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Graphic with the message I spotlight examples of great leadership. Instead of dwelling on poor examples (which are ubiquitous in these times), we can highlight the good ones, giving people targets to emulate. There’s also a drawing of a person wearing a red cape with one arm in the air, looking strong and powerful. Along the bottom is the @BetterAllies handle and credit to @ninalimpi for the drawing.

Let's spotlight examples of great leadership.

Instead of dwelling on poor examples (which are ubiquitous in these times), we can highlight the good ones, giving people targets to emulate.

(Keep reading for examples 👇 🧵)

Earlier this year, we proudly sponsored HackUPC 2025 — one of Europe’s biggest student hackathons. Here’s the recap 👇

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/12/data-storytelling-at-hackupc-2025-celebrating-3-student-hackathon-projects-powered-by-grafana/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=bs

There is still time to apply for our champion mentorship program. DM me if you have any questions!

Grafana k6 Operator 1.0 is here! 🎉

From a 2020 experiment to a community OSS project — read more about what’s new: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/09/16/distributed-performance-testing-for-kubernetes-environments-grafana-k6-operator-1-0-is-here/?camp=blog&mdm=social&src=SOCIAL_NETWORK_ABBV

Who's going to #SRECon? 🇮🇪

We're excited to be a sponsor! Come to booth 8 with your #Grafana Stack questions and pick up some swag! Don't miss Nikola's talk on auto-instrumentation for GPU performance using #eBPF.

See you there!

Volvemos con un meetup tras el verano en EdPuzzle, el jueves 16 de octubre 🚀

🧠 Temas: Pair Programming con IA y cómo usar #DDD para la IA en Producción.

¡Networking, comida 🍕 y bebida 🍻 incluidos!

+Info y RSVP🔗 bit.ly/scbcn-oct-25...

#SoftwareCrafters #IA #DDD

Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD

La vuelta a la rutina se hace más llevadera en comunidad 💜
En nuestra última newsletter traemos sorpresas, sorteos y novedades que no te querrás perder.
🎟️ Pista: @bcnswcraft.bsky.social  😉

📩 Léela aquí 👉 https://mailchi.mp/cd724e00befa/sexta-newsletter-12748501
#Step4ward #Mentoría #Comunidad

Ready to get back to some crafting? Our first post-summer #codingdojo is on Sept 9th! 🚀 Join Dirk Lüdtke and @anyulled.bsky.social for a sorting kata. Spots are limited, so sign up now 👉🏼 bit.ly/4mP187P
#SoftwareCrafters #Barcelona #Meetup

🏆 Grafana Labs is a 2025 Forbes #Cloud100 honoree!

This year, we jumped 10 spots to come in at #13 among the world’s top private cloud & AI companies.

Thanks to our community and customers for your continued support. We look forward to what’s coming next: https://www.forbes.com/lists/cloud100/

Learn OpenTelemetry tracing through a grand strategy game: introducing Game of Traces | Grafana Labs Game of Traces is a grand strategy game you can play to learn the key concepts of OpenTelemetry tracing — and, of course, heroically defend a few kingdoms along the way.

🐉 The North remembers, and now, Game of Traces is here! ⚔️

Try out this grand strategy game to learn the fundamentals of #OpenTelemetry tracing — and, of course, heroically defend a few kingdoms along the way.

🧡 Honored to be the answer to such an important question — according to The Pragmatic Engineer Survey 2025 by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com.

Thanks to our community for your continued support and trust in #Grafana.

Keep those dashboards coming!

How to monitor Claude usage and costs: introducing the Anthropic integration for Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs With the Anthropic integration for Grafana Cloud, you get real-time insights into the cost and performance of your Claude LLMs via pre-built dashboards and alerts.

📣 The #AI excitement continues — introducing the #Anthropic integration for Grafana Cloud!

This new solution lets you get real-time insights into the cost and performance of your #Claude LLMs via pre-built dashboards and alerts. Here's how 👇

¡Aparcamos los 🥋 coding dojos 🥋 hasta principios de septiembre! Si te apetece despedir la temporada con nosotr@s, te invitamos a un encuentro informal el próximo miércoles 23 de julio para charlar y tomar algo.

www.meetup.com/software-cra...

¡Nos encantaría verte!

Ya empezada la sesión de ensemble programming con @trikitrok.bsky.social 🙌 en las oficinas de Adobe en Barcelona github.com/trikitrok/te...

Este martes 15 de julio tenemos codigo dojo en las oficinas de Adobe: una sesión de ensemble programming con @trikitrok.bsky.social que promete ser una excelente oportunidad para aprender y reflexionar en equipo 🙌

📎 ¿Quieres unirte? Más info en www.meetup.com/software-cra...

¡Te esperamos!

Just wrapped up a very profuctive weekend at confconf.org in Sofia! 🙌

It was an invaluable opportunity to meet and discuss with other community oss organizers. Very grateful to organizers and attendees for creating this space to share 🤗

#Conf#Conf

La semana que viene estaremos en las oficinas de SCRM con mi compañero Joan López de la Franca compartiendo con la comunidad de Grafana & Friends las últimas novedades de las versiones k6 1.0 y Grafana 12 🎉

🗓️ 4 de junio 2025, 18:30
📍c/ Bergara 13, Barcelona

📎 RSVP www.meetup.com/grafana-and-...

🧙‍♂️ ¡Atención, crafters!
El tren del CFP de Software Crafters BCN se va... ¡en 10 días! ⏳💨

¿Tienes una charla o lightning que merece ver la luz?
¡Súbela al CFP antes de que se convierta en leyenda urbana! 👻📜

👉 c4p.softwarecrafters.barcelona/scbcn2025/cfp

#SoftwareCraftersBCN #CFP #UltimaLlamada

Next week I'll be sharing how to get started with Grafana Loki at #CodemotionMadrid2025 🎉

You can check the full agenda at conferences.codemotion.com/madrid2025/a...

If you are in Madrid on May 20th and 21st, see you there 👋

#CodemotionCommunity #CodemotionSpeaker #Grafana #loki #observability

👏 That wraps up #GrafanaCON day 0!

Shout out to the learners and builders for getting hands-on with dashboards, #observability as code, datasources and more.

See you all in < 12 hours for day 1.

Join the keynote livestream at 9 am PT or access the recording: youtube.com/live/JYVf-Z3...

GrafanaCON 2025 Keynote Livestream So. Many. Announcements! Grafana 12 is gonna be massive. Tune in here to see what it's all about and get a sneak peak of everything we're releasing. See the ...

#GrafanaCON 2025 keynote livestream starts in 1 hour!

⭐️ Use the Force, and this dashboard.

Either way, the Death Star's days are outnumbered.

This #Maythe4th, our #Grafana dashboard will help you plot the destruction of the Death Star: play.grafana.org/d/1d51ac33-1...

May the force be with you today and every day.

Iniciando la kata en The Refactor Project 🚀 Para la ocasion nos han preparado la kata 'SOLID Refactoring Circus' 🎪🎠🤡 ¡Esto promete!

github.com/the-refactor...

Como única restricción, no usar IA 😉 y tod@s a trabajar en la kata SOLID Refactoring Circus de The Refactor Project

Our first meetup at @edpuzzle.com is starting with Sergey Kudashev sharing the philosophy behind Vim and how to use it as your main development tool 🙌

Next, Santi Herrero is sharing how @edpuzzle.com created a frontend setup that’s navigable and scalable for a team of just 25 developers — without falling into disconnected squads and fragmented contexts 👌

Grafana security release: Medium and high severity fixes for CVE-2025-3260, CVE-2025-2703, CVE-2025-3454 | Grafana Labs Today we are releasing security patches for Grafana 11.6.0, 11.5.3, 11.4.3, 11.3.5, 11.2.8, and 10.4.17, which include medium and high severity security fixes. If you are affected, we recommend that…

If you're a Grafana OSS or Enterprise user, we've released security patches for #Grafana 11.6.0, 11.5.3, 11.4.3, 11.3.5, 11.2.8, & 10.4.17.

The patch releases mentioned in this blog post include a high severity fix for CVE-2025-3260 & medium severity fixes for CVE-2025-2703 & CVE-2025-3454.

🌎 From monitoring renewable energy output to combatting air pollution, the #Grafana Stack enables teams to put observability to work for the planet. Because every day should be #EarthDay.