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Grafana 12.4 TL;DR - The Final 12.x Release

As the final minor release in the Grafana 12 series, 12.4 builds on our shift toward scalable, as-code workflows and a dramatically improved user experience. From bi-directional Git workflows to smarter dashboard layouts and stronger governance controls, this release is all about helping teams move faster with less friction.

OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Standards, Tracing, and the Future of Observability | Big Tent S3E6

OpenTelemetry co-founder Ted Young joins Grafana’s Big Tent podcast to explain how observability evolved beyond logs, metrics, and traces. Learn why tracing is just logging with context, how OpenTelemetry became a standard, and what’s next for zero-touch instrumentation and AI-driven observability.

Investigate Issues in Slack: Grafana Cloud Slack App with AI

The Grafana Cloud app for Slack brings observability and incident response closer to where you and your teams already collaborate Ask questions about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate with full context.

How we built Grafana Assistant - a conversation about AI development for observability

This conversation with Grafana Labs engineers, Mat Ryer, Cyril Tovena and Sven Großmann, dives deep into the engineering behind Grafana Assistant, exploring 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.

The Future of Dashboards: Git Sync, SQL Expressions, and Dynamic Layouts | Big Tent S3E5

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard joins Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie for a wide-ranging conversation about how Grafana began, why design and usability mattered from day one, and how the project evolved into a platform used by tens of millions — from developers to power stations and even space missions.