What's new from Grafana Labs

Adaptive Metrics now supports Mimir native histograms. You can now receive aggregation recommendations and create aggregation rules for native histograms, allowing you to bring the familiar benefits of Adaptive Telemetry to native histograms in Grafana Cloud.

We’ve enhanced the Fleet Management Pipeline API with a SyncPipelinesRequest endpoint. You can now make a call that edits multiple pipelines from a common source in a single atomic operation.

Seamlessly synchronize configuration pipelines from external sources like Git and Terraform, ensuring your remote configurations stay updated across environments. Automate pipeline creation, updates, and deletions to minimize manual effort. Whether you’re managing a handful or a hundred pipelines, Fleet Management handles batch updates efficiently while maintaining data consistency. Learn more in our set up documentation.

Adaptive Traces helps make sure you only store your valuable traces. With managed tail sampling, you can easily retain only the traces that matter to you without needing to run sampling infrastructure yourself. Our intelligent sampling capabilities identify anomalies in your services, then ingest and surface the relevant traces to help you troubleshoot faster.

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud.

With Grafana Assistant you no longer need to juggle tabs or write complex queries when incidents start. Open Grafana, click the sparkle icon, describe the goal, and let the Assistant guide you. It runs inside your Grafana session, inherits your permissions, and grounds every answer in your own telemetry so you stay in control from first question to resolution.

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Grafana Assistant Investigations in Grafana Cloud.

Assistant Investigations gives you a faster path from “what is happening” to “what to do next.” When an incident spans services or signals, you switch the Assistant to Investigation mode, describe the problem, and let specialist agents explore metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and even SQL in parallel. The workflow runs inside Grafana Cloud, respects your permissions, and keeps findings grounded in your telemetry.

What are investigations?

We are excited to announce the Private Preview of Grafana Assistant in Slack. It brings the Assistant experience to Slack and meets your team where they already work. Ask questions, generate or refine queries, and get guided next steps without context switching. When you need deeper context, follow the links back into Grafana and keep moving.

Once enabled for your organization, you can chat with the Assistant from Slack to draft PromQL, LogQL, or TraceQL, navigate to the right place in Grafana, or kick off deeper analysis that you review inside Grafana.

Manage and optimize your Grafana Cloud usage and spend with a new experience

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Cost Management and Billing app for Grafana Cloud! This redesigned experience provides a central place to manage all your Grafana Cloud usage and spend.

The following actions have been removed from Grafana following the deprecation and removal of API Keys:

• apikeys:read
• apikeys:create
• apikeys:delete

The following roles were also removed:

• fixed:apikeys:writer
• fixed:apikeys:reader

Translate your plugin

Internationalization of plugins is here! You can now make your plugin more user-friendly by translating it into multiple languages. You can find the list of available languages in GitHub, and  how to translate plugins in our docs page. For Microsoft users, we’ve added translations to MS SQL and Azure Monitor data sources.

We are excited to announce the v1.0 release of the Grafana k6 Operator, a major milestone that brings more predictability and stability to running distributed performance tests on your Kubernetes clusters. The k6 Operator simplifies performance testing at scale, allowing you to test services inside private clusters and coordinate tests across multiple nodes without adding operational complexity.

The k6 Operator offers two Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs): TestRun, to execute a distributed k6 test on a Kubernetes cluster, and PrivateLoadZone, to create a load zone on a Kubernetes cluster for Grafana Cloud k6 to run k6 tests in.

You can now put guardrails in place by enforcing a maximum expiration date for all newly created Cloud Access Policy tokens. This gives you stronger control over credentials and helps ensure your security and compliance standards are met.

Benefits you get right away:

• Stronger security: No more “forever” tokens left lingering in your environment.
• Policy alignment: Every token follows the lifetime you define, supporting your compliance requirements.
• Easier audits: Shorter-lived tokens reduce the risk of stale credentials being overlooked during reviews.
• Smaller attack surface: Limiting token lifetimes lowers the chance of long-term misuse if a token is ever exposed.

Introducing the SCIM Configuration UI in Grafana.

We recently announced SCIM for user and group provisioning in Grafana, and now we’re excited to announce that SCIM configuration is easy with the SCIM Configuration UI. Here you can easily toggle SCIM configuration options without restarting your instance, find information like your Tenant URL, Domain, and Stack ID for configuring SCIM in your IdP, and learn how to create a service account and token with the correct permissions.

Effective starting in Grafana 12.2, the auth.scim configuration option allow_non_provisioned_users is removed, and replaced with reject_non_provisioned_users.

The reject_non_provisioned_users setting in Grafana defaults to false. When enabled, non-SCIM provisioned users are prevented from signing in. Cloud Portal users can always sign in regardless of this setting.

We’ve introduced the ability to save queries in Dashboards and Explore! With this addition, you can save and reuse queries, as well as share them with others in your organization.

From Dashboards and Explore, save custom queries:

We’ve updated our source map functionality for Grafana Cloud’s Frontend Observability. It’s now easier to find and delete your uploaded source maps right from the UI. This gives you more control over your data and makes it easier to keep your environment organized.

Source maps are files that connect your minified, bundled production code back to its original, unminified source files. Without a source map, an error trace is less readable and unable to point to a source. You can either host Source Maps publicly or use our upload source map functionality privately in Grafana to ensure your traces are readable.