Available in public preview in all editions of Grafana

Creating correlations has just become easier. Try out our new correlations editor in Explore by selecting the + Add > Add correlation option from the top bar or from the command palette. The editor shows all possible places where you can place data links and guides you through building and testing target queries. For more information, refer to the documentation.

To try out Correlations, enable the correlations feature toggle.

Available in public preview in all editions of Grafana

In previous versions of Grafana, if a data source was provisioned, the only way to add correlations to it was also with provisioning. Now, that’s no longer the case, and you can easily create new correlations mixing both methods—using the Administration page or provisioning. For more information, refer to the documentation.

To try out Correlations, enable the correlations feature toggle.

Available in public preview in all editions of Grafana

You can now use generative AI to assist you in your Grafana dashboards. So far generative AI can help you with the following tasks:

To enable these features, you must first enable the dashgpt feature toggle. Then install and configure Grafana’s LLM app plugin. For more information, refer to the Grafana LLM app plugin documentation.

When enabled, look for the ✨ Auto generate option next to the Title and Description fields in your panels and dashboards, or when you press the Save button.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

The new browse screen for dashboards features a more compact design, making it easier to navigate, search for, and manage your folders and dashboards. The new interface also has many performance improvements, especially for instances with a large number of folders and dashboards.

To make using folders easier and more consistent, there’s no longer a special General folder. Dashboards without a folder, or dashboards previously in the General folder, are now shown at the root level.

To try it out, go to the Dashboards section of your Grafana instance.

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You can now add buttons to your canvas visualizations. Buttons can be configured to call an API endpoint. This pushes Grafana’s capabilities to new heights, allowing you to create interactive dashboards that can be used to control external systems.

To learn more, refer to our Canvas button element documentation, as well as the following video demo.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

You can now zoom in on the y-axis of your time series and candlestick visualizations. This is useful when you want to focus on a specific range of values. To zoom in on the y-axis on supported visualizations, hold the Shift key while clicking and dragging; double-click to reset the zoom.

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When visualizing multiple fields with a wide spread of values, calculating the min or max value of the visualization based on all fields can hide useful details.

In this example in the stat visualization, it’s hard to get an idea of how the values of each series relate to the historical values of that series. The threshold of 10% is exceeded by the A-series even though the A-series is below 10% of its historical maximum.

Now, you can automatically calculate the min or max of each visualized field based on the lowest and highest value of the individual field. This setting is available in the standard options of most visualizations.

In this example, using the same data, with the min and max calculated for each individual field, we get a much better understanding of how the current value relates to the historical values. The A-series no longer exceeds the 10% threshold; in fact, it’s now clear that it’s at a historical low.

This isn’t only useful in the stat visualization—gauge, bar gauge, and status history visualizations, table cells formatted by thresholds, and gauge table cells all benefit from this addition.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

We’ve made a number of smaller improvements to the data visualization experience in Grafana.

We’ve placed special focus on the Tempo data source over the past couple of months with new features, query performance improvements, and a better query experience.

Generally available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud

The SAP HANA® data source now supports tenant database connections by using the database name and/or instance number. This is helpful because these are less likely to change than the port for your database. For more information, refer to our SAP HANA® configuration documentation.

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The Datadog data source now supports log aggregation. This feature helps aggregate logs/events into buckets and compute metrics and time series. For more information, refer to Datadog log aggregation.

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Generally available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud

In the Datadog data source, you can now block API requests for metric queries based on upstream rate limits. With this update, you can set a rate limit percentage at which the plugin stops sending queries.

To learn more, refer to Datadog data source settings, as well as the following video demo.

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We’ve added support for Azure Authentication (Service principal/MSI) on our MS SQL plugin to authenticate and allow querying of content stored in SQL Managed Instance databases.

Enable this feature by setting the managed_identity_enabled property to true under the Azure heading in your configuration file (/conf/.ini). Then take the following steps in your Microsoft SQL Server data source configuration UI:

Learn more in the Microsoft SQL Server documentation.

Experimental in all editions of Grafana

Previously, the only transformation that supported dashboard variables was the Add field from calculation transformation. We’ve now extended the support for variables to the Filter by value, Create heatmap, Histogram, Sort by, Limit, Filter by name, and Join by field transformations.

We’ve also made it easier to find the correct dashboard variable by displaying available variables in the fields that support them, either in the drop-down or as a suggestion when you type $ or press Ctrl + Space.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

The Add field from calculation transformation has been updated.

Unary operation is a new mode that lets you apply mathematical operations to a field. The currently supported operations are:

Also, Row index can now show the index as a percentage.

Learn more in the Add field from calculation documentation.

Experimental in all editions of Grafana

With the new Format string transformation, you can manipulate string fields to improve how they’re displayed. The currently supported operations are:

Learn more in the Format string documentation.

Available in public preview in all editions of Grafana

We’ve added initial support to detect situations in which various transformations won’t work appropriately based on current data. Previously, selecting the appropriate transformation and configuring it correctly required a process of trial and error or already knowing how a given transformation worked. Now, transformations that we’ve detected can’t be used are shaded in the interface to indicate this, along with a helpful message explaining why.

If you have the transformationsRedesign feature flag set, you’ll be able to access this functionality right away. If you’d like to try it, enable this feature flag in your Grafana configuration.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

We’ve added support for setting timezones manually when formatting times as strings using the Format time and Convert field type transformations. This allows times to be formatted relative to any timezone across the globe.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

Use the Grafana Alerting - Grafana OnCall integration to effortlessly connect alerts generated by Grafana Alerting with Grafana OnCall. From there, you can route them according to defined escalation chains and schedules.

To learn more, refer to the Grafana OnCall integration for Alerting documentation, as well as the following video demo.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

Export your alerting resources, such as alert rules, contact points, and notification policies as Terraform resources. A new “Modify export” mode for alert rules enables you to edit provisioned alert rules and export a modified version.

Generally available in Grafana Open Source and Enterprise

We’ve added support for the Microsoft Teams contact points when using an external Alertmanager.

Generally available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud

We’re excited to introduce the “No basic role,” a new basic role with no permissions. A basic role in Grafana dictates the set of actions a user or entity can perform, known as permissions. This new role is especially beneficial if you’re aiming for tailored, customized RBAC permissions for your service accounts or users. You can set this as a basic role through the API or UI.

Previously, permissions were granted based on predefined sets of capabilities. Now, with the “No basic role,” you have the flexibility to be even more granular.

For more details on basic roles and permissions, refer to the documentation.

Service accounts allow you to create tokens to access Grafana’s API and dashboards. Service accounts are a powerful tool for authenticating with Grafana’s API and accessing data sources. However, without proper access controls, service accounts can pose a security risk to your Grafana instance. In Grafana 10.2, we’ve added new tools to limit service accounts to just the resources they need to access.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana

You can now map Google groups to Grafana organizational roles when using Google OIDC. This is useful if you want to limit the access users have to your Grafana instance.

We’ve also added support for controlling allowed groups when using Google OIDC.

Refer to the Google Authentication documentation to learn how to use these new options.

Available in public preview in all editions of Grafana

With Grafana v9.3, we introduced a feature toggle called accessTokenExpirationCheck. It improves the security of Grafana by checking the expiration of the access token and automatically refreshing the expired access token when a user is logged in using one of the OAuth providers.

With the current release, we’ve introduced a new configuration option for each OAuth provider called use_refresh_token that allows you to configure whether the particular OAuth integration should use refresh tokens to automatically refresh access tokens when they expire. In addition, to further improve security and provide secure defaults, use_refresh_token is enabled by default for providers that support either refreshing tokens automatically or client-controlled fetching of refresh tokens. It’s enabled by default for the following OAuth providers: AzureAD, GitLab, Google.

For more information on how to set up refresh token handling, please refer to the documentation of the particular OAuth provider..

Generally available in Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud

With the current release, we enabled RBAC permission validation (rbac.permission_validation_enabled setting) by default. This means that the permissions provided in the request during custom role creation or update are validated against the list of available permissions and their scopes. If the request contains a permission that is not available or the scope of the permission is not valid, the request is rejected with an error message.