What’s new in Grafana v12.2

Grafana SQL Expressions, Grafana’s solution for manipulating and transforming the results of data source queries using SQL (MySQL dialect) syntax, is now available in Public Preview.

We’ve improved the general experience by providing a more intuitive editor that supports better formatting, quick copying, easy expansion, and a shortcut to instantly run your queries.

In May 2025, we refactored the table visualization to use the react-data-grid library, resulting in significant performance improvements. We released this in public preview. Now, this version of the table is generally available, and along with that, we’ve made a number of improvements, big and small. We’ve added the following options:

• Cell types, Pill and Markdown + HTML
• Wrap header text
• Frozen columns - Freeze as many columns as you want, starting from the left side of the table.
• Max row height - This is helpful when you apply text wrapping to one or more columns, which can significantly increase the height of a cell.
• Tooltip from field - Render the content from one cell as the tooltip for another cell.

We’ve also added new functionality to the table footer, significantly improved its display, and streamlined the configuration process.

The Tooltip from field option in table visualizations allows you to use the values from another field (or column) in a tooltip.

When you toggle the switch on, you can select from a drop-down list any of the fields in the table to be used as the source of the tooltip content. All table fields are available for selection, whether visible or hidden.

The table footer displays the results of calculations (and reducer functions) on fields. We’ve updated the footer so that you can apply multiple calculations or reducers simultaneously:

In the panel editor, you can see that the Calculation option now allows you to select multiple calculations at once:

You can now choose to enable or disable tooltips in canvas visualizations. The Tooltip mode setting controls the display of tooltips when hovering over elements in a canvas that are connected to data, data links, or actions.

Additionally, you can now use the Disable for one-click elements option to selectively hide tooltips on elements that have one-click functionality enabled. This enhancement prevents tooltips from interfering with one-click interactions while still allowing tooltips on other elements.

You can now define additional static options for query variables to be included with the options retrieved by querying the data source. This affords you more flexibility, allowing you to create options like “value not set” or “all clusters in Asia”.

You can now control the direction of connections between canvas elements by mapping the direction to a field value. A positive value draws the connection arrow forward, a negative value draws it in reverse, and a value of zero removes the directional arrow entirely. Alternatively, you can assign a fixed direction value.

This is especially useful for visualizing real-time data flows, system states, or transitions, where directionality changes based on metrics.

The canvas visualization editor now offers a completely re-engineered pan and zoom experience.

You can now place elements anywhere—even beyond panel edges—without disrupting connections or layouts. Background images stay consistent, connection anchors rotate with elements, and an optional Zoom to content toggle automatically fits your canvas content to any view. Constraints remain intact thanks to a transparent root container, ensuring layout behavior stays reliable across pan and zoom operations.

Constraint system support

Visualization actions now support authenticated HTTP requests by integrating with the Infinity data source. This lets you perform actions that require authentication by leveraging preconfigured Infinity data source connections.

Previously, actions could only make direct HTTP requests from the browser, which are subject to CORS restrictions, significantly limiting their usefulness.

Because Ad Hoc filters can’t be reliably implemented on SQL data sources, we’re introducing a new way forward. Starting with this release, you can now query a dataset from a first panel using a SQL data source, then build the rest of your dashboard on top of that dataset - and use Ad Hoc filters to drill into it.

This is enabled by two key enhancements:

• Dashboard data source support - You can now define Ad Hoc Filters in dashboards that use the -- Dashboard -- data source.
• Set filters from the Bar Chart tooltip - Previously, setting Ad Hoc Filter values was only possible on Table visualizations. Now, you can do this from the Bar Chart as well.

With this release, we’re rethinking our dashboard APIs and making the default a new model that is consistent, versioned, and resource-oriented. 

We started the rollout in May. Since then, we’ve gathered feedback, measured impact, and improved testing. We’re now confident the APIs are stable and have made them the default.

We’ve redesigned the Reporting feature to make the report creation process simpler and more intuitive!

Key updates include:

• Creating reports from dashboards while maintaining dashboard context
• One-page report creation
• Easy access to organization report settings

The Jenkins data source allows you to query and visualize metrics such as projects, builds, build queues, nodes and load statistics from within Grafana.

This enterprise plugin includes two built-in dashboards to help you quickly get started visualizing Jenkins data:

• Jenkins Overview dashboard provides an overview of the Jenkins instance, including all projects, nodes, executor status and build queue.
• Jenkins DORA Metrics dashboard provides information on four key metrics used to assess software development team performance: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate and time to restore service. These metrics focus on both the speed and stability of software delivery.

The Google Sheets data source just got more powerful! Our 2.2.0 release adds support for template variables, making it easier to build interactive and adaptable dashboards directly from your spreadsheets.

Imagine you have a spreadsheet with sales data for different regions. With template variables, you can add a drop-down menu to your dashboard that lets users select a specific region. The dashboard automatically updates to show only the data for that region.

The Azure Monitor resource picker has been revamped to better support users with large Azure estates.

The key changes are support for filtering and the ability to browse recent resources

We’ve introduced the ability to save queries in Dashboards and Explore! With this addition, you can save and reuse queries, as well as share them with others in your organization.

From Dashboards and Explore, save custom queries:

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of the Logs Drilldown JSON viewer in Grafana v11.6 and later! 🚀

The Logs Drilldown JSON viewer provides you a log line viewer specifically created to make it easier to read and understand your JSON log data.

Creating effective alert rules often requires knowing exactly what query to write upfront. But sometimes you need to explore your data first — understanding how metrics behave across different label combinations, spotting patterns, and building confidence in your monitoring approach before committing to an alert rule.

The Solution:

Metrics Drilldown integration brings visual data exploration directly into alert creation. Launch from your alert rule editor into Grafana’s queryless Metrics Drilldown experience, where you can “quickly find related metrics with just a few simple clicks, without needing to write a PromQL query.” Explore your Prometheus data through intuitive point-and-click interactions, visualize how metrics break down across labels, and leverage “smart segmentation” with “optimal chart types selected automatically.” When you discover the perfect visualization, click through to Explore to grab the underlying query and use it in your alert rule.

What Makes This Special:

Translate your plugin

Internationalization of plugins is here! You can now make your plugin more user-friendly by translating it into multiple languages. You can find the list of available languages in GitHub, and  how to translate plugins in our docs page. For Microsoft users, we’ve added translations to MS SQL and Azure Monitor data sources.

Introducing the SCIM Configuration UI in Grafana.

We recently announced SCIM for user and group provisioning in Grafana, and now we’re excited to announce that SCIM configuration is easy with the SCIM Configuration UI. Here you can easily toggle SCIM configuration options without restarting your instance, find information like your Tenant URL, Domain, and Stack ID for configuring SCIM in your IdP, and learn how to create a service account and token with the correct permissions.