Business intelligence plugins for Grafana: A support update

In January, we announced that Grafana Labs had assumed maintenance of the business intelligence (BI) plugins created by Volkov Labs, and committed to a six-month maintenance period. 

Today, we’re sharing an update: we're extending our maintenance commitment through the end of 2026. As announced earlier this year, that commitment includes maintaining compatibility with recent Grafana releases while handling bug fixes, security updates, and community contributions on a best-effort basis.

We want to be transparent about why we’re extending the maintenance period, what we've learned over the past several months, and how we're thinking about support going forward.

A quick look back—and where things stand

In September 2025, our longtime partner Volkov Labs announced they had been acquired. In light of the news, we committed in January 2026 to taking over the maintenance and development of their popular BI plugin suite to ensure continuity for the Grafana community. 

Since then, we've made significant progress on the priorities we outlined in January:

• Compatibility: The plugins have been brought up to date with Grafana 13 and React 19—the core engineering work for the maintenance window is largely complete.
• Bug fixes and community PRs: We've continued to triage issues and review community contributions on a best-effort basis.
• Security: We've continued to monitor and respond to first- and third-party vulnerabilities.

What we've heard from you

Over the past several weeks we've been meeting directly with customers and solutions architects who rely on these plugins. The goal was simple: understand how and why you use them before we make any decisions about their future.

What we've learned has been genuinely valuable. Many organizations use plugins like Business Charts, Business Variable, and Business Text to go above and beyond what core Grafana panels can do, building highly specialized, persona-specific visualizations tailored to industry verticals, proprietary data, and even custom physical environments (think dashboards designed to be legible on large displays from across a room). 

For these users, the value isn't just in the plugins themselves, but in their ability to customize panels to meet their unique needs. 

Extending the support window

As noted above, we're extending the current maintenance commitment through the end of 2026. This gives us time to keep listening to how you use these plugins, and to evaluate the right long-term support for each one. 

We'll share more concrete plans as they take shape, and communicate any changes proactively. No plugin will be removed or have support reduced without advance notice.

A note on custom code and support scope

Because several of these plugins let you write your own JavaScript, we want to set clear, honest expectations about what "supported" means.

Grafana Labs support covers the plugins themselves—their documented behavior, the stable APIs they expose, and bugs in the code we maintain. It does not extend to debugging user-provided code added to the editor of a panel plugin. User-provided code in the panel editors can break between Grafana versions, and we're not able to guarantee or troubleshoot it on your behalf.

As we firm up the roadmap, improving the documented extension points—so you can achieve the customization you need on a more stable foundation—is a key part of the conversation. We'll provide updates once those decisions are made.

How to reach us and share feedback

• Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise users: Please contact Grafana Labs support with any questions. 
• Grafana OSS users: Please use the community forums, the plugin GitHub repositories, or the Community Slack channels.

If these plugins are important to your workflows, we'd especially love to hear from you while the roadmap is still taking shape. Your input will directly influence where this goes next.