What's new from Grafana Labs

Find out whether a failing browser check is affecting real users without leaving Synthetic Monitoring. Browser checks already link each run to its Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability session. The new Real user context tab in the Timepoint Explorer builds on that link and compares the run with what your real users experienced around the same time.

Announcement banners allow Grafana administrators to share status updates to their users, for example when there is an ongoing incident or scheduled maintenance. Particularly for more informational updates, users often wanted a way to acknowledge and dismiss the banner so it was no longer in the way. Now that is possible. Administrators can optionally toggle whether a banner is dismissible by a user. A banner stays dismissed across all sessions and browser windows, unless an administrator updates the banner - in which case it reappears.

Grafana’s biggest visual refresh since v7 now in public preview

It’s been a long time since Grafana’s UI has had a real facelift. Today, we’re excited to give you a first proper look at our visual refresh: a new color system, typography, and theme that’s about to enter public preview. It’s the biggest visual modernization effort we’ve undertaken since Grafana v7.

Synthetic Monitoring can now find public HTTP endpoints that already serve real traffic but don’t have a check yet, and suggest a check for each one. This feature is available in experimental status.

Sort your data the way you think about it. Tables are easier to read and compare when they follow the order you’d use to explain them: by team, then by score within each team, then by name. The Sort by transformation now supports multiple sort fields, so you can build exactly that order.

Build transformation pipelines that keep working when your queries change. Transformations like Merge series/tables, Join by field, Join by labels, Series to rows, and Reduce (except in Reduce fields mode) build the refId of their output from the refIds of their input, for example merge-A-B. When you add, remove, or rename a query, or a query returns no data, that generated refId changes, and any later transformation that filters on it stops matching.

Connect Git Sync to your Git provider with an OAuth App. Register the app with your provider, then authorize it from Grafana. There’s no personal access token to create or rotate, and Grafana refreshes the access token when your provider supports it.

Your team reads runbooks, architecture notes, and contribution guidelines in Grafana, right next to the dashboards they describe. Git Sync shows every Markdown file in a provisioned folder as its own tab, with Mermaid diagrams rendered in place.

Grafana Alloy v1.21 is here

Alloy v1.21 is now available, and the OpenTelemetry Engine is in Public Preview.

You can now manage Grafana-managed alert rules and recording rules as first-class resources through the Grafana App Platform APIs. The new AlertRule and RecordingRule types in the rules.alerting.grafana.app API group give each rule its own versioned, schema-validated resource, built on the same Kubernetes-style API model as dashboards and folders.

Improve logs economics by routing logs to your own object storage. Perfect for long term retention for logs needed for incidents, compliance, and auditing.

Private Data Source Connect (PDC) over Tailscale is now available in public preview. Securely query private data sources on your Tailscale network from Grafana Cloud, without needing to deploy and manage a PDC agent or expose endpoints to the public internet.

Grafana Workflows is now in public preview for all Grafana Cloud stacks. Workflows is an automation engine built into Grafana Cloud. You define a series of steps that run when something happens, on a schedule, or on demand.

Use it to automate the repetitive parts of incident response and operations, so your team can focus on fixing the problem.

Bring dashboard panels, Explore queries, and Grafana Assistant findings into one editable notebook. Add your reasoning alongside the evidence, then share it so teammates can understand how you reached your conclusions.

Managing alert rules in Prometheus, Mimir, and Loki is moving into a dedicated Grafana app plugin, Prometheus Alerting. The plugin is built around how those systems actually work. It manages rule groups and namespaces in a Prometheus-compatible ruler, along with routes, receivers, templates, silences, time intervals, and inhibition rules in an external Alertmanager.

With the plugin installed and the hand-off enabled, Grafana routes data source managed alerting URLs to the matching page in the plugin. Shared links, bookmarks, and in-product links keep working — they land in the plugin instead of the core alerting UI. Grafana-managed alerting stays in core, and both experiences run side by side in the same Grafana instance.