Releasesby GlyphAuthenticate securely with Workload Identity Federation for BigQuery and GCM data sources
Storing a service account JSON key file to connect Grafana Cloud to Google Cloud is a persistent security liability. Keys get embedded in config files, shared across teams, or quietly forgotten , all while remaining valid for years. When one leaks, there’s no automatic expiry and no limited blast radius.
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Analytical search (Public Preview)
Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...
MATCH_RECOGNIZE is now in Beta
Databricks SQL and Databricks Runtime now support the SQL:2016 MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause for row pattern recognition. Enable the Match Recognize preview in workspace preview settings . See MATCH_RECOGNIZE clause .
Lakehouse Real-Time (Beta)
Lakehouse Real-Time (Lakehouse//RT) is now in Beta . Lakehouse//RT is a serverless SQL warehouse type built for low-latency, high-concurrency workloads, delivering sub-second SQL read queries against Unity Catalog tables.
Gemini Omni Flash in public preview
Released gemini-omni-flash-preview, a high-performance multimodal model designed for high-speed video generation and conversational video editing. Using the Interactions API, you can generate 3--10 second videos at 720p from text descriptions or animate still images, and then conversationally edit and refine the outputs.
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image (Nano Banana 2 Lite) is generally available
gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image is a multimodal model optimized for ultra-low latency, cost-effective image generation and editing, now GA in the Gemini API.
[Launched] Generally Available: Toolboxes in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar
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Knowledge Graph Mode in Grafana Assistant
Troubleshoot your entity setup with Knowledge Graph mode Knowledge Graph mode is a new specialist mode in Grafana Assistant that understands how your entity graph is built, end to end, and helps you work with it: ask why it looks the way it does, fix what doesn’t look right, and add what doesn’t ship by default.
Choose your k6 runtime version when you create tests in Grafana Cloud k6
You can now select which k6 major version your script targets when you create a test in the script editor. New tests default to v1.x (default) . Select v2.x when your script uses the k6 v2.x runtime. Grafana Cloud k6 stores the version on the load test and uses it for future runs, including scheduled runs.
Grafana Cloud k6: Starred test runs and updated test result retention
You can now star test runs in Grafana Cloud k6 to mark the results that matter and find them again quickly. Starring gives you one consistent way to flag a test run as a reference point, whether you’re tracking a release, validating a performance optimization, or keeping an important run on hand to compare against.
Create browser tests from plain-language user journeys
Creating browser tests is now faster and easier with the new experimental Agentic testing experience in Grafana Cloud. Describe the user journey you want to test, such as signing in, completing checkout, or submitting a form, and Grafana Cloud helps turn that journey into a runnable browser test you can run, review, and iterate on without manually scripting...
Alerting: Grafana Cloud uses the internal Alertmanager for Grafana-managed alerts by default
In Grafana Cloud, the internal Grafana Alertmanager handles Grafana-managed alerts by default. New stacks use internal routing by default. Sending to an external Alertmanager isn’t enabled by default. Existing stacks move to internal routing by default, plan by plan.
Organize your Synthetic Monitoring checks in folders
Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring now lets you organize your checks into Grafana Folders. As you create more checks or onboard new teams, a single flat list becomes hard to scan. With folders, you can group checks by team, service, or environment so the right checks are always easy to find and act on a whole group at once instead of one check at a time.
Drop rule recommendations for Adaptive Logs
Want more control than our pattern-based recommendations, but not sure where to start? Adaptive Logs now walks you through creating a drop rule tailored to your environment in three guided steps: pick one of your highest-volume services, choose a drop rate, and review a pre-filled rule before any logs are dropped.
Grafana Assistant is now pre-installed in Grafana Enterprise
Starting with Grafana 13.1, Grafana Assistant comes pre-installed in Grafana Enterprise, with no plugin installation required. If you’re a Grafana Enterprise user, simply connect your Grafana Cloud account to start using Assistant right away. Get onboarded quicker, explore telemetry data, build dashboards, and get things done faster using natural language.