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Infinity Data Source Now Supports Auth for Actions | Grafana 12.2

Sep 25, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana 12.2 introduces actions authentication with the Infinity data source — giving you more secure and flexible ways to trigger actions. Previously, actions were limited to browser-based HTTP requests subject to CORS. Now you can choose between browser requests or Infinity connections, leveraging preconfigured authentication settings. This update makes actions more powerful and reliable in Grafana 12.2.
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Mute timing vs. silences in Grafana Alerting: How to pick the best fit for your use case

Sep 24, 2025 By Kristie Grebe In Grafana
Have you ever been in a situation where know your team is going to run their weekly maintenance window and you silence your notifications to prevent a flood of false positives from pinging your inbox? If you are associated with a team that uses any type of alert system, you know how easily alert fatigue can happen. The incessant and unpredictable (or even, at times, predictable) pings, emails, and notification alerts can drive even the most serene worker totally batty.
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How to perform real-time DNS monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Sep 23, 2025 By Bukola Ayodele In Grafana
When DNS or domain name server resolution processes fail, or become sluggish, users can experience timeouts, connection errors, and degraded performance — often without clear indication of the root cause. This is where DNS checks in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring come in, allowing you proactively monitor domain name resolution, verify that domains resolve to the correct IP address, and even measure how quickly that resolution occurs.
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Grafana & Friends Stockholm meetup at 0+X

Sep 22, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
In this talk, we’ll introduce the Kafka Data Source plugin we developed for Grafana, which enables users to query and visualise Kafka topic data directly in their dashboards—without the need for intermediate storage or external services. We'll share how the idea came about, how we collaborated with the Grafana community and developers to bring it to life, and the challenges we faced along the way. We'll also discuss our vision for the plugin’s future and its role in the evolving observability landscape.
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Single-tenant vs. multi-tenant architecture with Grafana Cloud: A guide to choosing the right approach

Sep 18, 2025 By Naima Alexander In Grafana
Grafana Cloud’s flexibility is one of its greatest strengths, but the breadth of choices can sometimes be overwhelming. We see this a lot when it comes to selecting the right architectural approach, with organizations unsure of how many stacks they need to host their environment. Grafana Cloud provides robust features for managing tenancy, enabling organizations to effectively handle diverse teams and projects.
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Faster, more memory-efficient performance in Grafana Mimir: a closer look at Mimir Query Engine

Sep 17, 2025 By Jon Kartago Lamida In Grafana
Until recently, Grafana Mimir — our open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB) — has exclusively used Prometheus’ PromQL engine to evaluate queries. While the PromQL engine works great, it sometimes needs a lot of memory to run, specifically in the Mimir querier component. To address this memory consumption issue, we recently introduced Mimir Query Engine (MQE).
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Distributed performance testing for Kubernetes environments: Grafana k6 Operator 1.0 is here

Sep 16, 2025 By Olha Yevtushenko In Grafana
Performance testing is critical to build reliable applications, but testing at scale, especially inside modern Kubernetes environments, can be a challenge. For example, how do you coordinate tests across multiple nodes, test private services without compromising security, or even do both at once? And most importantly, how do you do all this without adding too much operational complexity to your stack?
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How to connect ServiceNow to Grafana Cloud IRM incidents

Sep 15, 2025 By Matías Bordese In Grafana
Companies rely on a variety of services to streamline their workflows, which often requires data synchronization or information sharing across platforms. But are your tools flexible enough to connect with external systems? ServiceNow is widely recognized for its robust and complex workflow support for enterprises. However, it may not always offer the most intuitive or user-friendly experience when handling incidents.
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Debug, query, and build faster with AI: How we use Grafana Assistant at Grafana Labs

Sep 11, 2025 By Ivana Huckova In Grafana
We recently released Grafana Assistant into public preview for Grafana Cloud, and we’ve been excited to see how our customers have already made it part of their daily observability routines. At the same time, Assistant is becoming a go-to companion for developers right here at Grafana Labs, whether they’re debugging on-call issues, helping customers, or trying to remember tricky PromQL syntax.
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A smarter filter for Grafana Alerting: Introducing a new way to find your alerts

Sep 10, 2025 By Lauren Armstrong In Grafana
At Grafana Labs, we believe that effective alerting is the cornerstone of any robust observability strategy. That’s why we’re constantly listening to your feedback and working to improve the Grafana user experience so it’s easier for you to manage and interact with your alert rules. Today, we’ve excited to tell you about an update in Grafana Alerting that’s built to address some of your biggest pain points.
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