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Grafana 12, from the founder's perspective: design, scale, and the next chapter

Sometimes the most interesting engineering stories don’t start with a roadmap or a release plan—they start with personal taste. A preference for good design. A frustration with clunky tools. A desire to see everything in one place.

The Future of Dashboards: Git Sync, SQL Expressions, and Dynamic Layouts | Big Tent S3E5

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard joins Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie for a wide-ranging conversation about how Grafana began, why design and usability mattered from day one, and how the project evolved into a platform used by tens of millions — from developers to power stations and even space missions.

Tempo 2.10 release: new TraceQL features, LLM-optimized API responses, vParquet5, and more

Tempo 2.10 has arrived, delivering TraceQL enhancements, improved cardinality management for the metrics-generator, vParquet5, and more. You can continue reading and check out the video below to learn more about these and other new features. The Tempo 2.10 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

Business intelligence plugins for Grafana: what's next

Volkov Labs has been a longtime partner to Grafana Labs, with co-founder Mikhail Volkov contributing to Grafana in the early stages of the OSS project. On Sept. 26, the Florida-based company that recently created a suite of business intelligence (BI) plugins for Grafana announced it had been acquired. In light of the news, Grafana Labs committed to taking over the maintenance and development of their popular business intelligence (BI) plugin suite.

GenAI Observability in Grafana Cloud: End-to-End Agent Debugging (Demo)

From Observability for GenAI Applications (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call) We drill into traces to see which agents called which tools, where errors occurred, how long each LLM call took, and how costs and tokens are distributed. The walkthrough also covers using AI assistance to summarize long traces and identify optimization opportunities in real time..

Building a synthetic monitoring solution for Jaeger with Grafana k6

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team and he is a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customer satisfaction. As an SRE Engineering Manager and a Grafana Champion, I believe a resilient and sustainable cloud experience begins with strong observability.

ChatOps that actually works: Grafana Cloud, Slack, and AI-powered observability

Context switching isn’t just inefficient—under pressure, it’s exhausting. It slows decision-making, increases the risk of mistakes, and makes even experienced engineers feel like they’re always a step behind the system they’re responsible for. At Grafana Labs, we want to build tools that meet you where you are. That's why we embedded Grafana Assistant, our context-aware AI assistant, directly in Grafana Cloud.