In October 2021, Grafana Labs introduced several new features and improvements to Grafana Cloud, including the launch of Grafana Machine Learning, which allows users to implement modern data science techniques for predictive analytics such as adaptive alerting, anomaly detection, and capacity planning. The release of Grafana 8.2 brought enhancements like a unified alerting system with testable contact points, a new plugin catalog, and an updated time picker for dashboards, benefiting business-focused use cases. The company also improved interoperability with Datadog by enabling the direct sending of metrics from Datadog agents to Grafana Cloud and translating Datadog dashboards into Grafana dashboards. New integrations for Ceph and MongoDB were added, providing preconfigured dashboards and alerts, and the platform now supports out-of-order log writes. Additionally, Grafana Labs announced ObservabilityCON 2021, a conference featuring talks on observability-driven development and the latest updates on Grafana products. Grafana Cloud offers a free tier and various plans to accommodate different user needs.