Simplified plugin management with automatic updates in Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud users are regularly updated with the latest, most secure version of Grafana. However, plugin lifecycle management has been a responsibility for server administrators. Plugins becoming outdated risks incompatibility with the running Grafana version and causing instability.
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Dag-level access control is generally available
Dag-level access control is now generally available. You can assign roles scoped to individual Dags within a Deployment to enforce least-privilege security and enable multiple teams to collaborate in a single Deployment without exposing Dags across team boundaries.
Coding sessions in Linear
Earlier this year, we launched Linear Agent, giving teams a new way to plan and coordinate their issues and projects. Since then, we've added Code Intelligence to extend that understanding to the codebase, and MCP support to bring all of your context together. Today we're closing the loop: Linear Agent can now write code using Claude Code and Codex.
Capture webpages as editable layers with the Chrome extension
To get started, install the extension and sign in with your Figma account. This feature is currently in beta and available only on paid plans.
Import apps using MCP
Live on cloud • All plans Public beta 4.0 Edge • All plans Public beta 4.0.17 Stable • All plans Public beta You can now use Retool's MCP server to import React apps directly from your agentic coding environment. Open a React app, and ask Retool to import the app.
New External Guides and Surveys MCP tools
Description: AI assistants using the Amplitude MCP server now have a much richer view of your Guides and Surveys configuration. Previously limited to basic retrieval, the external MCP server can now fully understand a guide's published state, prioritization, and all other Guides and Surveys concepts , so AI-assisted workflows can reason about and act on...
V8.1 is now the default model on Midjourney!
Hi everyone, After your testing and feedback, we've updated the default model from V7 to V8.1! A reminder of what's new in V8.1: The model is smarter, more coherent, better adheres to detailed prompts, and renders text better than ever With HD mode enabled, V8.1 renders at twice the size and 4x the resolution of V7 images V8.1 is incredibly fast.
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Section-level variables for rows and tabs now generally available
Earlier this year we announced the addition of section-level variables for rows and tabs. This feature is now generally available. If your dashboard includes both an API gateway and a database, changing something like an $instance variable affects all panels at once.
Change in resource admin behavior
In Grafana Cloud, we’re rolling out a change to what resource administrators can see on a resource’s permissions list. If you can view and manage the permissions on a folder or dashboard, you will soon see every user and team that has access to it. Today, Grafana filters that list.
Alerting: contact point logic update
Grafana Alerting’s provisioning endpoints now reject duplicate secret keys that differ in casing. Requests that include duplicate keys will now be treated as validation errors with a 4XX status code.
Revamped Recommendations UI for Adaptive Metrics
Get started optimizing your Cloud Metrics quickly and more easily.! The Adaptive Metrics UI has been revamped to improve readability and instill confidence in our optimization recommendations. Here are a few of the highlights: Improved readability and clear calls to action.
Suspect Commits in Frontend Observability
When an error appears in your app, you want to know which code change caused it , without digging through git log. Suspect Commits in Frontend Observability now pins the exact commit your app was built from at the top of the candidate list on the error summary page, so you can go straight from a stack trace to the change that introduced it.
Query dropped traces in Adaptive Traces
Find the trace you need, even when it was dropped. Adaptive Traces now keeps every dropped trace queryable by trace ID for 24 hours after ingest, so a trace ID from a log line, exemplar, or an upstream system always returns a result. These traces don’t appear in TraceQL search results, the service graph, or aggregations.
Annotations clustering now generally available
Recently, we introduced several improvements to annotations to make them easier to explore, navigate, and manage at scale, including annotations clustering and indicator controls. These changes were introduced in public preview and now they are generally available. For more information about these changes, refer to the original announcement .
Add static labels to Azure metrics in Cloud Provider Observability
You can now add static labels to Azure metrics credentials in Cloud Provider Observability. Static labels are custom key-value pairs that are attached to every metric collected from a credential, giving you a consistent, queryable dimension that Azure Monitor doesn’t provide on its own.