ObservabilityCON 2022: A guide to new OSS projects, LGTM stack updates, and more from Grafana Labs

ObservabilityCON 2022, hosted by Grafana Labs, highlighted a series of innovative updates and partnerships aimed at enhancing the capabilities of their observability stack. Key announcements included the acquisition and integration of Pyroscope into Grafana Pyroscope for continuous profiling, and the introduction of Grafana Faro for frontend application observability, which aims to improve the monitoring of real user interactions on websites. The event also featured the release of Grafana Phlare, a scalable backend for profiling data, and the strategic partnership with Isovalent for Cilium integration, facilitating enhanced monitoring of Kubernetes applications. Updates to the Grafana LGTM stack were unveiled, such as improved log storage in Grafana Loki, the new TraceQL query language in Grafana Tempo, and expanded metric ingestion in Grafana Mimir. Additionally, the Grafana Cloud Incident Response and Management suite saw enhancements, with new features in Grafana Incident, OnCall, and Alerting, aimed at streamlining incident workflows. These developments emphasize Grafana Labs' commitment to open source and interoperability within the observability ecosystem.