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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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.


Jenkins Enterprise data source for Grafana

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Enterprise Available in public preview Plugins Data sources
Release date: 2025-08-12

The Jenkins data source allows you to query and visualize metrics such as projects, builds, build queues, nodes and load statistics from within Grafana.

This enterprise plugin includes two built-in dashboards to help you quickly get started visualizing Jenkins data:


Secrets management for synthetic monitoring

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-08-12

We’re excited to announce the public preview release of secrets management for Synthetic Monitoring, available to all Grafana Cloud users.

Secrets management gives you a centralized place to securely store sensitive data like API keys, passwords, and tokens.


Access tracing data using MCP server in Grafana Cloud Traces

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Available in public preview Traces
Release date: 2025-08-08

We’re excited to announce the integration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into Grafana Cloud Traces and into open-source Tempo (merged, available in Tempo 2.9). MCP, a standard developed by Anthropic, allows data sources to expose data and functionality to Large Language Models (LLMs) via an agent.


Incident webhooks now available through IRM shared outgoing webhooks

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM
Release date: 2025-08-07

Grafana IRM outgoing webhooks now support incident events, providing a unified experience for automating alert group and incident workflows. You can configure webhooks from the Outgoing Webhooks tab and trigger requests based on key incident lifecycle events, such as when an incident is declared, updated, or resolved.


Grafana Metrics Drilldown entry point from Alerting Rule

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Metrics Drilldown
Release date: 2025-08-06

Using queryless experience of Metrics Drilldown to build an Alert Rule

The Challenge:

Creating effective alert rules often requires knowing exactly what query to write upfront. But sometimes you need to explore your data first — understanding how metrics behave across different label combinations, spotting patterns, and building confidence in your monitoring approach before committing to an alert rule.


Canvas pan and zoom improvements

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-07-31

Overview

The canvas visualization editor now offers a completely re-engineered pan and zoom experience.

You can now place elements anywhere—even beyond panel edges—without disrupting connections or layouts. Background images stay consistent, connection anchors rotate with elements, and an optional Zoom to content toggle automatically fits your canvas content to any view. Constraints remain intact thanks to a transparent root container, ensuring layout behavior stays reliable across pan and zoom operations.


Export Grafana SLOs into HCL format

Grafana Cloud Generally Available
Release date: 2025-07-31

Grafana SLO now supports exporting existing SLOs in HCL format and generating HCL during new SLO creation so users can use Terraform to manage their SLOs.


Disable tooltips in Canvas visualizations

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-07-30

You can now choose to enable or disable tooltips in canvas visualizations. The Tooltip mode setting controls the display of tooltips when hovering over elements in a canvas that are connected to data, data links, or actions.

Canvas visualization with tooltips enabled

Frontend Observability out of the box alerting

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Frontend Observability Alerting
Release date: 2025-07-29

The process for configuring alerting using Faro data coming from your frontend apps has just gotten a whole lot easier. Introducing Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability out of the box alerting. We have taken the first step in helping users configure Grafana-managed alerts without needing any previous experience with alerting in Grafana Cloud.