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Getting started with Zendesk dashboards

Mar 20, 2025 By Dan Watts In Squared Up
Zendesk is one of the most popular customer service platforms, known for its ease of use, robust ticketing system, and powerful automation capabilities. While Zendesk comes with native reporting and dashboards, they can be limited in terms of customization and data correlation across different sources. Additionally, building complex visualizations in Zendesk often requires more advanced knowledge of their reporting tools. This is where SquaredUp comes in!
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How to redact secrets from logs with Grafana Alloy and Loki

Mar 20, 2025 By Romain Gaillard In Grafana
In any observability stack, logs are essential for uncovering insights, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring system health. However, managing the security of logged data presents its own challenges, especially when it comes to preventing sensitive information, like API keys and credentials, from slipping into logs. Secrets can originate from a variety of sources, and it’s often challenging to predict which applications or services might inadvertently expose sensitive information.
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An open source app for easily building performance tests: Grafana k6 Studio is generally available

Mar 20, 2025 By Llandy Riveron Del Risco In Grafana
Here at Grafana Labs, we have an on-going commitment to providing solutions that increase productivity without sacrificing ease-of-use. Last year, in line with that effort, we introduced experimental and public preview releases of Grafana k6 Studio, an open source desktop application that helps you create k6 test scripts quickly and easily via a visual interface. Today, we’re excited to share the general availability of k6 Studio v1.0.
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Getting started with Azure dashboards

Mar 20, 2025 By Sameer Mhaisekar In Squared Up
Azure is the cloud service provider of choice for a variety of reasons – such as its ease of use, its wide variety of services, the strong community around it and its integration with other Microsoft services. While Azure comes with native data visualization solutions such as dashboards and workbooks, they require a significant amount of Azure knowledge to create and maintain.
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Dashboarding your K6 load tests in SquaredUp

Mar 20, 2025 By John Hayes In Squared Up
Load testing is an extremely valuable practice for assessing how your application will actually perform in production. Whether you're expecting a handful of concurrent users or anticipate thousands, it's important to have an idea of the kind of loads that will be placed on your systems and be aware of where bottlenecks or saturation may occur.
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Grafana Cloud updates: Fleet Management is now GA, a unified app for IRM, and more

Mar 18, 2025 By Kristin Knapp In Grafana
We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up of the latest and greatest Grafana Cloud updates. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.
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The latest in Kubernetes Monitoring: new features to track persistent storage, simplify alerting, and more

Mar 17, 2025 By Kristin Knapp In Grafana
Monitoring is an essential part of any Kubernetes deployment, helping organizations optimize cluster health, streamline troubleshooting, and control their costs. In Grafana Cloud, we offer all these capabilities (and more) in our out-of-the-box Kubernetes Monitoring solution. Since introducing Kubernetes Monitoring in 2022, we’ve been steadily adding new features, improving the UI, and making it even easier to gain insights into the state of your Kubernetes fleet.
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Understanding JavaScript Performance with Flame Charts

Mar 15, 2025 By Request Metrics In Request Metrics
Learn how to decode flame charts in this essential Concepts of Web Performance tutorial with Todd Gardner from Request Metrics. Perfect for entry-level web developers, this quick guide demystifies the intimidating flame charts found in Chrome DevTools that visualize your browser's main thread activity. Discover how to identify performance bottlenecks by understanding the color-coding system—gray for browser tasks, blue for HTML parsing, purple for layout and paint operations, dark yellow for script compilation, and light yellow for JavaScript execution.
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How we responded to a 2+ hour partial outage in Grafana Cloud

Mar 13, 2025 By Mick Gregg In Grafana
On Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, we experienced an outage that lasted approximately 150 minutes and impacted roughly 25% of our Grafana Cloud services. To our customers: we are very sorry and more than a little embarrassed that we stepped outside our own processes and advice to cause this. You rely on us to help monitor and troubleshoot your environments, and this type of incident obviously makes it harder for you to do that.
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