What's next from Grafana Labs

What's next from Grafana Labs

This page lists upcoming breaking changes, behavior changes, deprecations, and end of life for Grafana Labs products. The rollout date on each note indicates when the change is planned to take effect in Grafana Cloud. The targeted release indicates when the change is likely to take effect in the self-managed version. For information about upcoming features, refer to the Grafana ideas portal.

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Parca data source: support ends January 2, 2027

Deprecation notice
Open Source Enterprise Data sources Breaking change Profiles
Announcement
2026-08-21
Planned rollout in Cloud
2027-01-02
Targeted self-managed release
No self-managed release

The Parca data source is deprecated. The plugin moves into a critical-security-updates-only phase: it keeps receiving critical security fixes, but no new features or non-security bug fixes. Support ends January 2, 2027.


Kubernetes Monitoring will give AI agents access to its queries

Behavior change
Kubernetes Monitoring AI
Announcement
2026-08-04
Planned rollout in Cloud
Kubernetes Monitoring, release to be confirmed
Targeted self-managed release
No self-managed release

Kubernetes Monitoring will let you give an AI agent access to the queries behind its own pages, such as the ones that count Nodes, total the CPU used by a namespace, and calculate cost. A new AI agent access tab in the Configuration page will hold a prompt you copy into your agent’s configuration.


gcx v1.0.0: command renames, config file format changes, opt-out usage statistics

Breaking change
Open Source Enterprise AI
Announcement
2026-07-28
Planned rollout in Cloud
2026-07-28
Targeted self-managed release
Grafana v13.0.0

If you upgrade gcx from v0.4.x or earlier, there are breaking changes to be aware of:

1. Commands are renamed across many providers, with no aliases. Old spellings fail as unknown commands. Behaviour, flags, positional arguments, output schemas, and exit codes are unchanged, only the names moved. The aim is to make a more predictable and understandable command surface. Here are all the changes:


The Team API now returns richer team context

Breaking change
Open Source Enterprise Authentication and authorization
Announcement
2026-07-07
Planned rollout in Cloud
2026-07-30
Targeted self-managed release
Grafana v13.2.0

The new Grafana Team API will return richer team context. When you query a team through the new API, the response will include the team’s members and its external group mappings as part of the Team resource itself, so a single call will give you a complete picture of the team.