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Grafana 12 release: observability as code, dynamic dashboards, new Grafana Alerting tools, and more

Grafana 12 is here! During the opening keynote of GrafanaCON 2025, we unveiled dozens of new reasons to fall in love with everyone’s favorite dashboarding and visualization tool—especially if your job is to keep teams, services, and, of course, a whole lot of beautiful Grafana dashboards organized. Grafana 12.0: Download now!

GrafanaCON 2025: A guide to all the announcements from Grafana Labs

GrafanaCON 2025 is in full swing in Seattle, where members of our open source community have gathered to explore the latest updates to Grafana Labs’ OSS projects, share their inspiring use cases, and build lasting connections at our biggest community event yet.

Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: More precise, easier to use, and better compatibility

Histograms help you monitor and visualize the distribution of values for key metrics, such as response times or request sizes of a service. They’re frequently used to gain insights into data patterns, anomalies, and trends, making them an important tool for observability.

Grafana Alerting Overview Plus New Features Coming to Grafana 12 | Grafana Labs

In this walkthrough, Grafana’s Ryan Kehoe dives into the biggest improvements designed to help teams create, manage, and route alerts with less friction and more power. Whether you're wrangling multi-source queries or managing alerts across large environments, these updates are for you.

Getting started with Jenkins dashboards

Jenkins is an open-source automation server widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), enabling developers to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software projects. Jenkins requires a good layer of visualization as it provides real-time visibility into pipeline performance, build statuses, test results, and deployment progress.

Monitor the full end-user experience: k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are generally available

We continue to evolve Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring to help you simulate even the most complex transactions and user journeys, and proactively monitor the performance of your web applications and APIs. In line with this effort, we’re excited to share that k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.