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.

What's new from Grafana Labs
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The Grafana IRM app: A new era for mobile Incident Response Management

Grafana Cloud Generally Available OnCall Incident IRM
Release date: 2024-10-24

We’re excited to announce the release of Grafana IRM Mobile, the next evolution of our mobile app which was previously known as Grafana OnCall. This rebrand marks a major step forward in providing teams with a seamless, comprehensive way to manage incidents—all from your mobile device.


Add correlations to external URLs in Explore

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-10-22

Correlations is a feature that allows Grafana users to set up links between their data sources. Previously, the link generated would only be from one query to another—meaning results from a query could only generate links to open a second Explore pane with other query results.


Explore Logs plugin installed by default

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Logs Drilldown Plugins
Release date: 2024-10-10

Explore Logs is a plugin that lets you automatically visualize and explore your logs without having to write queries. It makes finding spikes in your log volume, filtering your logs and pinpointing problematic log lines a lot easier and more smooth.


k6 scripted checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2024-10-09

We’re excited to announce that k6 scripted checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.

k6 scripted checks were released in May 2024 as a public preview, to give you the power and flexibility to define your workflow tests in JavaScript, using the k6 API to efficiently author tests.

A Synthetic Monitoring browser check dashboard, showing the uptime, reachability, and other metrics for that check.

k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now in public preview

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2024-10-09

We’re excited to announce that k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now in public preview.

With k6 browser checks, you can control a headless Chrome browser using a k6 script. Powered by the k6 browser module, browser checks collect frontend Web Vitals metrics, capture custom performance metrics, and simulate user actions like clicking buttons or filling forms. Any scripts you create are also portable between Synthetic Monitoring and Grafana Cloud k6, as they are backed by the same engine, allowing you to reuse your monitoring scripts for performance testing and vice versa.


Role-based access control for notifications in Alerting

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Enterprise Available in public preview Alerting Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2024-10-07

Manage contact points, mute timings, and notification templates through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Choose who can create, edit, and read contact points, mute timings, and notification templates using permissions or fixed roles.


Set up LDAP through the UI or API

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2024-10-04

Advanced LDAP settings.

Set up your LDAP server as an Identity Provider from within the UI, or via API.

The new user interface makes it much clearer what each option does, and setting up the various configurations is now more transparent. Also, you no longer need to restart the Grafana instance for the new settings to take effect.


Managed Plugins

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Data sources Plugins
Release date: 2024-10-03

Grafana Cloud offers a fully managed experience for Grafana. However, for external plugins, customers must manage plugin version updates themselves. This creates extra maintenance overheard - and an unnecessary step in receiving important security patches, bug fixes or new features. This is why we are now introducing a new feature called Managed Plugins.

Plugin details page showing managed by grafana version

Recording rules for Grafana-managed alerts

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2024-09-30

Create recording rules for Grafana-managed alert rules to calculate frequently needed expressions or computationally expensive expressions in advance and save the result as a new set of time series. Querying this new time series is faster, especially for dashboards since they query the same expression every time the dashboards refresh. Previously, this was only available for data-source managed alert rules.


GitHub App authentication for the GitHub data source

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Data sources Plugins
Release date: 2024-09-30

You can now authenticate the GitHub data source using a GitHub App, providing an alternative to personal access tokens (PATs). GitHub App authentication offers enhanced security by granting more granular permissions, reducing the risk of over-permissioning.


Actions for visualizations

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-09-27

We’ve updated several visualizations so that now you can add actions to them. The panel configuration now includes a Data links and actions section where you can add actions that can each be configured to call an API endpoint.


Simplified query section for alert rule creation

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2024-09-27

Introduces a simplified version of the query and alert conditions step for creating Grafana-managed alert rules. The default options streamline rule creation with a cleaner header and a single query and condition. For more complex rules, switch to advanced options to add multiple queries and expressions.

Image shows the alert creation form in simple mode