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How to send alerts from Grafana OSS to Grafana Cloud IRM

Jun 3, 2025 By Pepe Cano In Grafana
In March, we announced that Grafana OnCall (OSS) had entered maintenance mode. However, OnCall’s development continues in Grafana Cloud as Grafana Cloud IRM, combining on-call management and incident response into one integrated solution. Many users told us they still want to self-host Grafana and rely on Grafana Alerting to detect potential issues early—but they also need to escalate and manage incidents using an incident response management (IRM) solution.
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How to send alerts from self-hosted Grafana to Grafana Cloud IRM

Jun 3, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Learn how to send alerts from Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise to Grafana Cloud IRM. In this quick demo, we'll show you how to set up the integration between your self-hosted instance and our managed solution for consolidating, customizing, and automating incident response and management. 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.
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Simple cloud cost management: Grafana Labs integrates open standard FOCUS specification for cloud billing data

Jun 2, 2025 By Rich Kreitz In Grafana
At Grafana Labs, we’ve always believed that observability should be open and accessible — that belief extends beyond metrics, logs, and traces to the costs associated with managing observability at scale. That’s why we’re excited to share that we’ve adopted the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification ( FOCUS), a community-driven, open standard for cloud billing data.
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What's new in Grafana Metrics Drilldown: advanced filtering options, UI enhancements, and more

May 29, 2025 By Zhehao Zhou In Grafana
Grafana Metrics Drilldown offers a queryless experience for browsing Prometheus-compatible metrics. With Metrics Drilldown — which is part of our suite of Grafana Drilldown apps — you can quickly find related metrics with just a few simple clicks, no PromQL queries required.
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Kubernetes observability: How to enrich logs with GeoIP using the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm Chart

May 28, 2025 By Mattias Segerdahl In Grafana
When your Kubernetes app suddenly has traffic spikes in a distant country, it can be difficult to determine why. Let’s say, for example, we have an e-commerce app that started to receive an unusual surge of visitors from Australia — something we never anticipated. We search for answers in our logs, but without geographic context, we don’t have the full insights we need.
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How to import Prometheus-style alerts and recording rules to Grafana-managed alerts and recording rules

May 27, 2025 By Sonia Aguilar In Grafana
Grafana Alerting has evolved dramatically since the legacy dashboard-alert days. Today, Grafana-managed alerts power enterprise-scale monitoring in Grafana Cloud and on-prem installations. And over the last two years, we’ve added RBAC, state history, versioning, and much more. At the same time, our own monitoring at Grafana Labs relies heavily on Prometheus-style alerts—a situation that’s not uncommon for our users, too.
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Grafana Campfire - Hiring with AI and more about Grafana MCP (Grafana Community Call - May 2025)

May 24, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
In this Campfire community call, we will talk about the new and the future of AI in the field of Observability space and also discuss about the Grafana MCP server to provide access to your Grafana instance and the surrounding ecosystem. Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, Carl Bergquist, David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session. Special guests: Sarah Zinger, Cyril Tovena and Ben Sully.
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SAML authentication in Grafana Cloud: a guide for easy configuration

May 23, 2025 By Ryan Kelly In Grafana
In my role as Senior Observability Architect here at Grafana Labs, one of the things I focus on is making sure customers are getting the most out of our products. Recently, I noticed a trend where customers were struggling to get SAML authentication configured properly. They were getting stuck on some of the steps needed to configure the users key pair values, which allows users to log in with the correct roles assigned in Grafana.
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