What's new from Grafana Labs

Explore a redesigned experience with clearer recommendations and simpler rule management.

We’ve updated Adaptive Metrics to separate optimization recommendations from existing configurations, making it easier to understand your metrics, identify opportunities for further series reduction, and manage your rules in one dedicated place.

Monitor your collectors even when you manage them through infrastructure as code (IaC). Fleet Management now automatically delivers self-monitoring pipelines to every Grafana Alloy or OpenTelemetry Collector that connects to Fleet Management, without requiring you to open the UI.

Reorganize big dashboards without leaving the canvas. Until now, grouping or deleting multiple panels at once meant going to the sidebar. Now, the actions tooltip on the dashboard supports multi-selection.

Review historical rule changes in Adaptive Metrics to understand what changed and when.

We’re excited to announce the public preview of the Audit Log in Adaptive Metrics!

Experiment with your dashboards and recover from mistakes more easily with undo and redo, now in public preview.

Use the Undo and Redo icons in the dashboard toolbar to revert or reinstate changes as you edit. Grafana keeps up to 100 changes in your current edit session, even after you save the dashboard. Hover over either icon to see which change you’re about to undo or redo.

Keep Grafana Assistant close at hand while giving your dashboard its full width. The new floating layout places a compact chat box over the page, which you can move to suit what you are working on.

We’ve redesigned the Grafana Cloud homepage around what you need when you log in. It brings your recent work, firing alerts and incidents, your on-call shifts, and the state of your observability stack onto one page.

The homepage adapts to your stack. On a new stack, it guides you through setting up your first solutions. On an established one, it highlights what needs attention and recommends what to add next.

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.

The revamped query editor is now generally available and is the default experience when you edit a panel. It brings your whole data pipeline into a single view (queries, expressions, transformations, and the alert rules that depend on them), so complex and multi-source panels are faster to build, review, and troubleshoot.

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.

Dashboards now have a mode drop-down list that replaces the Edit and Exit edit buttons. It displays your current mode, so you can see at a glance whether you’re viewing or editing a dashboard.

Select Editing to make manual changes to your dashboard, or Viewing to view and explore the dashboard.

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.