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.
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Nova-3 Model Update
🌏 Nova-3 now supports the following new languages and language codes: Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional): zh-HK Thai: th , th-TH 🚀 Also releasing improved Nova-3 models for the following languages: Bengali ( bn ) Marathi ( mr ) Tamil ( ta ) Telugu ( te ) Access these models by setting model="nova-3" and the relevant language code in your request.
Agents, Workers - @cloudflare/codemode v0.2.1: MCP barrel export, zero-dependency main entry point, and custom sandbox modules
The latest releases of @cloudflare/codemode ↗ add a new MCP barrel export, remove ai and zod as required peer dependencies from the main entry point, and give you more control over the sandbox.
AI Gateway - Log AI Gateway request metadata without storing payloads
AI Gateway now supports the cf-aig-collect-log-payload header, which controls whether request and response bodies are stored in logs. By default, this header is set to true and payloads are stored alongside metadata.
Security Overview - New Security Overview UI
The Security Overview has been updated to provide Application Security customers with more actionable insights and a clearer view of their security posture. Key improvements include: Criticality for all Insights : Every insight now includes a criticality rating, allowing you to prioritize the most impactful security action items first.
OpenAI GPT-5.4 Nano and GPT-5.4 Mini Now Available in AI Gateway
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 Nano and GPT-5.4 Mini models are now available through Netlify’s AI Gateway with zero configuration required. Use the OpenAI SDK directly in your Netlify Functions without managing API keys or authentication. The AI Gateway handles everything automatically.
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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.
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.
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.
Grafana 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.
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.
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.