The updated Kubernetes integration for Grafana Cloud enhances monitoring and alerting capabilities for Kubernetes clusters by introducing curated dashboards, built-in alerts, and a user-friendly homepage. These improvements allow users to efficiently monitor workload resource usage and cluster operations, with dashboards providing insights into resource consumption and cluster health. The integration also simplifies container log collection and correlation with metrics, and introduces several preconfigured alerts for key cluster metrics. Moreover, it supports kube-state-metrics for better resource allocation visualization, and features a preconfigured metric allowlist to manage metric cardinality. Aligned with the Kubernetes open-source community, this integration will eventually support additional Grafana Cloud integrations and streamline observability across metrics, logs, and traces. Users can easily install or upgrade the integration via their hosted Grafana instance, with comprehensive documentation available for further guidance. Grafana Cloud also offers a flexible plan structure, including a free tier, to accommodate various user needs.