Enhanced display for OpenTelemetry log lines
Grafana now provides smarter defaults for browsing OpenTelemetry log lines, optimized for the way OpenTelemetry structures log data. What changed OpenTelemetry log producers send less information in the log body and more data as structured metadata, or key–value pairs for resource attributes, log fields, and log attributes.
Also shipped Jan 5, 2026Grafana Labs in January 2026 →
Containers - Custom container instance types now available for all users
Custom instance types are now enabled for all Cloudflare Containers users. You can now specify specific vCPU, memory, and disk amounts, rather than being limited to pre-defined instance types . Previously, only select Enterprise customers were able to customize their instance type.
Attribute Breakdowns and Automated Comparisons for Spans
See a breakdown of values across several attributes without manual querying. You can also compare breakdowns between any spike on your span based metric chart and the rest of the time range.
Workload identity federation API
- New: The Tailscale API supports creating, reading, updating, and deleting federated identities . New: tailscale-client-go-v2 can configure federated identities . New: The Tailscale Terraform provider can configure federated identities .
truss 0.12.1
- Set ownership correctly for trtllm directory perf client things only: trusted publishing nodejs + headers Fix baseten-performance-client :rusted nodejs publishing fix error classifcation Performance client: request processing config fix(truss): validate docker_server.start_command is single line truss: encoder-bert backend Mf/logging-as-error Watch...
unstructured 0.18.26
0.18.26 Fixes - Pin deltalake<1.3.0 to fix ARM64 Docker builds (1.3.0 missing Linux ARM64 wheels) 0.18.25 Fixes - Security update: Removed pdfminer.six version constraint and bumped pdfminer.six and urllib3 to address high severity CVEs
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Loki Query Limits Policy
Manage your Grafana Cloud Logs costs and performance with the new Loki Query Limit Policies. This feature provides administrators with automated guardrails to prevent large queries that can lead to unexpected billing spikes or system slowdowns. Prevent Bill Shock: Automatically block expensive, inefficient queries before they execute.
Dynamic dashboards in public preview
Last year, we launched Dynamic dashboards as an experimental feature. Today, we’re pleased to announce that it is now in public preview. This change includes new functionality and a revamped user experience. New functionality Tabs Structure your dashboards horizontally, as well as vertically, to organise the content for different contexts and user groups.
Time range pan and zoom
We’re excited to introduce time range pan and zoom in Grafana dashboards and panels! We’ve added new ways to travel through time in dashboards and panels to make exploring your metrics and data more intuitive and efficient. Use dashboard-level controls to jump one full time span backward or forward.
Grafana Assistant in Slack enters Public Preview
Today Grafana Assistant in Slack enters Public Preview! Grafana Assistant is the premier AI feature in Grafana Cloud that lets you create dashboards, query data, analyze alerts, manage incidents, improve instrumentation and much more. With the Assistant, you can ramp up faster than ever.
Zabbix 6.1 Release: Broader Sharing, Improved Performance, and Flexible Filtering
This latest release of Grafana Zabbix Data Source delivers two major benefits: broader sharing capabilities and improved stability and performance for a smoother monitoring experience. Share Dashboards with Anyone You can now share your Grafana Zabbix dashboards externally without requiring recipients to have access to your Grafana organization.
Datagrid deprecation
The datagrid visualization is deprecated after spending roughly three years in an experimental state. While existing panels that use datagrid will continue to function, it will no longer be available for creating new panels.
Revamped gauge visualization
We’ve reimagined the gauge visualization to provide more options and several new variations to make your dashboards more informative and more appealing. The Circular shape has been introduced as an alternative to the existing Arc gauge under the new Style option.
Correlate Frontend issues on a Geographic Map
Teams can now quickly spot geographic patterns in performance and errors and drill into the regions driving issues. The new Geolocation tab turns location data into an interactive investigation experience, making it easy to identify hotspots, compare regions, and understand why users are impacted.