual Observability Survey provides some great insights on the state of industry and all things observability. And for the third edition of the survey, published last March, we wanted to bring the results into a Grafana dashboard—not just because we could, but because it was quite a nice way to interact with the data. After all, Grafana isn't just for IT observability. You can use it to monitor everything from BI data to lunar landings to pet pythons—and now, survey data.

Logging Best Practices (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)

We’re back with a new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call episode, and this time we’re diving into logging with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Loki! Even better, we’re joined by two fantastic guests: Jack Berg, OTel logging expert, and Ed Welch, Loki guru. Getting both of them in one conversation makes for an amazing deep-dive into all things logging. Logs come in every shape and size, from simple CLI output to massive distributed systems generating petabytes of structured data. In this episode, we’ll talk about.

Capture high-value traces without managing a pipeline: Tail sampling with Adaptive Traces

Tracing is the richest observability signal in common use today. In distributed systems, it reveals how requests flow across multiple services, allowing you to uncover and address performance bottlenecks. Teams often scale back or abandon tracing altogether, however, because most successful requests produce redundant data that’s noisy and expensive to store.

Why OpenTelemetry instrumentation needs both eBPF and SDKs

As a vendor-neutral open standard, OpenTelemetry has become the default choice for application instrumentation. However, it’s important to remember that OpenTelemetry isn’t a single technology — it’s an ecosystem. Under the hood, it provides multiple options for instrumenting your applications. In this blog post, we explore two instrumentation approaches: OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and runtime-specific OpenTelemetry SDKs, like the OpenTelemetry Java agent.