What’s new in Grafana Cloud

New Azure On-behalf-of Authentication for the Grafana Databricks Datasource.

Databricks recommends that you use Microsoft Entra ID managed service principals in cases where you must authenticate with Azure Databricks and other Azure resources at the same time, and now this feature is available on v1.7.2 of the Databricks datasource.

We have released the two most requested features for Grafana Cloud k6 Private Load Zones: support for custom images and cloud environment variables.

With custom images, you can run tests using a custom k6 binary. For example, if you have a k6 build with extensions, you can test protocols that are not supported by default in k6.

We are excited to announce the release of a new data source for Grafana: Yugabyte. This addition extends Grafana’s capabilities, enabling seamless integration with YugabyteDB.

You can find out more about the data source in the Yugabyte data source documentation.

We are excited to announce the release of a new Zendesk data source for Grafana.
This addition extends Grafana’s capabilities, enabling seamless integration with Zendesk.

You can find out more about the data source in the Zendesk data source documentation.

We’re excited to announce the release of the Grafana Netlify Datasource plugin, designed to seamlessly monitor your Netlify build data and deployments directly into Grafana. You can also visualize form responses and setup alerts on SSL certificates expirations. Find out more about in the Netlify data source documentation.

Introducing Atlassian Statuspage data source plugin.

The Atlassian Statuspage data source plugin allows querying Summary, Status, Components, Unresolved incidents, All incidents, Upcoming scheduled maintenances, Active scheduled maintenances, All scheduled maintenances

The state timeline visualization now supports pagination. The Page size option lets you paginate the state timeline visualization to limit how many series are visible at once. This is useful when you have many series. Previously, all the series in a state timeline were made to fit within the single window of the panel, which could make it hard to read.

With paginated results, the visualization displays a subset of all series on each page.

We’ve made a number of exciting updates to transformations!

You can now use variables in some transformations

The Drone data source plugin allows you to retrieve data for repositories and builds from your Drone instance.

View energy data for your Kubernetes infrastructure components through Kubernetes Monitoring.

Native histograms are a data type in Prometheus that can produce, store, and query high-resolution histograms of observations. It usually offers higher resolution and more straightforward instrumentation than classic histograms.

If you would like more information, you can take a look at the video presented at the conference.

We are excited to announce support for cross-account querying in Metric Insights query builder for AWS Cloudwatch Plugin. This enables building SQL queries to monitor across multiple accounts in the same region in AWS Cloudwatch.
This feature introduces an account dropdown for selecting one or all of your source accounts and builds a query that targets them. Furthermore, results can be grouped by account ID by selecting “Account ID” in the Group By dropdown.
For more complex queries that are not covered by the options in the builder you can switch to the manual Code editor and edit the query.

To set up cross-account querying for AWS Cloudwatch Plugin, see instructions here.

We’ve recently announced that Grafana Cloud k6 browser tests are generally available, and now you can export your browser test results as a Grafana dashboard.

Browser testing measures the performance and UX of web applications, including important metrics such as the Core Web Vitals. The exported summary breaks down each metric and explain the impact the performance of your application might have on users. Sharing the summary with your team and other stakeholders can help pinpoint areas that could use optimizations in order to create the best possible user experience.

We have released two new k6 GitHub actions to make it easier to automate your Grafana Cloud k6 performance testing suite and projects.

You can now use the setup-k6-action to install a specific k6 version in your CI/CD workflow. This action provides flexibility when running multiple testing projects and faster execution of testing jobs.

We’ve recently announced that browser tests in Grafana Cloud k6 are generally available, and you can use them to better understand your application’s user experience and fix frontend performance issues. But creating browser test scripts can be a complex task, which is why we’re releasing the k6 DevTools Recorder Chrome extension!

With the k6 DevTools Recorder Chrome extension, you can record user flows from a website using the Chrome DevTools Recorder, and then export that as a k6 browser test. That can help you create test scripts quickly, or give you a starting point to then customize your browser script to fit your needs.