The GET /api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/status endpoint previously required the legacy alert.notifications:read permission. It now requires a dedicated alert.notifications.system-status:read permission. This new permission is included in the fixed:alerting.notifications:writer role, which is granted to Admin users by default.
In January 2026, we announced improvements to visualization suggestions in public preview. These changes included higher quality suggestions leveraging information provided by data sources, as well as minor user interface updates. These improvements are now generally available.
We’ve renamed Ad hoc filters variables as simply Filters . However, in the dashboard schema, they’re still referred to as "kind": "AdhocVariable" .
Set alerts scoped to specific teams, services, environments, and more using cost attribution labels We’re excited to announce the general availability of Attribution Alerts in the Cost Management and Billing app!
k6 v1.7.0 is here 🎉! This release includes: Automatic resolution for subcommand extensions , no more manual xk6 builds required to use them! K6_SECRET_SOURCE env var as an alternative to --secret-source , accepting the same syntax. Breaking changes There are no breaking changes in this release.
The Alerting sidebar navigation has been refreshed for a new, more logical menu structure with new tabs added to the pages. The Alert activity menu item now contains two tabs, one for Alerts , and another for Active notifications .
We’ve introduced several improvements to annotations to make them easier to explore, navigate, and manage at scale. Annotation clustering Group adjacent point annotations into a single combined region with the Annotation clustering switch.
Take full control of how you monitor your cloud services. Cloud Provider Observability now lets you bring your own dashboards, offers you the ability to customize instance drilldown view panels, and make these assets available across all your teams.
Grafana Assistant arrives in Slack and lets you troubleshoot while on the go and with your colleagues in real-time. Grafana Assistant in Slack allows you to access the data and knowledge in Grafana Assistant in Slack. Ask about your traces, metrics, the latest deployment and how to fix high p99 latency in your search service.
Panels displaying hundreds or thousands of series can potentially run into performance bottlenecks when rendering their legends. Each legend item adds DOM nodes to the page, and that can add up when your visualization displays thousands of series. It can also be visually distracting if your user is not actively engaging with the legend.
Grafana Assistant arrives in the CLI! Use Grafana Assistant right in the CLI alongside all the other tools you use for your observability job. In the CLI, the Assistant can help you with all the things it can also do in the browser or in Slack. Ask about recent errors, latency or traces - get the answer in the CLI.
When you send Grafana-managed alert email notifications to multiple recipients (without the “Single Email” option), Grafana Cloud Alertmanager now uses BCC instead of TO headers by default. This means individual recipient addresses are not visible to other recipients in the same notification, and the TO field is empty.
Secrets management launched in Grafana Cloud in August 2025 , with integrations in Synthetic Monitoring, and later expanded to Grafana Cloud k6 workflows and Git Sync. Now, we’re introducing a centralized Secrets Management UI that brings secret operations into one place across Grafana solutions.
We’ve removed the legacy plugin that previously served the homepage within Grafana Cloud stacks, cloud-home-app . If you still have links saved that go to .grafana.net/a/cloud-home-app , update them to go to .grafana.net instead.
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