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How should Prometheus handle OpenTelemetry resource attributes?

Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the OpenTelemetry blog. Victoria Nduka is user experience designer and open source contributor making her way into the cloud native space. She writes about design, accessibility, and open source with the same curiosity she brings to her work. On May 29, I wrapped up my mentorship with Prometheus through the Linux Foundation mentorship program.

Optimize application performance at the network layer: introducing HTTP Performance Insights in Frontend Observability

Imagine you’re a frontend engineer monitoring the user experience for an e-commerce app. You notice your checkout flow has a 15% abandonment rate. Your API responses are inconsistent. Your users are frustrated, and you’re drowning in data and complex queries trying to figure out why. Sound familiar? You can use real user monitoring (RUM) to determine what has happened, looking at page load times, error counts, user sessions, etc.

Grafana Campfire - Using the Drilldown Apps (Grafana Community Call - August 2025)

In this Campfire Community call, we will discuss about the new Grafana Drilldown Apps and how they differ from Explore. We will discuss how it has been continuously evolving to become a core part of Grafana OSS, enabling users to access data easily.

Grafana Mimir: 3 reasons to run the TSDB for Prometheus on bare metal

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team and he is a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Whether it’s for efficient resource allocation, flexibility, high availability, or scalability, it makes a lot of sense to run Grafana Mimir on Kubernetes—but it’s not the only way to deploy Mimir.

How To Visualize Your Sales Data: Salesforce Enterprise Data Source for Grafana

Learn how to monitor your organizations sales performance by connecting Salesforce with Grafana! In this quick-start tutorial, Shawn Pitts walks you through everything — from setting up your Salesforce connection to visualizing real-time data in Grafana. Whether you’re on a free Grafana Cloud plan, a paid tier, or running Grafana Enterprise on-prem, you’ll see exactly how to unlock powerful dashboards for your team.

Visualize Salesforce data in Grafana: flexible query options, powerful data correlations, and more

As part of our big tent philosophy at Grafana Labs, we think you should be able to dig into your data and find meaningful insights — wherever that data happens to live. For many of our users, that data lives in Salesforce, the cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how you can use the Salesforce Enterprise data source for Grafana to quickly and easily visualize your Salesforce data using Grafana dashboards.

Secure credential storage for your observability stack: Introducing secrets management in Grafana Cloud

The more your infrastructure grows, the more likely you are to face a familiar challenge: where to safely store the API keys, passwords, and tokens that power your observability stack. Unfortunately, a common response to this dilemma is to scatter credentials across configurations, making security and management of secrets increasingly complex.

Grafana Cloud updates: onboard teams with new AI-powered tooling, secrets management for enhanced security, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.