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Manage log volumes, metrics cardinality, monthly bills: Explore Grafana Cloud cost management tools

As more organizations adopt observability at massive scale, they have also been grappling with rising costs. Over the past 12 months, we have been working on different solutions to help our users better understand and manage their observability stack, not to mention the bills that come with scaling it.

Grafana Beyla 1.0 release: zero-code instrumentation for application telemetry using eBPF

Just two months after introducing the public preview of Grafana Beyla, we are excited to announce the general availability of the open source project with the release of Grafana Beyla 1.0 at ObservabilityCON 2023 today. We’ve worked hard in the last two months to stabilize, stress test, and refine the features that were part of the public preview of this open source eBPF auto-instrumentation tool.

How Asserts.ai will make it even easier for Grafana Cloud users to understand their observability data

At Grafana Labs, our mission has always been to help our users and customers understand the behavior of their applications and services. Over the past two years, the biggest needs we’ve heard from our customers have been to make it easier to understand their observability data, to extend observability into the application layer, and to get deeper, contextualized analytics.

Grafana k6 for Beginners: Why observability needs testing

Having observability and monitoring solutions is a great way to gain insights into your applications' health, behavior, and performance. However, it doesn’t prevent incidents. Observability needs a partner, and this is where Grafana k6 can help you! In this video, Marie Cruz, a Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, explores what Grafana k6 is, why it's the missing puzzle piece in your Grafana stack, and how to get started.

Building Dashboard and Dashboard Inputs in Cribl Search

This video demonstrates how to create “inputs” to Cribl Search dashboards. An Input is a control widget that we can add to our Dashboards to control how they execute. They allow the user to supply a range of inputs to customize one or many of the Searches in each of the panels on a given dashboard.

Load testing on Kubernetes with k6 Private Load Zones (Grafana Office Hours #19)

This week, we're talking about how you can do load testing on Kubernetes with k6 Private Load Zones, a new feature on Grafana Cloud k6 that leverages the k6 Kubernetes operator to allow you to run distributed load tests against applications behind a firewall. Here to discuss this new feature are Senior Software Engineer Olha Yevtushenko, Product Manager Daniel González Lopes, Developer Advocate Paul Balogh, and Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven.

Introducing the Notification API

You'll often hear us saying "everyone loves a dashboard", and that's most certainly true, but nobody loves staring at a screen all day waiting for something to happen. Real magic is when your awesome dashboard comes to you, where you need it, when you need it. Over the last few months we've introduced a bunch of powerful features to make "taking action" as simple as possible... Monitors let you define the health of your data so you can see at a glance if something isn't right.