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Release notes for Grafana Cloud Database Observability
These release notes provide information about the features, enhancements, and fixes in each version of Grafana Cloud Database Observability.
For information on new Database Observability highlights, refer to What’s new from Grafana Labs.
Database Observability uses Grafana Alloy to send your database telemetry to Grafana Cloud. For information about changes to Alloy, refer to the Grafana Alloy release notes.
v2.26.0
07/01/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | Explain plan: Single-node explain plans now show an info alert explaining they provide limited insight, and no longer flag the sole node with a “Slow operation” warning. |
| Fix | Setup: The Alloy config generated by the setup wizard now matches the documented templates for MySQL and PostgreSQL across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and the Go to Telemetry Status button opens in a new tab. |
v2.25.0
06/23/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | Database setup: Added optional cloud provider metadata and custom labels to the Add database and Edit wizards. Alloy configuration now includes the matching provider metadata and labels. |
| Fix | Queries overview: Fixed Rate, Duration Avg, and Errors sparklines that could stay loading after selecting a non-default Prometheus datasource. |
| Fix | Assistant: Explain this plan and page context now use the selected time range, fixing cases where historical query investigations returned no data. |
v2.24.1
06/17/26
This release contains internal changes only. There are no user-facing changes.
v2.24.0
06/10/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | Fleet Management setup: The Add database and Edit wizard now uses standalone pages, alongside a layout and copy refresh across the wizard and the Setup tab. |
| Fix | Queries Overview: The Rate, Duration Avg, and Errors panels no longer drop Postgres data when both MySQL and Postgres instances are present and no group-by is selected. |
v2.23.1
06/04/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Fix | Privacy: Query text and other sensitive values from the page URL are no longer included in frontend error telemetry. |
v2.23.0
05/29/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | Wait events: Added the Engine Wait and Replication Wait categories to the wait time breakdown. |
| Enhancement | Saved views: Added an info tooltip on the Queries Overview page that explains what Saved views does. |
| Enhancement | AI Helper: Updated the deprecated AI Helper tab notice to point to the AI assistant buttons on each tab. |
| Enhancement | Trace linkage: Trace links now resolve the destination before navigating, so an exact match jumps straight to the Query samples page instead of routing through the Queries Overview page first. |
| Fix | Assistant: The assistant now uses each panel’s display units instead of guessing, fixing cases where values like seconds were shown as percentages or microseconds. |
| Fix | Query samples: Fixed the filter row alignment on the Postgres Query samples page. |
| Fix | Query samples: Bookmarked filter URLs now restore correctly, and custom threshold values loaded from a URL show a saved label. |
v2.22.0
05/06/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | Saved views: Save your current engine, filters, and group by as named views on the Queries overview page, and set one as your default. |
| Feature | Query samples: Added filters to Postgres query samples. |
| Enhancement | AI Helper: The AI Helper tab now shows a deprecation notice pointing users to the AI assistant. |
| Enhancement | Telemetry status: Status checks now flag when your Alloy version is too old to be compatible with Database Observability. |
| Enhancement | Knowledge graph: Added an RCA Workbench button across Database Observability pages. |
| Enhancement | Table schema: Schema details now load over short time ranges by using a minimum lookback window. |
| Enhancement | Wait events: Improved the accuracy of wait event data on the Queries overview table, and the sort now switches to duration automatically when the top series can’t be ranked by count. |
| Fix | Assistant: Fixed Prometheus metric queries returning no data on stacks with a non-default scrape interval. |
| Fix | Trace linkage: Updated the message shown when no exact query match is found when coming from a trace. |
v2.21.0
04/29/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Enhancement | Assistant: The assistant now receives Query details page context when opened from the general assistant button. |
| Enhancement | Query samples: Query sample trace markers now use Grafana’s standard exemplar interactions and styling. |
| Enhancement | Telemetry status: Status checks now flag metrics and logs relabeling mismatches. |
| Enhancement | Telemetry status: Status checks now use each database’s unique identity instead of only its instance name. |
| Enhancement | Telemetry status: Updated Alloy compatibility checks to require Alloy 1.16.0 or later. |
v2.20.1
04/23/26
This release contains internal changes only. There are no user-facing changes.
v2.20.0
04/23/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Fix | Query samples: Updated the query samples panel legend from AVG to AVG Duration. |
v2.19.0
04/22/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Fix | Telemetry status: Fixed a duplicate Postgres status check so PG Stat Statements extension populated and Privileges Granted use separate checks. |
v2.18.0
04/16/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Feature | Configuration: Added the Setup tab and setup wizard for adding databases through Alloy collectors registered with Fleet Management, or generating Alloy configuration for manual setups. |
| Enhancement | Cloud provider links: Added support for opening GCP Cloud SQL instances. |
| Enhancement | MySQL setup: Added a telemetry check and setup guidance for the recommended MySQL exporter limit setting. |
| Enhancement | Telemetry status: Added filters and identifying labels to the Telemetry status page, and databases with the same instance name now appear as separate entries. |
| Fix | Explain plan: Long key names now stay inside explain plan cards, with tooltips for the full value. |
v2.17.0
04/01/26
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| Release | Database Observability: Now generally available after public preview. |
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