Releasesby GlyphGrafana Assistant CLI and Assistant Tunnel now in Public Preview
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.
Also shipped Mar 13, 2026Grafana Labs in March 2026 →
Vibe Coding Enterprise Data Apps with Replit and Databricks
Replit launched a Databricks connector that allows users to build enterprise data apps using governed tables and models. The integration supports natural-language data querying via Databricks Genie.
Configuring Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) directly on Cloud Run to secure your services without the need for...
Configuring Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) directly on Cloud Run to secure your services without the need for load balancers is in General Availability (GA) .
You can now use the Pub/Sub remote MCP server to manage Pub/Sub resources
You can now use the Pub/Sub remote MCP server to manage Pub/Sub resources. You can create, list, get, update, and delete Pub/Sub topics, subscriptions, and snapshots, as well as publish messages to topics. This feature is in Preview .
What's new in Sigma
AI apps CSV upload using customer-owned cloud storage (GA) CSV upload using a customer-owned cloud storage data flow is now generally available. This option offers an alternative to the default data flow through Sigma's infrastructure.
Checkout and Customer Account UI extensions available by default in new development shops
We are ending the developer preview for checkout and customer account UI extensions. With this update: All new development shops on the Shopify Plus plan have access to checkout UI extensions All new development shops on all plans have access to customer account UI extensions All existing development shops will not be affected by this change
Transformed Properties Targeting in Experiment, Feature Flags, and Guides & Surveys
What it is: The Target Segment builder in Experiment, Feature Flags, and Guides & Surveys now surfaces transformed user properties in the property picker alongside standard ones.
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Monitor Azure services with better depth and consistency with Cloud Provider Observability
Cloud Provider Observability now delivers broader Azure metric coverage and more precise metric behavior across key resource types including Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Front Door. This update adds important new metrics, expands dimension support, and refines aggregations so teams can monitor Azure services with better depth and consistency.
Email notifications now use BCC for multiple recipients
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.
Improve performance and clarity with legend limits
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.
Secrets Management UI available in Public Preview
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.
Grafana Assistant in Slack is now generally available
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.
Skills in Grafana Assistant are now generally available
Skills are now generally available for all Grafana Assistant users. Skills let you write runbooks, workflows, hints and context guides so that the Assistant can drill down even better in your stack. You can also associate slash commands with Skills so that /my-skill brings up your Skill and the Assistant works through it specifically.
Bring your own dashboards in Cloud Provider Observability
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.
Improved control and clarity for annotations
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.