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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Pipeline attribute injection in Grafana Fleet Management

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Alloy
Release date: 2025-04-23

Pipelines in Grafana Fleet Management can now inject variable collector attribute values into their configurations. This powerful new feature enables you to create dynamic configurations that adapt to each collector’s characteristics, reducing the need for multiple similar pipelines.

Categorize your collectors with meaningful attributes, such as environment type, department, or location. Then inject these attributes into configuration pipelines using the syntax argument.attributes.value["ATTRIBUTE_KEY"]. With attribute injection, you can

  • Create a single pipeline that works across different environments.
  • Dynamically set labels based on collector attributes.
  • Reduce the number of pipelines needed to manage your fleet.
  • Make configurations more maintainable and scalable.

Updated Grafana IRM settings page

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM
Release date: 2025-04-23

We’ve made several updates to the IRM settings to give administrators greater visibility and control:

  • Renamed the Organization settings to Admin & API.
  • Added Admin-level setting to enable or disable the availability of notification channels (such as Slack or MS Teams) across all user profiles.
  • Deprecated OnCall API tokens in favor of Grafana Cloud service accounts. Existing OnCall API tokens can still be used, viewed, and deleted, but new tokens can no longer be generated.
Before and after image showing the difference in the IRM settings page

Grafana Service Center now includes IRM context

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview IRM SLOs
Release date: 2025-04-18

We’ve made it easier to understand ownership and take action immediately when a service looks off. The latest update to Grafana Service Center brings IRM (incident response management) context directly into the service details view. You can now quickly see who’s on-call and escalate issues without leaving Service Center.

When a team is assigned to a service and has an active on-call schedule, the service details page shows:

  • Who is currently on call
  • Their local time and whether they’re within working hours
  • Quick-access actions like Slack DM and escalation

New dashboards schema

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental
Release date: 2025-04-11

Grafana’s dashboard schema has stayed mostly the same for years, originally built around a single grid layout. Over time, it became more complex and harder to work with, mixing different concerns and adding unnecessary complications. In Grafana v12, we’re introducing a new dashboard schema.

With this new architecture based on Scenes, we’re simplifying the schema to make it easier to understand and support powerful new features, like dynamic dashboards, tabs, and canvas-style layouts. The new schema also aims to simplify dashboard management, supporting the as-code approach of Git provisioning.


Pause Adaptive Logs

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Adaptive Telemetry
Release date: 2025-04-11

In the middle of an incident? Deploying a service? Would having every log line available help?

Now with Pause Adaptive Logs, end users of logs can temporarily ingest the logs they need for the service, application, or cluster they care about, without needing to configure anything in Adaptive Logs or work with their centralized team. Get all the cost savings benefits of Adaptive Logs, while making sure your dev teams aren’t stranded during an Incident!


Incident roles in the IRM Mobile app

Grafana Cloud Generally Available IRM
Release date: 2025-04-11

We continue adding more functionality to the IRM mobile app to make incident management smoother and more flexible, allowing you to react instantly from anywhere.

You can now manage incident roles directly from your phone!


Introducing experimental themes

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Experimental
Release date: 2025-04-11

We’re giving the community early access to several new experimental themes to celebrate the release of Grafana 12! You can jazz up your Grafana experience with Sapphire dusk, Tron, Gilded grove, Gloom, or Desert bloom. To see the color scheme of a theme before selecting it, click the user icon in the top-right corner of the page and select Change theme.

User profile menu

This opens the Change theme drawer, where you can view all themes:

Open theme drawer with Sapphire dusk selected

Dynamic dashboards

Grafana Cloud Experimental Open source Enterprise Experimental Dashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2025-04-10

Last year, we migrated our dashboard architecture to the Scenes library, unlocking a more stable, dynamic, and flexible foundation for the future of Grafana dashboards. Today, we’re excited to showcase what the team has built on top of it, with a strong focus on improving core user workflows: navigating, consuming, and editing dashboards.

More efficient navigation and consumption

  • Tabs for better organization: Build well-structured dashboards with tabbed layouts for different contexts and user groups.
  • Conditional rendering: Show or hide visualizations based on variable selections or data availability, ensuring relevance. 
  • Dashboard content outline: Navigate dashboards fast with this tree structure, making it easier to jump between sections.

Powerful dashboard editing

  • New flexible panel layout options: Use custom or auto-grid panel layouts with adjustable settings, like column count, for adaptive dashboard behavior.
  • Tabs and row grouping: Group panels into rows or tabs based on your needs. Nested grouping to support complex visual needs is also supported.
  • Context-aware editing: Quickly modify tabs or rows, panels, and variables without diving into full edit mode.
  • Intelligent side pane: The side pane user interface adapts to your selection, enabling fast actions like duplicating elements or setting layout options.

This is an experimental feature and should not be used in production environments, as it might result in a loss of data. If you are interested in enabling Dynamic Dashboards, please fill out this form.


New controls for logs in Explore

Grafana Cloud Available in public preview Open source Enterprise Available in public preview Explore Logs
Release date: 2025-04-09

Introducing new controls for Logs in Explore

We’re excited to introduce a new controls component for Logs in Explore, designed to make better use of the layout around logs, and give users greater flexibility when working with log data.


Rich Grafana Cloud k6 test run summary in GitHub actions

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Enterprise Generally Available K6
Release date: 2025-04-03

We’ve enhanced our GitHub Actions integration for k6, making it even easier to run performance tests seamlessly within your CI/CD pipelines.

Now, when executing k6 tests in the cloud from a GitHub Actions workflow, the pull request comments will automatically display a rich test summary. This includes key performance metrics like response times, request rates, pass/fail statuses and comparison with the baseline test runs—providing instant, actionable insights without leaving your development workflow.


Manage Frontend Observability using Terraform

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Frontend Observability
Release date: 2025-04-02

We are excited to announce that you can now use Terraform to manage Frontend Observability resources.

You can configure a Terraform provider to connect to the Frontend Observability API and manage resources, such as applications.


Pipelines history in Grafana Fleet Management

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Alloy
Release date: 2025-04-02

Grafana Fleet Management now offers an audit trail of configuration pipeline changes. With the Pipelines history feature, your team can collaborate more efficiently, ensure audit compliance, and troubleshoot issues caused by configuration changes.

You can view all changes across all pipelines, review changes to a specific pipeline, compare differences between change events for a pipeline, or copy configuration syntax to revert to an earlier version of a pipeline.

<A screen in Fleet Management showing a comparison of two versions of a profiling configuration pipeline.>

Role-based Access Control available in Frontend Observability

Grafana Cloud Generally Available Frontend Observability Real user monitoring Authentication and authorization
Release date: 2025-04-01

We are excited to announce role-based access control (RBAC) in Frontend Observability.

RBAC provides a standardized way of granting, changing, and revoking access when it comes to viewing and modifying Grafana resources, such as dashboards, reports, and administrative settings.