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Ready to bring your Databricks data lakehouse to life? In this Grafana quick start, Shawn Pitts walks through how to connect Databricks to Grafana Cloud using the official plugin, available on all tiers — including Cloud Free. We’ll cover: Setting up the Databricks data source Retrieving your Host, HTTP Path, and Token from the Databricks App Exploring data with SQL builder and custom queries in Grafana Creating a cross functional dashboard using live Databricks data.

Our GrafanaCON co-chairs take you on a backstage tour through GrafanaCON 2025 Day 1 — sneak peeks, activities, and the conference magic. 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.

In this Loki Community Call, we talk about the need for meta-monitoring Loki: why Loki needs to be monitored, what to watch out for, and how to do it. We talk about different ways to get information from Loki that allow you to make it reliable, consistent, and performant, including a Helm chart to deploy a meta-monitoring stack on Kubernetes. We discuss the Loki mixin for Grafana and how to use it to visualize data about Loki. On the call are Jay Clifford, Nicole van der Hoeven, and Dylan Guedes from Grafana Labs.

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.

So. Many. Announcements! Grafana 12 is massive. Tune in live to see what it's all about and get a sneak peak of everything we're releasing. We ran into a hiccup during the Git Sync demo. Relevant links: Follow us for the latest and greatest on all things Grafana and our other OSS projects.