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Tempo 2.10 has arrived, delivering TraceQL enhancements, improved cardinality management for the metrics-generator, vParquet5, and more. You can continue reading and check out the video below to learn more about these and other new features. The Tempo 2.10 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

Volkov Labs has been a longtime partner to Grafana Labs, with co-founder Mikhail Volkov contributing to Grafana in the early stages of the OSS project. On Sept. 26, the Florida-based company that recently created a suite of business intelligence (BI) plugins for Grafana announced it had been acquired. In light of the news, Grafana Labs committed to taking over the maintenance and development of their popular business intelligence (BI) plugin suite.

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team and he is a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customer satisfaction. As an SRE Engineering Manager and a Grafana Champion, I believe a resilient and sustainable cloud experience begins with strong observability.

Context switching isn’t just inefficient—under pressure, it’s exhausting. It slows decision-making, increases the risk of mistakes, and makes even experienced engineers feel like they’re always a step behind the system they’re responsible for. At Grafana Labs, we want to build tools that meet you where you are. That's why we embedded Grafana Assistant, our context-aware AI assistant, directly in Grafana Cloud.

As part of the upcoming Grafana 13 release in April, we will be updating to React 19, the latest major version of the frontend library for building user interfaces. Grafana uses React as the core technology for its frontend UI and its vibrant ecosystem of plugins. This update ensures we stay aligned with the broader React ecosystem, and allows us to take advantage of ongoing performance enhancements and new functionality provided by React APIs.