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Grafana Labs products, projects, and features can go through multiple release stages before becoming generally available. These stages in the release life cycle can present varying degrees of stability and support. For more information, refer to release life cycle for Grafana Labs.


Available in public preview
Release date: 2025-01-31

Grafana Service Center

Grafana Service Center is now in public preview. The Service Center provides users a single pane of glass into key operational resources, including SLOs, Incidents, and Dashboards with more resources coming soon.

Define the labels and tags that represent your services and the Service Center will generate a service resource and a service landing page. Additionally, informative attributes can be added to the service definition such as: Documentation links, Repository links, Backlog, and any other custom attribute you would like to add.


Generally Available
Release date: 2025-01-31

SIFT integration for Grafana SLO

All Grafana SLO dashboards are now natively integrated with a Grafana SIFT panel. SIFT will automatically check burning SLOs for common issues and report back via the SIFT panel in all auto-generated SLO dashboards. Users can also manually run SIFT checks from the Grafana SLO dashboard.


Available in private previewSynthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-01-31

Introducing RBAC for Synthetic Monitoring (Private Preview)

We’re excited to announce that Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Synthetic Monitoring is now available in private preview! This gives you the ability to fine-tune access and permissions within Synthetic Monitoring, offering greater control over who can access specific features.

With RBAC, you can assign different roles and permissions to users and teams, ensuring the right people have the right access. This makes managing your monitoring workflows more secure and flexible.

How it Works

Introducing RBAC for Synthetic Monitoring (Private Preview)

Generally AvailableK6Profiles
Release date: 2025-01-29

Integrate Grafana Cloud k6 and Grafana Pyroscope

One of the basic goals of performance testing is to ensure your applications perform well under various levels of traffic. However, most performance tests are conducted with minimal insight into why a system performs a certain way during testing.

This is where continuous profiling comes in. Profiling provides unparalleled visibility into how your code behaves under load, pinpointing CPU bottlenecks, memory leaks, and inefficient function calls.

Integrate Grafana Cloud k6 and Grafana Pyroscope

Generally AvailableData sources
Release date: 2025-01-27

Datadog Flex Logs

We’re excited to roll out Flex Logs, a powerful new feature for storing logs long-term while ensuring they’re available for urgent queries when needed. Ideal for critical logs like security, transaction, and network data, Flex Logs combine retention with quick access during important events.

To enable Flex Logs in your queries, just select the “flex” storage tier—simple as that!


Generally AvailableAdaptive Telemetry
Release date: 2025-01-24

Filter recommendations by usage for Adaptive Logs

Want to easily stop ingesting your low usage log lines? Adaptive Logs now makes this even easier, allowing you to filter recommendations by how often they are queried. Now, even fewer clicks to apply recommendations for logs which are never queried or rarely queried. This UI enhancement makes it easy to quickly get started with, and get value from, Adaptive Logs.


Generally AvailableAdaptive Telemetry
Release date: 2025-01-22

Exemptions for Adaptive Logs

Adaptive Logs introduces support for exempting specified logs from drop recommendations to Grafana, giving you greater control of your data.

You can tell Adaptive Logs to not drop log lines from certain streams using the Stream selector. This ensures specified logs are ingested into Grafana Cloud, and not dropped by Adaptive Logs, no matter what our usage recommendations initially suggest. Our recommendation engine also updates to include the exemptions you specify.

Exemptions for Adaptive Logs

Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2025-01-22

RBAC for notification policies

Manage notification policies through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Choose who can create, edit, and read notification policies using fixed roles.

You can only grant different access levels to the entire notification policy tree; not to individual notification policies.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2025-01-22

RBAC for alerting notifications

The feature flag alertingApiServer is now enabled by default.

In the UI, administrators have more granular control over which parts of notification settings users have access to.


Generally AvailableMachine learning
Release date: 2025-01-20

Tune ML forecasts with instant feedback

The Machine Learning team is delighted to announce a new dynamic UI for Metric Forecasts!

Will the prediction algorithm see the patterns you expect in your data? If you tweak some of the parameters, will you get a better result?


Generally AvailableIncident
Release date: 2025-01-20

Introducing new labels in Grafana Incident

Are you tracking incidents with a few simple tags but still struggling to see the bigger picture? We’ve heard your feedback and have overhauled how you can organize and correlate incidents across your observability workflows.

What’s changing?

Our new labels feature replaces traditional tags with more flexible key-value pairs (for example, squad:incident or service_name:mimir). Beyond just describing an incident, labels are now shared across multiple Grafana products—like OnCall and SLO—tying them together for a more unified experience. We worked hard to make sure that your existing tags are migrated to labels and that existing public APIs continue to work.

Why does it matter?
  • Easily annotate incidents with squad, service, or region, or define your own categories.
  • With consistent labeling across Incident, OnCall, and SLO, you can query for incidents and alerts impacting the same services.
  • By introducing a few restrictions on label naming, we ensure these labels can be passed into more systems without a hitch.
Example Use Cases
  • Filter your Grafana SLO dashboards by incidents that share the same service_name label to pinpoint recurring issues.
  • When an active incident is labeled with a specific squad, OnCall can loop in the right people
  • Custom webhooks can use labels to begin automatic actions when an incident is declared and affects a certain cluster/namespace.
incident with labels

Generally AvailableTraces
Release date: 2025-01-17

Higher reliability for Grafana Cloud Traces with new limits on attribute size

Grafana Cloud Traces introduces a new safeguard to help maintain stability and prevent out-of-memory crashes when fetching traces that contain large span attributes. With this change, attributes exceeding 2KB (2048 bytes) are automatically truncated before they’re stored, striking a balance between preserving valuable trace data and maintaining overall system stability.

And if you’re using Grafana Tempo or Grafana Enterprise Traces 2.7 or newer, you can configure your custom limit to maintain a stable and reliable tracing environment.


Available in public previewAdaptive Telemetry
Release date: 2025-01-16

Per-service drops for Adaptive Logs

You can now apply Adaptive Logs recommendations per-service.

This feature is useful if multiple services are producing logs with identical patterns, and you want to treat logs from those services differently. It also makes bulk applying recommendations per service, or team, easier and more useful.


Available in private previewPluginsSecurity
Release date: 2025-01-14

Plugin Frontend Sandbox

The Plugin Frontend Sandbox is a security feature that isolates plugin frontend code from the main Grafana application. When enabled, plugins run in a separate JavaScript context, which provides several security benefits:

  • Prevents plugins from modifying parts of the Grafana interface outside their designated areas
  • Stops plugins from interfering with other plugins’ functionality
  • Protects core Grafana features from being altered by plugins
  • Prevents plugins from modifying global browser objects and behaviors

Plugins running inside the Frontend Sandbox should continue to work normally without any noticeable changes in their intended functionality.

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Available in public previewAuthentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-01-14

OAuth and SAML session handling improvements

We’ve improved how Grafana manages external sessions for OAuth and SAML, enhancing compatibility with identity providers that support session management.

Grafana can now reliably manage SAML external sessions (Identity Provider sessions) by using the SessionIndex attribute in the SAML assertion and the NameID attribute in the logout request. Previously, Grafana relied on the Login attribute as the NameID and did not include the SessionIndex in the logout request, which could result in users being logged out of all their applications/IdP sessions when logging out of Grafana.