What’s new in Grafana Cloud

We’ve moved over to WebGL for geomap marker layers. You can expect a significant increase in performance and stability, which is especially noticeable for larger datasets.

The following examples show a comparison of before and after switching to WebGL.

Before

After

In response to the recent deprecation of OpsGenie, Grafana Alerting has added support for Jira Service Management as a Grafana Managed contact point. You can ensure you don’t miss any critical alerts by updating your OpsGenie contact points to use Jira Service Management.

Grafana Managed Alerts now supports version history. You can view, compare, and restore your alert’s historical versions by navigating to the alert details view of any Grafana Managed Alert rule and clicking the Version tab.

The table visualization now includes a new Actions cell type, which lets you trigger actions directly from table cells. This enhancement allows you to define custom actions, such as triggering external workflows, from within a table column:

Actions for visualizations are now generally available. With actions, you can trigger basic, unauthenticated API calls from a dashboard panel. Previously experimental, actions are now generally available for the following visualizations:

• Time series
• Bar chart
• Candlestick
• State timeline
• Status history
• Table
• Trend
• XY chart

You can find actions under the Data links and actions section of the panel editor pane (previously the Data links section).

Grafana SLO now supports Graphite, Splunk, and AppDynamics data sources, enabling teams to monitor and improve the reliability of even more of their services. You can now track SLOs across a broader range of observability data, ensuring more comprehensive service health insights and reducing alert fatigue.

Using Cron syntax, you can define more granular schedules than previously possible with just weekday and time selections. For example, it is now possible to create a single time region query that marks periods like “At 21:00 on the second Tuesday of every other month” or “Weekdays 9-5.” To try it out create an Annotation, toggle the Advanced switch and use Cron syntax to set more granular time region controls.

In previous releases, we added support for dashboard variables to a small number of transformations. Now this functionality has been added to all transformations, where applicable. All text input fields in transformations accept variable syntax:

When you use dashboard variables in transformations, the variables are automatically interpolated before the transformations are applied to the data.

You can now configure data links to be accessed with a single click. We’ve added the One click switch to data links for the following visualizations:

• Time series
• Bar chart
• Candlestick
• State timeline
• Status history
• Trend
• XY chart

You can only have one One click data link, so if you enable it for one, the feature is automatically disabled for others.

Grafana Fleet Management now includes the Grafana Cloud Integrations catalog, combining the preconfigured functionality of Integrations and the scalability of remote configuration.

Choose from a list of platform-specific integration templates to automatically build configuration pipelines in Fleet Management and then assign attributes to match those pipelines to specific collectors.

You can now provision your Grafana Fleet Management collectors and configuration pipelines using the Grafana Terraform provider (v3.19.0 or later).

Use Terraform to preregister new collectors for the Fleet Management service, add remote attributes to collectors that are already registered, and build configuration pipelines to remotely configure your fleet. With Terraform and Fleet Management, you can create a stable, consistent, scalable observability setup.

Last year we introduced one-click data links and actions for canvas visualizations in public preview and experimentally respectively. With the One click switch toggled on, it takes just a single click to open a data link or trigger an action. Now, both of these features are generally available for the canvas visualization.

With the promotion to general availability, the One click switch has been moved into the dialog box where you configure the data link or action, at element level. You can only have one One click data link or action, so if you enable it for one, the feature is automatically disabled for others.

Out-of-the-box, built-in alerts help you spend less time troubleshooting and more time focusing on what matters.

• Prevent slowdowns: Get alerts for high CPU usage in AWS EC2, Azure VMs, and GCP Compute Engine.
• Keep databases running smoothly: Avoid failures with alerts for deadlocks, failed connections, and disk space limits.
• Optimize storage and messaging: Stay ahead of storage constraints and ensure messages are delivered on time.

Whether you’re running on AWS, Azure, or GCP, you can fix issues faster because of real-time notifications, including:

• High CPU usage
• Storage limits
• Failed connections

We’ve fully deprecated API keys in Grafana, and all existing API keys have been automatically migrated to Service Accounts. No action is needed on your part—your API integrations will continue to work seamlessly while benefiting from improved security and management features.

Why Service Accounts:

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) – Assign roles (for example, Viewer, Editor, Admin) and scope access to specific teams for improved security.
• Audited Automation – Service Accounts are integrated with Grafana’s identity management system, ensuring all actions are logged for better tracking and compliance.
• Seamless Token Rotation – Manage multiple tokens per service account effortlessly, allowing for smooth rotation without downtime.