Releasesby GlyphPanel thresholds variable interpolation
The Thresholds panel option now supports variable interpolation to help you quickly update thresholds in dashboard panels. Simply type the your variable name (for example, `$my-var` ) into a thresholds step input and manage it through the variable toggle on the dashboard. This feature will be rolled out to Grafana Cloud stacks over the next few weeks.
Also shipped Aug 27, 2026Grafana Labs in August 2026 →
You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option
You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option. BigQuery uses the XGBoost 3.1.0 library to load and make predictions on XGBoost models. This feature is generally available .
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability)
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.
Lakeflow Designer August Release
The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.
Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)
You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response. See Genie Code task for jobs .
Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)
Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview , it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures. See Use Genie Code with AI Runtime .
Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)
You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.
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Cross-filter on more visualizations
We’ve recently extended support for cross-filtering, bringing support to: Histogram State timeline Status History This is in addition to the previously supported visualizations, bar chart, table, and time series. For more information about panel filtering, refer to the documentation .
Investigate database performance with Grafana Assistant
When a database slows down, you can now ask Grafana Assistant a question like “Why is my orders database slow?” or “What are my worst-performing database queries?” and get an answer straight from your Grafana Cloud Database Observability telemetry with no PromQL or LogQL required.
Alert Enrichment
Alert enrichment is generally available in Grafana Cloud. It adds context to your alert notifications before they reach you. You can start diagnosing an issue, plan a fix, and judge severity without first opening Grafana or another tool. Each enrichment runs when an alert fires and attaches its results to the notification.
Alerting notification history
Grafana Alerting includes notification history, so you can review notifications Grafana sent for your Grafana-managed alert rules from one place. On the History page, you can open the Notifications tab to see each delivery attempt, including firing and resolved notifications, the contact point that received it, and whether delivery succeeded or failed.
k6 Studio 2.0: browser test authoring and autocorrelation are generally available
Building a realistic performance test usually means writing selectors by hand, hunting down session tokens that break your script on playback, and tuning configuration before you can run anything. The latest Grafana k6 Studio release takes that work off your plate, with browser test authoring and autocorrelation now generally available.
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.
Git Sync support for GitHub enterprise
Git Sync now supports GitHub Enterprise, both Server and Cloud versions. You can now provision your dashboards as JSON files and your folders in your GitHub enterprise instance using Git Sync. If you make any changes in your synchronized Git repositories, they will be updated in the Grafana database as well, and vice-versa.