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We’ve introduced several improvements to annotations to make them easier to explore, navigate, and manage at scale.
Annotation clustering
Group adjacent point annotations into a single combined region with the Annotation clustering switch. Clustered annotations aggregate their contents into a single, scrollable tooltip, so you can explore dense annotation data without overwhelming the panel.
Take full control of how you monitor your cloud services.
Cloud Provider Observability now lets you bring your own dashboards, offers you the ability to customize instance drilldown view panels, and make these assets available across all your teams. Everyone can monitor cloud services with the same trusted views, while still having the flexibility to tailor what they see.
Grafana Assistant arrives in Slack and lets you troubleshoot while on the go and with your colleagues in real-time.
Grafana Assistant in Slack allows you to access the data and knowledge in Grafana Assistant in Slack. Ask about your traces, metrics, the latest deployment and how to fix high p99 latency in your search service.
Skills are now generally available for all Grafana Assistant users.
Skills let you write runbooks, workflows, hints and context guides so that the Assistant can drill down even better in your stack. You can also associate slash commands with Skills so that /my-skill brings up your Skill and the Assistant works through it specifically.
Cloud Provider Observability now delivers broader Azure metric coverage and more precise metric behavior across key resource types including Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Front Door. This update adds important new metrics, expands dimension support, and refines aggregations so teams can monitor Azure services with better depth and consistency.
Grafana Assistant arrives in the CLI!
Use Grafana Assistant right in the CLI alongside all the other tools you use for your observability job. In the CLI, the Assistant can help you with all the things it can also do in the browser or in Slack. Ask about recent errors, latency or traces - get the answer in the CLI. With the CLI, Grafana Assistant can also read, create, update and delete local files for you: bring observability, coding and configuration closer than ever in one tool without the need to context switch.
When you send Grafana-managed alert email notifications to multiple recipients (without the “Single Email” option), Grafana Cloud Alertmanager now uses BCC instead of TO headers by default. This means individual recipient addresses are not visible to other recipients in the same notification, and the TO field is empty.
Secrets management launched in Grafana Cloud in August 2025, with integrations in Synthetic Monitoring, and later expanded to Grafana Cloud k6 workflows and Git Sync. Now, we’re introducing a centralized Secrets Management UI that brings secret operations into one place across Grafana solutions.
You can now substitute variables when selecting a saved query without modifying the original query.
Previously, if a saved query contained variables that weren’t in your dashboard, Grafana displayed a compatibility warning and limited how the query could be reused.
With this update, the warning is replaced with a section where you can update the variable (for example, ${job}) inline by mapping the variable to either:
We’ve removed the legacy plugin that previously served the homepage within Grafana Cloud stacks, cloud-home-app. If you still have links saved that go to <YOUR-STACK>.grafana.net/a/cloud-home-app, update them to go to <YOUR-STACK>.grafana.net instead.
We’ve integrated Grafana Assistant into dashboard templates, so you can now ask the Assistant to help you with the process.
Templates are a powerful way to create dashboards quickly, but they don’t always match your real-world metric names or data sources. The Assistant bridges that gap by:
You asked, we listened.
After announcing the Public preview for Grafana Cloud at the beginning of the month, we are now enabling more functionalities for Git Sync. The top voted feature request was enabling the connection with more providers, and also with self-hosted instances of Git repositories. Today, we are bringing you 3 additional connection types to Grafana Cloud: GitLab, BitBucket and a pure Git integration that adds universal provider support to Git Sync.
You can now create and manage labels from a single location in Grafana Cloud. Label management, available under Alerts and IRM in the Grafana main menu, provides a central view of the labels you use across your alerting, incident response, and operational workflows.
In January 2026, we released the revamped gauge visualization in public preview. This new experience is now generally available. For a full description of the changes, refer to the public preview announcement.
Starting in Grafana v12.4, plugin processes no longer receive all host environment variables by default. This change improves security by limiting plugin access to environment variables from the Grafana host process.