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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Grafana Knowledge Graph builds a contextual layer on top of your telemetry data — automatically extracting entities & relationships so you can see how your services connect. See how it powers root-cause investigation both in the Grafana UI and through agentic workflows using gcx + Claude Code.
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What is the Grafana Knowledge Graph and How Does It Help AI Agents? (Demo)
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey Tempo community! 👋 We have a community call coming up on October 8, 9:30a PT/6:30p CEST. Two new ways to use a #TraceQL query in Tempo 3.1: redact the traces it matches, or filter a trace-by-ID v2 response down to matching spans.
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Grafana Tempo: Redaction by query & TraceQL filtering in trace-by-ID v2 (Oct 2026 Community Call)
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Observability shouldn't be the last item on the ticket... But we understand it can happen. 😌 Fortunately, Grafana Assistant can help you and your teams plan it from the start. Here's how.
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Smarter onboarding and planning with Grafana Assistant: How to ensure observability is baked in from the start | Grafana Labs
Stop bolting on observability at the end. Observability belongs at every stage of building and running software, and with our AI assistant, you can make sure it's there from the start.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grafana engineer Gregor Zeitlinger built a 34-key keyboard where keys change based on what you just typed, and single presses expand into full words. This is the rabbit hole that taught him how, and how you can start building your own.
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The secret world of keyboard wizardry
I built a keyboard whose keys finish my words. Here’s the rabbit hole that taught me to build one, and how you can start building your own.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI agents use CLIs differently than humans do. gcx was built with this in mind.
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CLIs in the age of agents: how we designed gcx
AI agents use CLIs differently than people do. Learn how we built gcx, a CLI designed for AI agents to work with Grafana, and the…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
HCP Terraform agents already emit OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs. You just need something to collect them. Here's how to ship all three into Grafana Cloud with Alloy.
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How to monitor HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise with Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs
Use this guide to learn how to monitor HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise in Grafana Cloud so you can be sure your deployment operates properly.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Your voice helps the Grafana community! 🗣️ Speak at one of our meetups — whether it's a lightning talk or a deep dive — and score an exclusive free t-shirt! Submit your talk, take the stage, and receive your tee. Limit one per speaker: grafana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔭 Who isn’t in awe of our celestial neighbor? It’s still surreal knowing Grafana helped teams at JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social, and NASA via Intuitive Machines make Moon landing history. Happy International Observe the Moon Night.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Running a side hustle and a Grafana stack? Bad news: There isn't an official Shopify data source for Grafana. Good news: You can still wire it up in Grafana through the Infinity plugin and GraphQL API!
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From storefront to single pane of glass: how I connected Shopify to Grafana Cloud
Orders, revenue, customers, and fulfillment — visualized in Grafana, refreshing on their own.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
ICYMI: We introduced a new Graphviz panel in Grafana that lets you describe a diagram in DOT instead of drawing it by hand... and wire it to live data!
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How to visualize workflows and business processes in Grafana: Introducing the Graphviz panel | Grafana Labs
The Graphviz panel offers a new way to draw payment flows, network weathermaps, and process diagrams in Grafana, wiring them straight to your live data.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Probabilistic sampling preserves the imbalance in your traces. Busy endpoints crowd out everything else. The new volumetric policy in Adaptive Traces fixes that automatically!
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How volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs
Tracing is a richest observability signal, but it's noisy and susceptible to bloat. With the new volumetric policy in Adaptive Traces, you can save money and still get a diverse, representative set of...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Who's running some Cypress tests? If you are, here's how to turn Cypress test results into Prometheus metrics and ship them to Grafana Cloud using hooks, Pushgateway, and Alloy.
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How to monitor Cypress tests with Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs
Monitor your Cypress tests by converting results into Prometheus metrics inside a Cypress hook, pushing them to a Prometheus Pushgateway, and letting Alloy scrape the gateway and forward everything to...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey Synthetic Monitoring users! 👋 We're rolling out an update that lets your custom labels attach directly to every check metric, not just sm_check_info, & removes the label_ prefix. If you use custom labels in Synthetic Monitoring, learn how to migrate to the new labels. Migrate by Mar 1, 2027.
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Custom labels in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring: New updates for consistency and ease-of-use | Grafana Labs
Custom labels now appear directly across your Synthetic Monitoring telemetry, making them easier to use with label-based workflows throughout Grafana Cloud.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👋 Synthetic Monitoring users! We're rolling out an update that lets your custom labels attach to every check metric, not just sm_check_info, & removes the label_ prefix. If you use custom labels, learn how to migrate to the new labels. Migrate by Mar 1, 2027. grafana.com/blog/synthet...
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Custom labels in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring: New updates for consistency and ease-of-use | Grafana Labs
Custom labels now appear directly across your Synthetic Monitoring telemetry, making them easier to use with label-based workflows throughout Grafana Cloud.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎤 A Eurovision 2026 dashboard in Grafana Cloud: tabbed layouts, repeating rows, two Google Sheets joined with SQL expressions. Now that's music to our ears!
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Douze points for Grafana Cloud: Building a Eurovision dashboard with tabs, variables, and Google…
How I turned the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest into a Grafana Cloud dashboard, using tabbed layouts to beat the scroll, a country variable…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
.@mit.edu Open Learning wants to reach 1 billion learners. Their 5-person team unified observability with one Grafana Cloud stack. Cutting costs immediately with Adaptive Telemetry, and turned observability into a self-serve substrate for devs 🎓 Learn more: grafana.com/success/mit
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
CTW automates full-stack observability for every new game in seconds using Grafana Cloud: self-service for internal teams and game studios.
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How CTW Automated Game Observability with Grafana Cloud and Reduced Incident Resolution Time
CTW replaced fragmented observability tools with Grafana Cloud, automating full-stack monitoring for every new game in seconds. By delivering observability as a self-service platform for internal teams and game studios alike, the company accelerated in...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🆕 k6 2.0 ships a `k6 x docs` command that gives AI coding agents direct, offline, version-matched access to k6 docs without web searches or stale training data.
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Better context, smarter testing: How to give your AI coding agent direct access to k6 docs | Grafana Labs
The k6 x docs command gives AI agents the accurate, version-specific context they need to work effectively with k6, without having to leave the session or perform web searches.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Scaling Alloy as a central telemetry gateway: capacity planning, load testing, and production lessons from a real enterprise deployment. Here's how to get started.
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How to scale Alloy as a central telemetry gateway: capacity planning, load testing, and production lessons | Grafana Labs
Learn how to create your own central gateway for collecting telemetry in Grafana Cloud, based on our experience working with an enterprise customer to size and load test a production Alloy central col...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
We built a shared Go SDK for AI so we could stop reimplementing the same LLM client patterns for every new integration. And as of last month, the Grafana AI SDK for Go is open source.
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The Grafana AI SDK for Go: a shared foundation for building AI applications | Grafana Labs
Learn about the Grafana AI SDK for Go, built to give our teams a shared foundation to work from and open sourced to help other teams building AI applications in Go.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow. Grafana Assistant replaced 51 tool definitions with 2 — cutting 99.1% of tool context tokens — by letting agents discover capabilities only when needed.
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Progressive tool discovery: battling tool overload in AI agents
How a command-line-inspired tool facade lets an agent discover capabilities only when it needs them, helping cut token consumption by more…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
🎉 We've crossed $600M ARR & 10,000 customers worldwide! And we're a 3x Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. This milestone belongs to our community: thank you for making the climb with us. www.businessinsider.com/grafana-lab…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
FloQast uses Grafana Cloud to make every layer of its AI platform observable and auditable — including agent telemetry — so accountants can actually trust it.
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How FloQast Builds Trustworthy AI with Grafana Cloud Observability
FloQast is building AI that accountants can trust by making every layer of its platform observable and auditable. With Grafana Cloud, Assistant Investigations, and Agent Observability, the team connec...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In 16 replays of the same incident, an agent with Knowledge Graph context found the correct root cause 15 times. Without it: once.
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Knowledge Graph as context for LLMs: demonstrating decisive RCA and faster production performance | Grafana Labs
How much does the right context matter for AI-assisted debugging? Our early experiments with the Knowledge Graph in Grafana Cloud offer some promising answers.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
When should you use gcx? 💪 If Grafana Assistant is the brain and Grafana MCP is the easy hand, gcx is the power hand. Built for AI agents working in the terminal, gcx gives them access across Grafana Cloud, so they can pull telemetry, verify code, automate workflows & access places MCP doesn't.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Your voice helps the Grafana community! 🗣️ Speak at one of our meetups — whether it's a lightning talk or a deep dive — and score an exclusive free t-shirt! Submit your talk, take the stage, and receive your tee. Limit one per speaker: grafana.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When should you reach for Grafana MCP? ✋ It's one of the two “hands” in Grafana's AI toolkit — and the easy one at that. MCP lets you bring Grafana into the tools you already use, like ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor, without changing your workflow.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚀 Grafana 13.2: saved queries are now GA — share vetted queries org-wide, find them via command palette, and manage them as code with Terraform.
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Grafana 13.2 release: easier ways to query and explore your data | Grafana Labs
Learn what's new in Grafana 13.2, including updates that make it easier to share and reuse trusted queries, plus new ways to explore busy dashboard panels.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Should I use Grafana Assistant, Grafana MCP, or GCX?” Yes. They're not competitors — they play different roles. 🧠 Assistant = the brain 🙌 MCP + GCX = the hands Let's start with the brain: what Grafana Assistant does, where it shines, and when you should reach for it.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
💸 Your AI is impressive. Your token bill might be too. Oops! See how Grafana keep AI usage and spend visible, catch costly patterns early, and get more control over what’s hitting your budget. Plus, see Grafana Assistant in action. events.grafana.com/cost-management-…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Missed AI Week? We added 6 AI capabilities to our portfolio. "Collectively, these tools and capabilities are part of a larger effort to embed agentic AI capabilities more deeply across the Grafana Labs portfolio of data visualization and analytics tools and platforms." - @matryer.bsky.social
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Grafana Labs Embeds Agentic AI Deeper into Analytics Platforms
Grafana Labs this week embeded AI agents much more deeply into its visualization and analytics portfolio as part of a week long series of online AI events. Find out more here.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Nowadays, you might not know the code diff the same way you would if you'd typed it all out yourself. 🧐 How do you maintain confidence in your code when coding agents have increased the speed of delivery, but the speed of understanding is falling behind?
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Telemetry-driven development: How to gain confidence in your coding agents' behavior with gcx and Grafana MCP | Grafana Labs
See how our AI tools can help you build better. Gain confidence in your code and your agents by using the gcx CLI tool and the Grafana MCP server.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
🚀 Public preview: Session Replay adds visual playback capabilities to Frontend Observability in Grafana Cloud. It reconstructs how a web application appeared & changed as a user interacted with it, so you can observe the journey as it unfolded: grafana.com/blog/visual-...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
😮‍💨 When something breaks, you want the dashboards, context, and the necessary workflows already there. Bake observability in from day one using Grafana Assistant. Here's how from Sven Großmann.
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Smarter onboarding and planning with Grafana Assistant: How to ensure observability is baked in from the start | Grafana Labs
Stop bolting on observability at the end. Observability belongs at every stage of building and running software, and with our AI assistant, you can make sure it's there from the start.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bookmark this. 🔖 This post contains prompts for you to use in Grafana Assistant. Check out the thread and copy + paste into Assistant.
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WarpStream @warpstream.com · 10/08/2026
@tomwilkie.bsky.social from @grafana.bsky.social talks to Ryan Worl about how @warpstream.com helped when they were developing Adaptive Metrics 👉 buff.ly/gTMahnu. Also, check out the case study about how @warpstream.com powers Mimir: buff.ly/tcy28HW
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're building a better search experience in Grafana Assistant. See how we're designing Assistant Search to pull in the right context for your specific needs. medium.com/grafana-labs/search-but-…
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Search, but deeper: how Grafana Assistant finds the right context
Grafana Assistant is only as good as the context it can reach. Here’s the memory that lets it search your dashboards, alerts, incidents…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
AI agents use CLIs differently than people do. Learn how we built gcx, a CLI designed for AI agents to work with Grafana, and the engineering decisions that make agentic workflows more reliable and efficient. medium.com/grafana-labs/clis-in-the…
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CLIs in the age of agents: how we designed gcx
AI agents use CLIs differently than people do. Learn how we built gcx, a CLI designed for AI agents to work with Grafana, and the…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
gcx brings Grafana Cloud and Grafana Assistant directly into your terminal — and to the agentic coding environment running inside it. Spot and resolve incidents in minutes instead of hours. gcx is built to do the heavy lifting. Learn more.
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Get observability in the terminal, for you and your agents, with the gcx CLI tool | Grafana Labs
gcx, currently in public preview, brings Grafana Cloud and Grafana Assistant directly into your terminal—and to the agentic coding environment running inside it—so you can spot and resolve incidents i...
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Game on! 🎮 Gaming platform CTW automated full-stack observability for every new game in seconds using Grafana Cloud — turning monitoring into a self-service platform for internal teams and studios. grafana.com/success/ctw/?mdm=social…
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We close AI Week with a focus on collaboration and accessing Assistant from anywhere. Join the conversation on Reddit: bit.ly/3Rsftge Read about all this week's announcements: bit.ly/3RsftwK Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Building agents is easy; trusting them is hard. Look back at Day 4 of AI Week, where we focused on trust and implementation, and the GA release of Agent Observability. Go to grafana.ai to learn more.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Gain confidence in the performance of your agents with Agent Observability, and see what we're doing to earn your trust with our AI tools. Read more: bit.ly/3RqgN3c Watch a demo: bit.ly/4x57AfE Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Day 3 for AI Week focused on taking the operational load off your plate, with new features to help you investigate incidents faster and automate routine maintenance tasks. Check out the recap below, and go to grafana.ai for all of today's updates.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Add AI and still stay in control with Assistant Investigations (GA), Assistant Automations (GA), and Assistant Watchers (public preview). Read more: bit.ly/3Tp8mFP Watch a demo: bit.ly/4wA17d0 Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Day 2 of AI Week at Grafana Labs was all about building and instrumentation. Check out our recap of all the news, and go to grafana.ai to learn more.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Gain confidence in your code and agents by using the gcx CLI tool and the Grafana MCP server, both of which are now generally available! Read more: bit.ly/3Tp8mFP Watch a demo: bit.ly/4fyOg3i Learn more about AI in Grafana Cloud: grafana.ai
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Grafana Cloud's source IP allowlists are moving to a single, structured JSON API. Here's everything you need to know about the change and next steps. grafana.com/blog/a-new-allowlists-d…
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A new allowlists design for Grafana Cloud IP addresses: What you need to know | Grafana Labs
Grafana Cloud's source IP allowlists are moving to a single, structured JSON API. Here's what's changing, why, and what you need to do.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Supabase + Grafana Cloud now connect in one click—a dashboard, metrics, and no scrape jobs to configure. grafana.com/blog/grafana-cloud-supa…
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How to monitor your Supabase projects: connect Grafana Cloud in one click | Grafana Labs
A streamlined integration for Grafana Cloud and Supabase gives you deep visibility into performance, system health, and database metrics with no complex setup required.
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Woo hoo! Grafana Assistant can now query across 30+ data sources — AppDynamics, Snowflake, Honeycomb, New Relic, and more — in a single investigation, without tab-switching.
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Stop switching tools to find answers: Grafana Assistant now works across 30+ data sources | Grafana Labs
Assistant can query and read your data using natural language, correlate signals across more than 30 sources in a single investigation, and visualize results directly as Grafana dashboards.
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