Changelog, an indie media company producing content for software developers, utilizes Grafana Cloud to optimize its website performance and monitoring. Site Reliability Engineer Gerhard Lazu initially built Grafana dashboards for better visibility into Changelog's systems, discovering that Grafana's tools provided comprehensive insights and easy dashboard creation. After incorporating Grafana Loki for enhanced log aggregation, Changelog migrated to Grafana Cloud's managed service, benefiting from its free tier to offload maintenance and upgrades. This transition has enabled Gerhard to leverage Grafana Cloud's synthetic monitoring and robust alerting features, significantly reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) for incidents and providing a more flexible approach to infrastructure management. By integrating alerts with Telegram, the team ensures multiple alerting channels while relying on Grafana's support for ongoing reliability and performance improvements.