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Cloud Cost Dashboards: What "A Single Pane Of Glass" Really Means

If you’ve done any shopping around for a cloud cost intelligence platform, you may have heard about the “single pane of glass” approach to presenting cloud cost data. It’s a descriptive phrase uttered by almost every cloud cost company in one form or another. We may not all say it in a similar way, but it’s the same concept across the board.

What makes a good open source community?

Whenever you use open source software, you benefit from the community that surrounds it — whether it’s a bug fix, better documentation, a helpful tutorial or something else. We at Grafana Labs benefit from the open source community, too: from your participation, and the many OSS components we use in the development of Grafana itself. But what makes an open source community successful, exactly? And how do you build and nurture one?

Grafana Incident auto-summary: AI in Grafana Cloud

Check out a fun demo of Grafana Incident auto-summary, which uses generative AI to suggest a helpful synopsis that captures key details from your incident timeline with a single click. Grafana Incident auto-summary marks the first feature enabled by the new OpenAI integration in Grafana Incident. Simply bring your own OpenAI API key to get started in Grafana Cloud.

Dashboard Studio: How to Configure Show/Hide and Token Eval in Dashboard Studio

You may be familiar with manipulating tokens via `eval` or `condition`, or showing and hiding panels via `depends` in Classic (SimpleXML) dashboards, and wondering how to do that in Dashboard Studio. In this blog post, we'll break down how to accomplish these use cases in Dashboard Studio, using the same examples that were shown at.conf23.

k6 extensions updates with Ivan Szkiba (k6 Office Hours #99)

In this episode of k6 Office Hours, Developer Advocates Marie Cruz and Paul Balogh are joined by Ivan Szkiba, the latest Grafanista of the k6 team, to discuss the latest developments on the k6 extensions. Links shared: List of templates and extensions discussed: ⏰ TIMESTAMPS.

How to learn Grafana with Grafana Play (Grafana Office Hours #10)

If you were wondering how to learn Grafana, Grafana Play is probably the easiest way. Grafana Play is a collection of ready-made dashboards and apps that you can use without creating an account. Developer Advocates Matt Abrams, Paul Balogh, and Nicole van der Hoeven discuss how to take advantage of this awesome tool and what you can do with it.

Grafana JSON API: How to import third-party data sources in Grafana Cloud

Have you ever wanted to test out Grafana Cloud but don’t have any available data to monitor? Well, have no fear! With the Grafana JSON API plugin, you can query publicly available JSON endpoints. The JSON API is a wonderful way to start using Grafana Cloud. You can quickly see data in action, and there are a multitude of things you can build, analyze, and monitor using the JSON API.

Grafana Pyroscope 1.0 release: continuous profiling for a modern open source observability stack

When we launched Pyroscope in 2021, we had one clear goal: Give developers a powerful open source continuous profiling tool for collecting, storing, and analyzing profiling data. Grafana Labs had a similar goal when they released Grafana Phlare, a horizontally scalable, highly available open source profiling solution inspired by databases like Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, and Grafana Tempo.