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title: "Grafana Enterprise Metrics v2.16 release notes | Grafana Enterprise Metrics documentation"
description: "Release notes for Grafana Enterprise Metrics version 2.16."
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# Version 2.16 release notes

Grafana Labs is excited to announce the release of Grafana Enterprise Metrics (GEM) 2.16, which is built on top of Grafana Mimir 2.16.

GEM 2.16 inherits all the features, enhancements, and bug fixes that are in the Grafana Mimir 2.16 release. Given this, it’s best to start with the [Grafana Mimir 2.16 release notes](/docs/mimir/latest/release-notes/v2.16/).

## Features and enhancements

Grafana Enterprise Metrics 2.16 adds support for partial queries to cross-cluster query federation. It also including the following changes:

- Cross-cluster query federation: increase default proxy target timeout to two minutes. This brings it into line with other similar timeouts such as `-querier.timeout`.

## Upgrade considerations

This release also inherits the [upgrade considerations](/docs/mimir/latest/release-notes/v2.16/#important-changes) from the Grafana Mimir 2.16 release.

After you upgrade to GEM 2.16, upgrade your [GEM plugin](/grafana/plugins/grafana-metrics-enterprise-app/) to the latest version. For more information about the most recent enhancements and bug fixes in the GEM plugin, see the [Grafana Enterprise Metrics: Changelog](/grafana/plugins/grafana-metrics-enterprise-app/?tab=changelog).

## Deprecations

- Admin API: Deprecate `-admin-api.limits.enabled` and default to `false` in preparation for removal. You should change this to true if you want to continue using the Admin API for limits management.
- Remove experimental Datadog proxy.

## Bug fixes

- Cross-cluster query federation: querying exemplars would fail with a misleading `no cluster name provided` error. It will now return `cross-cluster query federation does not support querying exemplars`.

### v2.16.0

- Update base image for `grafana/enterprise-metrics-alpine` image to `alpine:3.21.2`.
- Remove the images `grafana/enterprise-metrics-alpine`, `grafana/enterprise-metrics-boringcrypto-alpine`.

### v2.16.1

- Update to Go v1.23.9 to address [CVE-2025-22871](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22871).
- Update `golang.org/x/net` to v0.38.0 to address [CVE-2025-22872](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22872).
- Query-frontend: Fix a panic in monolithic mode caused by a clash in labels of the `cortex_client_invalid_cluster_validation_label_requests_total` metric definition.

### v2.16.2

- Update Go from v1.23.9 to v1.23.12 to address CVEs.
- Update Alpine from v3.21.3 to v3.21.5.