• ‘Grafana’s Big Tent’ podcast: Welcome to season 3! • Sometimes the simplest questions spark the most entertaining rabbit holes. • Questions like: “Can you monitor a candle without starting a fire?” or “Should your robot boat have redundancy, or just a twin?” Today, we’re excited to kick off season 3 of “Grafana’s Big Tent” - the award-winning podcast about the people, community, tools, and tech shaping observability - to answer these pressing questions (and more). • We launched “Grafana’s Big Tent” in 2022 to spark fun, open conversations across the observability community. • The show embodies and celebrates our “big tent” philosophy - the belief that you should be able to access your data anywhere, and use the observability tools and strategies that work best for you. • Most importantly, the podcast has resonated with the open source community, with more than 30,000 downloads across 120+ countries.
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- Grafana Labs has announced the launch of season 3 of its award‑winning “Grafana’s Big Tent” podcast, which focuses on observability tools and community. The new season opens with a live episode recorded at GrafanaCON 2025 in Seattle, hosted by Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie. Guests include Ivana Huckova, Andrew McCalip, and Brad Fitzpatrick, who discuss homelab projects, IoT monitoring, and a “magic wand” wishlist for Grafana. The podcast, which has already amassed over 30,000 downloads in more than 120 countries, continues to promote an open‑source, “big‑tent” philosophy for accessing data anywhere.
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