Releasesby GlyphAnnotations 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 .
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QueryData adds support for parameterized secure views (PSVs) to help secure applications that use natural...
QueryData adds support for parameterized secure views (PSVs) to help secure applications that use natural language queries. For more information, see Secure and control access to application data . This feature is in Preview .
How to Use Claude Code with OpenRouter
Claude Code now supports routing through OpenRouter, providing budget controls and provider failover for Anthropic models.
How to Use OpenRouter With Any Coding Agent or AI Tool
Any tool using the OpenAI API can now integrate with OpenRouter by updating the base URL and API key.
Subagent: Let Your Model Delegate the Busywork
The new subagent tool allows frontier models to delegate self-contained tasks to smaller, faster worker models during generation.
Draft mode for V8.1 and new feature previews
Hi everyone - a few updates today! Draft mode for V8.1 Each draft mode generation creates 24 images at a lower resolution and quality. Click "Vary" on images you'd like to render at full-quality and full-resolution Draft jobs use half as many fast hours as V8.1 SD jobs (even though they generate 24 images!) Turn on draft mode by clicking the ⚡ button in the...
Redesigned Usage & Billing Page
The Usage & Billing page has been rebuilt to support usage attribution (the Settings "Overview" tab is now "Usage"). Filter by auth method, API key, and login username to attribute consumption to a specific credential or user. Normalized app names and revised charts improve readability and export.
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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.
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.
Historical Cardinality
Analyze metrics cardinality history directly in the Cost Management and Billing App We’re excited to announce the general availability of Historical Cardinality! When active series counts increase, it can be difficult to determine what changed and which metrics or labels are responsible.
Revamped query editor: now in public preview with multi-select and stacked view
The revamped query editor experience is now in public preview. Since the initial private preview release , we’ve continued to refine the experience and added two new capabilities to help you work with complex panels even faster: multi-select with bulk actions and a stacked view.
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.
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.
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.
pdc-app v0.14.17
PDC app v0.14.17 fixes an issue with token generation for older PDC networks created before 2024. Dependencies have also been cleaned up, with an obsolete dependency removed that is no longer needed in modern browsers. No action is required; this update will roll out automatically to Grafana Cloud stacks in phases.