Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

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.

Imagine setting up your AWS configuration in Grafana Cloud by hand and clicking through menus. When you only have a few services, it’s not a big deal. But as you add more and more, keeping track of every little change becomes a headache. It’s easy to make mistakes, and before you know it, things can get out of sync and your monitoring becomes unreliable.

Frederik Van Leeckwyck is the co-founder and CRO at Factry. He oversees go-to-market activities and ensures their software solutions align with real factory demands. Passionate about open technologies, he believes in making data-driven insights accessible to everyone in the factory. Factories today are often rich in process data, but poor in insights.

Here at Grafana Labs, our commitment to our “big tent” philosophy runs deep. We prioritize interoperability and flexibility within our observability solutions, and believe you should be able to connect to and visualize data from a wide range of sources, including both open source and commercial technologies. Our rich ecosystem of Grafana data sources directly reflects these values — and today, we’re excited to share a recent milestone related to that ecosystem.

What if you were to tell Kubernetes Monitoring what you wanted, and the system configured collectors based on your choices? We wondered that as well—wondered enough to create Alloy Operator and its Helm chart for version 3.0 of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart. We’re excited to share that the new Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart is now available, and it introduces a dynamic way of setting up your telemetry data collection with Alloy Operator.

In Grafana Cloud, we offer a range of AI capabilities to support your observability needs, including a feature for forecasting on any of your metrics and coupling it with Grafana Alerting. This is critical functionality if you want to make the switch from reactive to proactive alerting, as troubleshooting a problem before it arises is an important part of modern observability.