How we use Grafana Alloy clustering to scrape nearly 20M Prometheus metrics

If you are interested in running your own Grafana Alloy cluster for high availability or horizontal scalability, then you’re in the right place. That’s because we’ve already done it with our own agentless exporters system, which allows you to scrape data from providers such as Amazon CloudWatch, without running any…

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6 tips to improve your Grafana plugin before you publish

Whether they help you tap into external data sources or add a new visualization type to your dashboard, plugins are a powerful way to customize and extend the value of Grafana.  There’s a rich (and constantly evolving) ecosystem of Grafana plugins you can choose from today. While some of these…

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Snowflake data visualization: all the latest features to monitor metrics, enhance security, and more

In 2020, we introduced the Snowflake Enterprise data source plugin for Grafana, allowing users to seamlessly pull data from the Snowflake cloud-based data storage and analytics service into Grafana dashboards. Available for Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud users, it’s a powerful way to not only query and visualize Snowlake data,…

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Streamlining runtime diagnostics with on-demand profiling: Inside Roblox’s observability stack

Each day, more than 70 million active users sign into Roblox to create, play, and interact with each other through virtual experiences. And regardless of what those experiences are, exactly — adopting a pet, completing an obstacle course, or fulfilling orders at a virtual pizza parlor — the Roblox observability…

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Mobile app observability with OpenTelemetry, Embrace, and Grafana Cloud

We are excited to announce an expansion of our partnership with Embrace to bring mobile observability to our users using open standards like OpenTelemetry.  We first worked with Embrace last year when they created a plugin for Grafana that gives mobile teams an easy way to visualize and analyze real-time…

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Grafana update: Service account tokens are replacing API keys

TL;DR All existing API keys will continue working seamlessly. Grafana Terraform provider api_key resource has been removed in v3. Scripts or provisioning tools such as Terraform that provision API keys in Grafana will need to migrate their automation to use service account tokens. Enhancing security and providing flexible access control…

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Improved anomaly detection and faster root cause analysis: the latest features in Grafana Cloud Application Observability

In recent 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,” said Tom Wilkie, CTO of Grafana Labs, at ObservabilityCON 2023. In response to that, last…

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Understanding Broken Function Level Authorization

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) allow your applications to talk to one another, like an application-to-application iMessage or Signal. If you’ve ever texted a message to the wrong group chat, you’ve created a situation that mimics what broken function level authentication does between users and applications. By giving this other group…

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