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A feast of new features. A cornucopia of new capabilities. A banquet of breakthroughs (and the T-day puns are just getting started). Graylog 7.0 brings a full plate of advancements that help security teams cut through noise, control cloud costs, and respond with confidence. We’re serving practical improvements across dashboards, automation, and AI support so analysts can focus on action instead of manual effort.

GraphQL isn’t just another API protocol—it’s a new layer of abstraction. It collapsed dozens of REST endpoints into one flexible interface where clients decide what data to fetch and how deep to go. That freedom is a gift for front-end teams and a headache for anyone tasked with reliability. Traditional monitoring doesn’t work here. A REST endpoint can be pinged for uptime.

In 2022, we introduced Grafana Mimir, our open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB) designed for long-term storage of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. Over the years, Mimir has become a go-to metrics backend within the open source community, with 30 project maintainers and more than 4.7k GitHub stars.

IT infrastructure is vast, complex, and interdependent. At any point in time, businesses rely on thousands of servers running thousands of processes. Detecting server downtime is fairly easy—but true observability is when you know precisely which processes are working as intended and which are silently contributing to performance degradation. A failed database worker or a memory-leaking background service can silently drain resources until your most critical apps grind to a halt.

We're excited to announce one of our most frequently requested features: inverted DNS checks. This new capability allows you to detect when DNS records are created (whether they're planned infrastructure changes or rogue records) and prevent unwanted values from appearing in your DNS configuration.