What's new from Grafana Labs

What's new from Grafana Labs

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.

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Introducing the unified Grafana Cloud IRM app

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM
Release date: 2025-03-17

Grafana OnCall and Grafana Incident are now unified into a single application: Grafana IRM. This update simplifies workflows, consolidates configurations, and provides a more integrated experience for managing on-call schedules, alert escalations, and incident response. Changes include:


Plugin details links improvements

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Plugins
Release date: 2025-03-12

Standardized links for plugins to simplify user-developer interactions

We’re pleased to announce an improvement to the Grafana plugin catalog that benefits both Grafana users and plugin developers. By introducing standardized links on plugin details pages, we’re making it easier for users to engage with developers, and find the essential information they need to get the most out of a plugin. Developers, in turn, will gain valuable feedback and support from their audience.

plugin-details-links

Alert rule version history

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-03-07

The alert rule history

Alerting has added a new feature that allows you to review, compare, and restore previous alert rules.

  • You now can restore old rule versions from the versions tab in the detail view.


Alerting support for Jira Service Management contact point

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-03-05

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.


Alert rule version history

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-03-05

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.


LBAC for data sources - metrics

Grafana Cloud Experimental Enterprise Experimental Data sources Authentication and authorization Metrics
Release date: 2025-02-28

It can be hard for teams to collaborate on dashboards when they have to use different data sources. Grafana instances can become cluttered and confusing with hundreds of data sources.

datasource permissions tab - team lbac

LBAC for data sources - logs

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Generally Available Data sources Logs Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-02-28

It can be hard for teams to collaborate on dashboards when they have to use different data sources. Grafana instances can become cluttered and confusing with hundreds of data sources.

datasource permissions tab - team lbac

New Actions cell type for table visualizations

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-02-26

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:


Visualization actions are now GA

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-02-26

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:


Graphite, Splunk, and AppDynamics are now supported by Grafana SLO

Grafana Cloud Generally Available SLOs
Release date: 2025-02-25

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.


Better time region control in Annotations with Cron syntax

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-02-20

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.

Time region query with cron syntax