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How Atlassian built a smarter observability system with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Discover how Atlassian built OpsDeck, an observability platform powered by Grafana, to automate incident detection, improve response time, and reduce troubleshooting from one hour to under a minute. Hear how the Observability Insights team scaled OpenTelemetry, broke silos, and built smarter workflows for both engineers and support.

Declarative Configuration in OTel (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call #1)

We’re kicking off a brand-new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we dive into getting observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll dive into Declarative Config — the new way to make OpenTelemetry onboarding simple and powerful. Instead of juggling environment variables or boilerplate in your startup code, declarative config gives you a clean, language-agnostic approach that works across SDKs and unlocks future possibilities like remote configuration. Join us with Marylia Gutierrez (OTel JavaScript approver & core contributor) to explore.

Grafana and Grafana Cloud release cycle: An end-of-year update

With the end of the year fast approaching, we want to let you know about some important dates for our upcoming release freezes. Our annual release freeze helps ensure stability for everyone during the holiday season, which is a critical time for many of our customers. This pause helps us protect our on-call teams and maintain a smooth experience for you.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 release: MCP server support, TraceQL metrics sampling, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.9 is now available, delivering MCP server support, TraceQL performance improvements, and more. Watch the video below to see the Tempo MCP server in action and learn how to speed up TraceQL metrics queries, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. The Grafana Tempo 2.9 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

Making logs work smarter: Evolving your observability strategy

When you start building an observability stack, it’s natural to reach for logs first. They’re familiar, easy to generate, and often already part of a developer’s workflow. And sending logs to a centralized system feels like a quick win, too. Simply add a log shipper, and voila, your application is observable.

Get started with Grafana Alerting: Route alerts using dynamic labels

In this tutorial you will learn how to configure notification policies for dynamic routing based on query values Don't miss the rest of the "Get started with Grafana Alerting" series! Each part dives into a different feature to help you get the most out of alerting in Grafana.

Show me the (meeting) money: How to monitor the real-time costs of a meeting in Grafana

This meeting could’ve been an email. It’s a phrase most of us have said (or at least thought) at some point in our careers. For me, that realization hit years ago while working for a government organization. I’d frequently sit through long, agendaless meetings that seemingly went nowhere. I wasn’t sure why I was there. And because I’m an engineer at heart, I started to wonder: what were these meetings actually costing the organization?

From pillars to rings: How interconnected observability in Grafana Cloud optimizes performance and reduces telemetry waste

In observability, we’ve traditionally been taught to think in terms of pillars, namely logs, metrics, and traces (and more recently, profiles). But pillars are rigid and disconnected. They don’t reflect how modern systems actually work or how we troubleshoot in real time. So let’s change that.

Baking in site reliability with observability and AI: How SpotOn uses Grafana Assistant to keep restaurants running

When you operate a restaurant, the last thing you want to do is shut your doors and turn away guests and staff because of some technology failure. And if you’re the one providing that tech, it’s your job to make sure that doesn’t happen. “For us, observability is about a lot more than just dashboards and alerts.