Releasesby GlyphLet Grafana propose SLOs for your service
From a service in the entity catalog, open the SLO tab. If the service has no SLOs yet, Grafana suggests availability and latency targets from recent request, error and latency metrics. You can edit the name, target and window, choose a folder, optionally add burn-rate alerts and create the SLO. You can also create one manually.
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BigQuery conversational analytics adds ML.CORRELATION in preview
Conversational analytics can now use ML.CORRELATION to calculate statistical correlations between a target column and one or more metric columns in a table.
BigQuery ML.METRICS evaluates predictions without a stored model
The preview ML.METRICS function computes classification or regression evaluation metrics on any table or query with actual and predicted values, with no need to create or reference a stored model.
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data
You can use the AI.CAUSAL_EFFECT function to quantify the impact of specific interventions on time series data. This feature is in Preview .
BigQuery Data Engineering Agent integrates with BigQuery Graph
The Data Engineering Agent now uses BigQuery Graph for extra context between source and destination schemas, improving schema mapping accuracy in data engineering pipelines. It is generally available.
Using dbt artifacts for Slim CI and defer to production in dbt Projects on Snowflake (General availability)
Slim CI, defer to production, failed-execution recovery, and concurrent execution are now generally available for dbt Projects on Snowflake. Reuse dbt artifacts from recent production executions to accelerate development, streamline CI/CD workflows, and recover from failed production runs without maintaining a separate artifact store.
External secret providers (Preview)
External secret providers are now in preview. If your organization already keeps API keys, database passwords, and similar values in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager, Snowflake can read those values when a query needs them, so you don't have to maintain a second copy in a Snowflake secret .
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Monitor your full stack from the Observability home page
The Observability home page is now the default landing page when you select Observability in the Grafana main menu. It brings together your services, databases, frontend applications, Pods, and nodes in one view so you can see what needs attention across your entire stack without switching between individual products.
Track and create SLOs from your service entities
Every Service entity in the entity catalog carries an SLOs tab, so you can check whether a service is meeting its service level objectives (SLOs) while you investigate it, without switching to another app. The entity header carries an SLOs dropdown menu with a status dot, which gives you the same answer at a glance.
Application Observability now includes the knowledge graph by default
New Grafana Cloud organizations get Grafana Application Observability powered by the Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph automatically. Host, Kubernetes, and Database Observability activate alongside it, so you get correlated, full-stack context on your services, infrastructure, and dependencies from the moment you start sending telemetry.
Query k6 test result metrics with PromQL in your own stack
Query Grafana Cloud k6 test result metrics with PromQL and compare load test behavior with your application’s metrics, logs, and traces. Test result metrics are stored in Grafana Cloud Metrics, powered by Mimir, in your own Grafana Cloud stack. Use your stack’s Prometheus data source in Explore, custom dashboards, and Grafana Alerting.
Make panels easier to understand with subtitles
When a panel title needs more explanation, you can now display its description as a subtitle directly beneath it. This keeps context visible as you read the dashboard, helping you understand what a metric measures or how to interpret a chart. In Panel options , enter your Description and enable Use as subtitle .
Secrets management is generally available with AWS Secrets Manager support
We’re excited to announce the general availability of secrets management in Grafana Cloud, along with a new AWS Secrets Manager integration. Secrets management gives you one safe place to store the API keys, tokens, and passwords that your Synthetic Monitoring checks and Grafana Cloud k6 tests need, so credentials never end up in your scripts.
Suggested Recommendations for Adaptive Logs
Get to your first Adaptive Logs savings faster! See your 3 most valuable Adaptive Logs recommendations, and easily tailor them to your needs, to make optimizing log cost even easier. To try this out, navigate to Adaptive Logs -> Drop rules, and recommendations will be right at the top.
Fleet-managed Adaptive Logs in public preview
Make log ingest cost effective with fleet-managed Adaptive Logs! Now available in public preview, Adaptive Logs applies your drop rules and exemptions on collectors you already run, so matching logs are filtered before they leave your environment. Pattern drop rates still run in Grafana Cloud.