What Grafana shipped in August 2026

That's a wrap on GrafanaCON 2026!

GrafanaCON 2026 concluded with announcements of new Grafana features, AI capabilities, and updates across the open source monitoring ecosystem including Grafana 13, Mimir 3.0, and Pyroscope 2.0. The e…

Grafana Labs: A Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Grafana Labs adds recommendation configuration to Adaptive Metrics

Grafana Labs introduced a new configuration option in Adaptive Metrics that lets users exclude unused dashboards or ad hoc queries from cost-saving recommendations. This builds on prior Adaptive Metri…

Grafana adds Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise

Grafana Labs introduced Git Sync support for GitHub Enterprise (Server and Cloud), allowing teams to provision dashboards and folders as JSON files in GitHub. Changes in Git repositories sync bidirect…

Grafana adds Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API support

Grafana Labs introduced support for the Azure Monitor Metrics Batch API in its Azure Monitor data source, reducing per-resource API calls by grouping eligible queries. This improves query speed and lo…

Grafana 13.2.0 adds commit authoring options in Git Sync

Grafana 13.2.0 introduces the ability to customize commit authoring in Git Sync, allowing users to override the default author with a specified name and email or use the signed-in user’s credentials. …

Grafana adds GitLab and BitBucket webhooks to Git Sync

Grafana Labs expanded its Git Sync feature to support webhooks for GitLab and BitBucket, enabling real-time updates and pull request integrations. Previously, this capability was limited to GitHub pub…

Grafana revamps homepage with alert visibility and Assistant chat

Grafana Labs updated the homepage for on-prem installations to match the Cloud experience, adding firing-alert visibility and direct access to Grafana Assistant chat. Recent and starred dashboards rem…

Grafana adds direct trace export to file for self-managed instances

Grafana now allows self-managed users to export distributed traces directly to a local OTLP/JSON file without requiring an OpenTelemetry Collector or tracing backend. This simplifies troubleshooting b…

Grafana separates service and workload entities in Entity Catalog and Graph

Grafana Labs separated application services and Kubernetes workloads into distinct entities in its Entity Catalog and Entity Graph, replacing a merged model. Services now rely on their own telemetry, …

Pricing change detected for Grafana

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Free: allowance changed from 10k active series/month, 50 GB logs ingested/month, 50 GB traces ingested/month, 50 GB profiles ingested/month, 2,232 host hours + 37,944 co…

Grafana expands as-code workflows for dashboard and resource management

Grafana now supports as-code workflows for managing resources like folders and dashboards, enabling version control, automation, and CI/CD integration. Users can define configurations in code (JSON or…

Intro to Application and Frontend Observability with Grafana Cloud (APAC Timezone)

Grafana Cloud hosted a webinar on August 13, 2026, introducing its Application and Frontend Observability solutions. The event highlighted unified monitoring of metrics, logs, and traces using OpenTel…

Grafana Labs adds Adaptive Telemetry cost savings visibility in Cost Management app

Grafana Labs introduced a feature in its Cost Management and Billing app that displays estimated cost savings from Adaptive Telemetry (Metrics, Logs, Traces) alongside monthly spend and contract burnd…

Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph gains custom label retention

Grafana Cloud Knowledge Graph now supports custom label retention, allowing users to preserve organization-specific labels like team, region, or cost_center that were previously dropped during normali…

Grafana Labs to remove scripted dashboards in Grafana 14

Grafana Labs will remove scripted dashboards in Grafana 14, a legacy feature deprecated years ago. The feature is now disabled by default, with a temporary toggle available until Grafana 14 removes it…

Strategic coaching for observability leaders

Grafana Labs introduced Observability Sessions, a half-day event series for observability leaders featuring strategies, scaling best practices, and full-stack visibility guidance. Upcoming sessions in…

Grafana Cloud launches Session Replay in public preview for Frontend Observability

Grafana Labs introduced Session Replay, a new add-on feature for Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability, now in public preview. Session Replay records and reconstructs user frontend interactions to help…

Grafana adds View panel sidebar for exploring busy graphs

Grafana Labs introduced a View panel sidebar that lets users explore dense graphs without edit permissions. The sidebar offers quick toggles for legend and stacking, and a 'fanout' feature to split gr…

Grafana Labs launches Session Replay in Frontend Observability Public Preview

Grafana Labs introduced Session Replay in Frontend Observability, enabling visual playback of user sessions with clicks, scrolls, and page state alongside existing error logs and traces. The feature i…

Grafana Cloud launches Adaptive Profiles for cost-effective distributed profiling

Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Adaptive Profiles in Grafana Cloud, a feature that dynamically adjusts sampling rates to reduce stored profiling data by 85-90%. It applies a baselin…

Cloud Infrastructure monitoring with Grafana Cloud (EMEA Timezone)

Grafana Labs hosted a webinar on August 6, 2026, focused on cloud infrastructure monitoring using Grafana Cloud, covering multi-cloud observability, OpenTelemetry, and cost-performance insights. The s…

Grafana adds cross-filter support to histogram, state timeline, and status history panels

Grafana Labs extended cross-filtering support to three new visualization types: histogram, state timeline, and status history. Previously, only bar charts, tables, and time series supported cross-filt…

Grafana Cloud k6 adds stack limits visibility for plan management

Grafana Cloud k6 now lets users view plan limits and current stack usage in one place under Testing & Synthetics > Performance > Settings > Stack limits. The feature shows per-test caps, monthly VU ho…

Pricing updated for Grafana: - Free: allowance changed from All Grafana Cloud services with limited usage to 10k active series/month, 50 GB logs ingested/month, 50 GB traces ingested/month, 50 GB prof

Grafana improves auto layout indication for dashboard editing

Grafana Labs added visual indicators and guidance in edit mode to clarify when auto layout controls panel sizes, replacing manual resizing attempts with a dialog offering options to edit auto layout o…

Grafana adds Oracle Easy Connect Plus support with SSL and Kerberos

Grafana Labs introduced Easy Connect Plus support for Oracle data sources, simplifying connections by replacing tnsnames.ora files with a single string (e.g., host:port/service). The feature supports …

Grafana Labs adds guided Kubernetes Monitoring setup and column picker

Grafana Labs introduced guided configuration in Kubernetes Monitoring, allowing users to set up clusters by describing their environment instead of manually tuning Alloy. The update also adds a column…