Releasesby GlyphSee Your Adaptive Telemetry Cost Savings
See how Adaptive Telemetry is reducing your Grafana Cloud costs directly in the Cost Management and Billing App! You can now view estimated cost savings from Adaptive Telemetry alongside your organization’s cost and usage data.
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BigQuery pipelines add automated metadata enrichment in preview
Semantic metadata defined in SQLX configurations now syncs with Knowledge Catalog, and the Data Engineering Agent can generate this metadata from your intent or context.
Sharing tables backed by default storage will be enabled by default for all accounts
OpenSharing support for tables backed by default storage is generally available and on by default for most accounts. For most Enterprise or Premium tier accounts, Databricks will enable it automatically in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest.
Expanded networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect
Databricks will be expanding networking billing for OpenSharing SecureConnect. Today, data providers are billed for data transfer (egress) when recipients access shared data through SecureConnect. Additional charge types and access scenarios, including charges billed to recipients, are planned.
OpenSharing SecureConnect will be available by default for all accounts
OpenSharing SecureConnect is generally available and available by default for accounts on the Premium plan. For accounts on the Enterprise plan, Databricks will enable it automatically in mid-September 2026, and by early 2027 for the rest.
Block or redact sensitive data in requests and responses
The Sensitive Data Detection guardrail (Beta) detects structured sensitive data (such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, IBANs, and phone numbers) and either blocks the interaction or redacts the matched values in place.
Smart Routing: Cut AI costs by routing each task to the right model
Smart Routing (Beta) automatically picks the right model and agent harness for each task, based on complexity, permissions, and budget. It shifts routine work to lower-cost models and reserves frontier models for hard problems, and every routing decision is visible and auditable.
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Scripted dashboards will be removed in Grafana 14
Scripted dashboards will be removed in Grafana 14. Scripted dashboards are a legacy mechanism that we deprecated years ago and are now retiring. If you use them, plan to migrate before you upgrade to Grafana 14, after which they’ll stop working entirely. Grafana now offers dynamic dashboards and robust as-code solutions for managing dashboards at scale.
Custom label retention for Knowledge Graph
Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph normalizes your telemetry into a fixed set of well-known labels, which means organization-specific labels like team , region , or cost_center are dropped during processing. With custom label retention, you can choose which of your own labels to keep on knowledge graph entities and recording rules.
Explore busy panels with the new View panel sidebar
When a graph packs in dozens of series, understanding which ones share an anomaly means visually tracing overlapping lines. Plus, if you’re a viewer, you can’t toggle the legend or stacking to get a clearer look, because those options live in edit mode. Now, the View panel sidebar provides controls to explore it on the spot.
Adaptive Profiles is generally available in Grafana Cloud
Make distributed profiling cost effective with Adaptive Profiles! Now generally available, Adaptive Profiles applies a cost effective baseline sample rate to your services, increasing the sampling rate to 100% for a service when behavior change is detected. This allows Adaptive Profiles to reduce your stored volume by 85-90%.
Organize dashboards faster with multi-select grouping
Organizing a dashboard is now faster with multi-select grouping. In edit mode, you can select multiple panels at once and instantly group them into a row or a tab, making it easy to restructure dashboards without moving panels one by one.
Reproduce your users' experience with Session Replay - Public Preview
Session Replay in Frontend Observability records what a user actually did in your app. All clicks, scrolls, and page state is played back to you alongside the errors, logs, and traces Frontend Observability already captures. Instead of guessing what led to a bug report, you can watch the session it happened in.
Further optimize metrics costs with Adaptive Metrics recommendations configuration
Realize even more savings by optimizing data you don’t need. Adaptive Metrics now lets you choose to ignore unused dashboards or ad hoc queries when creating usage based optimization recommendations.
Authoring commits in Git Sync
Starting in Grafana 13.2.0, you can include authoring information to your commits. If you don’t enable commit signing, you can use author override to author commits. If you don’t select author override, the signed-in Grafana user name and email will be used as the commit author.