What's new from Grafana Labs

What's new from Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs products, projects, and features can go through multiple release stages before becoming generally available. These stages in the release life cycle can present varying degrees of stability and support. For more information, refer to release life cycle for Grafana Labs.

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The MQTT, GitHub, and IBM Db2 data source plugins now support PDC

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Generally Available Data sources
Release date
2026-05-29
Self-managed release
data-source

Private Data Source Connect (PDC) adds support for three new data sources: MQTT, GitHub, and IBM Db2.

PDC creates a private, encrypted tunnel between your Grafana Cloud stack and data sources running inside private networks, VPCs, or on-premises environments. No public endpoint required.


Copy and paste panel styles are now generally available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-05-26
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.1.0

The copy and paste panel styles feature we announced in April 2026 is now generally available in all editions of Grafana. Copy display options and field styling from one panel and paste them onto another panel of the same type—without duplicating panels or reconfiguring options manually.


Panel styles are now generally available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-05-26
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.1.0

The panel styles we introduced earlier this year are now generally available in all editions of Grafana. Apply curated colors, thresholds, and display options to time series, stat, gauge, bar gauge, and bar chart panels with a single click in the panel editor.


Grafana SLO now supports Assistant investigations

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview SLOs AI
Release date
2026-05-20

Grafana SLO now integrates with Assistant Investigations, helping teams move faster from SLO alerts to root cause investigation.

Assistant Investigations coordinate multiple agents to explore your observability stack and the data tied to your SLO, building a complete investigation report.


Screenshot thumbnails for browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring Timepoint Explorer

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Synthetic Monitoring
Release date
2026-05-19

When debugging browser check failures like “timeout waiting for a selector”, you previously had to rely on text logs alone to understand what the browser rendered. Now, with screenshot thumbnails in the Timepoint Explorer and ad-hoc test panel, you can see exactly what the page looked like at the moment the check ran.


Grafana Documentation now ships as Markdown

Grafana Cloud Generally Available AI
Release date
2026-05-15
Self-managed release
no-suitable-option

AI coding assistants and LLM workflows work best when they can pull in clean, structured context—but until now, getting Grafana documentation into your prompt meant scraping HTML and stripping out navigation, headers, and styling. No more.


Alerting: the legacy Alertmanager UI is no longer available in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date
2026-05-15
Self-managed release
no-suitable-option

The legacy Prometheus Alertmanager built-in UI is no longer available in Grafana Cloud. This is the old Alertmanager web interface, served per cluster at alertmanager-<cluster>.grafana.net and reached through a separate OAuth login (its URLs contain a /#/ fragment, for example /#/alerts).


Enhanced metrics for AWS with Cloud Provider Observability

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Infrastructure Observability Cloud Provider Observability
Release date
2026-05-13

Cloud Provider Observability now supports enhanced metrics, enabling you to monitor important service insights that aren’t available directly in CloudWatch. New derived metrics for such services as AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, and ElastiCache provide deeper visibility into resource capacity, usage, and limits—helping you build more informative dashboards and alerts.


Quick filters and data grouping are now generally available

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-05-13
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.1.0

Quick filters and grouping are now generally available in Grafana!

The new Filter and Group by dashboard control makes it faster and easier to explore data by combining filtering and grouping in a single, intuitive experience. With default filters, recent filter history, a unified filters overview, and panel-level drilldowns, users can investigate data faster while keeping dashboards clean and easy to navigate.


Cost Attribution for Performance Testing

Grafana Cloud Generally Available K6 Cost management
Release date
2026-05-13

The Cost Management and Billing app now supports Cost Attribution for Performance Testing!

You can break down Virtual User Hour (VUH) consumption using labels assigned to your k6 projects. This makes it easier to understand and allocate performance testing costs across teams, departments, environments, services, or any other dimension that matters to your organization.


PDC Agent: Native Go SSH Support

Grafana Cloud Generally Available
Release date
2026-05-12

The PDC agent now supports a native Go SSH mode, enabled with the -use-gossh flag. This replaces the agent’s reliance on an external OpenSSH process with a direct SSH implementation via Go’s golang.org/x/crypto/ssh library, and brings several improvements:


Flexible grouping rules and field overrides for nested tables

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date
2026-05-10
Self-managed release
grafana-v13.1.0

The table visualization’s nested rows feature has gotten some significant upgrades: a redesigned editor for the Group to nested tables transformation and the ability to apply field overrides to fields inside nested sub-tables.