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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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.

With Debug Metrics, you have:

  • Faster issue detection when data looks off
  • Immediate insights to restore accuracy
  • More confidence in your data-driven decisions

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.


Introducing the unified Grafana Cloud IRM app

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM
Release date: 2025-03-17

Grafana OnCall and Grafana Incident are now unified into a single application: Grafana IRM. This update simplifies workflows, consolidates configurations, and provides a more integrated experience for managing on-call schedules, alert escalations, and incident response. Changes include:

  • One app for on-call and incident response – On-call and incident settings are now managed in a single location. No more switching between separate apps in Grafana Cloud.
  • New My IRM dashboard – Get a complete view of ongoing alerts and incidents in one place.
  • Seamless transition – Existing OnCall and Incident users retain all data; all on-call schedules, integrations, and settings remain intact.

The Grafana Cloud IRM app is gradually rolling out between March 17-24, 2025, and will be available in all Cloud instances by the end of March.


Fleet Management is now GA

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Alloy
Release date: 2025-03-12

We’re excited to announce that Grafana Fleet Management is generally available! Since launching Fleet Management in public preview last November, we’ve been working to add more features to help you monitor and manage your collector fleets at scale. Here are some of these enhancements:

  • Provision your collectors and configuration pipelines with Terraform.
  • Deploy and configure collectors as native Kubernetes resources.
  • Add pre-built configuration pipelines from the integration catalog.
  • Learn how to streamline your remote configuration workflows to help you save time and money.

Get started with Grafana Fleet Management today!

Fleet Management offers these solutions: centralized monitoring, remote configuration, cost controls.

Plugin details links improvements

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Plugins
Release date: 2025-03-12

Standardized links for plugins to simplify user-developer interactions

We’re pleased to announce an improvement to the Grafana plugin catalog that benefits both Grafana users and plugin developers. By introducing standardized links on plugin details pages, we’re making it easier for users to engage with developers, and find the essential information they need to get the most out of a plugin. Developers, in turn, will gain valuable feedback and support from their audience.

Plugin details links improvements

Improved performance in geomap visualizations

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-03-07

We’ve moved over to WebGL for geomap marker layers. You can expect a significant increase in performance and stability, which is especially noticeable for larger datasets.

The following examples show a comparison of before and after switching to WebGL.

Before

before with 1000 markers
1,000 styled markers with text labels
before with 10,000 markers
10,000 styled markers with text labels 😰

After

after with 1,000 markers
1,000 styled markers with text labels
after with 10,000 markers
10,000 styled markers with text labels
after with 100,000 markers
100,000 styled markers with text labels 🚀

Alert rule version history

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-03-07

The alert rule history

Alerting has added a new feature that allows you to review, compare, and restore previous alert rules.


Alerting support for Jira Service Management contact point

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-03-05

In response to the recent deprecation of OpsGenie, Grafana Alerting has added support for Jira Service Management as a Grafana Managed contact point. You can ensure you don’t miss any critical alerts by updating your OpsGenie contact points to use Jira Service Management.


Alert rule version history

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-03-05

Grafana Managed Alerts now supports version history. You can view, compare, and restore your alert’s historical versions by navigating to the alert details view of any Grafana Managed Alert rule and clicking the Version tab.


LBAC for data sources - metrics

Grafana Cloud Experimental Enterprise Experimental Data sources Authentication and authorization Metrics
Release date: 2025-02-28

It can be hard for teams to collaborate on dashboards when they have to use different data sources. Grafana instances can become cluttered and confusing with hundreds of data sources.

LBAC (Label Based Access Control) for data sources - metrics is our second step towards seamless management of access for Mimir metrics. Each team views the same data source filtered by their team’s label permissions.

LBAC for data sources - metrics

LBAC for data sources - logs

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Generally Available Data sources Logs Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-02-28

It can be hard for teams to collaborate on dashboards when they have to use different data sources. Grafana instances can become cluttered and confusing with hundreds of data sources.

LBAC (Label Based Access Control) for data sources - logs (previously called Team LBAC) is our first step towards seamless management of access for Loki logs. Each team views the same data source filtered by their team’s label permissions.


New Actions cell type for table visualizations

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-02-26

The table visualization now includes a new Actions cell type, which lets you trigger actions directly from table cells. This enhancement allows you to define custom actions, such as triggering external workflows, from within a table column:


Visualization actions are now GA

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-02-26

Actions for visualizations are now generally available. With actions, you can trigger basic, unauthenticated API calls from a dashboard panel. Previously experimental, actions are now generally available for the following visualizations:

  • Time series
  • Bar chart
  • Candlestick
  • State timeline
  • Status history
  • Table
  • Trend
  • XY chart

You can find actions under the Data links and actions section of the panel editor pane (previously the Data links section).