What Grafana shipped in March 2026

Grafana security release: Critical and high severity security fixes for CVE-2026-27876 and CVE-2026-27880

Grafana Labs has released critical and high-severity security patches for two vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-27876 and CVE-2026-27880, affecting multiple versions of its Grafana platform. The critical vuln…

From raw data to flame graphs: A deep dive into how the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler symbolizes Go

The article explains how the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler transforms raw memory addresses into actionable function names through a process called symbolization, specifically for Go programs. The key ch…

How OpenRouter and Grafana Cloud bring observability to LLM-powered applications

The article highlights a new integration between OpenRouter and Grafana Cloud that brings observability to LLM-powered applications by automatically generating and sending OpenTelemetry traces for eve…

Instrument zero‑code observability for LLMs and agents on Kubernetes

Grafana has introduced zero-code observability for AI workloads running on Kubernetes, addressing a critical gap in monitoring large language models (LLMs), AI agents, and related services. The core i…

Monitor Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers with OpenLIT and Grafana Cloud

Grafana has introduced native observability support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers through its AI Observability solution in Grafana Cloud. This change enables developers and observability pr…

Observe your AI agents: End‑to‑end tracing with OpenLIT and Grafana Cloud

Grafana introduces AI Observability capabilities in Grafana Cloud to monitor AI agents, a critical need as generative AI workloads increasingly rely on autonomous agents that combine LLM reasoning wit…

How to monitor LLMs in production with Grafana Cloud,OpenLIT, and OpenTelemetry

Grafana has introduced AI Observability capabilities in Grafana Cloud to address the unique monitoring challenges of large language model (LLM) applications in production. The company highlights that …

AI in observability in 2026: Huge potential, lingering concerns

The 2026 Observability Survey by Grafana Labs reveals a significant shift in the role of AI within observability workflows, highlighting both its potential and persistent concerns among practitioners.…

Open standards in 2026: The backbone of modern observability

The 2026 Observability Survey by Grafana Labs reveals a decisive shift toward open source and open standards in observability strategies, with 77% of respondents prioritizing them as critical to their…

Alertmanager status endpoint requires a new permission

Grafana has updated the permission requirements for accessing the Alertmanager status endpoint. Previously, the GET /api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/status endpoint required the legacy `alert.notifica…

Grafana Labs Brings Grafana Cloud & Grafana BYOC to Japan with AWS Tokyo Region Availability

Grafana Labs has expanded its Grafana Cloud and Grafana BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) offerings to the Japan market by making them available in the AWS Tokyo Region. This move enables Japanese enterpris…

Updated visualization suggestions now generally available

Grafana has made its updated visualization suggestions feature generally available following a public preview announced in January 2026. The improvements include higher-quality suggestions derived fro…

Grafana Labs has announced the general availability of updated visualization suggestions, which were initially introduced in public preview in January 2026. The improvements enhance the quality of sug

Configure visualizations faster with panel styles

Grafana Labs has introduced a new feature called Panel Styles, designed to streamline the process of configuring visualizations in Grafana dashboards. This update allows users to apply pre-defined sty…

Pricing discovered for Grafana

Pricing updated for Grafana: - New tier: Free (Custom pricing) - New tier: Metrics ($19/mo) - New tier: Logs ($19/mo) - New tier: Traces ($19/mo) - New tier: Profiles ($19/mo) - New tier: Kubernetes M…

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Grafana has introduced zero-code observability for AI workloads running on Kubernetes, addressing a critical gap in monitoring AI applications such as LLMs, agents, and MCP servers. The most significa

Grafana Mimir 3.0: Time-Series Database Now with New Query Engine

Grafana Labs has released version 3.0 of its open-source time-series database Mimir, introducing a major architectural overhaul and a new query engine. The update decouples read and write paths, repla…

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Grafana Labs has launched Grafana Assistant, a generally available AI agent for its observability platform, enabling natural language queries in PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL while introducing role-based…

How eBPF Is Powering the Next Generation of Observability

The article highlights the evolution of observability in cloud-native environments, driven by the adoption of eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology. The key change is the contribution of B…

Grafana has introduced native observability support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers through its Grafana Cloud AI Observability solution, enabling monitoring of AI agent interactions with exte

Grafana introduces AI Observability capabilities in Grafana Cloud to monitor AI agents, addressing the growing complexity of generative AI workloads. The update enables end-to-end tracing for AI agent

Grafana has introduced AI Observability capabilities in Grafana Cloud to address the unique monitoring challenges of large language model (LLM) applications in production. The solution leverages OpenL

The 2026 Observability Survey by Grafana Labs reveals a growing but cautious interest in integrating AI into observability workflows, highlighting both significant potential and persistent concerns. T

The 2026 Observability Survey by Grafana Labs reveals a decisive shift toward open source and open standards in observability strategies, with 77% of respondents prioritizing these approaches. The sur

Bridge the DevSec divide: Using Grafana Cloud and Miggo for runtime protection

Grafana Labs and Miggo Security have partnered to address critical gaps in runtime security for cloud-native applications by integrating Miggo’s AI-driven runtime protection with Grafana Cloud’s obser…

Getting started with managing your metrics, logs, and traces using Grafana

Grafana is introducing the LGTM stack, which unifies metrics, logs, and traces using Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and Mimir. This webinar will guide new users through setting up Grafana, building dashboards,…

Grafana is introducing a webinar to help new users get started with managing metrics, logs, and traces using the LGTM stack, which includes Loki, Grafana, Tempo, and Mimir. The webinar will also provi

Grafana Labs is introducing the LGTM stack, which unifies metrics, logs, and traces for observability. The stack includes Loki for logs, Grafana for dashboards and visualization, Tempo for traces, and

Finding performance bottlenecks with Pyroscope and Alloy: An example using TON blockchain

Grafana’s blog post demonstrates how continuous profiling tools Pyroscope and Alloy can identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in high-stakes C++ optimization challenges, using the TON blockchai…

Performance optimization in complex systems like blockchain validation often resembles searching for a needle in a haystack, but modern profiling tools are changing that dynamic. This blog post from G

Health pages and flame graphs in Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana has introduced enhancements to its Kubernetes Monitoring tool, focusing on simplified configuration for health pages and the addition of flame graphs. These updates aim to streamline troublesh…

Attribution Alerts

Grafana has introduced Attribution Alerts as a generally available feature within its Cost Management and Billing app. This new capability allows users to set alerts scoped to specific teams, services…

Grafana has released security patches for two critical and high-severity vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-27876 and CVE-2026-27880, affecting multiple versions of its software. CVE-2026-27876, rated CRITICAL

The article explains how the OpenTelemetry eBPF profiler transforms raw hexadecimal memory addresses into readable function names for Go programs, a process called symbolization. This is critical beca

New Alerting sidebar navigation

Grafana has updated its Alerting sidebar navigation to improve usability and organization. The refreshed menu structure introduces new tabs and consolidates related features into logical groupings. Th…

Grafana Labs 🧡 Open Source

Grafana Labs, founded in 2014, is a company deeply rooted in open-source projects. Their flagship project, Grafana, is a leading open-source visualization and dashboarding platform. The company has la…

How to get started with logging using Grafana Loki

Grafana Loki, an open-source log aggregation system, has seen increased adoption due to its small index, ease of use, and cost-effectiveness. Recent releases have focused on improving performance thro…

Improved control and clarity for annotations

Grafana has introduced three significant improvements to its annotations feature to enhance usability and scalability. First, annotation clustering groups adjacent point annotations into a single comb…

Bring your own dashboards in Cloud Provider Observability

Grafana has introduced a new capability in Cloud Provider Observability allowing users to bring their own dashboards and customize instance drilldown views for cloud services like RDS and Azure Virtua…

Grafana Labs' 4th Annual Observability Survey Reveals a Field at a Crossroads: AI, Economics, Complexity, and the Enduring Power of Open Source

Grafana Labs’ 4th Annual Observability Survey reveals a rapidly evolving industry at a crossroads, driven by AI adoption, shifting SaaS economics, and persistent complexity challenges. The survey, bas…

Skills in Grafana Assistant are now generally available

Grafana has announced the general availability of Skills in Grafana Assistant, a new capability that enhances the AI-powered assistant’s ability to interact with users’ DevOps and SRE stacks. Skills a…

Grafana Assistant in Slack is now generally available

Grafana has announced the general availability of its Assistant feature within Slack, enabling real-time troubleshooting and collaboration for teams. The integration allows users to query Grafana’s da…

Improve performance and clarity with legend limits

Grafana Labs has introduced a new feature called 'legend limits' to address performance and clarity issues in dashboards with high-series visualizations. Panels displaying hundreds or thousands of ser…

Grafana Assistant CLI and Assistant Tunnel now in Public Preview

Grafana has introduced the Grafana Assistant CLI and Assistant Tunnel into public preview. This allows users to utilize Grafana Assistant directly within their command-line interface, integrating obse…

Monitor Azure services with better depth and consistency with Cloud Provider Observability

Grafana has updated its Cloud Provider Observability to enhance monitoring of Azure services. The update includes broader Azure metric coverage, more precise metric behavior, and improved support for …

Secure credential storage for your observability stack: Introducing secrets management in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud has introduced secrets management to address the challenge of securely storing and managing credentials in observability stacks. This new feature, currently in public preview, is designe…

Single-node alert evaluation for high availability

Grafana has introduced single-node alert evaluation for high availability clusters. This feature allows only one Grafana instance in the cluster to evaluate alert rules, significantly reducing the que…

Email notifications now use BCC for multiple recipients

Grafana has updated its email notification system for alert emails sent to multiple recipients. Previously, recipient addresses were visible in the TO field, but now Grafana Cloud Alertmanager uses BC…

Secrets Management UI available in Public Preview

Grafana Cloud has introduced a centralized Secrets Management UI in public preview, consolidating secret operations across its solutions. This new interface allows users to view all stored secrets, as…

Comparing Grafana Labs open source projects to Grafana Cloud

Grafana Labs offers both open-source and cloud-based solutions for observability. The open-source projects include Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Faro, and Beyla, which are designed for visualization, l…

Create Merge Publish

The Grafana developers page provides resources for building and customizing Grafana plugins. It offers tools like the plugin scaffolding command, data structure definitions using data frames, and libr…

Load testing

Load testing, once confined to QA teams, is now integral to modern software development cycles. It involves simulating workloads on systems to assess performance under normal and peak conditions. Load…

Success stories andcase studies

The webpage contains a collection of success stories and case studies, showcasing how various organizations have utilized Grafana's products and services. These stories highlight the benefits and outc…

Help and support

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Grafana community merch

The Grafana community merch page offers a variety of merchandise for dedicated users, contributors, and fans. The products are designed with style and comfort in mind, allowing individuals to showcase…

Compose and scale observability with one or all pieces of the stack – on your infrastructure.

Grafana Enterprise Stack offers enhanced scalability, security, and support for observability. It includes Grafana Enterprise for visualization and alerting, Enterprise Logs for log management, Enterp…

Dashboard anything. Observe everything.

Grafana is a data visualization platform that allows users to create, explore, and share dashboards from various data sources without requiring data ingestion into a backend store. It emphasizes democ…

Search code, repositories, users, issues, pull requests...

The content describes Grafana Tanka, a tool for managing Kubernetes configurations. It emphasizes Tanka's flexibility, reusability, and conciseness as an alternative to YAML. The page provides instruc…

About Graphite

Grafana Labs supports the development of the Graphite project, an open-source monitoring system for time-series data. Graphite, originally developed by Chris Davis at Orbitz in 2006, offers a scalable…

The content describes Graphite-Web, a highly scalable real-time graphing system. It consists of three major components and is licensed under version 2.0 of the Apache License. The repository provides

Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs, a company specializing in open-source observability solutions, has recently announced several updates and achievements. The company has been recognized as THECUBE's 2026 Observability In…

Removing the legacy Grafana Cloud home plugin

Grafana has removed the legacy cloud-home-app plugin from its Grafana Cloud stacks, which previously served as the homepage. This change follows a migration to a new plugin and internal code repositor…

Set service level objectives and manage SLO alerts in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud introduces a new feature for setting and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with a guided UI, prebuilt dashboards, and alerts. This feature aims to simplify the process of creating…

Webinars and videos

The webpage provides information about upcoming live webinars and on-demand videos related to Grafana. It lists various events and resources available for users to access. The page serves as a hub for…

Grafana tutorials

The Grafana tutorials page offers a variety of learning resources for users to get started with and advance their skills in using Grafana and its related tools. The content is categorized into three m…

Grafana Labs hands-on workshops

Grafana Labs is offering hands-on workshops. These workshops provide practical, in-depth training on Grafana's products and services. They are designed to help users gain a deeper understanding of the…

Explore Grafana Labs events

Grafana Labs hosts various events catering to different audiences, including observability enthusiasts and Grafana users. The flagship event, ObservabilityCON, is an annual conference featuring announ…

Community is at theheartof Grafana

Grafana emphasizes the importance of its community in driving open-source observability. The company supports a global network of over 40 meetup groups, bringing together developers, Grafana enthusias…

Observability, monitoring and visualization just got easier

Grafana has expanded its integrations, making observability, monitoring, and visualization easier. The platform now supports a wide range of data sources, including Adobe Analytics, Amazon Aurora, Apa…

Observability Survey

Grafana Labs conducted an observability survey that is now closed. Participants are encouraged to stay tuned for a full report on the results. Previous survey results are available for reference. The …

Substitute template variables in saved queries

Grafana has introduced a new feature that allows users to substitute template variables in saved queries without modifying the original query. Previously, if a saved query contained variables not pres…

Grafana dashboards

The Grafana dashboards page showcases various visualization options, including heatmaps, histograms, graphs, and geomaps. It features specific dashboards for monitoring Kubernetes deployments, visuali…

Connect Grafana to integrations, apps, and more

The webpage provides an overview of Grafana's plugin ecosystem, which allows users to extend Grafana's functionality by adding data source plugins, app plugins, and panel plugins. Data source plugins …

OpenTelemetry: Challenges, priorities, adoption patterns, and solutions

OpenTelemetry has emerged as a key player in the cloud native observability space, addressing the challenges of managing telemetry data in distributed and dynamic cloud native applications. It provide…

Log monitoring

Grafana Labs offers log monitoring solutions through Grafana Loki, an open-source log aggregation system, and Grafana Cloud Logs, a managed service. Log monitoring helps maintain system health, securi…

The Grafana documentary: The first 10 years

The Grafana documentary, 'The Story of Grafana,' celebrates the first 10 years of the company. It highlights the growth and impact of Grafana, showcasing its community, innovation, and various use cas…

Full visibility.Transparent pricing.Your stack, your way.

Grafana Cloud is highlighted for its transparent pricing and full-stack visibility, which helps teams make data-driven decisions. Customers like SpotOn, Actian, ComplyAdvantage, and LexisNexis Risk So…

Legal and Security

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Grafana Labs highlights the benefits of observability for businesses, emphasizing its role in enhancing visibility, driving growth, and future-proofing operations. Key impacts include improving custom…

The webpage contains a collection of success stories and case studies, showcasing how various organizations have utilized Grafana's products and services. These stories highlight the practical applica

Technical documentation

The content describes the core stack and capabilities of Grafana Cloud, focusing on data query, visualization, and observability. It highlights the platform's ability to handle metrics, logs, and trac…

The webpage provides information about upcoming live webinars and on-demand videos related to Grafana. It lists various events and resources available for users to learn more about Grafana's products

The Grafana tutorials page offers a variety of learning resources for users to get started with and advance their skills in using Grafana and related tools. The content is categorized into procedural

Grafana Labs is offering hands-on workshops to help users learn and utilize their products more effectively. These workshops are designed to provide practical, interactive learning experiences, allowi

Grafana Labs Learning paths

Grafana Labs has introduced a series of learning paths designed to help users master their platform. These paths offer structured guidance for various tasks, from setting up observability platforms to…

Grafana Labs Professional Services

Grafana Labs has expanded its Professional Services offerings to provide expert guidance throughout the Grafana journey. The services include implementation and migration assistance, education and tra…

Grafana Labs offers Professional Services to assist customers in implementing, migrating, and optimizing Grafana. These services aim to accelerate time to value, minimize risk, and deliver high-qualit

Grafana Labs conducted an observability survey, which is now closed. Participants are encouraged to stay tuned for a full report on the results. The survey form was created within Grafana Labs' platfo