Grafana Cloud is a fully managed observability platform built on open source and open standards. From Fitbits to power grids, it helps teams monitor systems, cut through noise, and act faster. With 150+ integrations, Grafana Cloud unifies logs, metrics, and traces, giving visibility from backend to frontend. AI-powered guidance accelerates root cause analysis and simplifies on-call, while customers like Citigroup, Salesforce, Uber, and ASOS scale with confidence.

In this upcoming Grafana Campfire Community Call, we will talk about the Grafana UI Extensions, where we will discuss how the Framework enables plugins to interoperate by adding links, components, or functions into defined places (extension points) in Grafana. We will talk about (but not limited to):What are UI Extensions and where you find the resourcesHow it can be leveraged to deliver fun new featuresAdding custom actions, links, and components to various parts in UI and much more.....

In the September edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.4 and 3.5 releases as well as the plan for upcoming features.

Grafana 12.2 introduces actions authentication with the Infinity data source — giving you more secure and flexible ways to trigger actions. Previously, actions were limited to browser-based HTTP requests subject to CORS. Now you can choose between browser requests or Infinity connections, leveraging preconfigured authentication settings. This update makes actions more powerful and reliable in Grafana 12.2.

Grafana 12.2 introduces the new Jenkins data source plugin, giving you real-time insights into your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. With easy setup, you can connect your Jenkins instance and explore two built-in dashboards: See how Jenkins data becomes instantly actionable inside Grafana.