What’s new in Grafana Cloud

Pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management can now inject variable collector attribute values into their configurations. This powerful new feature enables you to create dynamic configurations that adapt to each collector’s characteristics, reducing the need for multiple similar pipelines.

Categorize your collectors with meaningful attributes, such as environment type, department, or location. Then inject these attributes into configuration pipelines using the syntax argument.attributes.value["ATTRIBUTE_KEY"]. With attribute injection, you can

• Create a single pipeline that works across different environments.
• Dynamically set labels based on collector attributes.
• Reduce the number of pipelines needed to manage your fleet.
• Make configurations more maintainable and scalable.

We’ve made several updates to the IRM settings to give administrators greater visibility and control:

• Renamed the Organization settings to Admin & API.
• Added Admin-level setting to enable or disable the availability of notification channels (such as Slack or MS Teams) across all user profiles.
• Deprecated OnCall API tokens in favor of Grafana Cloud service accounts. Existing OnCall API tokens can still be used, viewed, and deleted, but new tokens can no longer be generated.

We’ve made it easier to understand ownership and take action immediately when a service looks off. The latest update to Grafana Service Center brings IRM (incident response management) context directly into the service details view. You can now quickly see who’s on-call and escalate issues without leaving Service Center.

When a team is assigned to a service and has an active on-call schedule, the service details page shows:

• Who is currently on call
• Their local time and whether they’re within working hours
• Quick-access actions like Slack DM and escalation

In the middle of an incident? Deploying a service? Would having every log line available help?

Now with Pause Adaptive Logs, end users of logs can temporarily ingest the logs they need for the service, application, or cluster they care about, without needing to configure anything in Adaptive Logs or work with their centralized team. Get all the cost savings benefits of Adaptive Logs, while making sure your dev teams aren’t stranded during an Incident!

We continue adding more functionality to the IRM mobile app to make incident management smoother and more flexible, allowing you to react instantly from anywhere.

You can now manage incident roles directly from your phone!

We’re giving the community early access to several new experimental themes to celebrate the release of Grafana 12! You can jazz up your Grafana experience with Sapphire dusk, Tron, Gilded grove, Gloom, or Desert bloom. To see the color scheme of a theme before selecting it, click the user icon in the top-right corner of the page and select Change theme.

This opens the Change theme drawer, where you can view all themes:

Introducing new controls for Logs in Explore

We’re excited to introduce a new controls component for Logs in Explore, designed to make better use of the layout around logs, and give users greater flexibility when working with log data.

Dynamic Alerting with our Forecasting and Outlier Detection features now supports role-based access control by introducing the new roles ML Editor, ML Viewer, Sift Editor and Sift Viewer.

ML Editors can:

• Create/edit/delete forecasts and outlier detectors
• Create/edit/delete holidays

We’ve enhanced our GitHub Actions integration for k6, making it even easier to run performance tests seamlessly within your CI/CD pipelines.

Now, when executing k6 tests in the cloud from a GitHub Actions workflow, the pull request comments will automatically display a rich test summary. This includes key performance metrics like response times, request rates, pass/fail statuses and comparison with the baseline test runs—providing instant, actionable insights without leaving your development workflow.

We are excited to announce that you can now use Terraform to manage Frontend Observability resources.

You can configure a Terraform provider to connect to the Frontend Observability API and manage resources, such as applications.

Grafana Fleet Management now offers an audit trail of configuration pipeline changes. With the Pipelines history feature, your team can collaborate more efficiently, ensure audit compliance, and troubleshoot issues caused by configuration changes.

You can view all changes across all pipelines, review changes to a specific pipeline, compare differences between change events for a pipeline, or copy configuration syntax to revert to an earlier version of a pipeline.

Filter alerts by alert name for improved MTTR.

We are excited to announce role-based access control (RBAC) in Frontend Observability.

RBAC provides a standardized way of granting, changing, and revoking access when it comes to viewing and modifying Grafana resources, such as dashboards, reports, and administrative settings.

We are excited to introduce Geolocation Insights in Frontend Observability.

Frontend applications often serve a globally distributed user base, meaning that your users can be spread across multiple geographical regions and access your application from diverse locations. In some instances, a user’s location can affect the performance of web applications.

We are excited to announce the public preview of k6 extensions in Grafana Cloud k6.

k6 extensions are libraries that expand the k6 core functionality. For example, the faker k6 extension enables users to generate random fake data, which is not available on k6 by default. Extensions allow the k6 open source project to remain small and focused on its core functionality, but still provide users with a way to add new features to cover any use case, such as supporting a new network protocol.