Voting is open for the 2026 Golden Grot Awards, which celebrate the most creative Grafana dashboards. Ten finalists span two categories: Personal and Professional. Personal entries include a fully instrumented homelab, a planetary health score dashboard applying SRE concepts to Earth, a cardiac recovery tracker built on a Raspberry Pi, a marathon training root-cause analysis tool, and an aurora borealis Go/No-Go predictor. Professional finalists include a firewall analytics platform competing with SIEM tools, a real-time arcade game engagement tracker, a lunar lander mission telemetry dashboard for Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1, an automotive NVH engineering diagnostic platform, Italy's national seismic network monitor, and a Malaysian government digital citizenship performance tracker. Voting closes March 11, with winners announced at GrafanaCON 2026 in Barcelona.
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Gabriel Rios: a homelab playgroundNiklas Lücke: Earth as a distributed systemGuillermo Ruiz: heart attack recoveryAaron Zamora: debugging marathon trainingMohamed Adem: aurora chaserSort: