What’s new in Grafana Cloud

We’d like to announce that we have implemented a preliminary version of folder scoped SLO actions! Now, users that are Folder Editors on a specific folder, can create, update, and delete SLOs associated with those folders. They will continue to be able to view SLOs in other folders, but those SLOs cannot be editable by users who do not have Folder Editor access. How To Implement - User who can Edit SLOs in a Particular Folder

View a history of all alert events generated by your Grafana-managed alert rules from one centralized page. This helps you see patterns in your alerts over time, observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often. An alert event is displayed each time an alert instance changes its state over a period of time. All alert events are displayed regardless of whether silences or mute timings are set, so you’ll see a complete set of your data history even if you’re not necessarily being notified.

We’ve recently announced that Grafana Cloud k6 browser tests are generally available, and now you can export your browser test results as a Grafana dashboard. Browser testing measures the performance and UX of web applications, including important metrics such as the Core Web Vitals. The exported summary breaks down each metric and explain the impact the performance of your application might have on users. Sharing the summary with your team and other stakeholders can help pinpoint areas that could use optimizations in order to create the best possible user experience.

We are delighted to share a new public roadmap for data source plugins being built by Grafana, our partners and our community. All existing and potential users of Grafana can now see our current plans and request new plugins, upvote existing requests, or comment with ideas and requirements. Links to the roadmap and requesting a new data source have recently been added to the Connections view in Grafana Cloud, as shown in the video below.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is now available in Grafana Cloud k6! With the new Performance Testing roles available in your Grafana Cloud stack, you get fine-grained control over what a User or Team can do in the k6 Performance Testing application, regardless of their Grafana Stack role. By default, your Stack role (Admin, Editor, or Viewer) is used as the default for your Grafana Cloud k6 RBAC roles. Most of the k6 Performance Testing application access will work the same (see here for the differences) until you dive in and customize your RBAC configuration to fit your exact needs.

Grafana Cloud k6 Cloud Insights is generally available! Cloud Insights can help you automatically identify potential issues in your system under test or k6 test script and get more accurate and insightful results from your performance tests. Cloud Insights analyzes telemetry data, such as metrics, logs, and traces generated during a test run, to identify issues and make recommendations on how to fix them. This can help you and your team save time when pinpointing the root cause of performance issues in your applications.

We are excited to release Explore Logs to most of our Cloud customers in public preview! Explore Logs helps developers quickly troubleshoot and gain insights from logs without needing to run a query. Notable highlights include: Quickly identify changes in behavior by looking at services in histograms Identify repeated log lines using the Patterns feature Easily remember and share state with teammates Progressively drill down to root cause using visual cues and point-and-click experiences to fine-tune scope For more information:

The Adobe Analytics data source plugin allows you to retrieve reports data from Adobe Analytics.

We’ve updated canvas visualizations so that you can add data links to canvas elements without using an override. The Selected element configuration now includes a Data links section where you can add data links to elements using the same steps as in other visualizations. Data links in canvas elements can also be configured to open with a single click. To enable this functionality, toggle the One-click switch in the Selected element data link options.

A new home page, Kubernetes Overview, gives you a snapshot of both healthy objects and potential issues. Additional user experience enhancements include: Overview and network tabs Deep links into Clusters More linking into root cause analysis Visual indicators for every Kubernetes object, including workload type, Pod, Cluster, and namespace For more enhanced ways to navigate, refer to Navigation tips.

For the past few months, we’ve been working on stabilizing the k6-browser module and its API, as well as improving the performance of Grafana Cloud k6 in handling browser tests with a high number of VUs. Today, we’re excited to announce that browser tests in Grafana Cloud k6 are generally available! You can now run browser tests with multiple VUs to better understand your application’s user experience and help you find and fix frontend performance issues.

You can now view a detailed timeline for a Grafana k6 browser test when executing it in Grafana Cloud k6, as well as any screenshots taken during that test run. The Grafana k6 browser module now uses OpenTelemetry to generate spans and traces that match a virtual user’s behavior and interactions with the browser as they execute the code in your test script. The results are streamed to Grafana Cloud k6 and displayed in the Browser Timeline section of the test results page.

To be more aligned with the OpenTelementry specification, Grafana Cloud Traces will return RetryInfo to correctly indicate retryable errors. For more information, refer to Retry on RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED failure.

Cost overview tab Use the Cost Overview tab to see a 90-day view of total compute cost, average cost per Pod, and average Pod count. This 90-day period is divided into the prior 30 days, the last 30 days from the current date, and an estimate of the next 30 days. Network data On every detail page for Cluster, namespace, workload, Node, and Pod, you can view network bandwith and saturation data.

For the past few months we’ve been working on a major update of our Dashboards architecture and migrated it to the Scenes library. This migration provides us with more stable, dynamic, and flexible dashboards as well as setting the foundation for what we envision the future of Grafana dashboards will be. Here are two of the improvements that are being introduced as part of this work: Edit mode It can be difficult to efficiently navigate through the visually cluttered options during the dashboard editing process.