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.

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Grafana Fleet Management support for Azure Private Link and GCP Private Service Connect

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Fleet Management Alloy
Release date: 2025-11-20

Grafana Fleet Management now supports private connections to all three major cloud providers. In addition to AWS PrivateLink, we have added support for Azure PrivateLink and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Private Service Connect. Now you can securely connect to Fleet Management APIs without using the public internet, no matter where your services are hosted.


Create dashboards from templates

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-11-19

Create dashboards based on templates using sample data. Then connect your own data to power them with real metrics.

Selection of dashboard templates

The templates provide standardized dashboard layouts designed to help you answer engineering or business questions consistently. For instance, the DORA template allows all teams within an organization to measure delivery performance using a widely adopted industry framework.


Interactive Learning in Grafana

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview
Release date: 2025-11-18

Introducing interactive learning in Grafana

Finding the right documentation at the right time can be tricky, especially when you’re in the middle of working in Grafana. The new interactive learning experience, available in public preview in Grafana 12.3, brings help directly into the product, so you don’t have to leave your workflow to find answers.

Interactive learning showing contextual documentation

Update Cloud Policy Token Expiration Dates

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Authentication and authorization Security
Release date: 2025-11-14

Ever created a token that expired too soon, or forgot to set an expiry altogether? You can now update the expiration time of Cloud Access Policy tokens using the Grafana Cloud API.


Kubernetes Monitoring reader role

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Authentication and authorization Kubernetes Monitoring Breaking change
Release date: 2025-11-14

Many customers give users no basic role as their default starting point. However, until now, there wasn’t a way to selectively grant access to Kubernetes Monitoring. That meant teams who needed Kubernetes capabilities often couldn’t use it without getting far broader permissions than intended.


AI-powered investigations available for IRM

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview IRM
Release date: 2025-11-07

You can now automatically trigger Assistant investigations from Grafana IRM incidents and alert groups to help your team analyze and resolve issues faster.

This new integration automatically forwards incident or alert data to Grafana Assistant for AI-powered analysis and root-cause investigation. Once triggered, the Assistant coordinates multiple specialist agents to identify potential causes, surface insights, and post updates to the related incident timeline and communication channels.

Investigation report findings posted to an alert group Slack thread

Set up the IRM webhook for Grafana Assistant to start receiving actionable findings and keep your team informed throughout the investigation.


Synthetic Monitoring: New Check Creation Flow

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-11-06

We’ve redesigned the check creation experience in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring.

This update is mostly a UX change to make check creation in the UI easier. The new UX also lets us plan for future enhancements to this flow.


New GitHub Action to sync pipelines to Fleet Management

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Fleet Management Alloy
Release date: 2025-11-05

We’ve just made managing your configuration pipelines a whole lot easier! Our brand-new purpose-built GitHub Action lets you automatically sync all of your configuration pipelines across every repository—seamlessly. Once triggered, the Action recursively searches your repos for pipeline definitions and uploads them straight to Grafana Fleet Management using the new SyncPipelines endpoint of the Pipeline API.


Synthetic Monitoring: Timepoint Explorer

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-11-05

We’ve enhanced the check results page with a new Timepoint Explorer, making it easier to understand exactly when and where issues are occuring.

Timepoint Explorer visualizes every check execution as an individual event, turning results into a timeline you can explore. Each timepoint represents a probe execution, allowing you to pinpoint when failures happened and easily view the logs tied to those executions.


Synthetic Monitoring: Alert Routing Summary

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-11-04

Understanding where your alerts are routed just got a whole lot easier.

When configuring per-check alerts in Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring, you can now see exactly which notification policies your alerts match,  right from the UI.

Screnshot of the alert routing preview

OpenSearch PPL Language Support and Sample Queries

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date: 2025-11-04

Writing PPL queries in the Grafana OpenSearch plugin just got easier with syntax highlighting, suggestions and sample queries.

The PPL query editor now contains a multi-line box which supports syntax highlighting, PPL keywords and commands suggestions, and index fields. To see the new features in action, select PPL in the Query type dropdown of the query editor and start typing. Specify index name(s) in the datasource configuration to narrow down the list of suggested index fields.

We have also added a “Kickstart your query” button to the PPL query editor, which contains useful sample queries. Select a query to copy it to the query editor and edit it further.

a gif demo on writing PPL queries

CloudWatch Logs Anomaly Detection and Pattern Analysis

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date: 2025-11-04

With log anomalies and patterns features, you can now detect abnormalities in your service and group log entries with recurring patterns with the CloudWatch data source.

Log Anomalies

screenshot of logs anomalies editor

Grafana Assistant available in Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Kubernetes Monitoring
Release date: 2025-10-31

You can use Grafana Assistant in Kubernetes Monitoring to:

  • Explain the data you see in a panel or on a detail page
  • Start an investigation for potential issues
  • Review the health of Kubernetes objects and resource consumption
  • Provide recommendations
  • Launch an investigation
  • Follow any additional queries or commands you give it

To use the Assistant, click any Assistant icon available on a panel.

Hovering over the AI icon in a panel
Hovering over the AI icon in a panel