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Managing observability costs at scale is no easy task — especially when metrics volume grows fast. In this talk, Paul Givens, Head of Observability at The Trade Desk, shares how they implemented Adaptive Metrics to control costs without sacrificing visibility. How Adaptive Metrics works to reduce cardinality and cost Real-world implementation lessons from a high-scale AdTech environment Key takeaways for teams managing large Prometheus-like metric sets.

Data source variables let you change where Grafana looks for data without having to create duplicate dashboards. So for example, if you have multiple different Prometheus databases, you can have one dashboard and use a data source variable to choose which Prometheus that dashboard uses. We'll look at how to set these up in this video. 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.

In this Loki community call, Poyzan (Staff Engineer on the Loki team) returns this time with Paul Rogers (Staff Engineer on the Loki team) to talk all about Loki cache! This topic was heavily discussed in our "How to run Loki at scale on Kubernetes" call.

Learn how LBAC for metrics data sources, a feature in Grafana 11.6, allows fine-grained access control to data sources by filtering metrics based on labels.

The Grafana Labs 3rd annual Observability Survey has landed and we're excited to launch a limited video series that breaks down the findings from over 1200 observability practitioners and leaders around the world. In this video, CTO Tom Wilkie breaks down the 4 biggest trends shaping observability in 2025 across open source, executive buy-in, AI, and cost vs. value. Stay tuned for more video explainers!

From Grafana 12 and k6 1.0 to our inaugural Science Fair and a "Night at the Museum" reception, the GrafanaCON 2025 agenda includes a lot to be excited about.

Text box variables let users type whatever they want -- great for text filtering and searching! In this video we'll look at how to use text box variables in Grafana dashboards. 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.

Watch a deep-dive demo of Grafana k6 Studio, an open source desktop application that helps you create k6 test scripts quickly and easily via a visual interface.

In this video, Joey Orlando, Engineering Manager at Grafana, walks you through Grafana Cloud Incident Response Management (IRM)—a new powerful solution that unifies Grafana OnCall and Grafana Incidents into one seamless experience. You'll learn how to: Set up on-call schedules and escalation chains Configure integrations for your monitoring systems Respond to alerts efficiently with automated workflows Migrate from PagerDuty or Splunk On-Call to Grafana IRM.

Learn how to gain real-time visibility into your web applications with Grafana Faro! In this hands-on tutorial, we’ll walk through instrumenting a JavaScript app with Faro.