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Grafana 12.3 release: Interactive learning experiences, new and improved logs visualizations, and more

Nov 19, 2025 By Grafana Labs Team In Grafana
Grafana 12.3 is here, delivering new features for interactive learning, deeper insights into logging data, and so much more. Overall, a big theme in the latest minor release is to make data exploration easier, faster, and more customizable. Grafana 12.3: Download now! Below are just some of the highlights from Grafana 12.3. If you want to explore all the latest updates, please refer to the changelog or our What’s New documentation, and be sure to check out the TL;DR video below.
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How to pair Grafana Drilldown with Loki for faster logging insights

Nov 18, 2025 By Matias Wenceslao Chomicki In Grafana
Our logs can tell us so much about the state of our systems, but they can also be a bit overwhelming. Yes, Grafana Loki—and, by extension, Grafana Cloud Logs, which is powered by Loki—reimagined the way log aggregation systems could meet modern engineering demands, but logs, by their very nature, are still voluminous.
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Azure Monitor offers Grafana dashboards natively for immediate, real-time operational monitoring

Nov 18, 2025 By Ash Mazhari In Grafana
Editor’s note: This blog originally published in May 2025 when Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana became available in public preview. It was updated in November 2025 to reflect general availability. The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger.
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Grafana Play updates: A redesigned homepage to celebrate our community

Nov 17, 2025 By Marie Cruz In Grafana
Grafana Play is a free, publicly accessible sandbox environment where anyone can explore and learn about Grafana, no setup or sign-in required. It comes preloaded with sample dashboards demonstrating how to connect to data sources, build visualizations, and experiment with Grafana’s advanced features. Hosted on Grafana Cloud, Grafana Play has grown significantly over the years. With thousands of public dashboards, it’s now a go-to destination for Grafana learning and exploration.
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A tale of two incident responses: How our AI assistant found the root cause 3.5x faster

Nov 17, 2025 By Ryan Perry In Grafana
About two months ago, an incident at Grafana Labs was kicked off in typical fashion: A series of alerts were triggered, our on-call engineer acknowledged it on Slack, and the rest of the team quickly began hypothesizing about the potential culprit. But the way the incident was resolved was anything but typical. Yes, our internal team followed best practices to resolve the incident as quickly as possible.
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Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability

Nov 13, 2025 By Matthew Nolf In Grafana
It’s widely acknowledged that most application performance problems stem not from the application itself, but from the underlying database. Slow or inefficient database queries are often the primary cause of these issues, acting as the biggest driver of application performance incidents. If you’ve been troubleshooting slow API calls or sluggish services, chances are the root cause likely resides within your database layer.
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Performance testing best practices: How to prepare for peak demand with Grafana Cloud k6

Nov 12, 2025 By Tom Miseur In Grafana
For many organizations, periods of high customer activity are anything but relaxing. Events like Black Friday, product launches, or major sales can put intense strain on the software and infrastructure systems that support a company’s web applications. Without proactive performance testing, these moments can quickly turn into poor user experiences and lost revenue.
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Can a Human Beat Grafana's AI at Its Own Game?

Nov 5, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana Assistant just went GA at ObservabilityCON, and it’s already changing how developers onboard, troubleshoot, and build dashboards in Grafana Cloud. In this video, we put it to the ultimate test — a head-to-head challenge between me and the Grafana Assistant. Who can onboard an app into Grafana Cloud faster and more accurately? Chapters: Watch as we explore: How the Grafana Assistant simplifies onboarding and setup Building dashboards for Redis, Kafka, and Postgres The power of using community dashboards vs. manual configuration Whether AI can truly speed up observability workflows.
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