What's new from Grafana Labs

We are delighted to share a new public roadmap for data source plugins being built by Grafana, our partners and our community. All existing and potential users of Grafana can now see our current plans and request new plugins, upvote existing requests, or comment with ideas and requirements.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is now available in Grafana Cloud k6!

With the new Performance Testing roles available in your Grafana Cloud stack, you get fine-grained control over what a User or Team can do in the k6 Performance Testing application, regardless of their Grafana Stack role.

The SSO settings API has been updated to include support for LDAP settings. This feature is experimental behind the feature flag ssoSettingsLDAP.

You will soon be able to configure LDAP from the UI and Terraform.

The SSO settings API has been updated to include support for SAML settings. The UI has also been updated to use the new API instead of the old Settings update at runtime API which is now deprecated and will be removed in a future version of Grafana.

Grafana Cloud k6 Cloud Insights is generally available! Cloud Insights can help you automatically identify potential issues in your system under test or k6 test script and get more accurate and insightful results from your performance tests.

We are excited to release Explore Logs to most of our Cloud customers in public preview!

Explore Logs helps developers quickly troubleshoot and gain insights from logs without needing to run a query.

The Adobe Analytics data source plugin allows you to retrieve reports data from Adobe Analytics.

Standardized tooltips

As a continuation of our efforts to standardize tooltips across visualizations, we’ve updated canvas visualization tooltips to be supported for all elements tied to data. Besides the element name and data, the tooltip now also displays the timestamp. This is a step forward from the previous implementation where tooltips were shown only if data links were configured.

A new home page, Kubernetes Overview, gives you a snapshot of both healthy objects and potential issues.

Additional user experience enhancements include:

• Overview and network tabs
• Deep links into Clusters
• More linking into root cause analysis
• Visual indicators for every Kubernetes object, including workload type, Pod, Cluster, and namespace

For more enhanced ways to navigate, refer to Navigation tips.

For the past few months, we’ve been working on stabilizing the k6-browser module and its API, as well as improving the performance of Grafana Cloud k6 in handling browser tests with a high number of VUs.

You can now view a detailed timeline for a Grafana k6 browser test when executing it in Grafana Cloud k6, as well as any screenshots taken during that test run.

To be more aligned with the OpenTelementry specification, Grafana Cloud Traces will return RetryInfo to correctly indicate retryable errors.

For more information, refer to Retry on RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED failure.

Cost overview tab

Use the Cost Overview tab to see a 90-day view of total compute cost, average cost per Pod, and average Pod count. This 90-day period is divided into the prior 30 days, the last 30 days from the current date, and an estimate of the next 30 days.

For the past few months we’ve been working on a major update of our Dashboards architecture and migrated it to the Scenes library. This migration provides us with more stable, dynamic, and flexible dashboards as well as setting the foundation for what we envision the future of Grafana dashboards will be. Here are four of the improvements that are being introduced as part of this work:

GeoMap keyboard support

The GeoMap panel can now be used with a keyboard! Focus the map area, move around with the arrows keys and zoom in and out using + and -.