Documentation Grafana Cloud What's new in Grafana Cloud Infinity data source can pass Grafana meta data to APIs via headers and query parameters

Infinity data source can pass Grafana meta data to APIs via headers and query parameters

The Infinity data source plugin now allows passing Grafana metadata—such as user ID and data source UID—to underlying APIs as headers or query parameters. This gives data source admins more control over how metadata is shared with external APIs.

Admins can configure these settings at the data source level, ensuring that metadata is passed consistently while preventing users from overriding values in individual queries. Since different APIs require metadata in different formats, this feature offers flexibility in how values are forwarded.

To maintain security and compatibility, metadata is only handled at the backend and is not automatically forwarded in headers. Additionally, this does not rely on Grafana’s global send_user_header setting, allowing per-instance configuration.