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.
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BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking
BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data governance tags are a type of Resource Manager tag that you can attach to sensitive columns and use in BigQuery data policies to grant conditional access to your users. This feature is in Preview .
Integrated SaaS listings on Snowflake Marketplace (General availability)
Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider’s application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place.
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies , General Availability
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Consumers can define when Snowflake Native App upgrades happen in their accounts by creating a maintenance policy and applying it to an account or an individual app. For more information, see Consumer-controlled maintenance policies .
Thinking Machine Labs Inkling now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview
Model Serving now supports Thinking Machine Labs Inkling as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports text and image inputs, a 1 million token context window, and is optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic tool-use tasks. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Inkling is available in Public Preview .
Custom URLs for your Databricks account (Public Preview)
You can now claim and enable a Custom URL that gives your Databricks account a single, branded entry point (for example, acme.databricks.com ) for all users and workspaces. See Give your Databricks account a custom URL .
AI Search High QPS is now generally available
AI Search High QPS is now generally available for standard endpoints. Set a target QPS on standard AI Search endpoints to power high-throughput, real-time workloads like search bars, recommendation systems, and entity matching. High QPS is enabled by default, but existing endpoints are not affected.
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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.
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.
Label-based access control (LBAC) for cloud traces
Traces can contain sensitive data, which often forces organizations to limit access or separate teams into different tracing tenants. Tempo LBAC lets administrators control which traces each Grafana team can access using resource attributes such as service, environment and region.
Sync OpenTelemetry Collector pipelines with GitHub Action
Following our announcement that OpAMP support is generally available in Fleet Management, we’ve updated our GitHub Action to support OpenTelemetry pipelines along with Alloy ones. Now you can manage all your configuration as code with one Action.
Volumetric Policies for Adaptive Traces are Generally Available
Cost-effectively get the right representative mix of traces with volumetric policies! Now Generally Available, volumetric policies intelligently balance cost, service representation, and value to automagically give you the right traces. We’ve bolstered volumetric policies under the hood to be even more cost predictable.
Cost Attribution for Synthetic Monitoring: Track spend by team, cost center, or other dimensions
Synthetic Monitoring usage is now included in Grafana Cloud Cost Attribution, as part of the Cost Management and Billing App. You can attribute the cost of your checks to whatever dimensions matter to your organization: teams, cost centers, business units, services, or even your own customers.