What’s new in Grafana Cloud

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 previewDashboards and visualizations

Release date: 2023-09-13

Create correlations for provisioned data sources

You can now create correlations using either the Administration page or provisioning, regardless of whether a data source was provisioned or not. In previous versions of Grafana, if a data source was provisioned, the only way to add correlations to it was also with provisioning. Now, that’s no longer the case, and you can easily create new correlations mixing both methods—using the Administration page or provisioning.

To enable this feature, contact Grafana Support.

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Generally AvailableAlerting

Release date: 2023-09-13

Grafana OnCall integration for Alerting

Use the Grafana Alerting - Grafana OnCall integration to effortlessly connect alerts generated by Grafana Alerting with Grafana OnCall. From there, you can route them according to defined escalation chains and schedules.

To learn more, refer to the Grafana OnCall integration for Alerting documentation.

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Generally AvailableData sourcesTraces

Release date: 2023-09-06

Query-type template variables for Tempo data source

The Tempo data source now supports query-type template variables. With this update, you can create variables for which the values are a list of attribute names or attribute values seen on spans received by Tempo.

To learn more, refer to the following video demo, as well as the Grafana Variables documentation.

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Generally AvailableData sources

Release date: 2023-09-01

API throttling for Datadog data source

The Datadog data source supports blocking API requests based on upstream rate limits (for metric queries). With this update, you can set a rate limit percentage at which the plugin stops sending queries.

To learn more, refer to Datadog data source settings, as well as the following video demo.

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Generally AvailableData sources

Release date: 2023-08-31

Log aggregation for Datadog data source

The Datadog data source now supports log aggregation. This feature helps aggregate logs/events into buckets and compute metrics and time series. For more information, refer to Datadog log aggregation.

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Generally AvailableAuthentication and authorization

Release date: 2023-08-25

Permission validation on custom role creation and update

With the current release, we enabled RBAC permission validation (rbac.permission_validation_enabled setting) by default. This means that the permissions provided in the request during custom role creation or update are validated against the list of available permissions and their scopes. If the request contains a permission that is not available or the scope of the permission is not valid, the request is rejected with an error message.

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