What's new from Grafana Labs

The memory tab and panels are accessible on any detail page beyond the container level. Now you can view memory usage in correlation with relevant data points, as shown in the screen capture of a namespace.

In this case, you can see at a glance key data such as:

We recently added support for importing data source-managed rules through the alerting UI. However, users couldn’t import their existing Prometheus rules when no ruler was available.

This update introduces the ability to import rules directly from a Prometheus YAML file using the same alerting UI.

With early detection patterns, Adaptive Logs now shows log patterns without waiting to see how often they are queried. This feature allows you to proactively detect and filter out wasteful logs, ensuring only the most valuable telemetry is ever shipped to Grafana Cloud.

We’ve updated the main navigation in Grafana Cloud to bring all observability tools together under a single menu called Observability. You’ll now find App Observability, Frontend Observability, Kubernetes Monitoring, Infrastructure Monitoring, Cloud Provider Observability, and more grouped in one place.

This change is part of our effort to provide:

• A simpler, more consistent experience across observability tools
• Faster access to relevant signals and workflows
• A foundation for deeper, context-aware troubleshooting powered by Grafana’s Knowledge Graph

We’re excited to introduce SLO Reports—a powerful new feature in Grafana SLO that enables users to report on multiple service level objectives (SLOs) on a weekly or monthly basis.

With SLO Reports, you can now:

• Consolidate multiple SLOs into a single, easy-to-digest report
• View individual and combined SLI (Service Level Indicator) metrics
• Understand weighted contributions of each SLO to the overall SLI performance

You can now sync Grafana IRM’s phone numbers to your mobile contacts. This helps you recognize IRM calls and allows you to bypass Do Not Disturb (DnD) for urgent alerts.

Benefits

• Incoming IRM calls and SMS messages appear with the contact name Grafana IRM instead of an unknown number.
• You can configure your phone to allow calls and messages from Grafana IRM to override DnD or silent mode.

How it works

1. In the IRM mobile app, go to Settings > Sync Grafana IRM contact.
2. Toggle the setting on to enable.
3. The app will create a contact named Grafana IRM using known IRM phone numbers.

The list of phone numbers is updated automatically whenever you open the app and new numbers are available. Once enabled, this setting adds a contact card with our verified SMS and call numbers.

Kubernetes Monitoring offers CPU tabs with insightful panels on every detail page beyond the container page to provide you with quicker troubleshooting and better resource planning. You can gain deeper visibility from cluster to pod with utilization efficiency graphs and CPU distribution analysis.

CPU tabs available at every level beyond the container give you:

• An edge for finding issues
• Capacity sizing insights to optimize performance

You can now restrict Private Load Zones (PLZs) in Grafana Cloud k6 to be used by a limited set of projects.

This feature lets you assign projects to a PLZ so that only tests inside of that project can be run on a specific PLZ.

We’re excited to announce that Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Synthetic Monitoring is now generally available! This gives you the ability to fine-tune access and permissions within Synthetic Monitoring, offering greater control over who can access specific features.

With RBAC, you can assign different roles and permissions to users and teams, ensuring the right people have the right access. This makes managing your monitoring workflows more secure and flexible.

How it Works

Native TypeScript support is now available in the Grafana Cloud k6 Script Editor, allowing you to write type-safe code in the cloud without any additional setup.

TypeScript is a strongly typed language that extends JavaScript - all valid JavaScript code is also valid TypeScript. By adding static types, TypeScript helps you catch errors early in development, enabling you to identify bugs before your code runs.

You now have more flexibility to tailor Grafana IRM to your team’s specific incident response workflows with several new customization options:

• Custom incident statuses: Define additional phases, such as Investigating or Monitoring, to go beyond the default Active and Resolved statuses. Custom statuses help responders communicate progress more clearly and give stakeholders better visibility into the state of an incident.
• Custom metadata fields: Capture the information that matters most to your organization. Add custom fields, such as impacted services or involved teams, and even make them required to ensure consistent data collection across incidents.
• Private incidents: Limit visibility for sensitive incidents by declaring them privately. Private incidents automatically create a restricted Slack or Microsoft Teams channel and give you control over who has access throughout the incident.

To learn more, refer to the documentation on incident settings and private incidents.

Dynamic Alerting with our Forecasting and Outlier Detection features has been supporting role-based access control in Public Preview for the last months. We’re excited to announce that this feature is now generally available. This introduces the roles ML Editor, ML Viewer, Sift Editor and Sift Viewer to better manage access to our Dynamic Alerting features.

ML Editors can:

• Create/edit/delete forecasts and outlier detectors
• Create/edit/delete holidays

We’re excited to roll out three powerful enhancements to TraceQL, giving you more flexibility and performance when querying traces in Grafana Cloud with Tempo.

• Rank your metrics with new topk(n) and bottomk(n) functions to quickly get your highest and lowest ranking time series.
• Aggregate spans over time using sum_over_time() for built-in cumulative sums, such as total bytes, error counts.
• Fetch the latest traces first via the experimental most_recent=true query hint.

Ranking topk and bottomk functions for TraceQL metrics

When you’re looking at latency, error rates, or throughput across hundreds or thousands of services or endpoints, it’s easy to get lost in all the data. Previously, you’d have to pull back the full set of aggregates and then manually inspect or post‑process the results to find your worst offenders or best performers.

Segmentation allows customers to manage their Adaptive Metrics recommendations on a team, service, or system level, allowing for more granular management of Adaptive Metrics.

You can define label-based segments via a GUI, API, or Terraform. Each segment will then receive its own recommendations; rules and exemptions can then be managed per segment.

Logs Drilldown now contains a JSON viewer for structured log lines. With this new feature, users can more easily view, interact, and of course drill down into their JSON data. This table enables users to filter their JSON log lines so that they can view just the data they need in places like the Log Volume visualization.

To learn more, refer to the following video demo, as well as the Grafana Logs Drilldown documentation.