What's new from Grafana Labs

In Grafana Cloud, we’re rolling out a change to what resource administrators can see on a resource’s permissions list. If you can view and manage the permissions on a folder or dashboard, you will soon see every user and team that has access to it.

You can now import a dashboard JSON straight into a Git Sync–provisioned folder. From the folder’s browse view, hit Import and Grafana will route you through a provisioned import flow: pick the file path, branch, commit message, and workflow, and the dashboard gets committed back to your repository as part of the import.

Grafana Cloud users are regularly updated with the latest, most secure version of Grafana. However, plugin lifecycle management has been a responsibility for server administrators. Plugins becoming outdated risks incompatibility with the running Grafana version and causing instability. They may have security vulnerabilities, or simply lack the latest features to help users be successful.

Earlier this year we announced the addition of section-level variables for rows and tabs. This feature is now generally available.

If your dashboard includes both an API gateway and a database, changing something like an $instance variable affects all panels at once. To avoid this, you might have to split services across separate dashboards, which defeats the goal of having a unified view.

Grafana Alerting’s provisioning endpoints now reject duplicate secret keys that differ in casing. Requests that include duplicate keys will now be treated as validation errors with a 4XX status code.

Get started optimizing your Cloud Metrics quickly and more easily.!

The Adaptive Metrics UI has been revamped to improve readability and instill confidence in our optimization recommendations. Here are a few of the highlights:

When an error appears in your app, you want to know which code change caused it — without digging through git log. Suspect Commits in Frontend Observability now pins the exact commit your app was built from at the top of the candidate list on the error summary page, so you can go straight from a stack trace to the change that introduced it.

The Kubernetes Monitoring app runs health checks and notifies you on any detail page’s overview tab. This check surfaces problems in plain language before you even go looking.

Grafana Fleet Management recently made it easier to build Alloy configuration pipelines with the component editor. Now we’re introducing an additional tool to help you understand and manage your pipelines.

Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring now gives you control over which k6 major version runs your scripted and browser checks. With k6 version channels, you can stay on a stable release while k6 continues to evolve, and move to a new major version on your own terms.

Introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Grafana Cloud accounts.

You can add an extra layer of security to your Grafana Cloud accounts by enabling MFA on the new MFA page under User Settings. You can configure MFA with any standard TOTP authenticator app, including Google Authenticator, 1Password, Authy, and similar apps, by scanning a QR code during setup.

You can now monitor Amazon Aurora clusters directly in the AWS RDS preconfigured dashboard in Cloud Provider Observability. The new Aurora tab gives you a cluster-level view of capacity, storage, and performance so you can spot scaling issues and database bottlenecks without piecing together metrics from individual instances.

Grafana Assistant now supports eight new data sources

Grafana Assistant can now query Snowflake, MongoDB, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Zabbix, and Jira directly.

This means you can ask a single question and get answers that draw from across your observability stack, your databases, and your project tracking tools, without switching between systems. An investigation that starts with an alert can pull in error rates from Dynatrace, query performance from Oracle, and recent deployments from Jira, all in one conversation.

Private Data Source Connect (PDC) adds support for three new data sources: MQTT, GitHub, and IBM Db2.

PDC creates a private, encrypted tunnel between your Grafana Cloud stack and data sources running inside private networks, VPCs, or on-premises environments. No public endpoint required.

When you open Testing & synthetics > Performance, it can be hard to know where to start: which project to use, what tests are running now, and what you are allowed to do in your role.