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Grafana Labs, April 2026 new features

55 releases · 2 products · 9 GA · 3 Preview · 6 Deprecation

DateRelease
Apr 29Normalize span names with Adaptive Traces semantic conventionsunverified
Apr 29Time series to table transformation is now generally availableunverified
Apr 29k6 1.7.1unverified
k6Update
Apr 28End-to-end incident response without leaving Slackunverified
Apr 28More flexibility for maintenance mode in Grafana IRMunverified
Apr 24Sample every service fairly with Adaptive Traces volumetric samplingunverified
Apr 23Build custom Alloy pipelines without writing Alloy syntaxunverified
Apr 23Editable working hours for Grafana IRMunverified
Apr 23FOCUS: Standardized Cost and Usage Dataunverified
Apr 22Anomaly Alerts (Usage Spike Detection)unverified
Apr 22End-to-End Root cause: Jump from a Synthetic Monitoring check straight to its traceunverified
Apr 21Error Fingerprinting in Frontend Observabilityunverified
Apr 21Grafana Assistant becomes available on-premunverified
Apr 21Simplify organization and access with Team foldersunverified
Apr 20Better security with Grafana Assume Role for AWS data sourcesunverified
Apr 20Deprecation of /api pathunverified
Grafana CloudDeprecation
Apr 20Git Sync for Grafana dashboards and folders now Generally Availableunverified
Apr 16Precise log filtering with Adaptive Logs Drop rulesunverified
Apr 15Create k6 tests with Grafana Assistant and k6 Script Authoring modeunverified
Apr 14Auditing: Changed defaults for data source queries audit logging settingsunverified
Apr 14Copy and paste panel stylesunverified
Apr 14Deprecated data source APIs disabled by defaultunverified
Grafana CloudDeprecation
Apr 14Deprecation and removal timeline for config.apps and config.panels in @grafana/runtimeunverified
Grafana CloudDeprecation
Apr 14Faster dashboard exploration with quick filters and groupingunverified
Apr 14Grafana Advisor is now generally available-health checks for your Grafana instance to keep things running smoothlyunverified
Apr 14Grafana Image Renderer plugin support removedunverified
Apr 14Grafana database metrics deprecationunverified
Grafana CloudDeprecation
Apr 14HTTP compression now enabled by defaultunverified
Apr 14New panel: Graphvizunverified
Apr 14Query your Elasticsearch data with more flexibility using DSL and ES|QLunverified
Apr 14Removal of deprecated components from @grafana/uiunverified
Grafana CloudDeprecation
Apr 14Removal of grafana-cli and grafana-server commandsunverified
Apr 14Rendering: Default auth mode changed to use JWTsunverified
Apr 14SQL Expressions support in Grafana Assistantunverified
Apr 14Single-node alert evaluation for high availabilityunverified
Apr 14TwinMaker SceneViewer panel unavailableunverified
Apr 14Unified storage for folders and dashboardsunverified
Apr 13Custom tabs in Frontend Observability (Experimental)unverified
Apr 10Prefix/suffix exemptions for Adaptive Metricsunverified
Apr 9Data source-managed alerts deprecationunverified
Grafana CloudDeprecation
Apr 9Restore deleted dashboards is now generally availableunverified
Apr 8Dynamic dashboards is now generally availableunverified
Apr 8Manage and use secrets in Grafana Cloud k6unverified
Apr 8Stop juggling dashboards with section-level variables for rows and tabsunverified
Apr 7Added provenance support to alerting notification app platform APIsunverified
Apr 7Customize suggested dashboards with Grafana Assistant + feature improvementsunverified
Apr 7Introducing limits to dashboards and folders resourcesunverified
Apr 7Legacy Alertmanager configuration API endpoints changedunverified
Apr 6Effective configuration in Fleet Managementunverified
Apr 3Create panels instantly from saved queries and visualization suggestionsunverified
Apr 3Pre-Scenes architecture feature toggle removalunverified
Apr 2Database Observability now Generally Availableunverified
Apr 2Saved queries: New interface and improved filtering experienceunverified
Apr 1Per-Stack Cost Visibility via CSVunverified
Apr 1Revamped query editor experienceunverified

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