The observability team at Wise Payments – Europe’s leader in cross-border money transfers – had long provided the company’s developers access to a multitude of tools. But as costs and complexity increased, Ibukun Itimi, Engineering Lead for Observability and Andrew Brown, Reliability Squad Lead, saw an opportunity to change not only the tools they were using, but also the observability culture.

As a beginner in DevOps, you probably have come across multiple definitions of DevOps and countless things that fall under the DevOps umbrella. So you have a basic idea of what DevOps is but are you able to explain it to another newbie like yourself? Join Lisa Jung, a senior developer advocate at Grafana, to learn about DevOps in the simplest terms possible. Subscribe to the Grafana for Beginners series to delve deeper into concepts like observability, DevOps, and how Grafana can be used to observe your system as a part of your DevOps Practice!

Learn how Grafana Cloud helps analyze, manage and optimize observability spend from a central location called the cost management hub. The move to cloud-native architectures like K8s and Prometheus has caused an unprecedented increase in telemetry data that has resulted in observability bills skyrocketing. With Grafana Cloud and the central cost management hub, you will be able to answer any cost-related question with the tools to inspect, attribute, optimize and monitor your observability spend.

Asserts.ai, which provides an easier way of exploring your telemetry and deriving new insights for more efficient root cause analysis and faster issue resolution, is now a part of Grafana Labs. Watch this early demo of Asserts in Grafana Cloud.

Investigate the source of high log volumes in Grafana Cloud by leveraging log labels to understand which teams or applications are responsible for log usage. In this video, see how to use the Log Volume Explorer with a point-and-click user interface and explore log volumes by using any combination of labels associated with the logging data. Slice and dice the data as you choose to see log volume broken down by teams, applications, clusters, cloud region.

👋 Coming to you live from London, Grafana ObservabilityCON 2023's keynote introduces the latest developments in the open and composable LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) observability stack AND many exciting announcements! Our keynote features CEO/Co-founder Raj Dutt, CTO Tom Wilkie, and members of the Grafana Labs engineering team.

Having observability and monitoring solutions is a great way to gain insights into your applications' health, behavior, and performance. However, it doesn’t prevent incidents. Observability needs a partner, and this is where Grafana k6 can help you! In this video, Marie Cruz, a Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, explores what Grafana k6 is, why it's the missing puzzle piece in your Grafana stack, and how to get started.

This week, we're talking about how you can do load testing on Kubernetes with k6 Private Load Zones, a new feature on Grafana Cloud k6 that leverages the k6 Kubernetes operator to allow you to run distributed load tests against applications behind a firewall. Here to discuss this new feature are Senior Software Engineer Olha Yevtushenko, Product Manager Daniel González Lopes, Developer Advocate Paul Balogh, and Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven.

Grafana Cloud Application Observability provides an out-of-the box experience to monitor application performance and minimize MTTR. With its native support of the open standards OpenTelemetry and Prometheus, Application Observability unifies signals across the full stack, accelerating root cause analysis while removing proprietary formats and vendor lock-in. Watch this demo of how to use Application Observability in Grafana Cloud.

Grafana SLO makes it easy to create, manage, and scale service level objectives, SLO dashboards, and error budget alerts in Grafana Cloud. Watch a detailed demo of how Grafana SLO works — and learn how you can identify the most important issues in your system and resolve them quickly.