Grafana has enhanced its integration with Loki, allowing users to easily use Loki as a metric datasource in dashboards, eliminating the need for previous hacks that involved adding Loki as a Prometheus datasource. This improvement, available from Grafana v6.6, enables users to create dashboards that combine log data with metrics without requiring any code changes for metric instrumentation when the application lacks it. Users need to load data into Loki, choose a visualization type such as Graph or Gauge, and write a metric query using Loki's LogQL, with options for fixed intervals or using the Grafana variable $__interval. The seamless integration allows for the creation of application dashboards based solely on logs, and an upcoming webinar on April 22 will cover the basics of Loki, its setup, and usage within Grafana, along with an introduction to querying.