> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://itsfoss.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Grafana 12 & Grafana Assistant Making a Debut at GrafanaCON 2025 - URL: https://itsfoss.com/news/grafanacon-2025/ - Published: 2025-05-08T05:37:23.000Z - Updated: 2025-05-08T05:37:23.000Z - Description: GrafanaCON 2025 was an absolute banger, packed with exciting new launches. - Author: Sourav Rudra - Tags: Events, News, #Import 2025-11-08 21:15 Used by developers who want to monitor, visualize, and understand their systems, Grafana is **an open source platform that brings all the metrics, logs, and traces under one roof**, facilitating easy troubleshooting, better performance insights, and more informed decision-making. [Grafana Labs](https://grafana.com/?ref=itsfoss.com) is behind that and many other open source observability tools that help developers monitor, analyze, and improve system performance at scale. Every year, they conduct [GrafanaCON](https://grafana.com/events/grafanacon/?ref=itsfoss.com) in Seattle, Washington, a community-driven event where new launches drop and people get together to make new connections and share ideas. As expected, **this year's GrafanaCON hasn't disappointed**, with a new Grafana release, the introduction of Grafana Assistant, a stable release for Grafana k6, and Grafana Beyla being given a new home. Let's see what's in store. 😄 ## Grafana 12 Release The latest release of their flagship open source product, Grafana, is here. With a focus on what the user needs, the developers have introduced **a new JSON structure** that separates general settings from dashboard content, making the overall layout much cleaner and easier to work with. Based on that, they have brought in **dynamic dashboards**, which allow for more flexible dashboard creation and access to better customization tools. Plus, there is now **support for Git Sync**,letting users automatically sync their Grafana dashboards to a GitHub repository, allowing them to review any changes, making way for more portable dashboards. There is also **support for 15 new data sources**: [Azure CosmosDB](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cosmos-db?ref=itsfoss.com), [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/?ref=itsfoss.com), [Atlassian Statuspage](https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage?ref=itsfoss.com), [Amazon DynamoDB](https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/?ref=itsfoss.com), and [PagerDuty](https://www.pagerduty.com/?ref=itsfoss.com). Grafana 12 is available from the [official website](https://grafana.com/grafana/?ref=itsfoss.com) if you are looking to deploy it on your systems. [Grafana 12](https://grafana.com/grafana/?ref=itsfoss.com) ## Grafana Beyla Handed Over to OpenTelemetry Grafana Lab's [Beyla](https://grafana.com/oss/beyla-ebpf/?ref=itsfoss.com) has been donated to the [OpenTelemetry](https://opentelemetry.io/?ref=itsfoss.com) project, with a new name being coined, "*OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation*". If you didn't know, Beyla is an open source tool that helps developers track how their apps are performing without the need for them to fiddle with any code. However, **this doesn't mean that Grafana Beyla will cease to exist**. It has just become the downstream to OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation and will continue to exist in Grafana Lab's product lineup. Speaking on this, [Nikola Grcevski](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikola-grcevski-16796717/?ref=itsfoss.com), Principal Software Engineer at Grafana Labs, added that: > About six months ago, Grafana Labs started on a journey to donate Beyla to the OpenTelemetry project. We realized that Beyla had one superpower: it was able to instrument and generate telemetry where all other approaches failed. > > This is when we understood that Beyla needs to become a true community-owned project under the OpenTelemetry umbrella. If you are interested in learning more, the new upstream repository is over at [GitHub](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation?ref=itsfoss.com). [OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-ebpf-instrumentation?ref=itsfoss.com) ## Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud Launched as a "*context-aware chat experience*", Grafana Assistant is **a new AI-powered addition** for [Grafana Cloud](https://grafana.com/products/cloud/?ref=itsfoss.com) users that can take in prompts about the user's observability data via an intuitive interface. It helps the user carry out a range of tasks like navigating to a specific view, creating new dashboards according to natural language prompts, and making batch changes to dashboards. As for availability, Grafana Assistant **is being rolled out gradually**, with a private preview being made available for limited users. ## Grafana k6 1.0 Release Finally, after nearly a decade of development, the first stable release of Grafana Labs’ open source performance testing tool, [k6](https://k6.io/?ref=itsfoss.com), has landed, bringing native extension support, TypeScript compatibility, a revamped end-of-test summary page, and a promise of production-grade stability. You can get Grafana k6 1.0 from the [official website](https://k6.io/?ref=itsfoss.com), which has instructions for configuring it via Grafana Cloud and self-hosting it. [Grafana k6 1.0](https://k6.io/?ref=itsfoss.com)