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Grafana 10.1: How to build dashboards with visualizations and widgets

Learn how to distinguish widgets from visualizations for building better dashboards with Grafana 10.1. This update will improve your dashboard creation process because if you want to integrate elements like text, news, or an annotation list, you no longer need to select a data source first. Plus, to optimize your editing experience, the plugins list and library panels are now context-aware, adjusting in real time based on whether you’re working with a widget or a visualization.

Introducing agentless monitoring for Prometheus in Grafana Cloud

We’re excited to announce the Metrics Endpoint integration, our agentless solution for bringing your Prometheus metrics into Grafana Cloud from any compatible endpoint on the internet. Grafana Cloud solutions provide a seamless observability experience for your infrastructure. Engineers get out-of-the-box dashboards, rules, and alerts they can use to visualize what is important and get notified when things need attention.

How to create an alert rule in Grafana 10.1

You may have built an alert rule with Grafana Alerting and then grappled with routing, reconfiguring, and managing the different alerts your team set up. To address this challenge, we’ve implemented a series of improvements to set up and maintain alert rules in Grafana. Watch how the new alerting workflow works.

Grafana 10.1: TraceQL query results streaming

Tempo offers amazing performance, but there are still cases where TraceQL queries take a long time to return results. This could be due to a multitude of reasons from the complexity of the query, amount of choices stored, or the timeframe selected. See how to navigate your query results more quickly, with query results streaming, available as an experimental feature in Grafana version 10.1.

Troubleshoot failed performance tests faster with Distributed Tracing in Grafana Cloud k6

Performance testing plays a critical role in application reliability. It enables developers and engineering teams to catch issues before they reach production or impact the end-user experience. Understanding performance test results and acting on them, however, has always been a challenge. This is due to the visibility gap between the black-box data from performance testing and the internal white-box data of the system being tested.

A better Grafana OnCall: Delivering on features for users at scale

Enterprise IT is just a different animal. Whether it’s operating at scale, undertaking massive migrations, working across scores of teams, or addressing tight security requirements, engineers at these organizations can face different obstacles than their counterparts at smaller organizations and startups.

Inside Prezi's cost-saving switch to Grafana Alerting, Grafana OnCall, and Grafana Incident from PagerDuty

Alexander is Senior SRE at Prezi, a video and visual communications software company. As a team, the Prezi SREs provide multiple services within the company. One of those is the observability stack where Prezi heavily relies on Grafana. Companies are always evolving to run more smoothly, serve their customers better, and operate in a way that is cost-effective.