Releasesby GlyphRevamped query editor experience
We’ve redesigned the query editor to make complex panels easier to build and manage. The new experience provides a unified view of your entire data pipeline, queries, expressions, transformations, and related alerts, with clearer visual feedback and faster access to the settings that matter.
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Add Prerequisites to Product Discount Functions
Discount functions now support prerequisites for product discount candidates, allowing you to define the "Buy X" portion of a Buy X, Get Y (BXGY) discount. In a BXGY discount, customers must purchase a specified quantity of one product (Buy X) to receive a discount on another product (Get Y).
Add Tags to Discounts
Starting in API version 2026-04, discounts support tags allowing you to efficiently label, group, and organize your discounts. What's new: The tags field has been added to all discount types Tags can be added, updated, and removed via the Admin API For more information, visit the Admin API documentation
Cart and checkout validation adds billing address and PO number error targets
As of API version 2026-04, you can validate billing addresses and purchase order (PO) numbers in Cart and Checkout Validation Functions. We've added billing address and PO Number to the function input graph and introduced new checkout field targets.
Create unpaid orders from subscription billing attempts
In the API 2026-04 release candidate version, you can now include a new field called paymentProcessingPolicy when creating a billing attempt using the subscriptionBillingAttemptCreate mutation. A billing attempt is an action to charge a customer based on their subscription.
New thought_signature field for Gemini function calling
The Voice Agent API now includes an optional thought_signature field in function call messages. Some Gemini models (3.0 and 3.1 families) require this as an additional function call identifier.
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Per-Stack Cost Visibility via CSV
We’ve released an update to the billed usage CSV export that adds per-stack cost visibility You can now see how much each stack contributes to your organization’s monthly bill, alongside the existing usage data Key features include: Cost visibility by stack: Understand how each stack contributes to overall spend Expanded cost data: New columns for Amount...
Saved queries: New interface and improved filtering experience
We’ve updated the saved queries experience to improve usability. The Saved queries drawer has been replaced with a dialog box, providing more space for query titles, data source names, and other query details. The individual query cards also have a refreshed design, allowing for easier readability.
Database Observability now Generally Available
Database Observability brings your MySQL and PostgreSQL query performance data directly into Grafana Cloud, right alongside your metrics, logs, and traces. With Database Observability, you can identify slow and failing queries, understand wait events, analyze explain plans, and examine query samples all within Grafana.
Alertmanager status endpoint requires a new permission
The GET /api/alertmanager/grafana/api/v2/status endpoint previously required the legacy alert.notifications:read permission. It now requires a dedicated alert.notifications.system-status:read permission. This new permission is included in the fixed:alerting.notifications:writer role, which is granted to Admin users by default.
Pre-Scenes architecture feature toggle removal
In Grafana v11, we enabled Scenes-powered architecture for dashboards , however the feature could still be disabled. In this release, we’ve removed the the ability to disable Scenes.
Create panels instantly from saved queries and visualization suggestions
We’ve redesigned the panel configuration experience to include the option to use a saved query. When you add a panel to a dashboard, you now have three starting points: an empty panel, a library panel, or a saved query. Select Use saved query to open the Saved queries dialog box and choose a query.
Configure visualizations faster with panel styles
You can now apply Panel styles to quickly update your panels without adjusting multiple options manually. Panel styles provide a curated set of configurations, such as colors, thresholds and display options, so you can quickly get to a more polished visualization with a single click.
Updated visualization suggestions now generally available
In January 2026, we announced improvements to visualization suggestions in public preview. These changes included higher quality suggestions leveraging information provided by data sources, as well as minor user interface updates. These improvements are now generally available.