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Tracing FTW!

On season 3 ep 6 of the Big Tent podcast, #OpenTelemetry co-founder Ted Young talks about how how #OTel emerged, why the “3 pillars” model may be holding teams back, and the technical + philosophical shifts happening in #observability.

Watch: https://youtu.be/pSTf7nt_Vjk

Actually useful AI. Go Hamm on your observability!

Prometheus and OpenTelemetry finally play nice Prometheus and OpenTelemetry are moving past years of compatibility friction, paving the way for a unified observability stack.

#Prometheus and #OpenTelemetry are moving past years of compatibility friction, paving the way for a unified observability stack.

Read more from @thenewstack.io.

Sure, you might *know* the power of #SQL expressions in #Grafana...

But what does it look like in action?

We created a dashboard on Grafana Play so you can see for yourself. Give it a whirl: https://play.grafana.org/d/mapr4nb/sql-expressions-showcase?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&timezone=utc

Observability is about turning operational data into action and resolution. That’s where Grafana Cloud shines.

Read the full review from Gartner Peer Insights: https://gtnr.io/2DYNt1G95

Grafana 12.4 release: faster and easier data visualization, observability as code updates, and more | Grafana Labs Grafana 12.4 is here, delivering a ton of updates to help you build and design dashboards faster than ever, as well as manage and scale those dashboards seamlessly over time.

Just shipped: Grafana 12.4 🚀

This release brings Git Sync updates (#observability as code), dynamic dashboards in public preview (with new features), suggested dashboards, and new features to streamline data visualization overall.

🏆 An announcement that puts the AI in *raising the roof*.

Grafana Labs has been named to The Agentic List 2026!

This list identifies the 120 most promising private companies building enterprise-grade agentic AI: https://www.agentconference.com/agenticlist/2026

#GrafanaCON 2026 early bird tickets have sold out, but 30% discount tickets are still available!

See the latest updates in Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and other projects in the OSS observability ecosystem.

Save on your registration AND hands-on labs: grafana.com/events/grafa...

✅ From "something's off" to "here's why" — fast.

Grafana Assistant goes full detective: pulls the clues, connects the dots, and suggests fixes.

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

"I like working with software that looks good."

On season 3 episode 5 of the Big Tent podcast, Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard talks about #Grafana 12 and why UI matters.

Why open source is the cheat code for AI Want to move fast with AI? Open source is the cheat code. Today’s top models already “speak” Kubernetes, SQL and the modern stack.

Open is better. Open source. Open standards. Open ecosystem.

In this #AI era, #opensource is also a quick win.

Learn why it's become the cheat code for AI from Tom Wilkie on CIO.

Use AI to turn any JSON API into a dashboard in minutes with the Infinity data source and Grafana Assistant | Grafana Labs With the Infinity data source plugin and Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud, you can go from URL to answers, or even to a dashboard in minutes.

Visualizing data through APIs means digging through docs + building dashboards manually.

No more!

Use the Infinity data source plugin to query any #JSON API from #Grafana. Pair it with Grafana Assistant to go from URL to answers or dashboards in minutes.

Are you team tab or team spaces?

This dashboard looks at the top 100 most-starred GitHub repos and checks whether they use tab, spaces, or a mix of both because... chaos!

See the dashboard: https://play.grafana.org/d/roq9xv7/tabs-vs-spaces?orgId=1&from=now-6h&to=now&timezone=utc

TFW actually useful #AI leads to happy feedback from users, like this one 🥹

Give Grafana Assistant a try in the free Grafana Cloud tier.

50GB logs
50GB profiles
50GB traces
10k metrics
3 active users
14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests

JustEatTakeaway uses Grafana Cloud k6 to make performance testing core to production reliability.

The results:
- Weekly prod stress tests generating 45M+ requests/hour to prevent repeat incidents
- Confident production testing across 17 countries

#GrafanaCON 2026 discounted tickets are selling fast!

See the latest updates in Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry & other projects in the OSS observability ecosystem.

Save on your registration (& hands-on labs), AND reunite with the Grafana community: https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/

OpenTelemetry support for .NET 10: A behind-the-scenes look | Grafana Labs .NET 10 introduced new levels of performance and productivity, and the OpenTelemetry libraries for .NET evolved alongside it, giving developers the deep insights they need for application monitoring.

In Nov 2025, we delivered native #OpenTelemetry support for .NET 10.

In this post, we share a behind-the-scenes look at this journey, and a few updates about how we're helping those who use OTel signals within #dotNET applications move to .NET 10.

🥇 Go for gold — optimize for #telemetry value to reduce #MTTR, noise, and costs.

Learn how with Adaptive Telemetry — powered by actually useful #AI: https://grafana.com/blog/what-is-adaptive-telemetry-and-how-can-it-reduce-mttr-noise-and-cost/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

How to run checks on internal services with Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring | Grafana Labs With private probes in Synthetic Monitoring, you can run checks from within private environments, improving visibility into internal services, such as APIs, staging environments, or resources behind a...

👀 Private networks can create monitoring blind spots.

Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring + private probes let you run checks from inside your environment to validate internal APIs, staging, and performance—without exposing anything publicly.

We couldn’t fit all our ❤️ for the Grafana community into one Valentine greeting, so Grot created a few:

If love were a metric, you'd be off the charts!

Not even DNS can get between us.

You had me at LGTM.

Prometheus? More like Promethe-us.

OTel me more, tell me more. It was love at first sight.

✨ Grafana Assistant gives your team an on-demand expert that they can trace, verify, and rely on to keep production stable.

Check out some of our pro-tips: https://grafana.com/blog/grafana-assistant-why-you-can-trust-our-agent-and-yourself-in-an-era-of-ai-hallucinations/

📣 Get ready to Rambla… (and rumble) — #GrafanaCON 2026 registration is open!

We're happy to bring the #Grafana community back together again 🧡 This time, in Barcelona from 20-22 April.

Tickets & hands-on labs are 50% off for a limited time. Sign up: https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/

@grafana.bsky.social and @prometheus.io #monitoring #dashboard being installed on all my machines! Pure rock!

#grafana #prometheus #nerd #ITsolutions #linux #docker

The Grafana Cloud app for #Slack brings observability and incident response closer to where you and your teams already collaborate 🤝

Ask questions about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and #Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate with full context.

Continuous profiling in production: A real-world example to measure benefits and costs | Grafana Labs How much overhead does continuous profiling really add in production? Here are a few lessons learned from running Pyroscope at scale here at Grafana Labs.

Continuous profiling is the go-to #observability practice to directly connect system behavior to specific lines of code.

Still, some teams are reluctant to deploy it in production because of the potential overhead.

Here’s what we’ve learned running Pyroscope at scale here at Grafana Labs.

Say bye, bye, bye to dashboard sprawl.

In case you missed it, Git Sync is in public preview in Grafana Cloud!

Get the power of Git version control right within your Grafana instance (no complex setup required): https://grafana.com/blog/git-sync-grafana/

Build, buy, or open source? Understanding your options with Grafana's AI-powered observability | Grafana Labs Take a closer look at your options for leveraging AI-powered observability, and see which one--or which combination of options--is the right fit for your organization.

🤔 In the fast moving world of #AI, is it better to build or buy your own #observability solution?

And how does #opensource factor into those decisions?

Take a closer look at your options, and see why the answer might not be as straightforward as you think.

🦾 Our actually useful AI just became even more useful, er.. skillful.

Add skills to your agents with Grafana Assistant playbooks for more effective insights and investigations.

Get started: https://grafana.com/blog/add-skills-to-agents-use-assistant-playbooks-for-faster-answers-investigations/

YouTube video by Grafana Grafana ❤️‍🔥 Tempo ❤️‍🔥 OTel: Practical distributed tracing from the field (Feb 2026 Community Call)

Join us for our first joint #Grafana ❤️ #OTel and Tempo Community calls on practical distributed tracing from the field. Bring any questions you may have!

See the YouTube description for more details.

Thursday February 12th, 9:30a PT/6:30p CET

OTel Unplugged EU 2026 – It's a wrap!

Bringing the #OpenTelemetry community together was magical.

The face-to-face connections and collaboration proved why these gatherings matter.

Thank you to those who made it happen. We were proud to host, and can't wait for more OTel community events.