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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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

Grafana SLO Folder RBAC

Grafana Cloud Generally Available
Release date: 2024-07-26

We’d like to announce that we have implemented a preliminary version of folder scoped SLO actions! Now, users that are Folder Editors on a specific folder, can create, update, and delete SLOs associated with those folders. They will continue to be able to view SLOs in other folders, but those SLOs cannot be editable by users who do not have Folder Editor access.


Centralized alert history page

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2024-07-26

View a history of all alert events generated by your Grafana-managed alert rules from one centralized page. This helps you see patterns in your alerts over time, observe trends, make predictions, and even debug alerts that might be firing too often.


Roadmap for new data sources

Grafana Cloud Generally Available
Release date: 2024-07-24

We are delighted to share a new public roadmap for data source plugins being built by Grafana, our partners and our community. All existing and potential users of Grafana can now see our current plans and request new plugins, upvote existing requests, or comment with ideas and requirements.


Role-based access control in Grafana Cloud k6

Grafana Cloud Generally Available K6
Release date: 2024-07-23

Role-based access control (RBAC) is now available in Grafana Cloud k6!

With the new Performance Testing roles available in your Grafana Cloud stack, you get fine-grained control over what a User or Team can do in the k6 Performance Testing application, regardless of their Grafana Stack role.


API support for LDAP configuration

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2024-07-19

The SSO settings API has been updated to include support for LDAP settings. This feature is experimental behind the feature flag ssoSettingsLDAP.

You will soon be able to configure LDAP from the UI and Terraform.


Explore Logs

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Experimental Explore Logs Logs Drilldown
Release date: 2024-07-15

We are excited to release Explore Logs to most of our Cloud customers in public preview!

Explore Logs helps developers quickly troubleshoot and gain insights from logs without needing to run a query.