Generally available in all editions of Grafana.

The command palette has been updated to provide a more efficient way to navigate Grafana. You can now search and access all pages and recent dashboards, making it easier to perform tasks without taking your hands off the keyboard.

To launch the command palette, use the keyboard shortcut cmd + K on Mac or ctrl + K on Linux/Windows.

To learn more about the command palette, refer to Search.

Generally available on Grafana Cloud, and available to preview using the topnav feature toggle in all editions of Grafana.

The navigation in Grafana has been updated with a new design and an improved structure to make it easier for you to access the data you need. With this update, you’ll be able to quickly navigate between features, giving you full visibility into the health of your systems.

The new navigation is gradually rolling out to all users on Grafana Cloud. If you’re using Grafana Open Source and Enterprise, you can enable this feature using the topnav feature toggle.

Available to preview using the newPanelChromeUI feature toggle in all editions of Grafana.

Dashboard panels contain a lot of information, some of which is difficult to discover or access from the dashboard. With our redesigned panels, we’ve improved accessibility and made it easier to understand the status of a panel by adding and moving key elements.

We’ve rethought the panel information architecture, added additional interaction points, and reduced visual clutter. To start, we’ve improved the support of panels without a header, made a distinction between details set by you and data-induced information, and then included all essential components in the header of the panel. All of these are laid out from left to right in a row, so there are no overlapping, unusable components.

Grafana’s new panel is available only for React-based panels; no Angular-based panels are redesigned. For example, Angular-based panel will still have the old Graph and Table visualizations.

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However, we have more planned: we’re going to make even more improvements to the accessibility of panels and improvements to panels without a header.

Available to preview using the datasourceOnboarding feature toggle.

When you start your journey to create a dashboard or explore your data, but you don’t have a data source connected yet, you’ll be shown a page that guides you to set up a first connection.

Administrators can choose between selecting one of the most popular data sources or viewing the entire list. Editors are guided to contact their administrator to configure data sources. In both cases, there’s also an option to continue without setting up a data source and to use sample data instead.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana.

We’ve updated the Details section of a log line. Previously some of the interactions, such as filtering, showing statistics, or toggling the visibility were split across Labels and Detected fields. With the recent changes those two sections are combined and the interactions are available for all fields.

Learn more about viewing logs in our Logs panel documentation.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana.

We added support to validate queries and visually display errors as a query is being written, without having to execute it to receive this feedback. This feature supports single and multi-line queries, with and without variables.

Learn more about viewing logs in our Logs panel documentation.

Generally available in all editions of Grafana.

For Loki metric queries in Explore, you can now see the sample of log lines that contributed to the displayed results. To see these logs, click on the collapsed Logs sample panel under your graph or table panel. If you want to interact with your log lines or modify the log query, click on the “Open logs in split view” button and the log query will be executed in the split view.

We have added a configuration option that enables you to require an expiration date limit for all newly created service account tokens.

This change will not affect existing tokens. However, newly created tokens will require an expiration date that doesn’t exceed the configuration option token_expiration_day_limit. This option is disabled by default.

Learn more about service accounts in our Service account documentation.

While Grafana integrates with many different auth providers, we have received requests for a feature that enables you to bypass organization role synchronization for individual providers rather than for all configured providers. This option is now available for users who want to be able to use Grafana to manage their org roles.

This option enables you to skip synchronization from your configured OAuth provider specifically in the auth provider section under skip_org_role_sync. Previously users could only do this for certain providers using the oauth_skip_org_role_sync_update option, but this would include all of the configured providers.

Learn more about Oauth in our Oauth configuration guide.

We’re rolling out RBAC support to Grafana plugins, with Grafana OnCall being the first plugin to fully support RBAC. Previously, Grafana OnCall relied on the Grafana basic roles (for example, Viewer, Editor, and Admin) for authorization within the plugin.

Before RBAC support in Grafana OnCall, it was only possible to allow your organization’s users to either view everything, edit everything, or be an admin (which allowed edit access plus a few additional behaviors). With this new functionality, organizations will be able to harness fine-grained access control within Grafana OnCall.

For example, you can assign a Viewer basic role to a user in your organization (users must still have a basic role assigned) and also assign them the new Grafana OnCall RBAC role of Schedules Editor. This assignment enables the user to view everything in Grafana OnCall, and edit OnCall schedules.

Learn more about role-based access control in our RBAC docs.

We’ve added auto-login support for SAML authentication, which you can turn on with the auto_login configuration option. We also have a unified configuration style among all authentication providers. Instead of using oauth_auto_login, use the new auto_login option to enable automatic login for specific OAuth providers.

Learn more about SAML setup in our SAML configuration guide.

We’ve made the following changes to alert rules.

We’ve made the following changes to alert contact points.

We’ve improved the design and functionality of email templates to make template creation much easier and more customizable. The email template framework utilizes MJML to define and compile the final email HTML output. Sprig functions in the email templates provide more customizable template functions.

We’ve made the following changes to alert administration.

We’ve added support for many new query types, including: SLO/SLI Values, RUM data, Events, and monitor group status.

We’ve updated the Metric Selector to be faster and added support for filtering by management zone. We’ve also added support for Log Queries and querying the Dynatrace audit log.

We’ve added support for many new query types, including: Audit events, Users, Merge request approvals, Field tags, Environments, and Pipelines.

We’ve added support for derived columns and Honeycomb Environments.

We’ve added support for trace search, log search, and support for NRQL histogram queries.

We’ve added support for JWT authentication.

We’ve added support for custom session parameters.