What Grafana shipped in August 2026

Grafana extends cross-filtering to histogram, state timeline, and status history

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.…

Pricing change detected for Grafana

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Pro (Metrics): allowance changed from 10k active series/month to 10k active series per month - Free (Logs): allowance changed from 50 GB ingested/month to 50 GB ingested…

Grafana Assistant adds natural-language database performance analysis

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 D…

Grafana Cloud Alert Enrichment now generally available

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,…

Grafana Alerting adds notification history for delivery tracking

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 notificati…

Mastering OpenTelemetry instrumentation and Grafana (EMEA Timezone)

Grafana Labs hosted a live webinar on August 20, 2026, focused on advanced OpenTelemetry instrumentation techniques using Grafana Cloud. The session covered custom spans, metrics, and attributes for d…

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Pro (Metrics): $6.50/mo → $19/mo (192% increase) - Pro (Metrics): added annual billing at $6.50/mo - Pro (Logs): $0.050/mo → $19/mo (37900% increase) - Pro (Traces): $0.

Full-stack observability with Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud now offers AI-powered visibility across applications, infrastructure, and Kubernetes, enabling teams to isolate issues in minutes and act faster with unified insights. Adaptive Telemetry…

OpenTelemetry with Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud now offers native OpenTelemetry support across metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, eliminating vendor lock-in while providing AI-driven insights. The platform includes tools like Alloy …

Digital experience monitoring with Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud now unifies real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring with backend telemetry to provide a full view of user impact. The update enables proactive issue detection, faster root-ca…

Infrastructure and cloud provider observability

Grafana Cloud now offers enhanced infrastructure and cloud observability with AI-powered insights, Kubernetes monitoring via custom Helm charts, and unified multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) visibility. T…

Introduction to the Grafana data structure

Grafana introduced a data plane layer that adds metadata to data frames, standardizing how query results from diverse data sources are structured and consumed. The data plane defines types and formats…

How to scale and secure your logs cost-effectively with Grafana Loki

Grafana hosted a webinar on August 19, 2026, detailing how to scale and secure logs using Grafana Loki and Grafana Cloud Logs. Key topics included Adaptive Logs for cost reduction, RBAC/LBAC for secur…

Grafana k6 Studio 2.0 launches with browser test authoring and autocorrelation

Grafana Labs released k6 Studio 2.0, introducing browser test authoring and autocorrelation as generally available features. The update enables recording real user flows without manual selector writin…

That's a wrap on GrafanaCON 2026!

GrafanaCON 2026 concluded with announcements of new Grafana features, AI capabilities, and updates across the open source monitoring ecosystem including Grafana 13, Mimir 3.0, and Pyroscope 2.0. The e…

Grafana adds direct trace export to file for self-managed instances

Grafana now allows self-managed users to export distributed traces directly to a local OTLP/JSON file without requiring an OpenTelemetry Collector or tracing backend. This simplifies troubleshooting b…

Grafana Labs adds recommendation configuration to Adaptive Metrics

Grafana Labs introduced a new configuration option in Adaptive Metrics that lets users exclude unused dashboards or ad hoc queries from cost-saving recommendations. This builds on prior Adaptive Metri…

Grafana adds Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API support

Grafana Labs introduced support for the Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API in its Azure Monitor data source, reducing per-resource API calls by grouping eligible queries. This improves query speed and lo…

Grafana adds Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise

Grafana Labs introduced Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise (Server and Cloud), allowing teams to provision dashboards and folders as JSON files in GitHub. Changes in Git repositories sync bidirect…

Grafana adds GitLab and BitBucket webhooks to Git Sync

Grafana Labs expanded its Git Sync feature to support webhooks for GitLab and BitBucket, enabling real-time updates and pull request integrations. Previously, this capability was limited to GitHub pub…

Grafana revamps homepage with alert visibility and Assistant chat

Grafana Labs updated the homepage for on-prem installations to match the Cloud experience, adding firing-alert visibility and direct access to Grafana Assistant chat. Recent and starred dashboards rem…

Grafana 13.2.0 adds commit authoring options in Git Sync

Grafana 13.2.0 introduces the ability to customize commit authoring in Git Sync, allowing users to override the default author with a specified name and email or use the signed-in user’s credentials. …

Grafana separates service and workload entities in Entity Catalog and Graph

Grafana Labs separated application services and Kubernetes workloads into distinct entities in its Entity Catalog and Entity Graph, replacing a merged model. Services now rely on their own telemetry, …

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Free: allowance changed from 10k active series/month, 50 GB logs ingested/month, 50 GB traces ingested/month, 50 GB profiles ingested/month, 2,232 host hours + 37,944 co

Grafana expands as-code workflows for dashboard and resource management

Grafana now supports as-code workflows for managing resources like folders and dashboards, enabling version control, automation, and CI/CD integration. Users can define configurations in code (JSON or…

Intro to Application and Frontend Observability with Grafana Cloud (APAC Timezone)

Grafana Cloud hosted a webinar on August 13, 2026, introducing its Application and Frontend Observability solutions. The event highlighted unified monitoring of metrics, logs, and traces using OpenTel…

Grafana Labs adds Adaptive Telemetry cost savings visibility in Cost Management app

Grafana Labs introduced a feature in its Cost Management and Billing app that displays estimated cost savings from Adaptive Telemetry (Metrics, Logs, Traces) alongside monthly spend and contract burnd…

Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph gains custom label retention

Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph now supports custom label retention, allowing users to preserve organization-specific labels like team, region, or cost_center that were previously dropped during normali…

Grafana Labs to remove scripted dashboards in Grafana 14

Grafana Labs will remove scripted dashboards in Grafana 14, a legacy feature deprecated years ago. The feature is now disabled by default, with a temporary toggle available until Grafana 14 removes it…

Strategic coaching for observability leaders

Grafana Labs introduced Observability Sessions, a half-day event series for observability leaders featuring strategies, scaling best practices, and full-stack visibility guidance. Upcoming sessions in…

Grafana Cloud launches Session Replay in public preview for Frontend Observability

Grafana Labs introduced Session Replay, a new add-on feature for Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability, now in public preview. Session Replay records and reconstructs user frontend interactions to help…

Grafana adds View panel sidebar for exploring busy graphs

Grafana Labs introduced a View panel sidebar that lets users explore dense graphs without edit permissions. The sidebar offers quick toggles for legend and stacking, and a 'fanout' feature to split gr…

Grafana Labs launches Session Replay in Frontend Observability Public Preview

Grafana Labs introduced Session Replay in Frontend Observability, enabling visual playback of user sessions with clicks, scrolls, and page state alongside existing error logs and traces. The feature i…

Grafana Cloud launches Adaptive Profiles for cost-effective distributed profiling

Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Adaptive Profiles in Grafana Cloud, a feature that dynamically adjusts sampling rates to reduce stored profiling data by 85-90%. It applies a baselin…

Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Grafana Cloud (EMEA Timezone)

Grafana Labs hosted a webinar on August 6, 2026, focused on cloud infrastructure monitoring using Grafana Cloud, covering multi-cloud observability, OpenTelemetry, and cost-performance insights. The s…

Grafana Cloud k6 adds stack limits visibility for plan management

Grafana Cloud k6 now lets users view plan limits and current stack usage in one place under Testing & Synthetics > Performance > Settings > Stack limits. The feature shows per-test caps, monthly VU ho…

Grafana adds cross-filter support to histogram, state timeline, and status history panels

Grafana Labs extended cross-filtering support to three new visualization types: histogram, state timeline, and status history. Previously, only bar charts, tables, and time series supported cross-filt…

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Free: allowance changed from All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage to 10k active series/month, 50 GB logs ingested/month, 50 GB traces ingested/month, 50 GB prof

Grafana improves auto layout indication for dashboard editing

Grafana Labs added visual indicators and guidance in edit mode to clarify when auto layout controls panel sizes, replacing manual resizing attempts with a dialog offering options to edit auto layout o…

Grafana Labs adds guided Kubernetes Monitoring setup and column picker

Grafana Labs introduced guided configuration in Kubernetes Monitoring, allowing users to set up clusters by describing their environment instead of manually tuning Alloy. The update also adds a column…

Grafana adds Oracle Easy Connect Plus support with SSL and Kerberos

Grafana Labs introduced Easy Connect Plus support for Oracle data sources, simplifying connections by replacing tnsnames.ora files with a single string (e.g., host:port/service). The feature supports …