What’s new in Grafana Cloud

Configuring OAuth providers was a bit cumbersome in Grafana: Grafana Cloud users had to reach out to Grafana Support, self-hosted users had to manually edit the configuration file, set up environment variables, and then they had to restart Grafana. On Cloud, the Advanced Auth page is there to configure some of the providers, but configuring Generic OAuth hasn’t been available until now and there was no way to manage the settings through the Grafana UI, nor was there a way to manage the settings through Terraform or the Grafana API.

Our goal is to make setting up SSO for your Grafana instance simple and fast.

It’s hard to diagnose and resolve issues when your observability data is dispersed across many systems, which can lead to longer times to troubleshoot. Grafana’s AWS Observability provides a centralized location to work with critical observability data so you can fully understand the state of your systems. You can:

• Configure simply and securely
• Access, query, alert on, and interact in one place

You can choose to configure manually, or use a more streamlined configuration process with CloudFormation or Terraform. To send CloudWatch metrics to Grafana Cloud, you:

• Connect to your AWS account.
• Configure the connection between Grafana Cloud and your AWS account.
• Continue configuration with either CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Choose what service to monitor, what metrics to gather, the scrape interval, and what statistics to gather.
• Add any custom namespaces you want to monitor.

You can also edit or delete scrape jobs.

AWS Observability provides preconfigured dashboards embedded within the app.

You can easily access dashboards to monitor AWS costs and cloud services. For example, the following shows the billing dashboard.

Grafana AWS Observability offers an out-of-the-box, embedded experience for you to efficiently explore and analyze your Amazon EC2 data.

The list of EC2 instances is available from the Overview tab.

You can now create subtables out of your data using the new Group to nested tables transformation. To use this feature, enable the groupToNestedTableTransformation feature toggle.

We’ve made a number of small improvements to the data visualization experience in Grafana.

Geomap geojson layer now supports styling

We’ve made a number of small improvements to the way tooltips work in Grafana. To try out the new tooltips, enable the newVizTooltips feature toggle.

Copy on click support

PagerDuty enterprise data source plugin for Grafana allows you to query incidents data or visualize incidents using annotations.

Plugin is currently in a preview phase.

Structured metadata is a feature in Loki and Cloud Logs that allows customers to store metadata that is too high cardinality for log lines, without needing to embed that information in log lines themselves.

It is a great home for metadata which is not easily embeddable in a log line, but is too high cardinality to be used effectively as a label.

You can respond to and troubleshoot alerts that are firing about your Kubernetes infrastructure and the applications running within it, without leaving the context of Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring. You can start your troubleshooting either through the home page or the Alerts page.

At the Pods in trouble section on the home page, you can view the alert associated with each Pod in the list.

The integration for ClickHouse is available for use with Kubernetes Monitoring.

Release v2.0.0

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