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Grafana Labs, October 2025 new features

30 releases · 1 product · 2 GA · 5 Preview · 1 Pricing

Grafana Assistant available in Kubernetes Monitoring

You can use Grafana Assistant in Kubernetes Monitoring to: Explain the data you see in a panel or on a detail page Start an investigation for potential issues Review the health of Kubernetes objects and resource consumption Provide recommendations Launch an investigation Follow any additional queries or commands you give it To use the Assistant, click any...

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Native Histograms are Generally Available

We are thrilled to announce that Native Histograms are now generally available (GA)! This milestone comes after three years of dedicated development, bringing a powerful data type to Prometheus users. Native histograms improve histogram resolution without requiring users to adjust the buckets.

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Unity Catalog support in Grafana Databricks plugin

We’ve added support for Databricks Unity Catalog, enabling secure and consistent access to governed data directly within Grafana. This enhancement allows users to easily query and visualize datasets registered in Unity Catalog while maintaining the same fine-grained permissions and lineage tracking defined in Databricks.

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Favorite data sources

Finding the right data source among dozens of similar options wastes precious time and disrupts your workflow. As Grafana instances grow, data source discovery becomes increasingly frustrating. Favorite data sources solves this with a simple star icon ⭐️ which is available in the data source picker and when editing a data source.

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New Logs Context

Following up the completely redesigned logs panel, we’ve rebuilt log context around it, improving existing features and enabling new capabilities. Log context is a feature that displays additional lines of logs surrounding a log entry that matches a specific search query.

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Native Histogram support for Adaptive Metrics

Adaptive Metrics now supports Mimir native histograms . You can now receive aggregation recommendations and create aggregation rules for native histograms, allowing you to bring the familiar benefits of Adaptive Telemetry to native histograms in Grafana Cloud.

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Grafana Assistant for Slack is now in Private Preview

We are excited to announce the Private Preview of Grafana Assistant in Slack. It brings the Assistant experience to Slack and meets your team where they already work. Ask questions, generate or refine queries, and get guided next steps without context switching. When you need deeper context, follow the links back into Grafana and keep moving.

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Removal of API key associated permissions

The following actions have been removed from Grafana following the deprecation and removal of API Keys : apikeys:read apikeys:create apikeys:delete The following roles were also removed: fixed:apikeys:writer fixed:apikeys:reader These actions and roles no longer had any effect in Grafana, so this change does not have any user impact.

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Raw query support in Honeycomb data source

We’re excited to announce a powerful new feature for our Honeycomb data source: Raw Query support! This enhancement empowers you to leverage the complete capabilities of the Honeycomb API directly within Grafana, unlocking advanced querying. This feature includes full support for variable substitution and automatic handling of array filters (e.g.

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