Grafana / Grafana Labs

Grafana 10 is fresh off the presses, and it includes some important changes to Grafana plugins that any plugin developer or user will want to know. Senior Product Manager David Harris chats to Senior Developer Advocate Nicole van der Hoeven about all the new features available to plugins (including the new Scenes framework) and some breaking changes to legacy plugins.

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Contact Nicole:
Mastodon: https://pkm.social/@nicole
GitHub: https://github.com/nicolevanderhoeven
Site: https://nicolevanderhoeven.com

Contact David:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-harris-pm/
GitHub: https://github.com/sympatheticmoose

Learn more about Grafana Labs:
Website: https://grafana.com
Repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana

The keynote at GrafanaCON 2023 streamed live from Stockholm and kicked off two days of sessions on the latest Grafana 10 release as well as success stories and interesting use cases from the community.

00:00 - Grafana: The story of how it all started. In this pre-recorded video, contributors to the Grafana project tell the story of the early days of the open source project created by Torkel Ödegaard in 2013. A full documentary will be released in December to mark the 10th anniversary of the project.
04:53 - Grafana Labs co-founders open GrafanaCON 2023. Raj Dutt, Torkel Ödegaard, and Anthony Woods welcome everyone to our annual community conference.
09:27 - The evolution of Grafana from v1 to v9. Torkel talks about the history of the project and the major improvements and changes along the way.
24:20 - The highlights of Grafana 10. Director of Engineering Mihaela Maior talks about the most impactful improvements in the latest major release, making it easier to get started.
27:44 - Live Grafana 10 demo. Torkel walks us through a demo of Grafana 10.
36:00 - More advanced features in Grafana 10. Mihaela shares how Grafana 10 enables you to share your dashboards, correlate your data, and use Grafana as a platform for your new app or plugin.
40:52 - The future of Grafana, after Grafana 10. Torkel, the father of Grafana, talks about what's ahead for the project.
42:33 - Beyond Grafana 10: Scenes and dynamic dashboards. Torkel explains why he's so excited about the potential of Scenes, the Grafana 10 feature that is a next-generation dashboard architecture designed to support new, dynamic, and more powerful dashboarding features.
48:41 - Grafana dashboards in the wild. Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt highlights some of the cool Grafana dashboards we've seen from the community over the past year.
57:32 - The Golden Grot Awards. Our first-ever community dashboard awards are presented to Nicky Sonnemans (personal category) and Raymond Sowden (professional category).
1:01:37 - More added to the Grafana Cloud free tier! Raj announces that the actually useful, forever-free tier of our fully managed observability offering now includes all enterprise plugins and much more.

You can watch all the GrafanaCON sessions online. https://grafana.com/about/events/grafanacon/2023/

For more about Grafana 10, read the Grafana 10 release blog. https://grafana.com/blog/2023/06/13/grafana-10-release-all-the-new-features-to-know/

For a complete list of new features, check out:
The Grafana documentation - https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt
Our changelog - https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
The What’s New in Grafana 10.0 documentation - https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/whats-new-in-v10-0/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt

You can explore all the new features in Grafana 10 by upgrading your instance or downloading Grafana 10 today.
Upgrade - https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/upgrading/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt
Download - https://grafana.com/grafana/download/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt

Or the easiest way to get started is to sign up for Grafana Cloud, which has a generous forever-free tier and plans for every use case. Get your free account today! https://grafana.com/auth/sign-up/create-user/?pg=blog&plcmt=body-txt

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