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Date Published
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Kristin Knapp
Word count
1356
Language
English
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Summary

Grafana Cloud has introduced several updates and new features aimed at enhancing user experience and expanding its capabilities. This includes new data visualization options like pagination in state timelines and enhanced transformations, allowing more dynamic and insightful data manipulations. Grafana Cloud k6 has seen improvements in performance testing, with features like exporting browser test results to dashboards, integrating into CI/CD pipelines with new GitHub actions, and implementing role-based access control for more precise user permissions. A centralized view of alert history now allows users to track alert events comprehensively, aiding in trend analysis and debugging. In Kubernetes monitoring, users can now view energy usage metrics, enhancing insights into infrastructure efficiency. The introduction of native histograms in Prometheus offers higher resolution and simpler instrumentation for data analysis. Grafana Cloud has also updated its integration lineup, adding support for platforms like VMware vSphere and Alloy Health, while expanding its catalog of Enterprise data source plugins. A new public roadmap for data source plugins is now available, encouraging community engagement and feedback on Grafana's development plans.