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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.

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Available in public previewApplication observability
Release date: 2024-06-17

Frontend Observability private Source Map uploads

Introducing Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability private source map uploads. Frontend Observability in Grafana Cloud can use source maps to convert stack traces from JavaScript browser errors back into their original representation. That way, users can see the line of code that caused the issue.

Up until this point, source maps must have been available publicly available on the Internet so Grafana Cloud could fetch them. Many customers find this objectionable because they need to expose some of their IP.


Generally AvailableDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-06-14

Visualization ease of use improvements

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

Table cell text wrapping

A longstanding feature request for the table visualization is to allow wrapping of text within cells. In Grafana 11.1 we’ve added this capability! By default, the column with the longest text is selected for wrapping. You can also configure wrapping manually using field overrides.


Generally AvailableDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-06-14

XY chart is GA

We’re promoting XY chart out of public preview and into general availability.

XY charts provide a way to visualize arbitrary x and y values in a graph so that you can easily show the relationship between two variables. XY charts are typically used to create scatter plots. You can also use them to create bubble charts where field values determine the size of each bubble:

XY chart is GA

Available in public previewK6
Release date: 2024-06-07

Cloud Insights in Grafana Cloud k6

Running tests has become common in recent years, but it’s only part of the story. The real value lies not just in testing but also in analyzing the results. Was the system under test stable? How was its performance?

On top of that, today’s systems are becoming increasingly more complex. When something goes wrong, finding the root cause can be difficult and time-consuming. Was it a browser, application, or database issue? Is there telemetry data that could help pinpoint the root cause? Can we make the system more transparent by eliminating its black box characteristics?


Generally AvailableExploreLogs
Release date: 2024-06-07

Logs filtering and pinning in Explore content outline

Grafana Explore now allows for logs filtering and pinning in content outline.

Filtering Logs: All log levels are now automatically available in the content outline. You can filter by log level, currently supported for Elasticsearch and Loki data sources. To select multiple filters, hold down the command key on Mac or the control key on Windows while clicking.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2024-06-06

Rule-specific silences with permissions

More easily create silences directly from the Alert rule list view or detail page.

These rule-specific silences are guaranteed to only apply to a single rule and permissions to read, create, update or delete are tied to a user’s permissions for that rule.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2024-06-06

Rule-specific silences with RBAC

Manage silences through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). In addition to the Grafana open source functionality in Rule-specific silences with permissions, you can choose who can create, edit, and read silences using the following permissions:

  • Users with the alert.silences:create permission, scoped within a folder, are able to create silences for rules contained within that folder and its subfolders
  • Users with the alert.silences:read permission, scoped within a folder, are able to read silences for rules contained within that folder and its subfolders, and general silences
  • Users with the alert.silences:write permission, scoped within a folder, are able to expire and recreate silences for rules contained within that folder and its subfolders

Generally AvailableTraces
Release date: 2024-05-30

Streaming query results for Grafana Cloud Traces

Grafana Cloud Traces users now get partial results from TraceQL queries as they come in, rather than having to wait for all results to be returned at once. This allows you to start looking at traces matched by your query immediately, speeding up your root cause analysis.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2024-05-24

Alerting template selector

Enables you to easily choose which templates you want to use in your alert notification messages by adding a template selector in the Contact Points form.

Select from existing templates or enter a custom one for your specific needs. You can switch between the two tabs to access the list of available templates and copy them across to the customized version.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2024-05-21

Removes requirement of datasources:query permission for reading rules

Fetching a rule group no longer requires the datasources:query permission for every data source used by the rules within that group. Now, the only requirements are alert.rules:read and folders:read for the folder the group is contained in.

Note: datasources:query is still required to preview an alert rule, regardless of alert rules and folders permissions.


Available in public previewDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-05-14

Scenes powered Dashboards

For the past few months we’ve been working on a major update of our Dashboards architecture and migrated it to the Scenes library. This migration provides us with more stable, dynamic, and flexible dashboards as well as setting the foundation for what we envision the future of Grafana dashboards will be. Here are two of the improvements that are being introduced as part of this work:

Edit mode

It can be difficult to efficiently navigate through the visually cluttered options during the dashboard editing process. With the introduction of the edit mode, we aim to provide an easier way to discover and interact with the dashboard edit experience.

Fixed positioning of template variables and time picker


Available in public previewDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-05-13

PDF export improvements

Introducing a major performance improvement for the PDF export feature.

Are you tired of waiting for your PDF to be generated or your report to be sent? We’re working on a major update of the dashboard-to-PDF feature to make it faster for large dashboards. The generation time will no longer be proportional to the number of panels in your dashboard. As an example, an SLO dashboard containing around 200 panels has gone from taking more than seven minutes to be generated to only eleven seconds.


Generally AvailableTraces
Release date: 2024-05-10

Open Search Datasource Plugin Service Map

Version 2.15.0 of the OpenSearch plugin introduces support for visualizing Service Map for Open Search traces ingested with OpenSearch Data Prepper.

Service map in Grafana enables customers to view a map of their applications built using microservices architecture. With this map, customers can detect performance issues, or increase in error rates in any of their services.

In order to display the map, select Traces query type in the query editor and switch on the Service Map toggle.