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How to quickly gain operational insights using Grafana Cloud monitoring solutions

Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to start collecting and visualizing your telemetry data. With the fully managed, cloud-hosted platform, even novice observability practitioners can get up and running right away — and Grafana Cloud integrations are a big reason why. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the details of Grafana Cloud integrations, including what they are, the kinds of insights they provide, and how Grafana Alloy plays a role.

Grafana 11.2 Released! Here's the TL;DR | Grafana

Explore the latest updates in Grafana 11.2 in this quick overview video! Dive into new features and enhancements across Dashboards, Transformations, Alerting, and more. Discover improved data visualization controls, dynamic transformations, enhanced alert management, and streamlined data analysis capabilities. Whether you're managing AWS resources or refining OAuth integrations, Grafana 11.2 has something to offer. Don’t miss out on learning how these advancements can elevate your data visualization and monitoring strategies.

11.2 Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant in Public Preview (Demo) | Grafana

In this video, Mitch, the Director of Product Management at Grafana, introduces the Cloud Migration Assistant, available in public preview in Grafana 11.2. This tool simplifies the process of migrating dashboards and data sources from Grafana Open Source or Enterprise to Grafana Cloud. Mitch demonstrates how users can easily transfer their configurations with a point-and-click UI, generate a token for secure connection, and use Private Data Source Connect to access private data sources.

Grafana Canvas Standardized Tooltips and Improved Datalinks in 11.2 (Demo) | Grafana

In 11.2, we've made standardized tooltips and data links improvements in canvas visualizations. These improvements are generally available. Watch the walk-through from Adela on the DataViz Squad at Grafana Labs. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.

Introducing State Timeline Pagination in Grafana 11.2 | Grafana

In 11.2, the state timeline visualization now supports pagination. Previously, all the series in a state timeline were made to fit within the single window of the panel, which could make it hard to read. The Page size option lets you paginate the state timeline visualization to limit how many series are visible at once. This is useful when you have many series.

Centralized Alert History in Grafana; GA in 11.2 | Grafana

With the centralized alert history page, you can view a history of all alert events generated by your Grafana-managed alert rules from one centralized page. This helps you see patterns in your alerts over time, observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces.

Gain actionable insights with real user monitoring: the latest features in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

One of the biggest challenges observability teams face today is gaining end-to-end visibility into their cloud native apps, including modern browser frontends. Without that visibility, you potentially open the door to bad end-user experiences that can hurt customer satisfaction, reduce search engine discoverability, and interfere with overall business goals. This is the exact challenge we address with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability.

Multi-cloud monitoring made easy: monitor AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud services all in one app

Managing multi-cloud environments often means juggling different monitoring tools for each provider, leading to increased complexity and operational overhead. To solve for that, we’re excited to introduce Cloud Provider Observability — an application for monitoring AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud services, all in Grafana Cloud.

How to aggregate metrics but retain critical data: Introducing Exemptions in Adaptive Metrics

When you hear about Adaptive Metrics in Grafana Cloud, all signs point to how it’s a game changer. Adaptive Metrics, which aggregates unused and partially used metrics into lower cardinality versions, has delivered a 35% reduction in metrics costs on average for more than 1,200 organizations. Companies have also spoken candidly about the cost savings they gained from the feature.