What's new from Grafana Labs

The fastest way yet to see what Grafana Assistant can do. Head to play.grafana.org and start a conversation right there in our public sandbox. No install, no account, no setup — just you and the Assistant on real Grafana data.

Workspace, the agent-native interface for Grafana Cloud, is now generally available in Grafana Cloud. Instead of hopping between tabs to pull a query here, a dashboard there, and an incident timeline somewhere else, you and the Assistant work side by side in a single, full-page view: building reports, correlating signals, and running everyday observability tasks without ever leaving the window.

Understand who is using Grafana Assistant and how AI token usage contributes to your costs directly in the Cost Management and Billing App.

We’re excited to introduce Grafana Assistant Usage Attribution, giving administrators visibility into Assistant token consumption across their organization. Available  in the Usage view of the Cost Management and Billing App, it surfaces alongside your existing Grafana Cloud usage data. You can see token usage by individual users and service accounts, distinguish between included and additional token usage, and manage Assistant usage alongside your other Grafana Cloud products from a single experience.

As you write a performance test in Grafana Cloud k6, the script editor can flag hardcoded API keys, tokens, and passwords before you run the test. Those values are stored in plaintext in the script, so leaving them there puts credentials at risk when you share the file or check it into version control.

Cost-effectively get the right representative mix of traces with volumetric policies!

Now Generally Available, volumetric policies intelligently balance cost, service representation, and value to automagically give you the right traces. We’ve bolstered volumetric policies under the hood to be even more cost predictable.

Synthetic Monitoring usage is now included in Grafana Cloud Cost Attribution, as part of the Cost Management and Billing App. You can attribute the cost of your checks to whatever dimensions matter to your organization: teams, cost centers, business units, services, or even your own customers. Every check execution can be tied to a cost attribution label, so teams running chargeback or showback can see exactly who is driving usage, spot outliers, and allocate costs with confidence.

Grafana’s AI Observability (alias: Sigil) is being renamed to Grafana Agent Observability. As the product has grown to cover full agent lifecycles — from tool use to evaluations to guardrails — the name is catching up to what it already does.

Keep your firewall automation synchronized with Grafana Cloud through one versioned Allowlist API. A consistent JSON format across services and regions makes allowlists easier to retrieve, parse, and validate.

Following our announcement that OpAMP support is generally available in Fleet Management, we’ve updated our GitHub Action to support OpenTelemetry pipelines along with Alloy ones.

Traces can contain sensitive data, which often forces organizations to limit access or separate teams into different tracing tenants. Tempo LBAC lets administrators control which traces each Grafana team can access using resource attributes such as service, environment and region.

Remote configuration is a core feature of Grafana Fleet Management. As the number of configuration pipelines grows, browsing and managing them can become more cumbersome when navigating through paginated lists.

Grafana Fleet Management has added a Changed by column to the pipeline history view. Now you can see who made the change as part of your audit trail.

SQL expressions are now generally available. SQL expressions let you query, join, and reshape the results of your existing data source queries using familiar MySQL-like syntax. Instead of chaining multiple transformations to get your data into the right shape, you can write a single SQL statement that filters, aggregates, and combines results from one or more queries. This is especially powerful when you need to:

Locate your erroring collectors faster with new filter functionality from the Overview tab in Grafana Fleet Management.

Click on a status section of the Collector health status chart to be taken to a pre-filtered version of your Inventory.

We redesigned the query variable editor with a new editing experience that makes working with query variables easier.

The new experience uses a dialog box with the values preview at the top and a tabbed editor below, so you can review results while you edit. The wider dialog box also provides plenty of space to work without so that you don’t have to do as much scrolling to see all the query settings.