Releasesby GlyphAI Observability is now Agent Observability: Updated branding and migration guide
Grafana’s AI Observability (alias: Sigil) is being renamed to Grafana Agent Observability. As the product has grown to cover full agent lifecycles , from tool use to evaluations to guardrails , the name is catching up to what it already does.
Also shipped Jul 22, 2026Grafana Labs in July 2026 →
External OAuth and configurable scopes for MCP servers (General availability)
Two new hierarchical parameters let you bind MCP servers to your organization’s existing identity provider (IdP) and control which OAuth scopes MCP clients discover. This enables MCP clients such as Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT to authenticate against your corporate IdP instead of Snowflake OAuth.
Variant and Variant shredding are now generally available
Variant is now generally available . Variant is a flexible data type for semi-structured data that delivers structured-like query performance through Variant shredding, which is also generally available.
Transactions are now generally available
Transactions that write to Unity Catalog managed Delta tables are now generally available. Group multiple SQL statements across one or more tables into a single atomic transaction using BEGIN ATOMIC ... END; or BEGIN TRANSACTION; ... COMMIT; syntax. All changes succeed together or roll back together, ensuring data consistency across your operations.
Email notifications for expiring service principal tokens are now generally available
Databricks now automatically sends an email notification when a service principal token is set to expire within seven days. Because service principals don't have their own mailboxes, Databricks sends these notifications to workspace admins.
Role-based access control (RBAC) is in Public Preview
Role-based access control (RBAC) is now in Public Preview. RBAC lets users assume a role in Databricks using only that role's permissions for the duration of the session instead of their own accumulated permissions. This enables exclusive access.
Governance Hub is in Beta
Governance Hub is in Beta . Governance Hub is a centralized, account-level UI in the account console for monitoring governance across your Databricks account. It provides a unified view of data health and coverage, AI usage and spend, and cost drivers, with prioritized insights and recommendations. All views respect existing permissions.
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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.
Manage Grafana Cloud IP allowlists with one API
Keep your firewall automation synchronized with Grafana Cloud through one versioned Allowlist API. A consistent JSON format across services and regions makes allowlists easier to retrieve, parse, and validate. Choose the scope that matches your environment: global, regional, or per-service.
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.
Catch hardcoded secrets in Grafana Cloud k6 scripts
As you write a performance test in Grafana Cloud k6, the script editor can flag hardcoded API keys, tokens, and passwords before you run the test. Those values are stored in plaintext in the script, so leaving them there puts credentials at risk when you share the file or check it into version control.
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.
Try Grafana Assistant on Grafana Play; no set-up required
The fastest way yet to see what Grafana Assistant can do. Head to play.grafana.org and start a conversation right there in our public sandbox. No install, no account, no setup , just you and the Assistant on real Grafana data.
Workspace is now generally available in Grafana Cloud
Workspace, the agent-native interface for Grafana Cloud, is now generally available in Grafana Cloud. Instead of hopping between tabs to pull a query here, a dashboard there, and an incident timeline somewhere else, you and the Assistant work side by side in a single, full-page view: building reports, correlating signals, and running everyday observability...