What's new from Grafana Labs

Public Preview in Grafana OSS and Grafana Enterprise

Migrating from OSS or Enterprise Grafana to Grafana Cloud has traditionally been complex, requiring technical knowledge of Grafana’s HTTP API and time-consuming manual processes. The new Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant changes this by providing a user-friendly interface that automates the migration of your resources. No coding required, it securely handles the transfer in just a few easy steps.

When setting up Grafana with Azure AD using the SAML protocol, the Azure AD Graph API sometimes returns a follow-up Graph API call rather than the information itself. This is the case for users who belong to more than 150 groups when using SAML.

We’ve updated canvas visualizations so that now you can add actions to canvas elements. The Selected element configuration now includes a Data links and actions section where you can add actions to elements. Each action can be configured to call an API endpoint.

As Grafana keeps growing, we have had feedback that it can be hard to find the pages you are looking for in the navigation. That is why we have added a new section to the navigation called ‘Bookmarks’, so you can easily access all of your favourite pages at the top of the navigation.

The newly enhanced Grafana IRM Slack integration incorporates your Slack workspace directly into your incident response workflow, allowing your team focus on alert resolution with less friction.

We’ve improved the inspect value experience in table visualizations with the addition of tabs in the Inspect value drawer: Plain text and Code editor.

When the Cell inspect value switch is toggled on, clicking the inspect icon in a cell opens the drawer. Grafana attempts to automatically detect the type of data in the cell and opens the drawer with the associated tab showing. However, you can switch back and forth between tabs.

We are excited to announce the public preview release of the Grafana Aurora Data Source. You can create alerts, query and visualize your data from AWS Aurora with Grafana. This data source supports MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible Aurora DB engines.

Use the Grafana Alerting - MQTT integration to send notifications to an MQTT broker when your alerts are firing.

Explore now supports forward direction search for Loki logs searches. This allows users to seamlessly browse logs in a time range in forward chronological order (for example, tracing a specific user’s actions using logs).

Cloud Provider Observability provides a unified experience to manage multiple cloud environments and streamline your monitoring and troubleshooting.

In addition to AWS, you can easily set up Azure and Google Cloud Platform to view:

New Azure On-behalf-of Authentication for the Grafana Databricks Datasource.

Databricks recommends that you use Microsoft Entra ID managed service principals in cases where you must authenticate with Azure Databricks and other Azure resources at the same time, and now this feature is available on v1.7.2 of the Databricks datasource.

We have released the two most requested features for Grafana Cloud k6 Private Load Zones: support for custom images and cloud environment variables.

With custom images, you can run tests using a custom k6 binary. For example, if you have a k6 build with extensions, you can test protocols that are not supported by default in k6.

We are excited to announce the release of a new data source for Grafana: Yugabyte. This addition extends Grafana’s capabilities, enabling seamless integration with YugabyteDB.

We are excited to announce the release of a new Zendesk data source for Grafana.
This addition extends Grafana’s capabilities, enabling seamless integration with Zendesk.

We’re excited to announce the release of the Grafana Netlify Datasource plugin, designed to seamlessly monitor your Netlify build data and deployments directly into Grafana. You can also visualize form responses and setup alerts on SSL certificates expirations. Find out more about in the Netlify data source documentation.