Releasesby GlyphGrafana Assistant for Microsoft Teams is now in Private Preview
We’re excited to announce the Private Preview of Grafana Assistant in Microsoft Teams. The Assistant is already in Slack, and now it comes to Teams too, meeting your team where they already work.
Also shipped Jul 31, 2026Grafana Labs in July 2026 →
Web terminal on serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is in Public Preview
The web terminal in notebooks connected to serverless GPU compute (AI Runtime) is now in Public Preview . Use it to run shell commands, monitor GPU usage with nvidia-smi , install libraries, and manage files directly on the compute. This requires serverless GPU environment version 5 or above. See Run shell commands in Databricks web terminal .
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available
Packaged clean rooms are now generally available. In a packaged clean room, a provider supplies notebooks, JARs, and data that a consumer runs against their own data without seeing the provider's code or data assets. See Packaged clean rooms .
OpenAI connector (Beta)
The OpenAI connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the OpenAI Organization Admin API to ingest organization administration data, such as users, projects, API keys, usage, costs, and audit logs, from OpenAI into Databricks.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for late-July
In late-July 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Regex-based dynamic data masking (DDM) extends the built-in DDM feature with pattern‑based masking to hide sensitive data like emails, phone numbers, and identifiers, centrally
Upcoming August 2026 model deprecations in GitHub Copilot
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on September 1st, 2026: Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative Gemini 3.1 Pro 9-1-2026 Gemini 3.6 Flash Claude Opus 4.5 9-1-2026 Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Opus 4.8, or Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus...
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash deprecated
As of today, July 31, 2026, we have deprecated the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions).
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Build your own agents in Go with Grafana’s AI SDK
The Grafana AI SDK is now open source. It’s a Go SDK for building your own agents, with support for Grafana Cloud, Anthropic, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Most managed agent products and model SDKs stop once the model responds.
Grafana Assistant desktop app is now in private preview
We’re excited to announce the private preview of the Grafana Assistant desktop app, which brings the Assistant closer to your workflow than ever. With the desktop app, the Assistant can work with your local file system, your code, and your other tools alongside all your data in Grafana Cloud, so you can wrangle alerts, incidents, dashboards, data sources...
Grafana Assistant is now in public preview on the Grafana Mobile app
The Grafana IRM mobile app has a new name and a lot more to offer. It’s now the Grafana Mobile app, and it comes with Grafana Assistant built-in. With the Assistant in your pocket, your phone becomes an actually useful extension of Grafana Cloud. Get paged by IRM, open an Assistant chat, and start remediation without waiting to get back to a keyboard.
Introducing Assistant Search: find anything in Grafana Cloud just by describing it
Stop hunting through menus for the dashboard you built months ago. Assistant Search lets you query your Grafana artifacts blazingly fast. Describe what you’re after in plain language, and get back the dashboards, alerts, incidents, Assistant Investigations, labels, and more that match, no exact names required.
Say goodbye to black-box agents with Agent Observability
Agent Observability is now generally available in Grafana Cloud. Agentic workloads need observability just like everything else you run, but it’s harder to see into how an agent reasons, what tools it calls, or where it quietly degrades.
Triage your cloud environment faster with the Cloud Provider home page
The Cloud Provider Observability home page is now a live summary of your environment instead of static introductory content. Once you configure at least one provider, the page brings together the signals that need your attention across AWS, Azure, and GCP, so you can triage from one place and decide where to look next.
Grafana Cloud Database Configuration App in public preview
The logs self-service configuration API, which had previously been available to all Grafana Cloud Logs users, is being deprecated and will be removed. This API is being replaced by the Grafana Database Configuration app, which will only be available to paid users of Grafana Cloud.
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...