What's new from Grafana Labs

Use the in-app Cardinality page to discover on a Cluster-by-Cluster basis where all your active series are coming from for:

• Troubleshooting after initial configuration
• Determining potential duplicate metrics
• Finding other potential cardinality issues

Explore Metrics is a query-less experience for browsing Prometheus-compatible metrics. Search for or filter to find a metric. Quickly find related metrics - all in just a few clicks. You do not need to learn PromQL! With Explore Metrics, you can:

After you run a performance test in Grafana Cloud k6, the next step is to analyze the results and share any findings with your team. Sometimes, you don’t need your team members to view all the resulting metrics, or you might want to generate a PDF in an accessible, easy-to-read format to share with external stakeholders.

Grafana 11 adds the ability to color full table rows using the Colored background cell type of the table visualization. When you configure fields in a table to use this cell type, an option to apply the color of the cell to the entire row becomes available.

Grafana Synthetics now supports longer durations for two options:

Timeout -> Increased maximum to 60 seconds.
Frequency -> Increased maximum to 60 minutes.

Plugin developers and users typically want their plugins to be compatible with a range of Grafana versions. However, ensuring this is true can be a challenge. The environment, APIs, and UI components may differ from one version to another. Manual testing is tedious and error-prone. End-to-End testing across multiple versions is prohibitively complicated given the version-to-version changes in Grafana itself - until now.

The Alerting Provisioning HTTP API has been updated to enforce Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

• For Grafana OSS, users with the Editor role can now use the API.
• For Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud, users with the role Rules Writer and Set Provisioning status can access the API and limit access to alert rules that use a particular data source.
• Other roles related to provisioning, for example Access to alert rules provisioning API still work.

From a Pod, Cluster, namespace, or workload view, you can begin an incident investigation by clicking Run Sift investigation.

Pause and resume alert rule evaluation directly from the Alert rules list and details view. This helps Improve visibility of when alert rules have been paused by displaying “Paused” as the alert rule state.

It is hard for teams to collaborate on dashboards because they have to use different datasources. Grafana instances become cluttered and confusing with 100s of datasources.

AWS Logs with Firehose is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.

Notification policies are evaluated from top to bottom, so it is key to be able to choose which notification policy receives alerts first. This feature enables you to add notification policies as siblings instead of always inserting a child policy as well as choose where to insert new notification policies by selecting insert above or below.

You can use Grafana Cloud k6 cloud options to configure additional test parameters, such as how to distribute your test across load zones, or to use static IP addresses.

By leveraging structured metadata under the hood, Cloud Logs now provides a simplified syntax and better query performance for logs sent through our Cloud OTLP endpoint.

You now have the ability to customize specific colors for individual thresholds when using the Config from query results transformer. Previously, when you added multiple thresholds, they all defaulted to the same color, red. With this addition, you gain the flexibility to assign distinct colors to each threshold.