Releasesby GlyphRemote management of OpenTelemetry Collectors is generally available
Grafana Fleet Management now supports OpenTelemetry Collectors , so you can monitor and remotely configure Grafana Alloy instances and upstream OpenTelemetry Collectors from a single control plane. Manage your collector fleet with real-time health monitoring, centralized configuration, and attribute matchers for targeted rollouts.
Also shipped Jul 8, 2026Grafana Labs in July 2026 →
Object metadata column is now in Public Preview
The _object_metadata column is now in Public Preview. The _object_metadata column is a hidden metadata column that exposes object-level properties for objects in cloud storage, including MIME type, ETag, user-defined key-value metadata, system-defined metadata, and object tags. It is available starting from Databricks Runtime 18.1.
Genie products now use pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie products, including Genie Agents , Genie Code , and Genie One , are billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 Databricks units (DBUs) of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region.
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro are scheduled for retirement
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and Gemini 2.5 Pro will be retired on October 2, 2026. The recommended replacement models are Gemini 3.1 Pro or Gemini 3.5 Flash. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 is scheduled for retirement
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 4 will be retired on October 9, 2026. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the recommended replacement. See Deprecated and retired models for migration guidance.
Restrict access to AI Functions with Unity Catalog permissions (Public Preview)
You can now use Unity Catalog permissions to restrict which task-specific AI Functions your organization can access, independent of foundation model access. Contact your account team to enable this feature. See AI Functions Unity Catalog permissions .
Genie Agents now uses pay-as-you-go pricing
Starting July 8, 2026 at 00:00 UTC, Genie Agents is billed following a pay-as-you-go pricing model that includes 150 DBUs of free large language model (LLM) usage every month, equivalent to about $10.50 in the US East region. Usage beyond the free amount is billed in DBUs, reflecting the underlying LLM models and agents that power each Genie Agents session.
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Filter collectors by status from Fleet Management Overview
Locate your erroring collectors faster with new filter functionality from the Overview tab in Grafana Fleet Management. Click on a status section of the Collector health status chart to be taken to a pre-filtered version of your Inventory .
Create query variables more easily with the redesigned editor
We redesigned the query variable editor with a new editing experience that makes working with query variables easier. The new experience uses a dialog box with the values preview at the top and a tabbed editor below, so you can review results while you edit.
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.
Transform your data with SQL expressions, now generally available
SQL expressions are now generally available. SQL expressions let you query, join, and reshape the results of your existing data source queries using familiar MySQL-like syntax.
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.
Infinite scroll for your configuration pipelines
Remote configuration is a core feature of Grafana Fleet Management. As the number of configuration pipelines grows, browsing and managing them can become more cumbersome when navigating through paginated lists. To make this experience more seamless, the Remote configuration tab now uses infinite scrolling.
Pipeline history now includes revision author
Grafana Fleet Management has added a Changed by column to the pipeline history view. Now you can see who made the change as part of your audit trail. Only changes made through the Fleet Management user interface record an author.
Authenticate 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.