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tag: Grafana-Cloud · 4 items

2026-08-25 · Grafana Blog · source ↗ #observability#tracing#grafana-cloud
  • Platform/SRE — Learn: Explains a GA intelligent sampling policy in Grafana Cloud Traces that aims to give fairer service representation within a trace budget; worth evaluating if already on Grafana Cloud, but no deadline or operational forcing function.
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  • Platform/SRE — Plan: Teams using IP allowlisting to permit Grafana Cloud traffic must migrate from legacy per-product endpoints (JSON, txt, DNS) to the new unified Allowlist API before January 31, 2027, when the old formats stop being maintained; schedule the allowlist automation update and test before the deadline.
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2026-07-23 · Grafana Blog · source ↗ #grafana-cloud#finops#observability
  • Platform/SRE — Learn: Grafana Cloud now supports label-based cost attribution (e.g., team, env) across metrics, logs, traces, k6, and Synthetic Monitoring — useful context for platform teams that want to support internal showback models, but no migration or deadline is involved.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Plan: Evaluate enabling Grafana Cloud cost attribution labels this quarter if the org needs chargeback or showback across teams; the new k6 and Synthetic Monitoring coverage makes this a more complete FinOps lever for observability spend.
  • Platform/SRE — Learn: Useful reference for SREs managing Grafana Cloud RBAC as observability centralizes across teams, but no operational change required — no EOL, deprecation, or security anchor present.
  • CI/CD — Skip
  • Leader — Learn: Outlines a scalable access governance model for centralized observability platforms, relevant when evaluating Grafana Cloud as a standard or managing sprawl across cloud/on-prem data sources.