What’s new in Grafana Cloud
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New platform, statuses, and doc links in Kubernetes Monitoring
You can now choose Azure AKS as a platform when using the easy deploy method with the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart. This sets the required annotations in the Helm chart config file.
The metrics status tab includes statuses for recording rules and the KSM job label.
Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant is in public preview
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.

Better SAML integration for Azure AD
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
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.
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.

Unified Slack integration for Grafana IRM
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
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.

Aurora Data Source for Grafana
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.

Grafana Alerting - MQTT integration
Use the Grafana Alerting - MQTT integration to send notifications to an MQTT broker when your alerts are firing.
Forward direction search for Loki
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).

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
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
Databricks Azure On-behalf-of Authentication
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.
Use custom images and environment variables in Grafana Cloud k6 Private Load Zones
We have released the two most requested features for Grafana Cloud k6 Private Load Zones: support for custom images and cloud environment variables.
With custom images, you can run tests using a custom k6 binary. For example, if you have a k6 build with extensions, you can test protocols that are not supported by default in k6.
Yugabyte data source for Grafana
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.
You can find out more about the data source in the Yugabyte data source documentation.
Zendesk data source for Grafana
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.
You can find out more about the data source in the Zendesk data source documentation.
