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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Forward direction search for Loki

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Explore Logs
Release date: 2024-08-15

Explore now supports forward direction search for Loki logs searches. This allows users to seamlessly browse logs in a time range in forward chronological order (for example, tracing a specific user’s actions using logs).

Explore logs with the Direction option selected

Cloud Provider Observability in public preview

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview
Release date: 2024-08-14

Cloud Provider Observability provides a unified experience to manage multiple cloud environments and streamline your monitoring and troubleshooting.

In addition to AWS, you can easily set up Azure and Google Cloud Platform to view:

Azure SQL Database Elastic Pool dashboard

Databricks Azure On-behalf-of Authentication

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Data sources Plugins
Release date: 2024-08-14

New Azure On-behalf-of Authentication for the Grafana Databricks Datasource.

Databricks recommends that you use Microsoft Entra ID managed service principals in cases where you must authenticate with Azure Databricks and other Azure resources at the same time, and now this feature is available on v1.7.2 of the Databricks datasource.


Yugabyte data source for Grafana

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Data sources Plugins
Release date: 2024-08-13

We are excited to announce the release of a new data source for Grafana: Yugabyte. This addition extends Grafana’s capabilities, enabling seamless integration with YugabyteDB.

Yugabyte query editor

Zendesk data source for Grafana

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Enterprise Available in public preview Data sources Plugins
Release date: 2024-08-12

We are excited to announce the release of a new Zendesk data source for Grafana.
This addition extends Grafana’s capabilities, enabling seamless integration with Zendesk.

Zendesk Query Editor

Netlify Datasource for Grafana

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Enterprise Available in public preview Data sources
Release date: 2024-08-12


We’re excited to announce the release of the Grafana Netlify Datasource plugin, designed to seamlessly monitor your Netlify build data and deployments directly into Grafana. You can also visualize form responses and setup alerts on SSL certificates expirations. Find out more about in the Netlify data source documentation.

Netlify Build Query Paneel

Atlassian Statuspage enterprise data source for Grafana

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Available in public preview Plugins Data sources
Release date: 2024-08-09

Introducing Atlassian Statuspage data source plugin.

The Atlassian Statuspage data source plugin allows querying Summary, Status, Components, Unresolved incidents, All incidents, Upcoming scheduled maintenances, Active scheduled maintenances, All scheduled maintenances


State timeline supports pagination

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-08-09

The state timeline visualization now supports pagination. The Page size option lets you paginate the state timeline visualization to limit how many series are visible at once. This is useful when you have many series. Previously, all the series in a state timeline were made to fit within the single window of the panel, which could make it hard to read.


Transformation updates

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-08-09

We’ve made a number of exciting updates to transformations!

You can now use variables in some transformations

Template variables are now supported for the Limit, Sort by, Filter data by values, Grouping to matrix (a community contribution ⭐️), Heatmap, and Histogram transformations. This enables dynamic transformation configurations based on panel data and dashboard variables.

Transpose transformation in action

Drone data source

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Enterprise Available in public preview Data sources Plugins
Release date: 2024-08-08

The Drone data source plugin allows you to retrieve data for repositories and builds from your Drone instance.

Dashboard with repository builds data created using Grafana Drone enterprise datasource

Native Histograms

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Open source Enterprise Available in private preview
Release date: 2024-07-31

Native histograms are a data type in Prometheus that can produce, store, and query high-resolution histograms of observations. It usually offers higher resolution and more straightforward instrumentation than classic histograms.


Cloudwatch Metric Insights cross account observability support

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Generally Available Data sources
Release date: 2024-07-30

We are excited to announce support for cross-account querying in Metric Insights query builder for AWS Cloudwatch Plugin. This enables building SQL queries to monitor across multiple accounts in the same region in AWS Cloudwatch.
This feature introduces an account dropdown for selecting one or all of your source accounts and builds a query that targets them. Furthermore, results can be grouped by account ID by selecting “Account ID” in the Group By dropdown.
For more complex queries that are not covered by the options in the builder you can switch to the manual Code editor and edit the query.

To set up cross-account querying for AWS Cloudwatch Plugin, see instructions here.


Export Grafana Cloud k6 browser tests to a dashboard summary

Grafana Cloud Generally Available K6
Release date: 2024-07-30

We’ve recently announced that Grafana Cloud k6 browser tests are generally available, and now you can export your browser test results as a Grafana dashboard.

Browser testing measures the performance and UX of web applications, including important metrics such as the Core Web Vitals. The exported summary breaks down each metric and explain the impact the performance of your application might have on users. Sharing the summary with your team and other stakeholders can help pinpoint areas that could use optimizations in order to create the best possible user experience.

Preview of a generated summary