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.

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.

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.

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.

The Grafana Incident Response and Management (IRM) Slack app is now officially approved and available in the Slack App Marketplace.

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.

The new Switch template variable type replaces cumbersome drop-down menus with an intuitive toggle interface. Configure any two values—true/false, 1/0, yes/no, or custom pairs—and control boolean states across your dashboard with a single click. Perfect for toggling debug modes, filters, or any conditional logic.

We are thrilled to announce that Native Histograms are now generally available (GA)!

This milestone comes after three years of dedicated development, bringing a powerful data type to Prometheus users.

We’re excited to announce the addition of the Panel time settings drawer in visualizations. With this feature, you can access key panel-specific time settings without editing the dashboard:

We are very excited to release a completely redesigned logs visualization!

The logs visualization is one of the core visualizations of Grafana, and we’ve rebuilt it from the ground up to not only address performance issues, but also add many new features and display options to innovate in the space and provide the best possible log browsing experience, such as:

GCP Private Service Connect (PSC) provides private connectivity between private networks and supported GCP services without exposing your traffic to the public internet.

With GCP PSC for Grafana Private DataSource Connect (PDC), you can connect your PDC agents running in your GCP private network to Grafana Cloud while staying on the GCP network.

Save money and apply an extra layer of network security by using GCP Private Service Connect to send telemetry data to Grafana Cloud.

Normally when you send telemetry from your GCP network to Grafana Cloud, you incur in network egress fees and your data, though encrypted, traverses the public internet.

Sharing your Grafana dashboards just got easier. You can now export any dashboard as a PNG image.

Use the Export as image option to generate an image:

Grafana Team LBAC: Performance Considerations

What We’ve Improved

Storage Capacity

We previously had a limitation of about 500 LBAC rules per data source, which was challenging for some customers who needed more rules to meet their requirements. We’ve resolved this by expanding our storage capacity, allowing for significantly more rules to be stored.

We’ve added support for Databricks Unity Catalog, enabling secure and consistent access to governed data directly within Grafana.

This enhancement allows users to easily query and visualize datasets registered in Unity Catalog while maintaining the same fine-grained permissions and lineage tracking defined in Databricks. With this integration, teams can build dashboards confidently knowing their data follows centralized governance, access control, and compliance standards across all workspaces.