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Native OpenTelemetry inside Alloy: Now you can get the best of both worlds

Mar 12, 2026 By Bejal Lewis In Grafana
We're big proponents of OpenTelemetery, which has quickly become a new unified standard for delivering metrics, logs, traces, and even profiles. It's an essential component of Alloy, our popular telemetry agent, but we're also aware that some users would prefer to have a more "vanilla" OpenTelemetry experience.
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Apono integration for Grafana: Enabling Just-in-Time access for data sources

Mar 9, 2026 By Ben Avner In Grafana
Ben Avner is the Head of Ecosystem and Strategic Alliances at Apono, where he leads the company’s global partner strategy and technology alliances. He focuses on building and scaling strategic partnerships that drive product innovation, partner-influenced pipeline, and long-term growth. A former founder and engineer, Ben brings a strong technical foundation and a builder’s mindset, combined with experience across marketing, product partnerships, and go-to-market strategy.
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Observability for Azure Virtual Desktop with SquaredUp

Mar 6, 2026 By SquaredUp In Squared Up
Managing Azure Virtual Desktop doesn’t have to mean jumping between portal blades, logs, and metrics trying to piece together what’s happening. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to design and implement a single, operational observability dashboard for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) using SquaredUp Cloud — transforming fragmented telemetry into clear, actionable insight. Whether you're responsible for performance, user experience, or operational stability, this session will give you a structured, repeatable framework for monitoring your AVD estate with confidence.
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SquaredUp vs Grafana: The Enterprise IT dashboard showdown

Mar 5, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
Modern enterprises operate across an increasingly complex mix of hybrid cloud services, and productivity platforms. As environments scale, stakeholders need a single pane of glass (SPoG) to understand what’s happening across IT operations without jumping across dozens of disconnected tools.
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Generating metrics from traces with cardinality control: A closer look at HyperLogLog in Tempo

Mar 4, 2026 By Carles Garcia In Grafana
While tracing is a critical component of any observability strategy, metrics — especially RED metrics (request rate, error rate, and duration) — are widely considered the gold standard for monitoring service health. Tempo, the open source, easy-to-use, and highly scalable distributed tracing backend, is well known in the OSS community for storing and querying traces. It can also, however, generate RED metrics directly from those traces using the optional metrics-generator component.
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How to create and manage secrets with Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Mar 3, 2026 By Bukola Ayodele In Grafana
Observability isn’t just about collecting metrics and logs; it’s about proactively validating that your systems work as expected. Synthetic monitoring helps teams continuously test APIs, applications, and critical user journeys. But when those checks require the use of sensitive data, securely managing credentials becomes essential to maintain both reliability and security.
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Saved queries now support template variables | Grafana Cloud

Mar 3, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
In this video, Collin Fingar, Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, demonstrates how template variables can be used in saved queries, a feature that enables users to reuse queries they or others in their org have saved. You'll see how a query that contains variables can be reused, and how the variables can be replaced at the point of reuse.
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Grafana Alerting: faster rules, personalized filters, and an operations workspace

Mar 2, 2026 By Deyan Halachliyski In Grafana
Alerts are only useful when you can quickly find and act on the right signal. That's why, over the past two years, we rebuilt Grafana Alerting’s UI to make it more reliable and efficient, especially at scale. The result: a faster, paginated alert rules page that handles tens of thousands of rules, with a powerful filter dropdown and saved searches so you can quickly get back to the views you care about most.
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