What’s new in Grafana v13.1

You can now import a dashboard JSON straight into a Git Sync–provisioned folder. From the folder’s browse view, hit Import and Grafana will route you through a provisioned import flow: pick the file path, branch, commit message, and workflow, and the dashboard gets committed back to your repository as part of the import.

Git Sync now supports syncing a repository to the top level of your Grafana instance, with no parent folder. Pick Sync at root level without a containing folder in the setup wizard and your provisioned dashboards land at the root, alongside everything else, instead of being scoped under a single folder.

Git Sync provisioned folders now render their README.md inline below the dashboards list, out of the box. Add a README.md next to your dashboards in the repo and it shows up in Grafana: context, links, ownership notes, runbooks, whatever your team needs sitting alongside the dashboards.

Git Sync now signs commits with your user’s signing key, so Git providers mark them as Verified. GPG, SSH, and S/MIME keys are all supported. Configure a signing key on the repository, and every commit Git Sync makes to your branch is signed automatically.

Earlier this year, we introduced multi-property variables in public preview for Grafana OSS and Enterprise (and generally available in Grafana Cloud). Now, this feature is generally available in Grafana OSS and Enterprise.

The Time series to table transformation is now generally available. Convert time series query results into table rows containing a trend field, then display them as sparklines with the sparkline cell type—useful for building compact at-a-glance overviews across many series.

Recently, we introduced several improvements to annotations to make them easier to explore, navigate, and manage at scale, including annotations clustering and indicator controls. These changes were introduced in public preview and now they are generally available.

The copy and paste panel styles feature we announced in April 2026 is now generally available in all editions of Grafana. Copy display options and field styling from one panel and paste them onto another panel of the same type—without duplicating panels or reconfiguring options manually.

Quick filters and grouping are now generally available in Grafana!

The new Filter and Group by dashboard control makes it faster and easier to explore data by combining filtering and grouping in a single, intuitive experience. With default filters, recent filter history, a unified filters overview, and panel-level drilldowns, users can investigate data faster while keeping dashboards clean and easy to navigate.

The panel styles we introduced earlier this year are now generally available in all editions of Grafana. Apply curated colors, thresholds, and display options to time series, stat, gauge, bar gauge, and bar chart panels with a single click in the panel editor.

The table visualization’s nested rows feature has gotten some significant upgrades: a redesigned editor for the Group to nested tables transformation and the ability to apply field overrides to fields inside nested sub-tables.

When a time series panel renders a long list of series, finding the ones you care about often means editing the query or scanning a crowded legend. The new Series visibility filter in the time series visualization lets you narrow visible series interactively— by name, by label, or both— without touching the underlying query.

Earlier this year we announced the addition of section-level variables for rows and tabs. This feature is now generally available.

If your dashboard includes both an API gateway and a database, changing something like an $instance variable affects all panels at once. To avoid this, you might have to split services across separate dashboards, which defeats the goal of having a unified view.

With the new dashboarding experience now generally available, we’ve introduced a series of UI enhancements that make dashboard creation and editing more discoverable, consistent, and easier to navigate.

The revamped query editor experience is now in public preview. Since the initial private preview release, we’ve continued to refine the experience and added two new capabilities to help you work with complex panels even faster: multi-select with bulk actions and a stacked view.

Starting with Grafana 13.1, Grafana Assistant comes pre-installed in Grafana Enterprise, with no plugin installation required. If you’re a Grafana Enterprise user, simply connect your Grafana Cloud account to start using Assistant right away. Get onboarded quicker, explore telemetry data, build dashboards, and get things done faster using natural language.

This builds on our vision of Assistant as an “anywhere agent” and our ongoing efforts to expand access to our purpose-built LLM, including to self-managed Grafana users.

Private Data Source Connect (PDC) adds support for three new data sources: MQTT, GitHub, and IBM Db2.

PDC creates a private, encrypted tunnel between your Grafana Cloud stack and data sources running inside private networks, VPCs, or on-premises environments. No public endpoint required.