Weekly Community Recap - 20 July

:tada: Weekly community news has arrived!

:grafana: From Grafana to you:

Events:
:date: Join us live this week: The next Grafana OTel Community Call is happening on July 23, and this time we’re diving into eBPF instrumentation. Tune in at 3pm UTC - link here.

:earth_africa: ObservabilityCON 2026 is officially open for registration! Join us in San Francisco for three days of observability (and more). The agenda is now live, and you can also grab your early bird ticket.
:admission_tickets: More info here.

Something to read:

:robot_face: Grafana Assistant got even more useful! It now works across 30+ data sources, making it easier to ask questions across your observability stack without constantly switching between tools. Read more about what’s new and how it works.

:family_man_man_boy_boy: From the community to you:

:book: See Grafana Champion @cameronfuller1’s article on working around Azure Resource Graph (ARG) limitations when using Grafana. If you’re building Grafana dashboards on top of Azure and have ever wondered why some queries don’t behave as expected, this is well worth a read!