Learn about the anatomy of a Grafana plugin in this video where we'll dive deep into the various frontend and backend components involved when creating your own plugin. We'll look at the individual components for each plugin type, as well as explain how the plugin project files are organised, so that you're fully equipped to make your own awesome plugins.

This talk dives into making observability more accessible with Grafana’s Explore apps suite. This new experience, which includes eliminates the need to write queries as you visualize and explore your data. Explore Metrics and Explore Logs (both GA), simplify navigating Prometheus and Loki data with an intuitive UI, eliminating the need to write queries in PromQL or LogQL. They come with improvements like better related metrics recommendations, OpenTelemetry logging support, and enhanced pattern detection.

Correlations is a feature that allows Grafana users to set up links between their data sources. Previously, the link generated would only be from one query to another—meaning results from a query could only generate links to open a second Explore pane with other query results. With this feature, users can now link to third party web-based software based on their search results. The format follows the standard Grafana format for using variables. This is generally available in all editions of Grafana.

Welcome to Grafana 11.3! Scenes-powered dashboards are now generally available and the Explore Logs plugin is now installed by default. The dashboard experience has also improved in other ways including the ability to trigger API calls from any canvas element with the new Actions option and an update to transformations so you can apply calculations to dynamic fields. We’ve also simplified the alert setup experience, added customizable announcement banners that admins can send to all users, and improved some default permissions.