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.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Introductions

02:42 **Looking back at some 2024 highlights**

03:01 Adoption Stats (active users growth)

06:57 How Explore Apps increased the user growth by removing complexities

08:50 Major improvements in Data source connections

11:48 Q: What should the Explore Apps be called?

15:35 Major improvements in Canvas Panel

16:01 Other major improvements (new Data source releases, docs, analytics etc.)

16:30 **Whats coming in 2025**

16:40 Q: Scenes is still fresh, what are the main advantage of using Scenes?

20:25 Q:Can you please tell us a bit more about Dashboard as Code and if there is something for the community to test it out?

29:54 Dynamic Dashboard (beyond Dashboard variables)

34:15 Further improvements in Data source Realm

35:50 Q: I would love to know about the Tenancy in the OOTB features like App and Frontend Observability/Infrastructure - basically make Data sources selectable in those?

38:37 Q: Currently, Explore Metrics works only with Prometheus DS, Is it planned that it works with other DS too?

43:49 Perks of joining the Grafana Champions Program

47:10 GrafanaCON 2025 (Save the date)

49:42 Q: Where i get info on Alloy complete exercise to collect Lambda metrics with AWS Powertools and visualize in a dynamic SRE Grafana Dashboard?

51:42 Grafana - Killercoda Lab Exercises

Helpful links:

Join the next Grafana Community Call: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GpgvanMeNqf-CDegv6E0yAV1s2f7H2knUFuNouqwX3A/edit

Grafana Scenes: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/10/31/grafana-dashboards-are-now-powered-by-scenes-big-changes-same-ui/

Canvas Panel: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/panels-visualizations/visualizations/canvas/

Killercoda (Grafana Lab Exercises): https://killercoda.com/grafana-labs

☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case. Sign up: https://grafana.com/get/

❓ Have a question that isn't related to this video? Check out the Official Grafana Community Forums and ask your question or find your answer: https://community.grafana.com/

👍 If you found this video useful, be sure to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more helpful Grafana videos.

📱 Follow us for the latest and greatest on all things Grafana and our other OSS projects.

X: https://twitter.com/grafana
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grafana-labs/mycompany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/grafana

#Grafana #Observability #opensource #kubernetes #observability