The 2026 Golden Grot Awards finalists are here: It’s time to vote!

The 2026 Golden Grot Awards highlight innovative dashboards created with Grafana, showcasing the remarkable applications of observability across diverse domains. Finalists include projects that transform raw data into actionable insights, such as a homelab observability playground, a planetary health monitoring system, a cardiac recovery tracker, a marathon training diagnostic tool, and an aurora borealis visibility predictor. In the professional category, standout entries include a scalable firewall analytics platform, a global arcade game analytics dashboard, lunar mission telemetry monitoring, a real-time automotive diagnostics tool, a seismic network monitoring ecosystem, and a government service performance tracker. Public voting is open until March 11, with winners to be celebrated at GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona.