At Grafana Labs, we want to empower our fellow Grafanistas and the community to get the most out of the Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). As part of this effort, we recently launched a new Grafana developer portal. And now, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the Saga Design System, which establishes a shared visual language for all of Grafana Labs’ offerings.

Starting around June this year, we upgraded our Grafana databases in Grafana Cloud from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, due to MySQL 5.7 reaching end-of-life in October. This project involved tens of thousands of customer databases across dozens of MySQL database servers, multiple cloud providers, and many Kubernetes clusters.

In the ever-changing field of artificial intelligence, OpenAI is consistently seen as a leader in innovation. Its AI models, starting with GPT-3 and now with GPT-4, are already used extensively in software development and content creation, and they’re expected to usher in entire sets of new systems in the future.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2023 is just around the corner, and the OSS and cloud native community is eagerly anticipating the event, which will take place November 6 - 9 in Chicago.

Grafana Tempo 2.3 has been unleashed upon the world, bringing with it the latest iteration of the vParquet backend! Tempo 2.3 has a little bit of everything, but the headline item here is vParquet3 and new features that improve search speeds. Watch the video above for all the details, or continue reading to get a quick overview of the latest updates in Tempo. If you’re looking for something more in-depth, don’t hesitate to jump into the changelog or our Grafana Tempo 2.3 release notes.

For those who have limited experience with OpenTelemetry, it can be intimidating to instrument.NET applications. But the OpenTelemetry community created a welcome shortcut with the first stable release of.NET Automatic Instrumentation. It simplifies the process of collecting metrics, logs, and traces from your.NET applications, without applying any changes to the source code or adding any dependencies to the OSS project.

Grafana’s plugin tools help developers extend Grafana’s core functionality and create plugins faster, with a modern build setup and zero configuration. Grafana Scenes, meanwhile, is a new front-end library, introduced with Grafana 10, that enables developers to create dashboard-like experiences — such as querying and transformations, dynamic panel rendering, and time ranges — directly within Grafana application plugins.