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Grafana Assistant in Slack enters Public Preview

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Visualization suggestions updates

Visualization Suggestions , which were introduced in Grafana 8.3.0 , have been updated to provide more applicable suggestions, and are now the default method to select a panel visualization.

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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.

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