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Implementing Grafana Play privacy policies with Grafana k6: A behind-the-scenes look

Jun 10, 2025 By Marie Cruz In Grafana
Grafana Play is a free and publicly accessible sandbox environment that allows users to explore and learn Grafana without setting up their own instance. Grafana Play comes preloaded with ready-made sample dashboards, and showcases how to work with different data sources, create visualizations, and use advanced Grafana features.
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Lunar-level observability: How Firefly Aerospace used Grafana to monitor its historic moon landing

Jun 9, 2025 By Kristin Knapp In Grafana
On March 2, 2025, Firefly Aerospace made history. The company — a space services firm that offers safe, reliable, and economical access to space — completed the first fully successful lunar landing by a commercial provider with its Blue Ghost Mission 1. But behind the headlines and highlight reels was a team of dedicated engineers, years of preparation, and a mission control center outfitted with Grafana dashboards.
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Auto-Instrument Everything with eBPF: Grafana Beyla + OpenTelemetry in Action | Homelabs

Jun 9, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana Beyla is a powerful eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool for application and network observability. In this session, see how Beyla captures RED metrics and traces with zero code changes, and how it fits into the OpenTelemetry ecosystem. Perfect session for SREs, devs, and home labbers alike.
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An Autonomous Ship is Set to Circumnavigate the World Using Docker, Grafana, & Starlink: Project Bob

Jun 9, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Join Andrew McCalip of Varda Space Industries as he builds Project Bob—a DIY, solar-powered, autonomous ship aiming to circumnavigate the globe using open source tools like Grafana, Raspberry Pi, and Starlink.
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Database observability: How OpenTelemetry semantic conventions improve consistency across signals

Jun 6, 2025 By Marylia Gutierrez In Grafana
Databases are a crucial part of modern systems, which means database observability is incredibly important, too. However, gathering information on them can be complex, variable, and tricky to instrument in a consistent way. OpenTelemetry is helping to change that, and one of the most important aspects in making it work is a set of shared rules called semantic conventions.
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The 3 smart updates to our Jira plugin

Jun 4, 2025 By Noorul Huda N In Squared Up
The Jira plugin is one of our most-used integrations and for good reason. Teams rely on it daily to stay on top of work, manage issues, and ship on time. As more people leaned on it, we saw a chance to make the experience even smoother. So, we gave it an upgrade. We’ve refreshed the out-of-the-box dashboards, simplified the data streams, and improved the overall experience. So, let’s take a closer look at what’s changed.
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Optimizing the end-user experience: How to perform a browser check in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Jun 3, 2025 By Bukola Ayodele In Grafana
Synthetic monitoring is a vital practice to proactively track the health and performance of web applications. Instead of waiting for users to report problems, synthetic monitoring helps developers catch issues before they impact real users. One powerful type of synthetic monitoring is the browser check. These checks go beyond basic ping checks, simulating how a user would actually interact with your website’s interface.
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How to send alerts from Grafana OSS to Grafana Cloud IRM

Jun 3, 2025 By Pepe Cano In Grafana
In March, we announced that Grafana OnCall (OSS) had entered maintenance mode. However, OnCall’s development continues in Grafana Cloud as Grafana Cloud IRM, combining on-call management and incident response into one integrated solution. Many users told us they still want to self-host Grafana and rely on Grafana Alerting to detect potential issues early—but they also need to escalate and manage incidents using an incident response management (IRM) solution.
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How to send alerts from self-hosted Grafana to Grafana Cloud IRM

Jun 3, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Learn how to send alerts from Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise to Grafana Cloud IRM. In this quick demo, we'll show you how to set up the integration between your self-hosted instance and our managed solution for consolidating, customizing, and automating incident response and management. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.
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