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How to Monitor Kubernetes With Grafana OSS or Grafana Cloud | Ask the Experts | Grafana Labs

Wondering how to monitor Kubernetes with Grafana? In this “Ask the Experts” episode, Coleman walks through the easiest setup — from Grafana Cloud’s built-in Kubernetes Monitoring plugin to open source Grafana with Mixins and Helm. One command, and your cluster data comes alive.

Deploying Loki on Kubernetes via Helm (Loki Community Call - October 2025)

This Loki Community Call is about deploying Loki on Kubernetes via Helm charts. We talk about why you might want to use Helm to deploy on Kubernetes, best practices for deployment, and which Helm chart you should use! We are Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven, Developer Advocates at Grafana Labs, and we have invited Grafana Champion and Loki Helm Maintainer Jan-Otto Kröpke, Principal Cloud Architect at QualityOperations GmbH, to talk about the state of the Loki Helm Chart.

Faster, more collaborative data exploration: Introducing saved queries in Grafana Cloud

Writing queries is one of Grafana’s most powerful features, but it can also be one of the most time-consuming. Whether you’re exploring logs or building new dashboards, you often find yourself and your team rewriting the same queries over and over again. This is why we rolled out saved queries, a feature that makes it easy for everyone on your team to save, share, and reuse queries, eliminating the need to start from scratch each time.

How Atlassian built a smarter observability system with Grafana and OpenTelemetry

Discover how Atlassian built OpsDeck, an observability platform powered by Grafana, to automate incident detection, improve response time, and reduce troubleshooting from one hour to under a minute. Hear how the Observability Insights team scaled OpenTelemetry, broke silos, and built smarter workflows for both engineers and support.

Declarative Configuration in OTel (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call #1)

We’re kicking off a brand-new Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call! Join us as we dive into getting observability into your apps and infrastructure with Grafana, powered by OpenTelemetry. In this session, we’ll dive into Declarative Config — the new way to make OpenTelemetry onboarding simple and powerful. Instead of juggling environment variables or boilerplate in your startup code, declarative config gives you a clean, language-agnostic approach that works across SDKs and unlocks future possibilities like remote configuration. Join us with Marylia Gutierrez (OTel JavaScript approver & core contributor) to explore.

Grafana and Grafana Cloud release cycle: An end-of-year update

With the end of the year fast approaching, we want to let you know about some important dates for our upcoming release freezes. Our annual release freeze helps ensure stability for everyone during the holiday season, which is a critical time for many of our customers. This pause helps us protect our on-call teams and maintain a smooth experience for you.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 release: MCP server support, TraceQL metrics sampling, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.9 is now available, delivering MCP server support, TraceQL performance improvements, and more. Watch the video below to see the Tempo MCP server in action and learn how to speed up TraceQL metrics queries, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. The Grafana Tempo 2.9 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.