Releasesby GlyphGrafana Assistant powered by OpenAI is now in private preview
We’re excited to announce the private preview of Grafana Assistant powered by OpenAI models. Anthropic models have been the backbone of Grafana Assistant so far. Now you can try the Assistant experience powered by OpenAI instead: when enabled, all requests are routed to OpenAI models rather than Anthropic ones.
Also shipped Jul 28, 2026Grafana Labs in July 2026 →
AI code suggestions in Workspaces (General availability)
AI code suggestions in Cortex Code are now generally available. This release also includes updated keybindings and bug fixes. Notebook Python cells , no changes to keybindings.
Snowflake Native Apps support for Virtual Private Snowflake on AWS for apps with containers (General availability)
Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services now support Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) on Amazon Web Services. Apps with containers can be distributed to Snowflake customers in VPS deployments. Apps running in VPS can use the functionality of Snowpark Container Services, including compute pools, services, jobs, and external access integrations.
Python UDTFs in Unity Catalog are now generally available
Registering Python user-defined table functions (UDTFs) in Unity Catalog is now generally available in Databricks Runtime 18. A Unity Catalog Python UDTF is a governed function that returns a table, invoked in the FROM clause of a SQL statement to return multiple rows and columns.
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters
Note: IAM group authentication is available in Preview for new AlloyDB clusters. To enable this feature on an existing cluster, contact your Google Cloud account team. IAM group authentication for AlloyDB is available in Preview for new clusters running PostgreSQL 15 and later.
Vercel Connect now supports Custom Environments
Vercel Connect now lets you link a connector to a Custom Environment so deployments there can request provider tokens and receive forwarded webhooks. Custom Environments appear alongside Production, Preview, and Development when you add or edit a project on a connector in the dashboard.
AIP Document Intelligence: deploy extraction strategies as Python functions (GA)
Deploying extraction strategies to Python functions is generally available in AIP Document Intelligence, as an alternative to running a strategy in a batch pipeline.
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OpenSearch: Added Index Browser to data source configuration and query
Selecting an OpenSearch index just got easier with the new Index Picker. Finding and setting the right index in the Grafana OpenSearch plugin no longer means typing index names from memory. The query editor now includes a Select index button that opens a searchable browser of the indices available on your data source.
Cloud MCP server: Connect your agents to Grafana Cloud with a single URL
Give your AI agents instant, zero-infrastructure access to your entire observability ecosystem, data, alerts, and incidents, using a single managed endpoint. Not to be mistaken with the OSS MCP server , which you install, host, and maintain yourself, the Cloud MCP server is fully managed by Grafana Labs, so you can supercharge agentic workflows without...
gcx: the CLI for you and your AI agents, now generally available
gcx is now generally available for Grafana Cloud and Grafana OSS/Enterprise v12 or later. It’s the CLI that gives you and your AI agent structured access to Grafana and Grafana Cloud from the terminal , dashboards, folders, alert rules, and data sources alongside Synthetic Monitoring, k6, Fleet Management, Incidents, Adaptive Telemetry, and more.
Saved queries now has command palette and provisioning support
Saved queries is now generally available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud, making it easier to discover, reuse, and share queries across your organization. This release also introduces two major enhancements: the ability to access saved queries directly from the command palette for faster discovery, and to provision saved queries with Terraform to...
Assistant Automations is generally available in Grafana Cloud
The recurring work you’d normally run yourself - a morning summary, a routine check, a standing report - Assistant can take care of that for you. With Assistant Automations, you save a Grafana Assistant prompt once and it happens on schedule, so you log in and it’s already done.
Assistant Investigations is now generally available in Grafana Cloud
Assistant Investigations is now generally available. It’s Grafana Assistant’s way of running longer, deeper investigations for you: point it at an alert or incident, and it explores your metrics, logs, traces, and profiles, builds hypotheses as it learns more, and produces a structured report with findings, supporting evidence, and recommended next steps.
Get an agent to test for you with Agentic Testing
With Agentic Testing, describe a user flow in plain language, like “log in, add an item, check out,” and an agent runs it in a real browser on Grafana Cloud: locating elements, adapting to UI changes, navigating unexpected states, and verifying the result looks right. No brittle selectors to maintain, no scripts to babysit.
Introducing Assistant Watchers: agentic alerting for Grafana Cloud
Watchers are a new Grafana Assistant capability that add an agentic option alongside your existing alerts. They’re built for the cases that are hard to express as a traditional rule: sometimes you can’t spell out every way something can go “wrong,” but you know exactly what “right” looks like.