GrafanaCON 2025 in Seattle showcased numerous announcements from Grafana Labs, including the release of Grafana 12, which introduces advanced observability tools like a Drilldown experience for metrics, logs, and traces, and Git Sync for dashboard management. The conference also celebrated the donation of Grafana Beyla to the OpenTelemetry project, now known as OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation, and introduced Grafana Assistant, a context-aware, integrated LLM agent in private preview on Grafana Cloud. The event marked the major release of Grafana k6 1.0, offering TypeScript support and revamped test insights, and highlighted the general availability of Traces Drilldown for queryless tracing. Grafana Alloy's first anniversary was celebrated with milestones, including over 525,000 active instances and numerous contributions to the OpenTelemetry community. The Golden Grot Awards were presented to innovative Grafana dashboard creators, recognizing projects that tracked the International Space Station and monitored a wastewater treatment plant, emphasizing the diverse applications of Grafana's tools.