Grafana Cloud

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.

v2.24.0

06/10/26

TypeDescription
EnhancementFleet 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.
FixQueries 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

TypeDescription
FixPrivacy: Query text and other sensitive values from the page URL are no longer included in frontend error telemetry.

v2.23.0

05/29/26

TypeDescription
EnhancementWait events: Added the Engine Wait and Replication Wait categories to the wait time breakdown.
EnhancementSaved views: Added an info tooltip on the Queries Overview page that explains what Saved views does.
EnhancementAI Helper: Updated the deprecated AI Helper tab notice to point to the AI assistant buttons on each tab.
EnhancementTrace 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.
FixAssistant: The assistant now uses each panel’s display units instead of guessing, fixing cases where values like seconds were shown as percentages or microseconds.
FixQuery samples: Fixed the filter row alignment on the Postgres Query samples page.
FixQuery 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

TypeDescription
FeatureSaved views: Save your current engine, filters, and group by as named views on the Queries Overview page, and set one as your default.
FeatureQuery samples: Added filters to Postgres query samples.
EnhancementAI Helper: The AI Helper tab now shows a deprecation notice pointing users to the AI assistant.
EnhancementTelemetry status: Status checks now flag when your Alloy version is too old to be compatible with Database Observability.
EnhancementWorkbench: Added an Open in Workbench button across Database Observability pages.
EnhancementTable schema: Schema details now load over short time ranges by using a minimum lookback window.
EnhancementWait 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.
FixAssistant: Fixed Prometheus metric queries returning no data on stacks with a non-default scrape interval.
FixTrace linkage: Updated the message shown when no exact query match is found when coming from a trace.