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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.


Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant is in public preview

Available in public previewDashboards and visualizationsData sources
Release date: 2024-08-27

Public Preview in Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise

Migrating from OSS or Enterprise Grafana to Grafana Cloud has traditionally been complex, requiring technical knowledge of Grafana’s HTTP API and time-consuming manual processes. The new Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant changes this by providing a user-friendly interface that automates the migration of your resources. No coding required, it securely handles the transfer in just a few easy steps.

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Better SAML integration for Azure AD

Generally AvailableAuthentication and authorization
Release date: 2024-08-27

When setting up Grafana with Azure AD using the SAML protocol, the Azure AD Graph API sometimes returns a follow-up Graph API call rather than the information itself. This is the case for users who belong to more than 150 groups when using SAML.

With Grafana 11.2, we offer a mechanism for setting up an application as a Service Account in Azure AD and retrieving information from Graph API.


Canvas actions

ExperimentalDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-08-23

We’ve updated canvas visualizations so that now you can add actions to canvas elements. The Selected element configuration now includes a Data links and actions section where you can add actions to elements. Each action can be configured to call an API endpoint.

Actions can also be configured to be triggered with a single click. To enable this functionality, select Action under the one One-click section in the Selected element data links and actions option. If there are multiple actions for an element, the first action in the list has the one-click functionality.


Navigation Bookmarks

Available in public preview
Release date: 2024-08-23

As Grafana keeps growing, we have had feedback that it can be hard to find the pages you are looking for in the navigation. That is why we have added a new section to the navigation called ‘Bookmarks’, so you can easily access all of your favourite pages at the top of the navigation.

This feature is being rolled out across Grafana Cloud now. To use Bookmarks in self-managed Grafana, turn on the pinNavItems feature toggle in Grafana v11.2 or newer.

Bookmark pages in the Grafana nav bar for quick access
Bookmark pages in the nav bar for quick access.

Unified Slack integration for Grafana IRM

Generally AvailableOnCallIncidentIRM
Release date: 2024-08-22

The newly enhanced Grafana IRM Slack integration incorporates your Slack workspace directly into your incident response workflow, allowing your team focus on alert resolution with less friction.

Previously, you needed to install and configure separate Slack integrations for OnCall and Incident. With this update, we’ve unified and rebranded the OnCall Slack app as the Grafana IRM Slack app, now equipped with incident management features.


Improved cell inspect in tables

Generally AvailableDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-08-22

We’ve improved the inspect value experience in table visualizations with the addition of tabs in the Inspect value drawer: Plain text and Code editor.

When the Cell inspect value switch is toggled on, clicking the inspect icon in a cell opens the drawer. Grafana attempts to automatically detect the type of data in the cell and opens the drawer with the associated tab showing. However, you can switch back and forth between tabs.

Inspect value drawer opened to Plain text tab

Aurora Data Source for Grafana

Available in public previewData sourcesPlugins
Release date: 2024-08-22

We are excited to announce the public preview release of the Grafana Aurora Data Source. You can create alerts, query and visualize your data from AWS Aurora with Grafana. This data source supports MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible Aurora DB engines.

You can find out more about the data source in the Aurora data source documentation.

Example time series visualization using the Grafana Aurora data source

Forward direction search for Loki

Generally AvailableExploreLogs
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

To use this feature, select Forward for the Direction option. Note that in the screenshot above, logs are rendered beginning from the starting time period of the query, not the end.


Cloud Provider Observability in public preview

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:

  • Logs
  • Preconfigured service dashboards like the following one showing data for Azure Elastic Pool
Cloud Provider Observability in public preview