What’s new in Grafana Cloud

Explore cost information at any level within your Kubernetes infrastructure. In lists of Clusters, Nodes, namespaces, and workloads, you can switch from a usage view to a cost view to see the cost of each item in the list.

A continuous path of troubleshooting is available as well. Each detail page offers adjustment recommendations to help lower costs.

New for the Databricks datasource plugin is the schema aware SQL query builder to help you build faster queries. For general documentation on querying data sources in Grafana, see Query and transform data.

You can run the built query by pressing the Run query button in the top right corner of the editor.

With Kubernetes Monitoring, you can effectively identify, prioritize, and handle efficiency-related issues. Efficiency data is available globally, and your troubleshooting path enables you to create an efficiency feedback loop.

Release v2.0.0

The SLO App generates dashboards to help user pinpoint where they are burning their error budget, in which clusters, for example, by supporting multidimensional SLOs (SLOs that preserve one or more dimensions / label-values). The dashboards that help identify in which dimension the SLI is underperforming were previously only available for ratio-type SLOs or SLO expressions that were fairly simple.

ex:

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sum by (cluster) (rate(http_requests_total{code!~"5.."}[$__rate_interval]))
/ sum by (cluster) (rate(http_requests_total[$__rate_interval]))

Using Static IPs with k6 allows you to know which IP addresses will be used by the cloud instances generating load during your test runs. This allows you to whitelist these IP addresses only. Knowing the IP addresses that are used can make it easier to identify logs and traffic created specifically by the k6 load tests.

Static IPs are only available to Grafana Cloud Pro, Grafana Cloud Advanced and Enterprise customers. Accounts are limited to 5 static IP addresses but if more IPs are needed customers can contact customer support.

Administrators are now able to directly install, update and uninstall plugins from within Grafana itself, removing the need to switch context and navigate to Grafana.com. This makes it easier than ever to manage plugins in your Grafana Cloud instance and reduces the risk of attempting to install plugins which are incompatible with your Grafana configuration.

This feature will gradually roll out to all Grafana Cloud users with no action required.

AWS data sources have migrated to new form styling in Configuration and Query editors in order to comply with the Grafana design system guidelines (found here) . This feature enables Public Preview of the migrated forms for AWS data sources:

• Cloudwatch
• X-Ray
• Athena
• Redshift
• Sitewise
• Twinmaker

It includes the following changes:

• revamped data source configuration forms, including block input fields, descriptions and separated sections
• a new look and feel for data source query editors

When you’re browsing Grafana - for example, exploring the dashboard and metrics related to an alert - it’s easy to end up far from where you started and hard get back to where you came from. The ‘Return to previous’ button is an easy way to go back to the previous context, like the alert rule that kicked off your exploration. This first release works for Alerts, and we plan to expand to other apps and features in Grafana in future releases to make it easier to navigate around.

Return to Previous is rolling out across Grafana Cloud now. To try Return to Previous in self-managed Grafana, turn on the returnToPrevious feature toggle in Grafana v10.4 or newer.

Copying and pasting time range in the time range picker is now available. For example, you can copy a time range in Explore and paste it into Dashboards and vice versa. You can also copy and paste a time range using the new keyboard shortcuts t+c and t+v, respectively.

The Opsgenie contact point has been extended to allow users to optionally fill out responder information for their integration. Responders tell Opsgenie who an alert should notify according to their escalation policies and routing rules.

InfluxDB introduced a new version, 3.0, in April. With this new version, InfluxDB has put Flux in maintenance mode. But with the new version we have a new querying language, Native SQL. With v10.3.0, Grafana has built-in support for SQL query language in InfluxDB.

All you need to do is set up your InfluxDB Cloud Account and create your InfluxDB data source on Grafana with the query language “SQL” selected.

New in Explore, more options for sharing your query results! The time picker in Grafana has always had two categories - relative (for example, now to 2 hours ago) and absolute (8am to 10am). Explore has allowed people to copy links and create short links with exactly what their time picker had set, but now additionally you have the option to get a link or create a short link with the time range made absolute, even if you are viewing relative time. This means whoever looks at your link will see exactly the data you are seeing, no matter when they open the link. This is available as a dropdown next to the existing shortlink button in Explore.

We’ve improved the reporting experience with options to make all of your table data accessible in PDFs. Previously, if your dashboard included large table visualizations, you couldn’t see all of the table data in your PDF report. Unlike in Grafana, you couldn’t scroll in the PDF table visualization or click on the page numbers. With this new feature, you now have the option to see all the data directly in your PDF without losing your dashboard layout.

We’ve added two format options to the report creation form:

• Include table data as PDF appendix - Adds an appendix to your dashboard PDF.
• Attach a separate PDF of table data - Generates a separate PDF file for your table panel data.

You can add an expiration date when you create a Grafana Access Policy token during the easy configuration process of Kubernetes Monitoring. The permission scope of the token also displays as you configure.

Release v1.7.0

Sumo Logic enterprise data source plugin for Grafana lets users query metrics and logs from their Sumo Logic instance.

Plugin is already live in v 1.0