What's new from Grafana Labs

What's new from Grafana Labs

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Further optimize metrics costs with Adaptive Metrics recommendations configuration

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Adaptive Telemetry Metrics Cost management
Release date
2026-08-18

Realize even more savings by optimizing data you don’t need.

Adaptive Metrics now lets you choose to ignore unused dashboards or ad hoc queries when creating usage based optimization recommendations. You can exclude unqueried dashboards if you have lost of stale dashboards, or ignore ad hoc queries if your users frequently issue wide queries - whatever works best for your organization!


Authoring commits in Git Sync

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

Starting in Grafana 13.2.0, you can include authoring information to your commits.

If you don’t enable commit signing, you can use author override to author commits. If you don’t select author override, the signed-in Grafana user name and email will be used as the commit author.


Authoring commits in Git Sync

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

Starting in Grafana 13.2.0, you can include authoring information to your commits.

If you don’t enable commit signing, you can use author override to author commits. If you don’t select author override, the signed-in Grafana user name and email will be used as the commit author.


Git Sync support for GitHub enterprise

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

Git Sync now supports GitHub Enterprise, both Server and Cloud versions.

You can now provision your dashboards as JSON files and your folders in your GitHub enterprise instance using Git Sync. If you make any changes in your synchronized Git repositories, they will be updated in the Grafana database as well, and vice-versa. This allows you to manage your resources as code, so you and your team can version control, collaborate, and automate deployments efficiently.


Service and workload entities are separating in Entity Catalog and Entity Graph

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Infrastructure Observability Application observability
Release date
2026-08-18

Application services and the Kubernetes workloads they run on are now separate entities, connected by a relationship, instead of a single merged entity. This follows the model most teams already work with: an application runs on infrastructure, and in Kubernetes that infrastructure is a workload.


Webhooks available for GitLab and BitBucket

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

In Grafana OSS/Enterprise, Git Sync uses webhooks to enable real-time updates from GitHub public repositories, or to enable pull request integrations. Webhooks are now available for GitLab and BitBucket.


Revamped homepage for Grafana

Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0
Screenshot of the revamped homepage for Grafana.

We’ve applied a fresh coat of paint to the Grafana homepage and added a couple of new features while we’re there.


Export traces of Grafana to a file for easier troubleshooting

Open source Enterprise Generally Available Traces
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

When you operate Grafana yourself and have to troubleshoot performance issues, distributed traces are often the quickest way to see what’s going on under the hood. Until now, collecting them meant standing up an OpenTelemetry Collector and a tracing backend just to investigate a single issue.


Azure Monitor Batch API

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Data sources
Release date
2026-08-18
Self-managed release
data-source

The Azure Monitor data source now supports the Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API. Instead of sending one request per resource, Grafana groups eligible metric queries and sends them together. This means fewer calls to Azure, faster queries, and less chance of throttling on dashboards that query many resources.


See Your Adaptive Telemetry Cost Savings

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Cost management Adaptive Telemetry
Release date
2026-08-13

See how Adaptive Telemetry is reducing your Grafana Cloud costs directly in the Cost Management and Billing App!

You can now view estimated cost savings from Adaptive Telemetry alongside your organization’s cost and usage data. The updated Usage overview brings monthly cost, contract burndown, and Adaptive Telemetry savings together, making it easier to understand both what you’re spending and the impact of your optimization efforts.


Scripted dashboards will be removed in Grafana 14

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-08-12

Scripted dashboards will be removed in Grafana 14. Scripted dashboards are a legacy mechanism that we deprecated years ago and are now retiring. If you use them, plan to migrate before you upgrade to Grafana 14, after which they’ll stop working entirely.

Grafana now offers dynamic dashboards and robust as-code solutions for managing dashboards at scale. Learn more about the latest dashboard capabilities and dashboards as code.


Custom label retention for Knowledge Graph

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Application observability
Release date
2026-08-12

Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph normalizes your telemetry into a fixed set of well-known labels, which means organization-specific labels like team, region, or cost_center are dropped during processing. With custom label retention, you can choose which of your own labels to keep on knowledge graph entities and recording rules.

Retained labels let you filter, group, and drill down on your own dimensions across the entity catalog, entity graph, and RCA workbench. They also propagate to the knowledge graph’s recording rules in Mimir, so you can use them in dashboards and alerting.


Explore busy panels with the new View panel sidebar

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-08-11
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

When a graph packs in dozens of series, understanding which ones share an anomaly means visually tracing overlapping lines. Plus, if you’re a viewer, you can’t toggle the legend or stacking to get a clearer look, because those options live in edit mode.


Adaptive Profiles is generally available in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Adaptive Telemetry Profiles
Release date
2026-08-11

Make distributed profiling cost effective with Adaptive Profiles! Now generally available, Adaptive Profiles applies a cost effective baseline sample rate to your services, increasing the sampling rate to 100% for a service when behavior change is detected. This allows Adaptive Profiles to reduce your stored volume by 85-90%.


Organize dashboards faster with multi-select grouping

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-08-11
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.2.0

Organizing a dashboard is now faster with multi-select grouping. In edit mode, you can select multiple panels at once and instantly group them into a row or a tab, making it easy to restructure dashboards without moving panels one by one.