Learn how to distinguish widgets from visualizations for building better dashboards with Grafana 10.1. This update will improve your dashboard creation process because if you want to integrate elements like text, news, or an annotation list, you no longer need to select a data source first. Plus, to optimize your editing experience, the plugins list and library panels are now context-aware, adjusting in real time based on whether you’re working with a widget or a visualization.

Learn how to use the network layer type for node graphs with geometric data. This feature is new in Grafana 10.1 and enables the ability to visualize your network on a map, which can provide additional context when monitoring the state of nodes and the connections between them.

You may have built an alert rule with Grafana Alerting and then grappled with routing, reconfiguring, and managing the different alerts your team set up. To address this challenge, we’ve implemented a series of improvements to set up and maintain alert rules in Grafana. Watch how the new alerting workflow works.

Check out four new features we added to the flame graph visualization— including custom color schemes and better navigation — that give you a dynamic and more detailed look into your continuous profiling data.

Pinpointing specific spans can be daunting, but the new span filter feature in Grafana 10.1 is here to solve that. Span filters allow you to refine the spans displayed in Grafana based on specific criteria.

Tempo offers amazing performance, but there are still cases where TraceQL queries take a long time to return results. This could be due to a multitude of reasons from the complexity of the query, amount of choices stored, or the timeframe selected. See how to navigate your query results more quickly, with query results streaming, available as an experimental feature in Grafana version 10.1.

In this video, we will demonstrate how to automatically correlate performance test results with server-side tracing data in Grafana Cloud k6 to troubleshoot issues quickly and efficiently.

Ari Hershowitz and Andrii Kovalov from Govable.ai talk about modernizing government documents with Govable and Grafana, and how they saved weeks of effort by using Grafana as a ready-made frontend for their clients. They are joined by Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh from Grafana Labs.

In this episode of Grafana Office Hours, Solution Architect Huzaifa Asif talks about how he has used Grafana k6 for WebSockets and infrastructure testing, and how k6 can be used for general reliability testing in addition to load testing. He is joined by Grafana Labs Developer Advocates Nicole van der Hoeven and Paul Balogh.

In this 100th episode of k6 Office Hours, the Grafana Developer Advocates celebrate how it all started! Join us at this live fika with our favorite drinks and discuss our favorite moments and episodes.