What Grafana shipped in May 2026

Intro to Kubernetes monitoring in Grafana Cloud

Grafana hosted a webinar on May 29, 2026, introducing Kubernetes monitoring capabilities in Grafana Cloud. The session highlighted how Grafana Alloy simplifies collecting Kubernetes metrics and logs, …

Pricing change detected for Grafana

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Free: now includes 10k active series/month (Metrics), 50 GB ingested/month (Logs/Traces/Profiles), 2,232 host hours + 37,944 container hours/month (Kubernetes Monitoring…

Start with Grafana Assistant (APAC Timezone)

Grafana concluded a webinar on May 27, 2026, introducing Grafana Assistant, an AI guide in Grafana Cloud that enables natural-language queries, dashboard creation, and troubleshooting without PromQL. …

Spend less time on repetitive tasks with the new automation feature in Grafana Assistant

Grafana Assistant now offers automations in public preview, allowing teams to schedule recurring AI prompts for tasks like daily standups, on-call handoffs, and SLO reviews. Automations run background…

The inside scoop on alerting changes in Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Cloud is consolidating Kubernetes Monitoring alerting onto its Grafana-managed platform, replacing the older data source-managed system. Alert rules now default to Grafana-managed alerts, whic…

Pricing updated for Grafana: - New tier: Free ($0/mo) - New tier: Pro (On-demand) ($19/mo) - New tier: Enterprise (Annual) (Custom pricing) - New tier: Metrics - Free ($0/mo 1k series) - New tier: Met

Real user monitoring in Grafana Cloud: Get frontend error tracking, faster root cause analysis, and more

Grafana Cloud introduced Frontend Observability, a real user monitoring (RUM) service now generally available to all users, including free-tier accounts. The offering provides instant insights into We…

Generate test scripts from natural language with Grafana Assistant: introducing k6 Script Authoring

Grafana launched k6 Script Authoring in Grafana Assistant, enabling users to generate production-ready performance test scripts from natural language prompts, OpenAPI specs, or existing telemetry and …

GrafanaCON 2026: On-demand sessions are now available

Grafana Labs unveiled major releases at GrafanaCON 2026, including Grafana 13 with dynamic dashboards and Git Sync, k6 v2.0 for AI-driven testing, Pyroscope 2.0 for scalable continuous profiling, and …

Grafana 13 release: get value from your data faster, manage operations at scale, and more!

Grafana 13 introduces Grafana Assistant (AI-powered agent), dynamic dashboards (default for all users), refined visualization suggestions, and a redesigned query editor. The release also adds new pane…

Grafana Assistant everywhere: Customize and connect to the AI agent to fit your specific needs

Grafana Assistant, its LLM-based observability agent, is now available in Grafana Enterprise and OSS via a one-click setup tied to a Grafana Cloud account. New features include customizable skills wit…

GrafanaCON 2026 announcements: A guide to all the latest news from Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs unveiled Grafana 13 with AI-powered Assistant, dynamic dashboards, and Git Sync for GitOps workflows. Assistant is now available to self-managed users, and AI Observability was introduced…

Grafana Labs security update: Latest on TanStack npm supply chain ransomware incident

Grafana Labs disclosed a May 2026 ransomware attack where cybercriminals accessed its GitHub repositories via a TanStack npm supply chain attack, demanding payment. The incident was limited to source …

How to embed Grafana dashboards into web applications

Grafana updated its blog post to outline four methods for embedding dashboards into web applications: authenticated private dashboards, links, snapshots, and externally shared dashboards. The update h…

Grafana documentation now available in markdown for AI workflows

Grafana Labs now provides every documentation page on grafana.com/docs as clean markdown, accessible by appending '.md' to any URL. This includes front matter and two index files for AI agents and cra…

Intro to Alerting with Grafana

Grafana Labs hosted a webinar on May 13, 2026, titled 'Intro to Alerting with Grafana,' covering simplified alerting, error budget alerts, adaptive alerts, and predefined alerting rules for integratio…

Intro to metrics with Grafana: Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, and beyond (APAC Timezone)

Grafana Labs is hosting a webinar on May 13, 2026, focused on scaling metrics management for enterprises using Prometheus. The session highlights challenges in scaling Prometheus metrics, such as scal…

Grafana adds Cost Attribution for Performance Testing in k6 projects

Grafana Labs introduced Cost Attribution for Performance Testing in its Cost Management and Billing app, enabling breakdown of Virtual User Hour (VUH) consumption by labels assigned to k6 projects. Th…

Grafana Cloud Provider Observability adds enhanced AWS metrics for Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, and ElastiCache

Grafana Labs introduced enhanced metrics for AWS services in Cloud Provider Observability, including derived metrics for Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, and ElastiCache. These metrics provide deeper visibility…

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AI-assisted testing, extensions updates, and more: k6 2.0 is here

Grafana Labs launched k6 2.0, a major update to its open-source performance testing tool, introducing AI-assisted workflows, broader Playwright compatibility in the browser module, a new Assertions AP…

Eliminate noisy log lines with Adaptive Logs drop rules

Grafana launched drop rules in Adaptive Logs (public preview) to let platform teams define custom logic for dropping low-value logs before ingestion, reducing noise and costs. The feature complements …

Troubleshoot performance issues faster with the new Grafana Assistant integration for Database Observability

Grafana introduced an AI-powered assistant for its Database Observability tool, enabling faster troubleshooting of slow queries by analyzing real-time metrics, schemas, and execution plans. The assist…