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How to authenticate with third-party APIs in your Grafana app plugin

Whether they’re for synthetic monitoring, large-language models, or some other use case, Grafana application plugins are a fantastic way to enhance your overall Grafana experience. Data for these custom experiences can come from a variety of sources, including nested data sources. However, they can also come from third-party APIs, which usually require authentication to access.

Get Your LGTM Stack and Observability Questions Answered at the Ask the Experts Booth | Grafana Labs

The Ask the Experts booth at ObservabilityCON, GrafanaCON, and other Grafana Labs events are one of the biggest highlights for attendees. Richi Hartmann, from the Office of the CTO, talks about the Ask the Experts concept in depth. If you're heading to one of our events with an Ask the Experts booth, be sure to bring your technical questions. The Grafanistas who work on the LGTM Stack, solutions, and features are there to help.

Grafana Labs bug bounty: What you need to know about our new partnership with Intigriti

Grafana Labs is happy to announce that we have partnered with Intigriti, a leading bug bounty platform, to expand our bug bounty program. This collaboration will enable us to work more effectively with security researchers from around the world in a scalable, sustainable way. Moving to a platform that handles initial triage will allow us to focus on valid reports and expand our scope, covering a wider range of Grafana Labs developed products and services.

How to set up Grafana Mimir using Ansible

Gerard van Engelen is a seasoned DevOps engineer who ensures the quality of products by drawing parallels between complex issues and simpler, everyday scenarios. This approach helps in delivering value, ensuring that products are not only built correctly but also offer the right functionalities. Ansible is popular with system administrators and DevOps professionals who use it for automating IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.

How to set up an open source database monitoring stack with Grafana Cloud

One of the great powers of Grafana is the open source community behind it — a community that provides a breadth of ready-to-use dashboards, plugins, exporters, and instructions that make a million tasks easier. The sheer scale of it all means whatever you need probably already exists somewhere. To illustrate this, I want to share an example of how to use these tools as a base for building a comprehensive database monitoring solution.

How Mux cut metrics volume by 60%, increased retention times, and improved developer productivity with Grafana Cloud

Every time the platform engineering team at San Francisco-based startup Mux deploys new software, there are two must-have components: proper access controls and observability. But until recently, their observability stack left the team frustrated, reactive, and largely in maintenance mode.

Introduction to Ingesting Logs into Loki with Fluentd and Fluent Bit | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana

Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and plan to use FluentD or Fluent Bit as your telemetry collector? Or are you trying to decide which agent is right for you? In this "Zero to Hero" episode, we cover the basics of FluentD and Fluent Bit, highlighting their differences and helping you determine when to use one over the other. Additionally, we guide you through configuring both agents' Loki plugins to write logs directly into Loki.

New: Explore Profiles Demo - A Queryless Experience to Manage and Analyze Profiling Data | Grafana

In this video, Ryan Perry (Co-founder of Pyroscope and Engineering Director at Grafana Labs) demonstrates Explore Profiles, a Grafana app plugin that helps you quickly and easily derive insights from your profiling data — without having to use complex query languages. 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.

The new, queryless UI for Grafana Pyroscope: Introducing Explore Profiles

We are excited to share a significant update for Grafana Pyroscope users and the broader open source community: the launch of Explore Profiles, a new application that makes it easier and faster to surface meaningful insights from your profiling data. Explore Profiles is a Grafana app plugin designed to integrate seamlessly with Grafana Pyroscope, the open source continuous profiling backend, providing a smooth, queryless experience to browse and analyze your profiling data.