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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SQL expressions now in Public Preview

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview
Release date: 2025-09-05

Grafana SQL Expressions, Grafana’s solution for manipulating and transforming the results of data source queries using SQL (MySQL dialect) syntax, is now available in Public Preview.

SQL expressions editor

Enhanced Ad hoc filters support

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-09-05

Because Ad hoc filters can’t be reliably implemented on SQL data sources, we’re introducing a new way forward. Starting with this release, you can now query a dataset from a first panel using a SQL data source, then build the rest of your dashboard on top of that dataset—and use ad hoc filters to drill into it.


Azure Monitor Resource picker filtering and recent resources

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Data sources
Release date: 2025-09-04

The Azure Monitor resource picker has been revamped to better support users with large Azure estates.

The key changes are support for filtering and the ability to browse recent resources.

Resource picker with filters

Actions authentication with the Infinity data source

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-09-03

Visualization actions now support authenticated HTTP requests by integrating with the Infinity data source. This lets you perform actions that require authentication by leveraging preconfigured Infinity data source connections.

Visualization actions authentication via Infinity datasource

JSON Log Line Viewer in Logs Drilldown is now Generally Available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Logs Drilldown
Release date: 2025-09-03

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of the Logs Drilldown JSON viewer in Grafana v11.6 and later! 🚀

The Logs Drilldown JSON viewer provides you a log line viewer specifically created to make it easier to read and understand your JSON log data.

The JSON Panel

New dashboard APIs now enabled by default

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-09-02

With this release, we’re rethinking our dashboard APIs and making the default a new model that is consistent, versioned, and resource-oriented. 

We started the rollout in May. Since then, we’ve gathered feedback, measured impact, and improved testing. We’re now confident the APIs are stable and have made them the default.


New alerting options in Synthetic Monitoring

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-09-02

We’re excited to announce the general availability of new alerting capabilities for Synthetic Monitoring. These new capabilities are available to all Grafana Cloud users.

You can now create alerts for each check in your Synthetic Monitoring application. For example, you can create an alert based on the number of check failures in a specific time window, with different settings for each one of your checks. The failed checks alert configuration in the Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring application, showing the option to alert if at least 2 executions fail in the last 5 minutes


Update incident status from your mobile device

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Generally Available IRM Incident
Release date: 2025-09-01

Status updates are crucial communication milestones during incident response, providing stakeholders with essential information about progress, status changes, and severity adjustments. Now you can view the complete timeline of key updates, see what changed and when, and contribute your own status updates with rich text content and “severity” or “status” modifications.


Amazon CloudWatch metric streams for Cloud Provider Observability

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Infrastructure Observability
Release date: 2025-08-26

We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch metric streams.

CloudWatch metric streams with Amazon Data Firehose offer you a less expensive, highly accurate way to import metrics from AWS into Grafana Cloud. As with CloudWatch metrics scrape, CloudWatch metric streams do not require you to deploy or maintain Alloy agents or servers and can be configured as code using Terraform or using a CloudFormation template.

Go to CloudWatch metric streams in Grafana Cloud

Dynamic connection direction in Canvas visualizations

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-08-21

You can now control the direction of connections between canvas elements by mapping the direction to a field value. A positive value draws the connection arrow forward, a negative value draws it in reverse, and a value of zero removes the directional arrow entirely. Alternatively, you can assign a fixed direction value.


Generate tooltips from table fields

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-08-18

The Tooltip from field option in table visualizations allows you to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip.

When you toggle the switch on, you can select from a drop-down list any of the fields in the table to be used as the source of the tooltip content. All table fields are available for selection, whether visible or hidden.

Info field value in the tooltip of the Short text cell upon hover

Grafana Assistant now in Public Preview

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Machine learning
Release date: 2025-08-14

Grafana Assistant, Grafana’s AI tool within Grafana, is now available in Public Preview.

Grafana Assistant is an AI tool that can…

  • … create dashboards.
  • … write queries.
  • … help you get onboarded.
  • … support you in learning Grafana.
  • … support in investigations and incidents.

Read our blog or watch a short video on how you can get started with Grafana Assistant.