Releasesby IbisNew escalation options in Grafana IRM
UpdateyesterdayUnverifiedAdded Oct 13, 2026
Escalation chains in Grafana IRM have new options that give you more control over who gets paged, and when. Spread pages across everyone on a shift, or pull in the responder coming off the last shift. When an alert group is waiting, move it to its next step without waiting out the timer.
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Every Grafana Cloud releaseSilences in Grafana IRM now last as long as you set them
When you silence an alert group in Grafana IRM, the silence now lasts for the full duration you choose, even if the source resolves and fires again. Previously, if the source sent a resolve signal while an alert group was silenced, the alert group resolved immediately and the silence ended with it.
Custom headers and footers for report PDFs
Different readers need different things from a report. An executive may want clean pages that put the panels first, while a client expects your branding and page numbers throughout. Custom PDF headers and footers let you shape your reports around the people who read them.
Connect Synthetic Monitoring checks to your services with Knowledge Graph
Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring now integrates with the knowledge graph, available in public preview. When a check fails or slows down, you can see the service it monitors, explore its dependencies, and compare check results with service health to narrow down where to investigate. Synthetic checks show how your application behaves from the outside.
Synthetic Monitoring folders are now Generally Available
In June 2026, we announced the public preview release of folders in Synthetic Monitoring . With folders, you can group checks by team, service, or environment so the right checks are always easy to find and act on a whole group at once instead of one check at a time. Folders in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.
Plan your dashboard before building it with Grafana Assistant
Dashboard plans, now in public preview, let you review and refine a proposed dashboard before Grafana Assistant builds it. Describe what you want to monitor, and the Assistant presents a plan in chat that includes the dashboard title, tabs or rows, panels, visualization types, and variables.
Role managers can revoke access they do not hold
If you have the required permissions to manage roles or role assignments, you can revoke access without holding the permissions being removed. This applies when you update or delete a role, or remove role assignments through the /api/access-control/ APIs.
Run Database Observability on clustered Grafana Alloy
Database Observability now supports Grafana Alloy clustering for MySQL and PostgreSQL. When you run several Alloy nodes with the same configuration, Alloy assigns each database to exactly one node. Telemetry collection is distributed across the cluster and automatically moves to another node if one becomes unavailable, without duplicating data.
Catch pipeline issues across your services
The entity catalog , and the Application page, which shows that same catalog scoped to services , now has a Pipeline issues tab, next to Instrumentation quality , that lists detected telemetry-pipeline problems for your whole stack in one place.
Also shipped on Oct 12, 2026
Grafana Labs in October 2026Change an incident’s conference bridge without leaving Slack with /pd meeting now Generally Available
Run /pd meeting during an incident, paste the new link, and PagerDuty updates the incident card instantly with a Join meeting button in the channel. Scribe Agent follows along to the new meeting on its own, so you keep the transcript for your post-incident review. Available to customers using the Pa...
New Incident Workflow action: Get Slack Mentions for Incident Participants now Generally Available
This new Incident Workflow action pulls the assignees, acknowledgers, and role holders on an incident and turns them into Slack @mentions. Pair it with Send Slack Message to tag everyone involved without hard-coding names, so the same workflow works across every team and rotation. Available to Pager...
Conference bridge selection in the Slack declare modal now Generally Available
Declare an incident with /pd declare and choose one of your pre-configured PagerDuty conference bridges from a dropdown, or paste a meeting URL if you don't have one set up. The bridge is on the incident from the moment it's declared, so responders can join from Slack in one click. Available to cust...
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now...
Incremental data transfers for the BigQuery Data Transfer Service for PostgreSQL and ServiceNow are now generally available (GA).
Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA)
Support for Budget spend caps to pause your Cloud Run workloads is in General Availability (GA) .
Unity Gateway Skills API and developer tools are available in Beta
The Unity Gateway Skills REST API is now available in Beta , with create, read, update, list, delete, and finalize support across Databricks developer tools: Databricks CLI Python SDK Go SDK Go Modular SDK Java SDK JavaScript SDK See the Skills API and SDK reference .