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.

What's new from Grafana Labs
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Powerful new language features for TraceQL

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Traces
Release date: 2025-05-08

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.


Adaptive Metrics Segmentation

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Adaptive Telemetry
Release date: 2025-05-08

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.

Manage segments in the Adaptive Metrics GUI (pictured)
Manage segments in the Adaptive Metrics GUI (pictured)

JSON Viewer for Logs Drilldown

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental Logs Drilldown
Release date: 2025-05-07

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.


Git Sync for Grafana Dashboards

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-05-06

Upgrade your Grafana experience with a direct connection with GitHub.

Connect your instance to a GitHub repository, and manage your dashboards as code directly from the Grafana UI. By enabling Git Sync, you will be able to manage dashboards the same way you manage your code. Dashboards will be versioned in Git, and edited through a PR workflow, so that it’s always possible to track changes.


Alert rule migration tool

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-05-05

We’ve simplified the migration of data source-managed alert rules to Grafana-managed alert rules.

Using these tools and APIs, you can import data source-managed alert rules from Prometheus-compatible systems (Prometheus, Mimir, Loki) into Grafana as Grafana-managed alert rules. This simplifies migrating from data source alerts to Grafana Managed Alerts while preserving behavior of the rules. Alert rules can be imported from an easy-to-use UI tool or through API endpoints compatible with Mimirtool.


Grafana-managed alert rule "Recovering" state

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-05-05

Flapping alerts can cause noise and obscure other issues. Now you can set the minimum amount of time that an alert remains firing after the breached threshold expression no longer returns any results. This sets an alert to a “Recovering” state for a duration of time so a re-triggered threshold incurred during this period won’t trigger a new alert.


Grafana-managed alert rule improvements

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Alerting
Release date: 2025-05-05

You can now restore or permanently delete recently deleted Grafana-managed alert rules. Go to Alerts & IRM > Alerting > Recently deleted to see this function in action.


Blazing-fast Table panel

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-05-05

The table visualization panel just got a major performance boost. Load, sort, and filter large tables many times faster than before, now that the table visualization has been refactored to use the react-data-grid library.


Dashboard v2 schema and dynamic dashboards

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental Dashboards and visualizations Breaking change
Release date: 2025-05-05

If the feature flag for dynamic dashboards is enabled, once an existing dashboard is migrated to a dynamic dashboard and using schema v2, it can’t be migrated back. This issue will be solved in future versions of Grafana.


Deduplication and renaming of metric cache_size

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Generally Available Breaking change
Release date: 2025-05-05

We were double registering the existing metric cache_size. In Grafana v12 we’re deprecating the metric, with plans to remove it in Grafana v13, and splitting it into 2 different metrics:


Deprecated APIs for UI extensions will be removed

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Plugins Breaking change
Release date: 2025-05-05

We’re removing the deprecated version of the UI extension APIs in favor of the new reactive APIs introduced in Grafana v11.4. The new APIs enable Grafana to load plugins with UI extensions lazily when needed instead of needing to load them prior to starting Grafana. They also make the UI reactive, so when the UI extensions registry changes, it will be reflected in the UI.


Enforcing stricter data source UID format

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Data sources Plugins Breaking change
Release date: 2025-05-05

We’ve had a standard way to define UIDs for Grafana objects for several years. While all of our internal code complies to this format, we didn’t yet have strict enforcement of this format in REST APIs and provisioning paths that allow the creation and update of data sources.


Grafana SQL expressions now in private preview

Grafana Cloud Available in private preview Open source Available in private preview
Release date: 2025-05-05

Use the full power of SQL to manipulate and combine results from data sources however you like. You can use it to create new dashboard visualizations and powerful alert and recording rules.


Removal of ‘Aggregate by’ in Tempo

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Breaking change Traces Traces Drilldown
Release date: 2025-05-05

Aggregate by was introduced as a way to view RED metrics for your traces in the Tempo data source. This functionality has been deprecated since Grafana v11.3 in favor of using Traces Drilldown and the TraceQL metrics API, which offers much more functionality and complex features. Additionally, TraceQL metrics queries are significantly more powerful than what the metrics summary API provides.


Removal of Angular

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Open source Enterprise Generally Available Plugins Breaking change Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-05-05

Angular plugin support was deprecated and turned off by default in Grafana 11 and is now being removed Grafana v12. This means, effective in Grafana v12, there is no possibility anymore to use any Angular plugins in Grafana and the dashboards that were still using “core” Angular panels will be force-migrated to the latest versions that are using React.