What's new from Grafana Labs

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.

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.

Assistant Watchers are now generally available. Watchers are always-on agents for the problems that are hard to write an alert rule for. You can’t always spell out every way something might go wrong, but you know what right looks like.

Describe it and pick your data sources. Assistant calibrates checks against your data in the background, so you can move on while it works. Once it’s ready, the watcher runs on a schedule and tells you when right starts drifting into wrong.

Observability usually stops at telling you what’s wrong. With Managed Sandboxes, now in public preview, Grafana Assistant can hand its diagnosis to a coding agent and get you to a fix. The agent gets the full context: the alert, the log lines, the traces, and the suspected commit. It runs within a sandbox in the cloud, so the work keeps going after you close your laptop.

In the sandbox, the agent reads your repository, edits the code, runs tests and builds, and commits to a branch. The diff shows up in Grafana next to the investigation, with a Create PR button. You stay in control, and Grafana never merges or deploys.

Your data shouldn’t have to fit in a panel. With Grafana Pages, now in public preview in Grafana Cloud, you describe what you want to see and Pages build it: a custom visualization, an app, a slide deck, or even a game. Pages are for the moments a dashboard can’t cover, like walking leadership through a launch, building a morning view of the services you own, or turning an incident into a story everyone can follow.

Every page runs on your real data, pulled from the data sources already connected to Grafana. There’s nothing to export or upload, no IDE, code, or deploy step, and you don’t need to be a developer. Anyone on your team can go from an idea to a page they can share in minutes.

You can now send OpenTelemetry traces straight to Agent Observability, without the SDK. If your agents already emit OpenTelemetry generative AI spans, from your framework, an instrumentation library, or spans you write yourself, keep your existing route through Grafana Alloy or an OpenTelemetry Collector and opt in your AI spans with a single attribute. Your agents then show up like any other service, next to the traces, metrics, and logs you already send to Grafana Cloud.

Grafana IRM brings Grafana Assistant into the places where you respond to alerts and incidents. Start an investigation and review what it found without switching tools.

Investigate an alert from Slack

Click Investigate this alert on an IRM alert group message in Slack. Grafana Assistant then does the following:

• Summarizes what’s firing and its current status.
• Checks for related incidents and other firing alerts.
• Assesses the blast radius and impact.
• Suggests next steps for triage.

Assistant replies in the alert group’s thread so the whole team can see it.

Service Center in Grafana Cloud brings a service’s SLOs, alerts, incidents, on-call activity, dashboards, and synthetic checks into one view. You now have more ways to get your services into Service Center and keep them organized.

Find your services faster

A new Service Center home page links to the main actions: view services, discover services, or import from Backstage.

In the service list, star your favorite services and filter by name, team, identifier, starred services, or My teams. Recently viewed services are one click away. Filters are saved in the URL, so you can bookmark or share a filtered view.

Discover services automatically

The Discover services page scans your SLOs, alerts, dashboards, incidents, and synthetic checks for services you haven’t added yet. Choose the label that ties them together, such as service_name, service, job, namespace, app, team, or a custom key. Set a naming pattern with a live preview, and create the services you want in bulk.

To learn more, refer to Discover services.