Releasesby GlyphOracle: Easy Connect Plus Support
Connecting to Oracle just got easier with Easy Connect Plus. Setting up an Oracle data source in Grafana no longer means wrangling a tnsnames.ora file or spelling out a full connection descriptor. The Oracle plugin now supports Easy Connect Plus , a third connection method that encodes the host, port, and service name in a single string.
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BigQuery cross-cloud connections query AWS, Azure and Salesforce in preview
Cross-cloud connections query data in AWS, Azure and Salesforce Data 360 from all BigQuery regions, support more BigQuery features and are more cost efficient than BigQuery Omni connections.
BigQuery JDBC driver adds OpenTelemetry tracing and logging
The JDBC driver for BigQuery now supports OpenTelemetry for tracing and logging, with automatic exports to Google Cloud Observability, helping monitor and troubleshoot database interactions. It is generally available.
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables (Public preview)
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables are now available in public preview. Inline Stored Procedures are a new type of Snowflake stored procedure designed for operational workloads on hybrid tables.
Organization Hub (General availability)
The Insights page under Organization Hub presents interactive tiles that show trends, alerts, and summary data for your entire organization. The feature is now generally available to customers who have ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views enabled, and is no longer in Preview .
AI Agents Inventory in the Trust Center AI Security tab (Preview)
With this preview release, the AI Security tab in the Trust Center includes an AI Agents Inventory section. This section provides a consolidated inventory of the Cortex Agents in your account, filtered by one or more categories, so that you can identify which agents to assess or investigate for better governance and security posture.
Trust Center AI Security scanner package and tab (General availability)
The AI Security scanner package and the AI Security tab in the Trust Center are now generally available. Use them to monitor AI-related configurations and usage in your account, and to review the security posture of AI workloads that use Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, or Cortex Code from a single dashboard.
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Guided configuration and column picker in Kubernetes Monitoring
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Improved auto layout indication when editing dashboards
When you edit a dashboard that uses auto layout, Grafana manages panel sizes automatically. Until now, it wasn’t always clear why dragging the lower-right corner of a panel had no effect or how to change the layout. In edit mode, Grafana now shows a layout indicator on the tab you’re working with and when you hover over a row.
Know your Grafana Cloud k6 plan limits before you hit them
You can see your Grafana Cloud k6 plan limits and current stack usage in one place. That view helps you know what your subscription allows before you run a large test or add shared resources. Open Testing & synthetics > Performance > Settings , then select Stack limits under Usage .
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 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.
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.