Grafana Labs · Company blog · 13 a month · 34 posts since Aug 19, 2026
Nov 6
AI agents are becoming part of everyday engineering workflows, helping teams write code, troubleshoot issues, and automate tasks. But to be truly useful in production, these agents need access to more than code.
Nov 5
Template variables are one of the most used features in Grafana, providing users with a dropdown to turn one dashboard into hundreds: pick a different, or, and every panel updates.
Nov 3
When an application request slows down, a trace can show a database call. Finding the database query behind it can be tedious, requiring you to switch between traces and database telemetry, as well as match timestamps or query text by...
Nov 3
Many Grafana Cloud customers love what Alloy offers them, but we're also seeing a growing base of users who feel the same way about the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Nov 2
It's no secret that getting started with observability can be much harder than it should be. That's why, at ObservabilityCon 2025, we introduced Instrumentation Hub: a guided, scalable way to roll out observability coverage while still...
Oct 29
Grafana 13.3 is here, bringing more consistency and control to how you work across Grafana. Cross-dashboard variables help you manage shared dashboard controls from one place, while Notebooks let you capture and share findings from across...
Oct 28
When evaluating AI models for observability, generating a plausible query or explanation isn't enough. Teams need to know whether an agent's conclusions are supported by telemetry, whether its changes to dashboards actually work, and...
Oct 27
Agents have quickly become part of the tech landscape as organizations embrace AI across their businesses. But embracing agents also means embracing the monitoring best practices that have long been part of engineers' workflows: tracking...
Oct 21
You're investigating checkout errors when someone asks who's coordinating the incident. Support needs an update, and another responder is looking for the runbook. You stop what you're doing to get everyone pointed in the same direction.
Oct 20
Teams often spend as much time preparing information as discussing it: gathering charts, checking business reports, and finding the GitHub activity that explains a change. Every follow-up question can lead to yet another round of work.
Oct 20
Earlier this year, we launched the Grafana Marketplace, a platform that gives independent software vendors, systems integrators, and developers in the Grafana community a new way to sell and distribute plugins built for Grafana.
Oct 20
Most teams have telemetry from across their stack, but connecting those signals to understand what's happening and how it affects users isn't always easy.
Oct 20
In the AI era, where telemetry is generated by every model call, tool invocation, and agent step, organizations need more help than ever when it comes to navigating the economics of observability.
Oct 20
You've just finished a deployment, and though your service is up, you start to notice some requests are getting slower. To address the lag, someone, or, more likely, some group of people on your team, needs to watch the dashboards, decide...
Oct 20
Today at ObservabilityCON 2026 in San Francisco, we unveiled a range of new Grafana Cloud capabilities designed to reshape cloud economics, bring richer context and deeper visibility across your systems and end-user experiences, and help...
Oct 19
When you ask Grafana Assistant to build a dashboard or investigate an alert, you're doing so because there's work to be done.
Oct 15
Adaptive Metrics, which is part of the Adaptive Telemetry suite, looks at how your metrics are actually used and recommends how much detail you should keep for each metric.
Oct 15
When you’re on the go, your phone is often the only observability tool you have. And what you can do with it in the first few minutes matters.
Oct 14
You’ve got 10 minutes before your next meeting when your phone starts ringing. You’re being paged because the frontend is erroring with failed API requests. You open one tool to see what fired, then another to figure out what’s going on.
Oct 8
If you’ve built your telemetry pipelines around OpenTelemetry Collectors, you’ve already invested in a collector distribution, YAML configuration, and a deployment model that fits your infrastructure.
Oct 8
Over the past year, "agentic" has gone from an emerging buzzword to an integral part of worklife for many engineers, and that's just scratching the surface on all that's changed.
Oct 7
As your use of Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring grows, so does the number of checks you need to manage across services, environments, and teams.
Sep 30
Building on the major release of Tempo 3.0, Tempo 3.1 is here, delivering community-contributed Kafka client improvements, query-based trace redaction, sampling-aware TraceQL metrics, and more.
Sep 24
At Grafana Labs, observability is what we do. So as we started building AI agents, we naturally reached for the same instincts we bring to every system: measure it, set targets, and make reliability something you can reason about instead...
Sep 21
Alert routing often starts simple. A team creates a few contact points, adds some label matchers, and builds a notification policy tree that sends each alert to the right destination. But alerting configurations rarely stay simple.
Observability, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo and open source.
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