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How to correlate performance testing and distributed tracing to proactively improve reliability

At ObservabilityCON, we announced our first step towards launching a native integration between Grafana k6 load testing and Grafana Tempo tracing (k6 x Tempo) in Grafana Cloud. We created k6 x Tempo to help dev, testing, and operation teams analyze their performance test results more effectively and proactively improve the reliability of their business-critical applications.

Announcing Grafana Phlare, the open source database for continuous profiling at massive scale

At ObservabilityCON in New York City today, we announced a new open source backend for continuous profiling data: Grafana Phlare. We are excited to share this horizontally scalable, highly available database with the open source community — along with a new flame graph panel for visualizing profiling data in Grafana — to help you use continuous profiling to understand your application performance and optimize your infrastructure spend.

ObservabilityCON 2022: A guide to new OSS projects, LGTM stack updates, and more from Grafana Labs

ObservabilityCON 2022 is taking place today with a host of exciting announcements, from new OSS projects, partnerships, and integrations to the latest easy-to-use features in the Grafana LGTM stack. “As an OSS company, we prioritize interoperability. The big tent is at the heart of everything we do, and Grafana is at the heart of the wider ecosystem,” says Grafana Labs Co-founder and CEO Raj Dutt.

Introducing Grafana Faro, an open source project for frontend application observability

Today, during the ObservabilityCon 2022 keynote session, we announced a new open source project for frontend application observability, Grafana Faro. The project is launching with a highly configurable web SDK that instruments web applications to capture observability signals. This frontend telemetry can then be correlated with backend and infrastructure data for seamless, full-stack observability. There’s supposed to be a video here, but for some reason there isn’t.

Grafana ObservabilityCON 2022 Keynote

Live from New York, it’s Grafana ObservabilityCON! Join CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt, VP of Technology Tom Wilkie, and members of the Grafana Labs engineering team for a look at the latest developments in the open and composable LGTM (Loki-Grafana-Tempo-Mimir) observability stack. Spoiler alert: There will be some exciting announcements!

Introduction to continuous profiling

In this video, we will review the advantages of continuous profiling, the difference between continuous profiling vs. traditional profiling, and how continuous profiling can fit into your overall observability strategy. You’ll also learn more about Grafana Phlare, the new open source continuous profiling database, and get a look at the latest flame graph visualization in Grafana.

Watch Grafana Labs CEO, Co-founder Raj Dutt discuss why companies need observability

Grafana Labs CEO and Co-founder Raj Dutt sat down with “NYSE Floor Talk” ahead of ObservabilityCON to discuss why companies are increasingly focused on observability as a means to improve customer satisfaction. In his conversation with Judy Khan Shaw, host of “NYSE Floor Talk,” Dutt also talked about Grafana Labs’ big tent philosophy and the growth of Grafana Labs and the Grafana open source community.