Releasesby GlyphUpdated component names on the Grafana Cloud status page
We’ve updated the Grafana Cloud status page to improve clarity and better align component names with our current Grafana Cloud product naming. These changes make it easier to identify affected products and services during incident updates and status communications.
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Hex now connects to your apps as an MCP client
🔌 Hex is now an MCP client Your data tells you what happened. The why lives somewhere else , in strategy docs, meeting notes, Slack threads, customer conversations. Today, the Hex agent can read all of it. Connect any tool that exposes an MCP server to the Hex agent. As part of our public beta, we’re launching with two named connectors: Notion & Linear.
Pipelines pricing announced
Cloudflare Pipelines is a streaming data platform that ingests events, transforms them with SQL, and writes to R2 as JSON, Parquet, or Apache Iceberg ↗ tables. Pipelines now has published pricing based on two usage dimensions: the volume of data processed by SQL transforms and the volume of data delivered to sinks. Ingress into a Pipeline stream is free.
R2, R2 Data Catalog - R2 Data Catalog pricing announced
R2 Data Catalog is a managed Apache Iceberg ↗ data catalog built directly into R2 buckets, queryable by any Iceberg-compatible engine such as Spark, Snowflake, and DuckDB. R2 Data Catalog now has published pricing for catalog operations and table compaction, in addition to standard R2 storage and operations . Billing is not yet enabled.
R2 SQL pricing announced
R2 SQL is a serverless, distributed query engine that runs SQL against Apache Iceberg ↗ tables stored in R2 Data Catalog . R2 SQL now has published pricing based on a single dimension: the volume of compressed data scanned to execute your queries.
You can now use the DigitalOcean Control Panel to create, connect to, tag, resize, and restore Managed...
You can now use the DigitalOcean Control Panel to create, connect to, tag, resize, and restore Managed Weaviate clusters (in private preview). See the Managed Weaviate docs for more information.
Linear Diffs
Agents generate large volumes of code, but individuals are still accountable for the changes that merge. This leads to a lot of review work, and the capability and performance of traditional review tools hasn't kept up. Today, we're releasing Linear Diffs to make reviewing code a fast and fluid experience native to Linear.
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The MQTT, GitHub, and IBM Db2 data source plugins now support PDC
Private Data Source Connect (PDC) adds support for three new data sources: MQTT, GitHub, and IBM Db2. PDC creates a private, encrypted tunnel between your Grafana Cloud stack and data sources running inside private networks, VPCs, or on-premises environments. No public endpoint required.
Find projects and create tests faster in Grafana Cloud k6
When you open Testing & synthetics > Performance , it can be hard to know where to start: which project to use, what tests are running now, and what you are allowed to do in your role. The redesigned Performance home page puts those answers on one screen.
Query Snowflake, Jira, Dynatrace, and five more directly from Grafana Assistant
Grafana Assistant now supports eight new data sources Grafana Assistant can now query Snowflake, MongoDB, Oracle, Elasticsearch, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Zabbix, and Jira directly.
Copy and paste panel styles are now generally available
The copy and paste panel styles feature we announced in April 2026 is now generally available in all editions of Grafana. Copy display options and field styling from one panel and paste them onto another panel of the same type, without duplicating panels or reconfiguring options manually. For details, refer to the original announcement .
Panel styles are now generally available
The panel styles we introduced earlier this year are now generally available in all editions of Grafana. Apply curated colors, thresholds, and display options to time series, stat, gauge, bar gauge, and bar chart panels with a single click in the panel editor. For details, refer to the original announcement and the Panel editor documentation .
Monitor Aurora clusters in Cloud Provider Observability
You can now monitor Amazon Aurora clusters directly in the AWS RDS preconfigured dashboard in Cloud Provider Observability. The new Aurora tab gives you a cluster-level view of capacity, storage, and performance so you can spot scaling issues and database bottlenecks without piecing together metrics from individual instances.
MFA in Grafana Cloud
Introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Grafana Cloud accounts. You can add an extra layer of security to your Grafana Cloud accounts by enabling MFA on the new MFA page under User Settings .
Visualize and manage configuration pipelines
Grafana Fleet Management recently made it easier to build Alloy configuration pipelines with the component editor . Now we’re introducing an additional tool to help you understand and manage your pipelines. With the configuration pipeline details view, you can see pipeline metadata and matched collectors at a glance.