Monitor Google Cloud: simplify and centralize your cloud provider observability with Grafana Cloud

Organizations increasingly rely on Google Cloud to power critical parts of their businesses, but managing those environments often involves navigating a labyrinth of disparate data, tools, and processes. We built Google Cloud Observability in Grafana Cloud to reduce the complexity and confusion by providing a unified, scalable solution designed to simplify monitoring, enhance visibility, and optimize costs.

Grafana Beyla 2.0: distributed traces, scalable Kubernetes deployments, and more

In November 2023, we released Grafana Beyla 1.0, the first major milestone in our pursuit of zero-code (and zero-effort) eBPF instrumentation. We delivered a way — through a single command-line — to automatically instrument any application supporting HTTP/gRPC protocols, as well as provide basic network packet flow information.

From Datadog to Grafana Cloud: Why companies migrate and how it changes business for the better

“Impossibly expensive.”“Generic database metrics.”“Exceeding limits.”“No transparency.” These are the words our customers use to explain why they looked for a Datadog alternative and migrated onto Grafana Labs’ observability solutions. Grafana Cloud provided the scalability that LexisNexis Risk Solutions needed to migrate acquired companies into a unified observability platform. “We’ve had migrations from Datadog.

Observe Your Google Cloud Infrastructure | Demo: New Grafana Cloud Application | Grafana Labs

Want to monitor your Google Cloud infrastructure more effectively? Join Vasil Kaftandzhiev as he introduces Grafana Cloud’s new application designed specifically for Google Cloud observability. In this video, you'll discover how to: Optimize and troubleshoot your Google Cloud services Leverage out-of-the-box dashboards with key metrics and thresholds Set up comprehensive alerting for real-time incident response Streamline log management with an all-in-one logs view for faster root cause analysis Configure logs and metrics effortlessly using Grafana Alloy.

How to visualize user journeys with Site24x7 to spot opportunities to improve the UX

Before judging anyone, walk a mile in their shoes. This is a great idiom that emphasizes the importance of experiencing what your customers experience when you offer a service. With empathy, IT product owners can ensure that their operations take into account user journeys to be responsive and responsible.

Getting started with PowerShell dashboards

SquaredUp is a flexible dashboard and analytics platform that makes it really easy to turn your PowerShell scripts into dashboards that you can use for monitoring or sharing. In this article we’ll take a look at getting started with the PowerShell plugin for SquaredUp and build our first dashboard. Sign up for a free account if you’d like to follow along.

Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa: the Vantage integration with Grafana Cloud

Ben Schaechter is co-founder & CEO of Vantage, a cloud cost management platform that provides actionable insights for every engineer. Observability tools have changed the way we monitor infrastructure and applications, as teams get complete visibility into performance across complex, multi-cloud environments. But as all that infrastructure scales, costs rise with it, and organizations are left to ask: Where are my costs going—and why?

How to visualize CSV data with Grafana

While CSV data is often associated with popular spreadsheet apps like Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel, Grafana offers a number of capabilities to quickly visualize and analyze data stored in a CSV format. In this post, we’ll walk through an example of how to use Grafana to visualize any CSV file from anywhere on the web. More specifically, we will: Moving forward, you can also apply these steps to build any kind of dashboard within Grafana.