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Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: More precise, easier to use, and better compatibility

Histograms help you monitor and visualize the distribution of values for key metrics, such as response times or request sizes of a service. They’re frequently used to gain insights into data patterns, anomalies, and trends, making them an important tool for observability.

Grafana Alerting Overview Plus New Features Coming to Grafana 12 | Grafana Labs

In this walkthrough, Grafana’s Ryan Kehoe dives into the biggest improvements designed to help teams create, manage, and route alerts with less friction and more power. Whether you're wrangling multi-source queries or managing alerts across large environments, these updates are for you.

Monitor the full end-user experience: k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are generally available

We continue to evolve Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring to help you simulate even the most complex transactions and user journeys, and proactively monitor the performance of your web applications and APIs. In line with this effort, we’re excited to share that k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.

Simulate Real User Workflows | Introduction to Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Just because your app is up doesn’t mean it’s working. Behind the scenes, users could be facing failed checkouts, broken workflows, or slow page loads — and you may not know until it’s too late. In this video, we’ll show you how Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring helps you proactively simulate real user behavior and monitor the performance of your critical user flows, websites, and APIs from locations around the world — so you can catch issues before your users do.

How to keep Ingress NGINX Controller metric volumes manageable and still meaningful

The Ingress NGINX Controller is a widely used Kubernetes component for managing HTTP and HTTPS traffic routing. While it provides powerful observability through Prometheus metrics, it’s also notorious for generating an excessively high number of time series. The root cause lies in how the controller labels its metrics—tracking requests across multiple dimensions such as ingress name, host, path, status code, and upstream response times.

Grafana Campfire - Data Visualization Tips and Best Practices (Grafana Community Call- April 2025)

Creating dashboards in Grafana gives you some very good built-in features to manipulate your data by using transformations, variables, filtering, overriding,, annotations for your data and with addition of Community plugins (data sources, panels and apps) increases the user experience to a whole next level. Still, many users do not either know about these features or do not use it correctly and why is the reason?

Why Observability is Getting Expensive and OpenTelemetry is Becoming More Popular | Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs' Jen Villa shares the latest insights into how organizations are rethinking their observability strategies — with cost now taking center stage. This video covers: Chapters: 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.