What's new from Grafana Labs

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.

In May 2025, we refactored the table visualization to use the react-data-grid library, resulting in significant performance improvements. We released this in public preview. Now, this version of the table is generally available, and along with that, we’ve made a number of improvements, big and small. We’ve added the following options:

• Cell types, Pill and Markdown + HTML
• Wrap header text
• Frozen columns - Freeze as many columns as you want, starting from the left side of the table.
• Max row height - This is helpful when you apply text wrapping to one or more columns, which can significantly increase the height of a cell.
• Tooltip from field - Render the content from one cell as the tooltip for another cell.

We’ve also added new functionality to the table footer, significantly improved its display, and streamlined the configuration process.

Grafana SQL Expressions, Grafana’s solution for manipulating and transforming the results of data source queries using SQL (MySQL dialect) syntax, is now available in Public Preview.

We’ve improved the general experience by providing a more intuitive editor that supports better formatting, quick copying, easy expansion, and a shortcut to instantly run your queries.

Because Ad hoc filters can’t be reliably implemented on SQL data sources, we’re introducing a new way forward. Starting with this release, you can now query a dataset from a first panel using a SQL data source, then build the rest of your dashboard on top of that dataset—and use ad hoc filters to drill into it.

This is enabled by two key enhancements:

• Dashboard data source support - You can now define ad hoc filters in dashboards that use the -- Dashboard -- data source.
• Set filters from the bar chart tooltip - Previously, setting ad hoc filter values was only possible on table visualizations. Now, you can do this from the bar chart as well.

The Azure Monitor resource picker has been revamped to better support users with large Azure estates.

The key changes are support for filtering and the ability to browse recent resources

The table footer displays the results of calculations (and reducer functions) on fields. We’ve updated the footer so that you can apply multiple calculations or reducers simultaneously:

In the panel editor, you can see that the Calculation option now allows you to select multiple calculations at once:

Visualization actions now support authenticated HTTP requests by integrating with the Infinity data source. This lets you perform actions that require authentication by leveraging preconfigured Infinity data source connections.

Previously, actions could only make direct HTTP requests from the browser, which are subject to CORS restrictions, significantly limiting their usefulness.