GrafanaCON 2024: A guide to all the announcements from Grafana Labs

GrafanaCON 2024 marked the return of Grafana Labs' annual conference in Amsterdam, showcasing major advancements in their open-source observability tools. The event featured a keynote unveiling Grafana 11, which offers innovations like a queryless experience for Prometheus metrics, enhanced dashboard functionalities, and improved alert rules. Concurrently, Grafana Loki 3.0 was introduced, enhancing log query performance with Bloom filters and supporting OpenTelemetry logs. A new project, Grafana Alloy, was launched as a 100% OTLP-compatible telemetry collector with enterprise-grade features. The conference also celebrated the 2024 Golden Grot Awards, recognizing exceptional Grafana dashboards, including Ruben Fernandez's commute-monitoring dashboard and Christopher Field's defect-monitoring project for steel alloys in nuclear reactors. The event concluded with the promise of further insights through recap webinars and additional detailed documentation available to the community.