What's new from Grafana Labs

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.

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.

Grafana Fleet Management now supports OpenTelemetry Collectors, so you can monitor and remotely configure Grafana Alloy instances and upstream OpenTelemetry Collectors from a single control plane.

You can now select which k6 major version your script targets when you create a test in the script editor. New tests default to v1.x (default). Select v2.x when your script uses the k6 v2.x runtime. Grafana Cloud k6 stores the version on the load test and uses it for future runs, including scheduled runs.

Troubleshoot your entity setup with Knowledge Graph mode

Knowledge Graph mode is a new specialist mode in Grafana Assistant that understands how your entity graph is built, end to end, and helps you work with it: ask why it looks the way it does, fix what doesn’t look right, and add what doesn’t ship by default.

Storing a service account JSON key file to connect Grafana Cloud to Google Cloud is a persistent security liability. Keys get embedded in config files, shared across teams, or quietly forgotten — all while remaining valid for years. When one leaks, there’s no automatic expiry and no limited blast radius.

The BigQuery and Google Cloud Monitoring data source plugins support Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation (WIF) as an authentication method on Grafana Cloud. Instead of uploading a key file, Grafana Cloud exchanges the signed-in user’s OIDC token for a short-lived Google Cloud access token via the Security Token Service. Credentials are scoped to the active session and expire automatically — no keys to store, rotate, or accidentally expose.

You can now star test runs in Grafana Cloud k6 to mark the results that matter and find them again quickly. Starring gives you one consistent way to flag a test run as a reference point, whether you’re tracking a release, validating a performance optimization, or keeping an important run on hand to compare against.