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Updates to the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: Plugins and Alerts! Thinking about moving to Grafana Cloud? Whether you're an OSS user exploring cloud benefits or an enterprise customer transitioning a large deployment, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant makes it simpler and faster than ever.

In Grafana version 11.5, we've completely redesigned the dashboard sharing experience to make it more intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient! This update is available in all editions of Grafana. Join Natacha (Product Designer) and Juani (Senior Software Engineer) from the Grafana Labs Sharing Squad as they walk you through these updates and demonstrate how to streamline your sharing workflow in Grafana 11.5.

Introducing the new Filters UI in Grafana, now available in public preview! This update makes interacting with ad-hoc filters faster, more intuitive, and keyboard-friendly, giving you a streamlined experience when managing filters in your dashboards. What’s New? Unified filter input – Manage all filters in a single combo-box-like UI Faster interactions – Requires fewer clicks and takes up less space Keyboard-friendly navigation – Easily create, edit, and delete filters with shortcuts Multi-value support – Select multiple values with the new one-of/not-one-of operators.

Happy New Year Everyone. We are kicking off Grafana Campfire Grafana Community Calls for 2025. David Kaltschmidt, Carl Bergquist, Mat Ryer, and Syed Usman Ahmad will talk about the year 2024 as what we have accomplished in such a short time and what is exciting to come in the year 2025. Today, Mich Seaman who is the Product Director will be joining us and will share some insights as well.

Happy New Year from the Loki Engineering team. To kick off 2025, Nicole and Jay will be joined by Poyzan Taneli from the Loki Engineering team to discuss how to run Loki at scale on Kubernetes. If you are currently running Loki in microservices mode or preparing to do so, we will be discussing best practices for scaling its components to meet the demands of production use cases.