What's new from Grafana Labs

You can now choose to enable or disable tooltips in canvas visualizations. The Tooltip mode setting controls the display of tooltips when hovering over elements in a canvas that are connected to data, data links, or actions.

Additionally, you can now use the Disable for one-click elements option to selectively hide tooltips on elements that have one-click functionality enabled. This enhancement prevents tooltips from interfering with one-click interactions while still allowing tooltips on other elements.

The process for configuring alerting using Faro data coming from your frontend apps has just gotten a whole lot easier. Introducing Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability out of the box alerting. We have taken the first step in helping users configure Grafana-managed alerts without needing any previous experience with alerting in Grafana Cloud. 

Using our simple workflows you can enable and configure alerts based on your web app’s errors and web vital metrics. Find and troubleshoot issues sooner now that alert configuration and rules are handled automatically. Additionally, these alerts can serve as templates for you to expand the alerting coverage of your frontend apps. 

You can now add Status updates to incidents in Grafana IRM to help keep your team and stakeholders informed during an incident.

Status updates are structured messages that communicate key information throughout the incident lifecycle. Whether you’re confirming impact, escalating to another team, or resolving the issue, use status updates to help track and share progress in a consistent, high-signal way.

The Grafana Advisor is designed to help Grafana server administrators keep their instances running smoothly, securely and in keeping with best practices.

It performs a series of periodic checks against your Grafana instance to highlight issues requiring the server administrator’s attention.

Apply this transformation to any dataset to add a trendline as a new series, fitted to your data using linear regression. This allows you to infer what the data was at a point that may not be exactly represented in the original dataset, or plot predicted values in the future. Trendlines are great for spotting patterns in fluctuating or inconsistent time series. This transformation is extra useful because trendlines can be styled and used just like any other series in your visualization. The Trendline transformation supports both linear and polynomial regression models.

See examples of this transformation on Grafana Play.

You can now visualize HTTP Performance Insights in Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability. This feature provides a unified view of your slowest endpoints, largest requests, and most error-prone calls, helping you quickly identify and resolve application performance issues.

No more hunting through scattered logs or custom dashboards. These views and breakdowns help you discover insights and gauge impact. You can understand:

• Which API endpoints or assets are causing slowdowns or errors?
• How widespread is a specific performance issue?
• What are the biggest opportunities for optimization based on how issues occur over time.

Instantly pivot from Kubernetes Monitoring to the exact EC2 instance in Cloud Provider Observability that’s impacting performance or stability. Whether it’s a failing node, resource exhaustion, or an unreachable instance, this seamless cross-layer visibility removes manual guesswork and eliminates the need for context-switching.

View GPU utilization panels on the GPU tabs of Cluster and Node detail pages to discover whether Nvidia GPUs inside the Cluster are appropriately utilized and whether workloads are getting and using the GPU resources that have been made available.

Segmentation makes it easy for you to manage Adaptive Logs by team, business unit, or any other logical division.

Using segmentation, you can decentralize log management. Shift responsibility from a central team to smaller units, empowering each to manage their own Adaptive Logs rules and control log intake with confidence.

Grafana Assume Role is now Generally Available (GA) for CloudWatch and Athena data sources! Grafana Assume Role allows you to authenticate with AWS without having to create and maintain long-term AWS users or rotate their access and secret keys. Instead, you can create an IAM role that has permissions to access CloudWatch or Athena and a trust relationship with Grafana’s AWS account. Grafana’s AWS account then makes an STS request to AWS to create temporary credentials to access your AWS data. More information can be found in the AWS authentication docs.

On-call engineers need to be instantly aware when critical incidents occur, even in noisy environments or during deep sleep. The Grafana IRM Mobile App now includes five new high-intensity alarm sounds specifically designed to cut through ambient noise and grab your attention when it matters most.

The new sound collection features aircraft alarms, emergency warnings, fire alarms, loud buzzers, and severe warning alarms - each available in both constant and fade-in variations. These sounds were carefully selected based on customer feedback requesting more effective notification options that ensure alerts are never missed.

The alert rule page has received a total redesign. The new page features a smoother, faster, and more flexible design to help make your alert rule management easier.

The new alert rule page features two views, each with their own uses. The Grouped view is arranged by namespaces, so you can drill down to the specific groups you’re looking for. The List view is a full list of all alert rules, designed for quick searches and easy filtering, which has become much more efficient thanks to recent performance improvements.

The Google Sheets data source just got more powerful! Our 2.2.0 release adds support for template variables, making it easier to build interactive and adaptable dashboards directly from your spreadsheets.

Imagine you have a spreadsheet with sales data for different regions. With template variables, you can add a drop-down menu to your dashboard that lets users select a specific region. The dashboard automatically updates to show only the data for that region.

Grafana now supports Entra Workload Identity, significantly enhancing authentication capabilities with federated credentials. This update simplifies the OAuth flow and improves security for Grafana instances leveraging Microsoft Azure, and was a valuable contribution from an external contributor. Thank you mehiglow.

For more details on configuring Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) authentication, please refer to the official documentation.

We’re excited to announce that you can now define custom variables within visualization actions. When you trigger an action (such as an API request), you’ll be prompted to provide input for those variables. This makes actions more dynamic and interactive, allowing you to tailor requests in real time without modifying the dashboard configuration.

This feature is especially useful when actions require user-supplied input upon being triggered. For example, it enables scenarios like setting a thermostat to a specific temperature or entering a problem description when creating a support ticket.

We are announcing the availability of embedded Logs Drilldown within Asserts. This is our second milestone, coming hot off the heels of launching the embedded version of Traces Drilldown in Asserts.

We continue to celebrate and ensure our opinionated experiences can benefit from our best-of-breed signal exploration workflows by making them embeddable in other contexts.

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