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OpenTelemetry with Prometheus: better integration through resource attribute promotion

With the 3.0 release, Prometheus firmly established itself as the leading metrics database for OpenTelemetry. A lot of work has gone into integrating the two open source projects, including a major Prometheus enhancement we’re really excited about: resource attribute promotion.

Customize your incident response with new features in Grafana Cloud IRM

No matter where or how you work, we all have the same goal when an incident occurs: to get it resolved effectively and efficiently—and as quickly as possible. However, the way we achieve that goal isn’t always the same. We understand that different organizations operate differently, so you need flexibility from your IRM tooling.

Azure Monitor offers Grafana dashboards natively for immediate real time operational monitoring

The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger. Today at its annual Build conference, Microsoft introduced Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana, a new service that provides Azure users with Grafana dashboards natively integrated in the Azure Portal at no additional cost and with little administrative overhead required.

A Mindset Shift: Making Observability Integral to DevOps Practices: Datev & OpenTelemetry | Grafana

In the evolving landscape of DevOps, observability is no longer optional—it’s a fundamental pillar of success. During this session, Gunter from Datev explores the critical mindset shift required to make observability an integral part of DevOps practices.

State of the Observability Databases with Dee Kitchen (Grafana Office Hours #30)

In this Grafana Office Hours, we talk about the state of observability databases (Grafana Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) and where they're going. We talk about current and upcoming architectural changes in all four, how we're making them more performant, how compatible they are with OpenTelemetry, and what we're working on next for each database. In this conversation are Dee Kitchen (VP of Engineering for Databases) and Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven.

Visualize Amazon Aurora, Zendesk, and more: What's new in Grafana data sources

One of our biggest goals at Grafana Labs is to help you unify and derive value from your data, regardless of where that data lives. As a result, we’re fully committed to making Grafana an open, composable, and extensible observability platform. Last week at GrafanaCON 2025, where we celebrated the launch of Grafana 12, we highlighted one of the key ways we deliver on this promise of openness and extensibility: our broad ecosystem of Grafana data sources.

Introducing SCIM provisioning in Grafana: Enterprise-grade user management made simple

We’re excited to share that SCIM provisioning is available in public preview for Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud Advanced! This powerful feature, introduced last week at GrafanaCON 2025 as part of the Grafana 12 release, transforms how organizations manage users and teams in Grafana, bringing automated user lifecycle management and enhanced security to your observability platform.

Introduction To Browser Checks | Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Learn how to set up browser checks using Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring. In this video, we walk through how to create a browser check and analyze test results. Browser checks simulate real user interactions to track critical workflows and catch issues early.

Visualize Databricks in Grafana: write custom SQL queries, build interactive dashboards, 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 Databricks, the open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale.

How to easily connect Prometheus to Grafana Cloud

Prometheus is one of the most popular open source monitoring tools due to its powerful flexibility for collecting time series metrics. But raw metrics aren’t always helpful on their own. That’s where Grafana Cloud comes in. By connecting Prometheus to Grafana Cloud, you get rich visualizations, alerts, and dashboards that make your data actionable without having to manage any additional infrastructure.