What’s new in Grafana Cloud

We’ve revamped the Transformations user interface to make it cleaner, more user-friendly, and overall better for visualizing, selecting, and comprehending transformation options for your data. Improved UI In the past, transformations were applied through a dropdown menu, indicated solely by text names like Merge, Sort, JoinByLabels, etc. Now, we’ve introduced a much more user-friendly interface. A convenient drawer allows seamless access to all transformation options, each accompanied by visual/graphical representations and a brief description.

Introducing query caching for async queries in the Athena and Redshift data source plugins. We previously introduced async queries for the Athena and Redshift plugins, and this feature adds support for caching those queries. To use this, you must have query caching enabled for the Athena or Redshift data source you wish to cache. This feature was previously available behind a feature toggle and is now generally available and enabled by default.

To reduce the noise of flapping alerts, you can set a recovery threshold different to the alert threshold. Flapping alerts occur when a metric hovers around the alert threshold condition and may lead to frequent state changes, resulting in too many notifications being generated.

Introducing several improvements to the Loki data source. Line filter “or” syntax Loki’s line filter syntax is great to find specific substrings of your log lines. If users want to find multiple different substrings it was cumbersome to use the regex =~ operator. With this change it is possible to chain multiple strings with the existing filter operators. Example: Copy {app="foo"} |= "foo" or "bar" != "baz" or "qux" Filter based on label type Grafana users can use the action buttons in the log details to filter for specific labels.

You can now apply data transformations to annotation data. For example, you can now configure how exemplar data is displayed in tooltips. Configure how exemplar data appears in tooltip

Canvas visualizations now support panning and zooming. This allows you to both create and navigate more complex designs. To enable this feature, you must first enable the canvasPanelPanZoom feature toggle.

We’ve introduced enhanced tooltips as part of our standardization initiative, unifying the tooltip architecture for a consistent user experience across panels. Packed with features like color indicators, time uniformity, and improved support for long labels, these tooltips go beyond a cosmetic redesign, bringing fundamental changes to elevate your data visualization experience. Stay tuned for more updates! To try out the new tooltips, enable the newVizTooltips feature toggle. Enhanced tooltips have been implemented for the following visualizations:

You can now plot enum values in your time series and state timeline visualizations. This feature is useful when you want to visualize the state of a system, such as the status of a service or the health of a device. For example, you can use this feature to visualize the status of a service as ON, STANDBY, or OFF. To display enum values you can use the convert field transform.

You can now view percent change in stat visualizations. This makes it easier to understand your data by showing how metrics are changing over time.

Introducing Multi-Stack Data Sources It’s complicated to query across multiple data sources if you store your metrics or logs across separate tenants. Multi-stack data sources lets you set up one data source that includes multiple tenants, ensuring simpler faster queries.

We’ve identified a need for users who enable anonymous authentication to monitor the anonymous devices connected to their Grafana instance. This feature is part of our ongoing efforts to enhance control and transparency regarding anonymous usage. Anonymous access now allows users, including those in open-source and enterprise self-managed environments, to view and monitor their anonymous access. They can also set a device limit, configuring a specific number of anonymous devices to connect to their instance.

Using Trace to profiles, you can use Grafana’s ability to correlate different signals by adding the functionality to link between traces and profiles. Trace to profiles lets you link your Grafana Pyroscope data source to tracing data. When configured, this connection lets you run queries from a trace span into the profile data. There are two ways to configure the trace to profiles feature: Use a simplified configuration with default query, or Configure a custom query where you can use a template language to interpolate variables from the trace or span.

Throughout Kubernetes Monitoring, hover to reveal the copy icon. You can click to copy any text so that you can: Use it in your own query. Paste it in the command line. Send it to others. (Release 1.6.1)

When using the Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart to configure with the configuration wizard, you can select IBM Cloud as a platform. (Release 1.6.1)

The improved navigation menu gives you a better overview by showing all levels of navigation items in a more compact design. We also implemented a better dock and imprved scrolling behavior. Furthermore, we improved the structure of the nav menu and added several new items.