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Grafana 12.1 release: automated health checks for your Grafana instance, streamlined views in Grafana Alerting, visualization updates, and more

It’s official: Grafana 12.1 is here! The latest release delivers new features that simplify the management of Grafana instances, streamline how you manage alert rules (so you can find the alerts you need, when you need them), and more. Grafana 12.1: Download now! Below are just some of the highlights from the latest Grafana release. If you are looking for more details about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog or the What’s New documentation.

Grafana Campfire - Using the Grafana MCP Server (Grafana Community Call - July 2025)

In this month of the Campfire Community call, we will exploring the Grafana MCP (Model Context Protocol) server - an open-source tool that enables AI assistants to directly interact with your Grafana instance. We will learn some basics such as: Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, and David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session. Expert guests: Ioanna Armouti, and Luccas Quadros *HELPFUL LINKS* Feel free to use the YouTube live chat feature to start submitting questions, and we will add them to the agenda.

Tracking planes with Grafana in real time: How to visualize the aircraft overhead with your own dashboard

Ever since I was little, I’ve been fascinated by airplanes. Whether it was the excitement of boarding a flight for a holiday or the wonder of admiring them from the ground, there’s always been something magical about these incredible machines. Fast forward a few years, and now we have the ability to track aircraft in real-time from the palm of our hands using a variety of apps.

Securely query data sources on your Tailscale network using Private Data Source Connect in Grafana Cloud

Balancing security with your observability needs can be a difficult task. We know our users want to leverage platforms like Grafana Cloud to visualize and gain valuable insights into their data, while also keeping their data sources private and secure.

Grafana Cloud updates: deeper insights in Kubernetes Monitoring, Adaptive Metrics updates, 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 updates in Grafana Cloud. You can also check out our What’s new in Grafana Cloud documentation to explore all the latest features. Not a Grafana Cloud user yet?

OpenTelemetry at Grafana Labs: the latest on how we're investing in the emerging industry standard

Here at Grafana Labs, open source has always been core to what we do. So it should come as no surprise that we’re going all in on OpenTelemetry—an open source project that’s quickly becoming an industry standard for vendor-neutral telemetry.

Get started with Grafana Alerting: Multi-dimensional alerts and how to route them

In this tutorial, we dig into more complex yet equally fundamental elements of Grafana Alerting: alert instances and notification policies. 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.

The Dashboard That Lets You Track the ISS in Real Time | Golden Grot Awards | Grafana Everywhere

Ruben Fernandez turned his love for space into a stunning ISS dashboard that won the Golden Grot—twice. Watch how he brings data and dreams together. Congratulations to Ruben Fernandez, our 2025 Golden Grot Award winner, recognized for this unique use case and dashboard! Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.