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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Pipelines history in Grafana Fleet Management

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Alloy
Release date: 2025-04-02

Grafana Fleet Management now offers an audit trail of configuration pipeline changes. With the Pipelines history feature, your team can collaborate more efficiently, ensure audit compliance, and troubleshoot issues caused by configuration changes.


Role-based Access Control available in Frontend Observability

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Frontend Observability Real user monitoring Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-04-01

We are excited to announce role-based access control (RBAC) in Frontend Observability.

RBAC provides a standardized way of granting, changing, and revoking access when it comes to viewing and modifying Grafana resources, such as dashboards, reports, and administrative settings.


Geolocation Insights in Frontend Observability

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Frontend Observability Real user monitoring
Release date: 2025-04-01

We are excited to introduce Geolocation Insights in Frontend Observability.

Frontend applications often serve a globally distributed user base, meaning that your users can be spread across multiple geographical regions and access your application from diverse locations. In some instances, a user’s location can affect the performance of web applications.


Extensions support in Grafana Cloud k6

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview K6
Release date: 2025-03-31

We are excited to announce the public preview of k6 extensions in Grafana Cloud k6.

k6 extensions are libraries that expand the k6 core functionality. For example, the faker k6 extension enables users to generate random fake data, which is not available on k6 by default. Extensions allow the k6 open source project to remain small and focused on its core functionality, but still provide users with a way to add new features to cover any use case, such as supporting a new network protocol.

A screenshot of Grafana Cloud k6, showing the k6 version and k6/x/faker extension version used in a test run

New alerting options in Synthetic Monitoring

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Synthetic Monitoring
Release date: 2025-03-31

We’re excited to announce the private preview release of new alerting capabilities for Synthetic Monitoring.

You can now create alerts for each check in your Synthetic Monitoring application. For example, you can create an alert based on the number of check failures in a specific time window, with different settings for each one of your checks.

The failed checks alert configuration in the Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring application, showing the option to alert if at least 2 executions fail in the last 5 minutes

Edit incident in IRM Mobile app

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM
Release date: 2025-03-31

We’ve just shipped a big update to our mobile app that many of you have been asking for - you can now edit incidents directly from your phone!

Edit incident demo

The LLM plugin now supports Anthropic models and is GA

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Machine learning Plugins
Release date: 2025-03-26

The LLM plugin is Grafana’s access point for GenAI features within Grafana. With the LLM plugin, you can do the following things:

  • AI-powered flame graph interpretation
  • Incident auto-summary
  • Dashboard panel title and description generation
  • Explanations of error log lines in Sift

We now support the usage of Anthropic’s API alongside already existing support for OpenAI’s API, OpenAI-compatible APIs and custom APIs.

gif of flame graph AI in action and how it works

Infinity data source enables gzip compression for outgoing requests

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Data sources
Release date: 2025-03-25

The Infinity data source plugin now supports gzip compression for outgoing requests by default, improving data transfer efficiency and dashboard performance. This enhancement reduces payload size, helping users working with large datasets or real-time dashboards experience faster load times and lower network strain.


Infinity data source supports PATCH, PUT, and DELETE HTTP methods

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Data sources
Release date: 2025-03-25

The Infinity data source plugin now supports additional HTTP methods—PATCH, PUT, and DELETE—through the allowDangerousHTTPMethods configuration. This improvement gives you greater flexibility when interacting with APIs that require these methods, making it easier to work with a wider range of use cases.

Infinity data source query editor with additional HTTP methods enabled

New token expiry management features

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Authentication and authorization Security
Release date: 2025-03-24

It’s easier than ever to stay on top of token rotation with these latest updates:

📩 Automated email reminders – Receive email notifications before a token expires, ensuring a seamless transition.


Debug Metrics in Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Kubernetes Monitoring
Release date: 2025-03-24

Get instant clarity when a panel isn’t showing any data or inaccurate data. Use Debug Metrics to learn if all the required metrics that power your panel are available and properly labeled.


Cross-region connectivity support for AWS PrivateLink

Grafana Cloud Generally Available
Release date: 2025-03-18

Grafana Cloud now supports native cross-region connectivity using AWS PrivateLink.

Previously, AWS PrivateLink only supported connectivity to VPC endpoint services in the same region. Connecting to services in a different region required setting VPC Peering between both regions, and this was complicated in some environments.