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Get started with Grafana Alerting: Create and receive your first alert

In this tutorial, we walk you through the process of setting up your first alert in just a few minutes. Don't miss the rest of the "Get started with Grafana Alerting" series! Each part dives into a different feature to help you get the most out of alerting in Grafana.

Grafana Labs named a Leader again in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

We’re thrilled to share that Grafana Labs has been recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms—for the second year in a row. This year’s report placed Grafana Labs furthest in “Completeness of Vision,” which we believe reflects our deep commitment to building a truly open, composable observability stack that gives users flexibility, control, and the tools to own their observability strategy.

Grafana Labs is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

For the second year in a row, Grafana Labs has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms — and this year, we’re proud to be recognized as the furthest in Completeness of Vision. In this video, Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie shares what this recognition means, why our scores for execution and vision both improved, and how it reflects years of building a truly open, composable observability stack.

Observability for containerized workloads: How to run Grafana Beyla as a sidecar in Amazon ECS

Note: Grafana Beyla has been donated to OpenTelemetry under the new project name OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation. Beyla will continue to exist as Grafana Labs’ distribution of the upstream project. Grafana Beyla is an open source eBPF-based auto-instrumentation tool that helps you easily get started with application observability, allowing you to monitor and visualize traces without modifying the application code.

How to turn logs into metrics with Grafana Loki (Loki Community Call July 2025)

Cyril Tovena shows us how to turn logs into metrics with Grafana Loki using metric queries in LogQL. What do you do when all you have are logs, but you want to count them, aggregate them, or parse them for numbers you want to graph? Well, there's a query for that! Cyril is joined by Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven to discuss everything you need to know about metric queries and how to use them to get numbers out of Loki.

Observability in under 5 seconds: Reflecting on a year of grafana/otel-lgtm

With grafana/otel-lgtm, observability is just one Docker command away. Over the past year, grafana/otel-lgtm has simplified observability setups, helping developers get a complete OpenTelemetry stack running in under five seconds. With integrations for metrics, logs, traces, and now profiles via Grafana Pyroscope, it has become a go-to solution for demos, development, and testing, as evidenced by its growing community (1k stars on GitHub and growing!) and notable adopters.

From chaos to clarity with Grafana dashboards: How video game company EA monitors 200+ metrics

To be a successful gamer, you have to think strategically and creatively. Working as a software engineer at Electronic Arts (EA), a top video game company, requires the same skills. That’s especially true when it comes to monitoring the EA app, which is the launcher for EA games and used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.