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🦃 It's not called "Thanks-give-us-your-email." It's Thanksgiving. We're giving away the 2024 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Observability Platforms report. No need to fill out a form: https://bit.ly/4g6CxYt Enjoy and Happy "Thanksgifting" from Grafana Labs!

Grafana Labs is a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms and ranks among the 5 highest scoring vendors across all use cases. Get the Critical Capabilities report (no form required): https://bit.ly/4g6CxYt

☁️ Lower costs, reduced maintenance, centralized tools — here's a look at some of the top reasons observability experts choose Grafana Cloud: https://bit.ly/3DbWqzh

2024 was a big year for Grafana Cloud and observability. From extending adaptive telemetry to logs and beyond to simplified data analysis with the Explore apps suite, see *all* of the big updates we made this year: https://bit.ly/4gjedmQ Just a few updates (in order of appearance): 1. Additions to Application Observability such as: Time frame comparison, Automatic baseline, Filter-by feature, and In-context navigation 2. Two new check types in Synthetic Monitoring: multiHTTP and k6 scripted checks 3. A new suite of unified workflows connecting Asserts and Grafana Cloud solutions to help automate the correlation of anomalies across infrastructure and application layers — providing a more cohesive troubleshooting experience 4. Multi-cloud monitoring with Cloud Provider Observability — an application for monitoring AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud services, all in Grafana Cloud 5. AI Observability solution, a Grafana Cloud integration designed to provide insights into your genAI use cases.

Have you ever created an awesome PromQL query, but then get a “No data” response when you run it? If so, PromQL vector matching might be the culprit. In this blog post, Grafana Champion Dawid Dębowski explains what you need to know: https://bit.ly/3VFi997

Introducing the memorable Grafana use cases and dashboards of 2024 ➡️ https://bit.ly/3OSpj6b Monitoring steel alloy defects? Sure. Figuring out what birds are chirping in your back yard? Of course. Helping land on the moon? No problem. With all the innovative ways the community used our dashboards this year, it begs the question: What can't you do with Grafana? Featured dashboards (in order of appearance): 1. Monitoring assets for automotive and industrial OEMs (CAN bus)| Martin Falch, CSS Electronics 2. Prepping for a morning commute in Atlanta | Ruben Fernandez 3. Observing (and understanding) bird songs | Ivana Huckova and Sven Großmann 4. Measuring climate in the Italian Alps | Alessandro Zandonai, Veronika Fontana, Johannes Klotz, Giacomo Bertoldi, Harald Crepaz, Ulrike Tappeiner, and Georg Niedrist of Eurac Research; Universität Innsbruck 5. Investigating the efficiency of an induction cooktop | Tim Eden 6. Helping Japan land on the moon | Satoshi NAKAHIRA, JAXA: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency 7. Empowering internal customers with IoT, inventory, and UPS information | Felix Spitzer, SCHWARZ Global Services Hub ROMANIA 8. Identifying defects in steel alloys | Christopher Field, Theia Scientific, LLC 9. Tracking a diabetic child's health | Erich Radstake 10. Visualizing smart home devices in one place | Navish Bahl 11. Tracking kids' chores completion | Brian LeBlanc ☁︎

A huge step forward! The OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation agent and SDK now offer an easy solution to convert logs from frameworks like SLF4J/Logback or Log4j2 into OTel-compliant JSON logs on stdout with all resource and log attributes. Check out Cyrille Le Clerc and Gregor Zeitlinger's step-by-step post to learn more and get started: https://lnkd.in/dyVvJXnY

Optimizing customers' investments in renewable energy is a breeze for SYSO Technologies. After all, their observability stack is *powered* by Grafana Cloud. Here's why: 🌎 Ability to maximize revenue of assets for customers 🌎 Streamlined and efficient alerting system 🌎 Single pane of glass to manage hundreds of assets for customers “We use Grafana to get that consistent view across all the different types of assets that we manage, so the operations team can make sure we are maximizing the revenue of those assets for our customers." - James Nichols, SVP, Technology at SYSO Read their story with Grafana Cloud: https://bit.ly/3ZQg4cE

🏆 The Golden Grot awards are back! These awards recognize the best personal and professional Grafana dashboards. If you've created one that you're proud of, submit your awards by Feb 21: https://bit.ly/49yEkTT Winners will receive a trip to GrafanaCON 2025 in Seattle (May 6-8)! Swipe to see last year's winning dashboards by Christopher Field and Ruben Fernandez.

The #GrafanaCON 2025 CFP is open! 🎤 We’re looking for first-time and seasoned speakers to share their real-world experiences with Grafana, custom-built plugins, cool dashboards, and more. Apply by Jan 30: https://bit.ly/41s43vi We’re open to a wide range of topics, from beginner to advanced, and speakers from all backgrounds and industries. All talks will be given in-person at the event and speakers will receive free entry to the full event, plus access to a speaker gathering.