What's new from Grafana Labs

What's new from Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs products, projects, and features can go through multiple release stages before becoming generally available. These stages in the release life cycle can present varying degrees of stability and support. For more information, refer to release life cycle for Grafana Labs.

What's new from Grafana Labs
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Changes to provisioned permissions

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Authentication and authorization Breaking change
Release date: 2025-10-16

Provisioning now enforces a full-replace model for resource permissions.

When a permission is applied through provisioning, all previously configured permissions on that resource are removed, except for the default role: Admin (admin).


Change to creator permissions

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Authentication and authorization Breaking change
Release date: 2025-10-16

Users will no longer automatically receive admin rights to dashboards and folders that they create in top level folders. They will continue to receive admin rights to dashboards and folders that they create at the top level.


SAML app in the Okta Integration Network

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-10-14

You can now easily configure SAML authentication for Grafana using our newly approved Okta Integration Network (OIN) application. This integration streamlines setup for Okta admins, removing the need for manual configuration or custom metadata uploads.


Restore deleted dashboards

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-10-13

Accidentally deleting a dashboard no longer means lost work or a support request. With the new dashboard restore feature, you can now recover deleted dashboards on your own.


Native Histogram support for Adaptive Metrics

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Adaptive Telemetry Metrics
Release date: 2025-10-09

Adaptive Metrics now supports Mimir native histograms. You can now receive aggregation recommendations and create aggregation rules for native histograms, allowing you to bring the familiar benefits of Adaptive Telemetry to native histograms in Grafana Cloud.


Adaptive Traces

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Adaptive Telemetry
Release date: 2025-10-08

Adaptive Traces helps make sure you only store your valuable traces. With managed tail sampling, you can easily retain only the traces that matter to you without needing to run sampling infrastructure yourself. Our intelligent sampling capabilities identify anomalies in your services, then ingest and surface the relevant traces to help you troubleshoot faster.

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Grafana Assistant is now Generally Available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Machine learning
Release date: 2025-10-08

We are excited to announce the General Availability of Grafana Assistant in Grafana Cloud.

With Grafana Assistant you no longer need to juggle tabs or write complex queries when incidents start. Open Grafana, click the sparkle icon, describe the goal, and let the Assistant guide you. It runs inside your Grafana session, inherits your permissions, and grounds every answer in your own telemetry so you stay in control from first question to resolution.

Grafana Assistant

Introducing Assistant Investigations: now in public preview

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Machine learning
Release date: 2025-10-08

We are excited to announce the Public Preview of Grafana Assistant Investigations in Grafana Cloud.

Assistant Investigations gives you a faster path from “what is happening” to “what to do next.” When an incident spans services or signals, you switch the Assistant to Investigation mode, describe the problem, and let specialist agents explore metrics, logs, traces, profiles, and even SQL in parallel. The workflow runs inside Grafana Cloud, respects your permissions, and keeps findings grounded in your telemetry.

Assistant Investigations

Grafana Assistant for Slack is now in Private Preview

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Machine learning
Release date: 2025-10-08

We are excited to announce the Private Preview of Grafana Assistant in Slack. It brings the Assistant experience to Slack and meets your team where they already work. Ask questions, generate or refine queries, and get guided next steps without context switching. When you need deeper context, follow the links back into Grafana and keep moving.

Grafana Assistant in Slack

Cost Management and Billing Application

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Cost management
Release date: 2025-10-06

Manage and optimize your Grafana Cloud usage and spend with a new experience

We’re excited to announce the general availability of the Cost Management and Billing app for Grafana Cloud! This redesigned experience provides a central place to manage all your Grafana Cloud usage and spend.


Write role for private data source connect

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Authentication and authorization Data sources
Release date: 2025-10-03

The new private networks write role lets viewers and editors manage private datasource connections without needing to be upgraded to the Admin basic role. This is especially useful in Cloud Stacks with lots of teams, where you want people to collaborate without stepping on each other’s work by assigning them as viewers and then selectively granting back capabilities.


Removal of API key associated permissions

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Breaking change Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-10-03

The following actions have been removed from Grafana following the deprecation and removal of API Keys:

  • apikeys:read
  • apikeys:create
  • apikeys:delete

The following roles were also removed:

  • fixed:apikeys:writer
  • fixed:apikeys:reader

These actions and roles no longer had any effect in Grafana, so this change does not have any user impact.


Translate your plugin

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date: 2025-09-23

Translate your plugin

Internationalization of plugins is here! You can now make your plugin more user-friendly by translating it into multiple languages. You can find the list of available languages in GitHub, and  how to translate plugins in our docs page. For Microsoft users, we’ve added translations to MS SQL and Azure Monitor data sources.


Grafana k6 Operator v1.0 is now generally available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available K6
Release date: 2025-09-16

We are excited to announce the v1.0 release of the Grafana k6 Operator, a major milestone that brings more predictability and stability to running distributed performance tests on your Kubernetes clusters. The k6 Operator simplifies performance testing at scale, allowing you to test services inside private clusters and coordinate tests across multiple nodes without adding operational complexity.