{"company":{"name":"Grafana","slug":"grafana","website":"https://grafana.com","category":"analytics"},"question":"What has Grafana shipped recently?","answer":"In the last 30 days, Grafana shipped 16 tracked updates. The most recent was \"Grafana adds suggested recommendations to simplify Adaptive Logs cost optimization\" on 2026-09-18.","window":{"days":30,"updateCount":16,"returned":16},"generatedAt":"2026-09-21T08:11:41.686Z","updates":[{"title":"Grafana adds suggested recommendations to simplify Adaptive Logs cost optimization","summary":"Grafana Labs introduced suggested recommendations for Adaptive Logs in Grafana Cloud, displaying the top 3 cost-saving drop rules tailored to user needs. The feature appears directly in the Adaptive Logs → Drop rules interface to accelerate log cost optimization.","date":"2026-09-18","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-18-suggested-recommendations-for-adaptive-logs/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Start with Grafana Assistant","summary":"Grafana Labs hosted a webinar on September 16, 2026, introducing Grafana Assistant, an AI guide integrated into Grafana Cloud that enables natural-language queries, dashboard creation, and troubleshooting without PromQL. The session covered prompting best practices, legal/security FAQs, and use cases for scaling observability across teams.","date":"2026-09-16","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"event","signalTypeLabel":"Event","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/go/webinar/getting-started-with-grafana-assistant/?pg=dashboards&plcmt=sidebar-related-3","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Cloud secrets management GA with AWS Secrets Manager support","summary":"Grafana Labs announced general availability of secrets management in Grafana Cloud, enabling secure storage of API keys, tokens, and passwords for Synthetic Monitoring and k6 tests. The new AWS Secrets Manager integration allows credentials to remain in AWS accounts under existing IAM policies, with Grafana fetching values only at runtime.","date":"2026-09-14","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-14-secrets-management-is-generally-available-with-aws-secrets-manager-support/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana adds panel subtitles to improve dashboard readability","summary":"Grafana Labs introduced a new feature allowing panel descriptions to be displayed as subtitles directly beneath titles in dashboards. This change improves context visibility by keeping metric explanations visible without requiring tooltips, enhancing dashboard usability and interpretability.","date":"2026-09-14","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-14-make-panels-easier-to-understand-with-subtitles/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Cloud launches Observability home page in public preview","summary":"Grafana Cloud introduced a new Observability home page in public preview, consolidating services, infrastructure, and applications into a single customizable view powered by the knowledge graph. The page surfaces insights, severity rings, and attention badges for entities with active issues, with customization options for sections and time ranges.","date":"2026-09-11","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/observability-homepage/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Labs launches unified Observability home page with knowledge graph","summary":"Grafana Labs made the Observability home page the default landing page, integrating services, databases, frontend apps, Pods, and nodes into a single view powered by a knowledge graph. The page highlights issues via insight rings and attention badges, includes an embedded AI assistant, and allows customization of entity sections.","date":"2026-09-10","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-10-monitor-your-full-stack-from-the-observability-home-page/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana introduces AI-powered SLO suggestions for services","summary":"Grafana Labs added an AI-driven feature that automatically proposes service-level objective (SLO) targets for availability and latency based on recent metrics. Users can edit suggestions, set burn-rate alerts, and create SLOs directly from the entity catalog. The SLO tab then displays health, SLI, and error budget for each service.","date":"2026-09-10","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-10-let-grafana-propose-slos-for-your-service/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Intro to metrics with Grafana: Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, and beyond (EMEA Timezone)","summary":"Grafana Labs held a webinar on September 9, 2026, highlighting the importance of metrics in observability, challenges with scaling Prometheus, and solutions like Grafana Mimir and Grafana Cloud Metrics. The session also introduced AI-powered tools such as Grafana Assistant for PromQL queries.","date":"2026-09-09","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"event","signalTypeLabel":"Event","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/go/webinar/intro-to-metrics-emea/?pg=dashboards&plcmt=sidebar-related-3","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Application Observability now includes knowledge graph by default for new organizations","summary":"Grafana Labs made the knowledge graph the default backend for Application Observability in new Grafana Cloud organizations, replacing the classic plugin. It auto-discovers services from OpenTelemetry data, unifies metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, and provides pre-configured environment segmentation and a streamlined services catalog.","date":"2026-09-07","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-07-application-observability-now-includes-the-knowledge-graph-by-default/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Cloud k6 now supports PromQL for test result metrics","summary":"Grafana Labs added PromQL support for querying k6 test result metrics stored in Grafana Cloud Metrics (powered by Mimir). Users can now analyze load test behavior alongside application metrics, logs, and traces using their stack’s Prometheus data source in Explore, dashboards, and Alerting. Labels enable comparison of test runs and tracking across releases, with CLI query support for CI pipelines.","date":"2026-09-07","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-07-query-k6-test-result-metrics-with-promql-in-your-own-stack/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana adds SLO tracking and creation from service entities","summary":"Grafana Labs introduced native SLO tracking and creation within its entity catalog, allowing users to monitor service health directly from service entities without switching apps. The feature includes AI-generated SLO proposals based on real traffic metrics, error budget tracking, and visual status indicators like burning badges.","date":"2026-09-02","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-09-02-track-and-create-slos-from-your-service-entities/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana extends cross-filtering to histogram, state timeline, and status history","summary":"Grafana Labs added cross-filtering support to three new visualization types: histogram, state timeline, and status history. Previously, only bar charts, tables, and time series supported this feature. The rollout will occur over the next few weeks for Grafana Cloud stacks.","date":"2026-08-27","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-08-27-cross-filter-on-more-visualizations/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Pricing change detected for Grafana","summary":"Pricing updated for Grafana:\n- Pro (Metrics): allowance changed from 10k active series/month to 10k active series per month\n- Free (Logs): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested per month\n- Pro (Logs): added annual billing at $0.050/mo\n- Pro (Logs): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested per month\n- Free (Traces): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested per month\n- Pro (Traces): added annual billing at $0.050/mo\n- Pro (Traces): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested per month\n- Free (Profiles): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested per month\n- Pro (Profiles): added annual billing at $0.050/mo\n- Pro (Profiles): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested per month\n- Free (Kubernetes Monitoring): allowance changed from 2,232 host hours + 37,944 container hours/month to 2,232 host hours + 37,944 container hours per month\n- Pro (Kubernetes Monitoring): added annual billing at $0.0100/mo\n- Pro (Kubernetes Monitoring): allowance changed from 2,232 host hours + 37,944 container hours/month to Includes 2,232 host hours + 37,944 container hours per month\n- Free (Application Observability): allowance changed from 2,232 host hours/month to 2,232 host hours per month\n- Pro (Application Observability): added annual billing at $0.025/mo\n- Pro (Application Observability): allowance changed from 2,232 host hours/month to Includes 2,232 host hours per month","date":"2026-08-26","dateIsEstimated":true,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/pricing/#pricing-20260826093939","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Assistant adds natural-language database performance analysis","summary":"Grafana Assistant now lets users query database performance using plain language, such as asking why a database is slow or listing the worst-performing queries. The feature taps into Grafana Cloud’s Database Observability telemetry to return ranked query lists with latency, errors, and rows examined, along with SQL text, explain plans, and table schemas—all without requiring PromQL or LogQL.","date":"2026-08-26","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-08-26-investigate-database-performance-with-grafana-assistant/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Alerting adds notification history for delivery tracking","summary":"Grafana Labs introduced notification history in Grafana Alerting, allowing users to review all delivery attempts for managed alert rules in one place. The feature tracks firing and resolved notifications, contact points, and success/failure status, with filtering and Loki integration for querying stored history.","date":"2026-08-24","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":"feature_update","signalTypeLabel":"Feature","sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-08-24-alerting-notification-history/","publisher":"grafana.com"},{"title":"Grafana Cloud Alert Enrichment now generally available","summary":"Grafana Labs made Alert Enrichment generally available in Grafana Cloud, adding contextual data to alert notifications before they reach recipients. Enrichments run at alert firing, attaching metrics, logs, or LLM-generated explanations to notifications across all contact points.","date":"2026-08-24","dateIsEstimated":false,"signalType":null,"signalTypeLabel":null,"sourceUrl":"https://grafana.com/whats-new/2026-08-24-alert-enrichment/","publisher":"grafana.com"}],"attribution":{"source":"Spyingbee","url":"https://spyingbee.com/updates/grafana","citation":"Spyingbee, \"Grafana updates\", https://spyingbee.com/updates/grafana (retrieved 2026-09-21)"}}