Releasesby GlyphPrecise log filtering with Adaptive Logs Drop rules
Adaptive Logs Drop rules allow you precisely define noisy or wasteful logs to drop, and can be used in addition to our own optimization recommendations. Use cases for drop rules include filtering out debug logs, dropping health check log lines, or downsampling in non-production environments.
Also shipped Apr 16, 2026Grafana Labs in April 2026 →
You can stream messages from Pub/Sub directly to a Bigtable table using Bigtable subscriptions
You can stream messages from Pub/Sub directly to a Bigtable table using Bigtable subscriptions . This feature lets you write streaming messages to Bigtable without needing a separate subscriber such as Dataflow. This feature is available in Preview .
Artifacts now in beta: versioned filesystem with Git access
Artifacts is now in private beta. Artifacts is Git-compatible storage built for scale: create tens of millions of repos, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client. It provides a versioned filesystem for storing and exchanging file trees across Workers, the REST API, and any Git client, running locally or within an agent.
Email Service - Email Sending now in public beta
Email Sending is now in public beta. Send transactional emails directly from Workers ( env.EMAIL.send() ) or the REST API, with support for HTML, plain text, attachments, inline images, and custom headers.
GitLab 18.11 release notes
On April 16, 2026, GitLab 18.11 was released with the following features. In addition, we want to thank all of our contributors, including this month’s notable contributor. This month’s Notable Contributor: Rinku C We are excited to recognize Rinku C , a Level 4 contributor with over 80 merged improvements across GitLab since joining in September 2025.
Windows node monitoring for Kubernetes is now Generally Available
We're excited to announce that Windows node monitoring for Kubernetes is now Generally Available . What's included Unified Helm chart: Windows and Linux nodes are now monitored using the same newrelic-infrastructure chart, no separate installation needed. A single enableWindows: true flag in your values.yaml is all it takes.
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Create k6 tests with Grafana Assistant and k6 Script Authoring mode
Writing a solid k6 performance test still means juggling URLs, VU counts, checks, thresholds, and how metrics will look in Grafana after the run. It is easy to get stuck on a blank script or to ship something that runs locally but does not match how your service actually behaves in production.
New panel: Graphviz
The new Graphviz panel plugin lets you define interactive diagrams in the Graphviz DOT language, and map live data to them from any data source. Map metrics to your mental models: service topologies, infrastructure dependencies, business workflows, or any structure where relationships matter as much as values.
Query your Elasticsearch data with more flexibility using DSL and ES|QL
Go beyond the visual query builder in Elasticsearch with a new raw query editor and support for two query languages: Elasticsearch Query DSL and ES|QL. With Elasticsearch Query DSL, you can write advanced queries with complex nested aggregations, custom scoring, or any query structure that the visual editor can’t express.
TwinMaker SceneViewer panel unavailable
Grafana v13.0 upgrades the core application from React 18 to React 19 . The SceneViewer panel in the IoT TwinMaker app (grafana-iot-twinmaker-app) depends on React APIs removed in React 19 and will fail to render after upgrading. What’s affected Dashboards containing a SceneViewer panel display a panel error after upgrading to Grafana 13.
Faster dashboard exploration with quick filters and grouping
Drilling down into your data across a dashboard has traditionally meant working with basic filter controls, re-entering the same filters you used yesterday, and losing track of which filters are active when many are applied.
SQL Expressions support in Grafana Assistant
SQL Expressions let you combine and transform data across multiple queries using familiar SQL-joining results, computing ratios, and filtering before aggregating. But to use it, you had to know the feature existed, learn that your query names become table names, and get the MySQL-dialect syntax right yourself. Now, Grafana Assistant knows SQL Expressions.
Auditing: Changed defaults for data source queries audit logging settings
In Grafana 12.2.0, we introduced two new settings for controlling audit log emission for data source queries: log_datasource_query_request_body and log_datasource_query_response_body , which logs the request and response body payloads respectively. At that time, in order to not introduce a change in the observed behavior, those settings defaulted to true .
Copy and paste panel styles
Styling panels in Grafana used to require a lot of manual work: editing each panel individually, or duplicating one just to reuse its look and then swapping out the query. With the new copy-paste styles feature, you can copy the styling from one panel and apply it to another in just a couple of clicks.