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Grafana 13.3 release: manage variables across dashboards, share findings with Notebooks, a UI refresh, and more

Grafana 13.3 is here, bringing more consistency and control to how you work across Grafana. Cross-dashboard variables help you manage shared dashboard controls from one place, while Notebooks let you capture and share findings from across Grafana in a single, editable document. You'll also get a first look at Grafana's biggest visual refresh since Grafana 7, along with new ways to guide and refine dashboards built with Grafana Assistant.

Datadog named a Leader in the Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026

Datadog has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026. We believe this placement reflects Datadog’s commitment to transforming observability into autonomous operations with a single integrated platform where AI agents detect, investigate, and remediate production issues, while engineers stay in control. Close dialog.

Elastic is a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave for AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026

Open architecture, explainable AI, and full context Elastic was named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: AIOps Platforms, Q4 2026, which evaluated 10 providers across 24 criteria. Forrester gave Elastic the highest possible scores in five criteria: algorithmic trust and explainability, observability as code (OaC) and GitOps alignment, AI stack and semantic observability, sovereign deployment and data isolation, and pricing flexibility and transparency.

Meet the new Explore: every question, one place

From the first alert to the root cause, without leaving the page. TL;DR: Investigating an incident is a series of quick questions, each one leading to the next. Until now, Explore made you stop between questions to translate them into syntax, switch modes or rebuild a chart. The new Explore lets you go straight from one question to the next: one workspace, any dataset, any team, any way you like to ask. Here’s what that looks like on a real night on call.

Nexthink Named a Leader in Forrester Wave DEXM Solutions 2026

Dear Nexthink community, Nexthink has been named a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave for Digital Employee Experience Management Solutions. I am incredibly proud to share this recognition with our customers, partners, and every Nexthinker whose commitment and ambition have brought us here. As a founder, this recognition is particularly meaningful.

Introducing Ergo: explainable policies on OPA

When an auditor tests a control, they ask two questions about each change: was the control met, and what evidence shows how that result was reached? Most automated controls can answer the first. A Rego policy returns allow: true or allow: false, but says nothing about what it checked. Engineers can hand-write violation messages to explain a failure, but a passing check leaves no record at all. When an auditor asks how a change passed, someone has to reconstruct the answer.