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What’s new in Grafana Cloud
Welcome to Grafana Cloud! Read on to learn about the newest changes to Grafana Cloud.
Distributed tracing in Grafana Cloud k6
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
You can now use the Grafana Cloud Traces integration with Grafana Cloud k6 to quickly debug failed performance tests and proactively improve application reliability.
Distributed tracing in Grafana Cloud k6 only requires two things:
- An application instrumented for tracing with Grafana Cloud Traces.
- Adding a few lines of code to your existing k6 scripts.
The integration works by having k6 inject tracing metadata into the requests it sends to your backend services when you run a test. The tracing data is then correlated with k6 test run data, so you can understand how your services and operations behaved during the whole test run. The collected tracing data is aggregated to generate real-time metrics—such as frequency of calls, error rates, and percentile latencies—that can help you narrow your search space and quickly spot anomalies.
To learn more, refer to the Integration with Grafana Cloud Traces documentation and Distributed Tracing in Grafana Cloud k6 blog post.
Tenant database instance name and number for SAP HANA® data source
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
The SAP HANA® data source now supports tenant databases connections by using the database name and/or instance number. For more information, refer to SAP HANA® configuration.
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Log aggregation for Datadog data source
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
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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API throttling for Datadog data source
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
The Datadog data source supports blocking API requests based on upstream rate limits (for metric queries). 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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Query-type template variables for Tempo data source
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
The Tempo data source now supports query-type template variables. With this update, you can create variables for which the values are a list of attribute names or attribute values seen on spans received by Tempo.
To learn more, refer to the following video demo, as well as the Grafana Variables documentation.
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Improved TraceQL query editor
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
The TraceQL query editor has been improved to facilitate the creation of TraceQL queries. In particular, it now features improved autocompletion, syntax highlighting, and error reporting.
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Grafana OnCall integration for Alerting
Generally available in Grafana Cloud
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.
New browse dashboards view
Available in public preview in Grafana Cloud
We are gradually rolling out our new browse dashboards user interface. With this new feature, we removed the General folder, and dashboards now sit at the root level. The feature also provides easier editing functionality, as well as faster search renders.
To learn more, refer to the following video demo.
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Temporary credentials in CloudWatch data source
Available in private preview in Grafana Cloud
The Grafana Assume Role authentication provider lets Grafana Cloud users of the CloudWatch data source authenticate with AWS without having to create and maintain long term AWS Users. Using the new assume role authentication method, you no longer have to rotate access and secret keys in your CloudWatch data source. Instead, Grafana Cloud users can create an identity access and management (IAM) role that has a trust relationship with Grafana's AWS account; Grafana's AWS account will then use AWS Secure Token Service (STS) to create temporary credentials to access the user's AWS data.
To learn more, refer to the CloudWatch authentication documentation.