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Introducing the Grafana Labs Bug Bounty Program

At Grafana Labs, we value the open source community and recognize the power of crowdsourcing. This is why we have decided to launch our very own bug bounty program, managed in-house by our own team, to encourage ethical hackers from around the world to help us find and responsibly report security vulnerabilities in Grafana Labs software.

New in Grafana 9.5: Debug Grafana instances faster with support bundles

With the arrival of Grafana 9.5, we’re excited to introduce Grafana support bundles — a tool to help debug your Grafana instance faster and more easily. Support bundles provide a simple way to gather and share information about your Grafana instance, and this feature is available across all tiers in Grafana Cloud as well as in Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise.

Grafana Agent v0.33 release: reusable pipelines, monitoring Kubernetes pods, and more

Grafana Agent v0.33 is here! This new release includes a lot of exciting features, such as a powerful way to configure Grafana Agent with Flow Modules and the ability to monitor Kubernetes pods in your cluster with an Operator Flow component. We also added many more Flow components making the Flow ecosystem bigger!

Gain real user monitoring insights with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

At ObserabilityCON 2022, we announced a limited private preview program for Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability, our hosted service for real user monitoring. Today we are excited to introduce a public preview program that makes Frontend Observability accessible to all Grafana Cloud users, including those in our generous free-forever tier. Simply look for Frontend under Apps in the left-hand navigation of the Grafana Cloud UI and click through to set up the feature. (Not a Grafana Cloud user?

Plexporters, Energize: How we monitor Plex with Grafana

As a Grafanista, you tend to find things to visualize — databases, microservices, classic video games, etc. It’s part of our “big tent” philosophy. So when our December hackathon rolled around, some of us in our internal homelab Slack channel decided to take a look at how we could get metrics out of our Plex Media Servers.

Grafana k6 v0.44.0 release: web crypto API, Web Vitals metrics, and more!

Grafana k6 v0.44.0 has been released, featuring new experimental modules, an upgraded browser module, and tons of improvements. Get Grafana k6 0.44.0 Here’s a quick overview of the latest k6 news from the team and the community.

Grafana 9.5 release: Grafana Alerting updates, stronger security with service accounts, upgraded dashboards, and more

Grafana 9.5 has arrived! 🔥🎉 Get Grafana 9.5 The latest Grafana release introduces new features and improvements, such as major Grafana Alerting improvements, dashboard and visualization enhancements, a redesigned navigation experience, support bundles for faster issue resolution, and much more to provide you with better insights into your data.

Multiple players, one stack: Inside Roblox's centralized observability stack

When you sign into the Roblox platform, you get 30 million immersive experiences, ranging from concerts to fashion shows to, of course, video games. But when the observability team at Roblox logs on, they’re not playing around. The Roblox observability engineers are responsible for keeping more than 214 million monthly users happy and engaged by making the wildly popular gaming platform highly available around the world.

Learn how to monitor IoT devices with Grafana

IoT devices open the door to all sorts of computing potential, but they can also produce a flood of telemetry data that users need to properly collect and monitor to ensure those devices are working properly. It’s no wonder so many individuals and businesses use Grafana for IoT use cases, whether they’re starting an aquaponic farm in South Africa, managing an industrial-scale electroplating factory in Ohio, or simply keeping tabs on Pretzel the python at its home in the UK.