Grafana Labs

"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. Catch the full episode: https://lnkd.in/gbQc53qf Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gUU897zn Listen on Apple Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gvDe3k8a

Open is better. Open source. Open standards. Open ecosystem. In this AI era, open source is also a quick win. Learn why it's become the cheat code for AI from Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie on CIO Online.

Visualizing data through public APIs means digging through docs and building dashboards manually. But not anymore! With the Infinity data source plugin, you can query any JSON API directly from Grafana. And when you pair it with Grafana Assistant, you can go from URL to answers, or even a full dashboard in minutes: https://lnkd.in/giYyCscn The workflow is simple: 1. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐏𝐈 that returns JSON data 2. 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐲 the provided URL. (You can access Assistant through the pulsar icon in the top right corner of the Grafana Cloud UI.) 3. 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 and Assistant will parse and transform the data for you. 4. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐤 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭. It will either respond directly or create visualizations such as tables, time series, stat panels, or any other Grafana visualization. When working with Assistant on dashboards, be as descriptive as you like. If you already have a specific idea in mind, explain what kind of data shape you expect and which visualizations you want to use, such as stats for key numbers, time series for trends, or maps for geospatial data. The more context you provide, the closer the result will be to what you imagined. If something doesn't look right, just say so. Ask for a different visualization, request a new transformation, or point out what feels off. Think of it as pair dashboarding: You iterate together, refine the result step by step, and with each iteration the dashboard becomes more accurate, useful, and tailored to your needs.

One of the longest-running debates in software: tabs vs. 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! Fun fact: The indication that the Rust language has a file with an indent of 2005 is not a bug. It really does. Let us know which team you're on 👇 and see the dashboard: https://lnkd.in/gRmYkHEb

🤖 Let's take a look at the engineering behind Grafana Assistant. In this conversation, Mat Ryer, Cyril TOVENA, and Sven Großmann explore how agentic AI is transforming the observability landscape. From hackathon origins to sophisticated backend agents, the team shares candid lessons on building, scaling, and refining AI tools for engineers: https://lnkd.in/gbrnCjAe

TFW actually useful AI leads to happy feedback from users, like this one 🥹 Give Grafana Assistant a try in the actually useful free Grafana Cloud tier. More info: https://lnkd.in/g_J7CYTp It also comes with: 50GB logs 50GB profiles 50GB traces 10k metrics 3 active users 14-day retention for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, & k6 performance tests

Just Eat Takeaway.com adopted Grafana Cloud k6 to make performance testing a core part of production reliability. The results: 🍕 Weekly production stress tests generating 45M+ requests per hour to prevent repeat incidents 🥡 Confident production testing across 17 countries and multiple time zones using global load zones 🍔 Load testing embedded directly into CI/CD pipelines to block risky deployments See how Grafana Cloud k6 helps teams catch performance issues before customers do: https://lnkd.in/gk2Uu-tS

#GrafanaCON 2026 discounted tickets are selling fast! Save on your registration and hands-on labs entry, AND reunite with the Grafana community in Barcelona 🇪🇸 Attendees will be one of the first to see the latest updates in Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and other projects in the OSS observability ecosystem. It's 1 day of hands-on labs (optional) plus 2 full days of talks, sessions, and real-world stories. Sign up before discounted tickets sell out: https://lnkd.in/gguzC3ij

If observability was a sport in the games…

👀 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. Check out the walkthrough: https://lnkd.in/gUmCJVAF