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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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Generally AvailableK6
Release date: 2024-03-25

Update to Grafana Cloud k6 cloud options

You can use Grafana Cloud k6 cloud options to configure additional test parameters, such as how to distribute your test across load zones, or to use static IP addresses.

Before, you would use the options.ext.loadimpact object to pass any configuration parameters. Now, you can use the options.cloud object instead:

JavaScript
export const options = {
  cloud: {
    name: 'Hello k6 cloud!',
    projectID: 123456,
    staticIPs: true,
  },
};

Generally AvailableDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-03-22

Set threshold colors in the Config from query transformation

You now have the ability to customize specific colors for individual thresholds when using the Config from query results transformer. Previously, when you added multiple thresholds, they all defaulted to the same color, red. With this addition, you gain the flexibility to assign distinct colors to each threshold.

This feature addresses a common pain point highlighted by users. With customizable threshold colors, you now have greater control over your data representation, fostering more insightful and impactful analyses across diverse datasets.


ExperimentalData sources
Release date: 2024-03-22

Azure Monitor: Current User authentication

You can now configure the Azure Monitor data source to authenticate as the logged-in Grafana user when making query and resource requests if you also use Azure Entra to sign your users into Grafana.

Current User authentication allows you to enforce Azure RBAC restrictions on your Grafana users by removing the need to provide broad service credentials. Once a data source is configured with Current User authentication a user will only have access to resources they can access directly in Azure.

Azure Monitor: Current User authentication

Available in public previewDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-03-22

Infinite panning for the canvas visualization

With the newly added Infinite panning editor option, you can now view and navigate very large canvases. This option is displayed when the Pan and zoom switch is enabled.

To try out this feature, you must first enable the canvasPanelPanZoom feature toggle.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2024-03-21

Alert detail view redesign

The new alert rule detail view has a new look and feel with helpful metadata at the top. The namespace and group are shown in the breadcrumb navigation. This is interactive and can be used to filter rules by namespace or group. The rest of the alert detail content is split up into tabs:

Query and conditions

Alert detail view redesign

Available in public previewMachine learningPlugins
Release date: 2024-03-21

Built-in Generative AI support in Cloud

We released generative AI support in both OSS and Cloud last year, supporting features like Incident auto-summary and dashboard creation assistance. One downside was that it was tedious to set up – you had to install & enable the LLM plugin, and separately sign up with OpenAI or Azure to configure your own API keys.

On Cloud, this just got a lot easier!


Generally AvailablePlugins
Release date: 2024-03-20

Plugin search improvements

The Grafana plugins catalog contains over 200 data sources, panels and applications to help you make the most of your data. However, finding the right plugin can sometimes be a challenge.

Our initial search capability required an exact match on the name of the given plugin.


Generally AvailableData sourcesTraces
Release date: 2024-03-18

Removal of old Tempo Search and Loki Search in Tempo

In Grafana v10.1, we added a Tempo search editor powered by TraceQL (search tab). We also recommended using this new editor over the older non-TraceQL powered editor.

The older non-TraceQL powered editor has been removed. Any existing queries using the older editor will be automatically migrated to the new TraceQL-powered editor.


Generally AvailableAlerting
Release date: 2024-03-15

Keep Last State for Grafana Managed Alerting

(Re-)introducing “Keep Last State” to Grafana managed alert rules.

You can now choose to keep the last evaluated state of an alert rule when that rule produces “No Data” or “Error” results. Simply choose the “Keep Last State” option for no data or error handling when editing a rule. Refer to the Alerting documentation on state and health of alert rules for more information.


Generally AvailableLogs
Release date: 2024-03-14

Cloud Logs Export

We are happy to announce Cloud Logs Export is now Generally Available to all Grafana Cloud users!

Cloud Logs Export lets users ship logs to their own object storage (AWS, GCP, Azure) for low-cost, long term retention. If you need to retain logs for long periods of time, without a need to frequently query them, Cloud Logs is the most cost effective way to do that.


Generally AvailableDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-03-13

Scenes for viewers

Dashboards, when accessed by users with the Viewer role, are now using the Scenes library. Those users shouldn’t see any difference in the dashboards apart from two small changes to the user interface (UI): the variables UI has slightly changed and the time picker is now part of the dashboard container.

Dashboards aren’t affected for users in other roles.


Generally AvailableDashboards and visualizations
Release date: 2024-03-13

Use AI to generate titles and descriptions for panels and dashboards

You can now use generative AI to assist you in your Grafana dashboards. So far generative AI can help you generate panel and dashboard titles and descriptions - You can now generate a title and description for your panel or dashboard based on the data you’ve added to it. This is useful when you want to quickly visualize your data and don’t want to spend time coming up with a title or description.

Make sure to enable and configure Grafana’s LLM app plugin. For more information, refer to the Grafana LLM app plugin documentation.

Use AI to generate titles and descriptions for panels and dashboards