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Improved time series, trend, and state timeline visualizations in Grafana 10.1

When you’re visualizing data in time series, trend, and state timeline panels, one challenge you might have faced is when arbitrary gaps in your data end up automatically connected in your visualization. This can distort the true picture of your data, leading to potential misinterpretations. In Grafana 10.1, you can now set a specific threshold on the x-axis in your Grafana dashboards to disconnect any data points above this threshold.

Grafana 10.1: How to build dashboards with visualizations and widgets

Learn how to distinguish widgets from visualizations for building better dashboards with Grafana 10.1. This update will improve your dashboard creation process because if you want to integrate elements like text, news, or an annotation list, you no longer need to select a data source first. Plus, to optimize your editing experience, the plugins list and library panels are now context-aware, adjusting in real time based on whether you’re working with a widget or a visualization.

No need for Infosec "Rock stars"

Have they somehow found unlimited budget for their every tech request? Do they have an uncanny ability to source the diamond-in-the-rough talent? Or, is it something else? As part of our inaugural State of Cybersecurity Preparedness research series, Ivanti asked 6,550+ cybersecurity professionals, leaders and end users what their cybersecurity teams will do in the next 12 months to secure their organizations.

How to create an alert rule in Grafana 10.1

You may have built an alert rule with Grafana Alerting and then grappled with routing, reconfiguring, and managing the different alerts your team set up. To address this challenge, we’ve implemented a series of improvements to set up and maintain alert rules in Grafana. Watch how the new alerting workflow works.

Grafana 10.1: TraceQL query results streaming

Tempo offers amazing performance, but there are still cases where TraceQL queries take a long time to return results. This could be due to a multitude of reasons from the complexity of the query, amount of choices stored, or the timeframe selected. See how to navigate your query results more quickly, with query results streaming, available as an experimental feature in Grafana version 10.1.