From 💩 data to crystal-clear insights.

When the City of Morro Bay's new wastewater facility came online, Grant Chase didn’t settle for observing murky data.

Instead, he built a real-time #Grafana command center to observe the facility's pumps, sensors, and even the microbes in the basins.

His efforts resulted in his recognition as our 2025 Golden Grot Award winner in the professional category. Congratulations, Grant!

🏆 Read about the use case and the award-winning dashboard: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/06/20/going-with-the-flow-how-one-golden-grot-awards-winner-monitors-wastewater-with-grafana/?src=masto&mdm=social&camp=blog

🎉 We've been recognized on Inc.'s Best Workplaces list... for the 3rd year in a row!

This list honors companies that "invest in top-tier benefits, development opportunities, and more."

Come and join our exceptional team and culture: https://grafana.com/about/careers/open-positions/

⚠️ Action required! ⚠️

The #CNCF Slack workspace is shifting to a free plan on Friday, June 20, 2025. Read the latest #OpenTelemetry blog post to find out what you should consider doing before then.

https://buff.ly/ivleVDm

🏳️‍🌈 Pride began with the bravery to be seen. We honor the courage of those who stood up at Stonewall—and stand with the LGBTQIA+ community today and every day.

💨 Grafana Tempo 2.8 is here!

Learn about the latest #TraceQL features and performance improvements in the open source and high-scale distributed tracing backend.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/06/12/grafana-tempo-2.8-release-memory-improvements-new-traceql-features-and-more/?camp=blog&mdm=social

We're taking #ObservabilityCON on the Road after our conference in London 🌍

Register to "Save the Date" to be notified when 30% discount tickets go on sale.

These 1-day events bring the highlights of ObservabilityCON to a city near you. Preview #AI solutions and new LGTM Stack releases, deepen your OSS observability expertise, and leave with actionable strategies to drive bigger business impact.

São Paulo (4 Nov): https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon-on-the-road/2025/sao-paulo/?mdm=social&src=masto&camp=ocr2025

Washington, D.C. (Nov 5): https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon-on-the-road/2025/washington-dc/?mdm=social&src=masto&camp=ocr2025

Dallas (Nov 18): https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon-on-the-road/2025/dallas/?mdm=social&src=masto&camp=ocr2025

Madrid (Nov 18): https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon-on-the-road/2025/madrid/?mdm=social&src=masto&camp=ocr2025

🎉 Introducing Grafana Everywhere — a new series spotlighting the bold and unexpected ways people use the #Grafana Stack to power what's next.

From everyday wins to moonshot missions, see what happens when observability is everywhere.

Our first video is out of this world. Learn how Grafana enabled the very first successful commercial lunar landing, achieved by Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission One.

https://youtu.be/seaOb7ub19E

The Grafana Play platform has amassed thousands of public dashboards and users worldwide.

Earlier this year, we shared our plans to delete inactive Grafana Play accounts as part of our on-going security and privacy efforts here at Grafana Labs.

Here's a behind-the-scenes look at how we went about this process, using Python, JavaScript, and Grafana k6.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/06/10/implementing-grafana-play-privacy-policies-with-grafana-k6-a-behind-the-scenes-look/?camp=blog&mdm=social

📺 If you missed #GrafanaCON 2025, we've got great news — all sessions are now available on-demand for free!

From deep dives to out-of-this-world lunar landings, learn from engineers, maintainers and other users who are doing some very special things in observability with #Grafana and the rest of the LGTM Stack.

https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/

Sometimes, #Grafana helps you land on the moon — literally. 🌕

Firefly Aerospace made history with the first fully successful commercial lunar landing, guided by real-time #telemetry in #Grafana dashboards.

🌙 Read the full story: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/06/09/lunar-level-observability-how-firefly-aerospace-used-grafana-to-monitor-its-historic-moon-landing/?camp=blog&mdm=social

📣 #ObservabilityCON 2025 is heading to London! And it pays to save the date 👇

Preview new Grafana Cloud features & AI solutions, connect with Grafana Labs experts & observability leaders on real-world strategies, and leave with actionable tips to drive bigger business impact.

🎟️ Sign up for our save-the-date perks:

- Be the first to know when 50% off early bird tickets go live
- Unlock an exclusive 20% stackable discount if you miss the early bird window

Sign up: https://grafana.com/events/observabilitycon/?mdm=social&camp=obscon2025

☁️ Thinking of moving to Grafana Cloud?

Announced at #GrafanaCON, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant is a powerful yet intuitive tool designed to streamline your migration from Grafana OSS or Grafana Enterprise.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/grafana-cloud-migration-assistant/?camp=blog&mdm=social

⏱️ Time flies when you're building open source software!

It's been a year since we launched Grafana Alloy, our #OpenTelemetry Collector distribution with built-in #Prometheus pipelines. Look back at the work that's been done, and get a peek at what's still ahead.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/alloy-one-year/?camp=blog&mdm=social

With the Databricks Enterprise data source for #Grafana, you can easily query and visualize your #Databricks data in Grafana Enterprise or Grafana Cloud.

Check our blog post to learn more, and hope to see you next month at #DataAISummit!

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/13/visualize-databricks-in-grafana-write-custom-sql-queries-build-interactive-dashboards-and-more

@aryston exciting! Feel free to share feedback as you start building it into your process.

Announced at #GrafanaCON, Grafana Traces Drilldown is now generally available!

It enables you to quickly investigate and visualize tracing data through a simplified, point-and-click experience — no #TraceQL required.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/08/traces-drilldown-generally-available/?camp=blog&mdm=social

With the first major release of #Grafana k6, we’re doubling down on our commitment to make performance and reliability testing more predictable, scalable, and developer-friendly.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/grafana-k6-1.0-release/?camp=blog&mdm=social

Building a #Grafana dashboard just got easier.

With Grafana 12, your dashboards will be faster to edit, easier to organize, and responsive to any screen sizes.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/dynamic-dashboards-grafana-12/?camp=blog&mdm=social

🆕 Introducing Git Sync, a new feature in Grafana 12 that provides you with the power of Git version control right in your Grafana instance!

A highlight in the Grafana 12 release, Git Sync is an experimental feature in Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise and available to a limited number of users in private preview in Grafana Cloud. It enables you to submit changes in your dashboards as pull requests and get them reviewed by your team directly from Grafana or from Git.

https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/git-sync-grafana-12/?camp=blog&mdm=social

We've made the initial code drop of Grafana Beyla to #OpenTelemetry, under the new project name OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation.

Here's a closer look at why we’re donating Beyla, what it means for users and the broader open source community, and what’s next: https://grafana.com/blog/2025/05/07/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation-beyla-donation/?camp=blog&mdm=social