Dashboards

Grafana update: Service account tokens are replacing API keys

Enhancing security and providing flexible access control has always been part of our core mission at Grafana. In line with those efforts, we made service accounts generally available in Grafana 9.1. Service accounts are essentially machines simulating Grafana users, and they are used to run automated workloads — for example, counting the number of data sources in Grafana every day or provisioning alerts using Terraform.

N-central Custom Dashboards: Step-by-Step Guide by Paul Kelly

Discover how to create custom dashboards in N-central with N-able Head Nerd Paul Kelly. In this tutorial, Paul walks you through the entire process, from setting up bespoke filters to displaying critical monitoring checks on your custom dashboards. Optimize your monitoring strategy and get real-time insights into your customer's environments. Whether you're tracking server issues, CPU usage, or disk health, this guide will help you set up dashboards tailored to your needs. Perfect for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) looking to enhance their N-central setup.

Mobile app observability with OpenTelemetry, Embrace, and Grafana Cloud

We are excited to announce an expansion of our partnership with Embrace to bring mobile observability to our users using open standards like OpenTelemetry. We first worked with Embrace last year when they created a plugin for Grafana that gives mobile teams an easy way to visualize and analyze real-time mobile metrics directly in a Grafana dashboard.

How to Scale and Standardize Observability Practices: Hear from Canva and Atlassian | Grafana

This panel discussion, featuring Jenna, Director of Engineering, Reliability Platforms at Canva and Andrew, Head of Engineering at Atlassian, explored the challenges and strategies of implementing standardization in large tech companies. Atlassian, known for its software development and collaboration tools, initially faced resistance to standardization but shifted as inefficiencies and compliance issues emerged. Canva, a graphic design platform, highlighted the balance between flexibility and standardization, using observability tools for accountability.