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How to import Prometheus-style alerts and recording rules to Grafana-managed alerts and recording rules

Grafana Alerting has evolved dramatically since the legacy dashboard-alert days. Today, Grafana-managed alerts power enterprise-scale monitoring in Grafana Cloud and on-prem installations. And over the last two years, we’ve added RBAC, state history, versioning, and much more. At the same time, our own monitoring at Grafana Labs relies heavily on Prometheus-style alerts—a situation that’s not uncommon for our users, too.

Grafana Campfire - Hiring with AI and more about Grafana MCP (Grafana Community Call - May 2025)

In this Campfire community call, we will talk about the new and the future of AI in the field of Observability space and also discuss about the Grafana MCP server to provide access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem. Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, Carl Bergquist, David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session. Special guests: Sarah Zinger, Cyril Tovena and Ben Sully.

SAML authentication in Grafana Cloud: a guide for easy configuration

In my role as Senior Observability Architect here at Grafana Labs, one of the things I focus on is making sure customers are getting the most out of our products. Recently, I noticed a trend where customers were struggling to get SAML authentication configured properly. They were getting stuck on some of the steps needed to configure the users key pair values, which allows users to log in with the correct roles assigned in Grafana.

Inside the Observability Journey: Lessons from CarGurus, Nearform & More

Join us for a dynamic panel from Observability Sessions Boston where leaders from CarGurus, Nearform, and Grafana Labs share their real-world experiences with observability. In this candid discussion, David Frankel (CarGurus) and Joe Szodfridt (Nearform) delve into the challenges of implementing scalable observability practices, moving from centralized models to federated teams, and navigating cloud migration with a focus on performance and cost.

Observability 2.0 in the Real World: Lessons from SimpliSafe's Engineering Journey

In this candid and insightful talk from Observability Sessions Boston, Laban Eilers, a platform engineer at SimpliSafe, takes us on a practical deep dive into the evolution of observability—from the traditional “three pillars” model to the emerging promise of Observability 2.0.

Grafana Cloud updates: New observability as code tools, Grafana Drilldown enhancements, 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. With GrafanaCON 2025 — and the release of Grafana 12 — earlier this month, there are a ton of Grafana Cloud updates to share.