What's new in Grafana v12 on Grafana Labs

What's new in Grafana v12.4

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:15:37 +0000

What’s new in Grafana v12.4

Welcome to Grafana 12.4!

This release doubles down on dashboard automation and Git-powered workflows while delivering a range of polish and usability improvements.

The headline is improved dashboard productivity: Dynamic dashboards and template-driven workflows make it far easier to create, reuse, and operate dashboards at scale. Create dashboards from templates, map one variable to multiple values, apply regular expression transforms to variable values or display text, and benefit from smarter visualization suggestions and an updated gauge panel that help surface the right view for your data. At the same time, Git Sync is now available in public preview, providing a smooth Git-backed workflow to keep dashboards in source control and enable safer, auditable changes to dashboard content. These two areas together are aimed at speeding up development, improving consistency, and making dashboard CI/CD practical for teams.

Beyond dashboards, this version includes improvements across the product: Logs and Logs Drilldown get better default columns and save/resume log explorations, data sources receive sensible new defaults and expanded support, SCIM provisioning simplifies user and team management, short URLs are now persistent, and a small set of breaking changes and storage migration enhancements help ensure long-term manageability.

For even more detail about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog. For the specific steps we recommend when you upgrade to v12.4, check out our Upgrade Guide.

What's new in Grafana v12.3

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:15:37 +0000

What’s new in Grafana v12.3

Welcome to Grafana 12.3!

This release reimagines how you explore logs, delivers more ways to connect your data, and enables more intuitive sharing, so you can spend less time navigating tools and more time turning signals into action. It starts with a completely redesigned logs panel that brings faster pattern recognition, clearer context, and a smoother exploration experience. We’ve also expanded what you can do with new data sources and query improvements, from SolarWinds Enterprise to advanced Honeycomb and OpenSearch capabilities.

Sharing insights is easier too, with streamlined dashboard image exports and consolidated panel time controls that make comparisons and overrides more intuitive. And to help you learn as you go, a new interactive learning experience now brings contextual guidance directly into Grafana, giving you tips, tutorials, and documentation right when you need them. All of this comes together to make open observability easier, more accessible, and more powerful for every team.

For even more detail about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog. For the specific steps we recommend when you upgrade to v12.3, check out our Upgrade Guide.

What's new in Grafana v12.2

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:15:37 +0000

What’s new in Grafana v12.2

Welcome to Grafana 12.2! This release focuses on making it easier to gain insights from your data.

We’re excited to announce several features are now GA. Enhanced ad hoc filtering transforms your dashboards into true command centers, allowing you to slice and dice datasets on the fly. The redesigned table visualization offers improved performance and visual aids for quick pattern and anomaly identification, helping you make faster decisions. The Logs Drilldown JSON viewer makes intimidating log structures organized and explorable. Metrics Drilldown now integrates with alert creation in Grafana, so you can explore Prometheus data with intuitive point-and-click interactions, find the right visualization, and easily use its query in your alert rule.

We’re also collecting feedback on some new public preview features. AI-powered SQL expressions eliminate the barrier between questions and answers by generating SQL queries from natural language and providing instant explanations for existing queries. Our enhanced Canvas Pan and Zoom experience lets you design complex dashboards exactly as you envision them.

Keep reading to learn more about everything 12.2 has in store.

For even more detail about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog. For the specific steps we recommend when you upgrade to v12.2, check out our Upgrade Guide.

What's new in Grafana v12.1

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:15:37 +0000

What’s new in Grafana v12.1

It’s 12.1 time! We’re really excited about GA for a new alert rule page that makes it easier to find what you need quickly, as well as the regression analysis transformation, helping you predict future data values or estimate missing data points that might not be exactly represented in the original dataset. Also, visualization actions now support custom variables. When triggered, actions prompt you to input whatever custom variable was defined, allowing you to tailor requests in real time without modifying dashboard configuration. This is super helpful for when you’re triggering alerts, filtering API calls, or sending user-defined parameters to external systems. And you can try out Grafana Advisor, which automatically detects plugin, data source, and SSO issues, keeping your Grafana instance healthy and secure.

Speaking of security, Grafana now supports Entra Workload Identity, simplifying OAuth and increasing security for instances using Microsoft Azure. Thanks to community contributor mehighlow for this feature!

We have one more community contributor to thank for this release. Chris Hodges delivered server-configurable quick time ranges for dashboards. Now you can define custom time range presets for the time picker on dashboards, perfect for teams that routinely analyze specific, context-driven time windows.

Keep reading to learn about what else we have in store for 12.1.

For even more detail about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog. For the specific steps we recommend when you upgrade to v12.1, check out our Upgrade Guide.

What's new in Grafana v12.0

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:15:37 +0000

What’s new in Grafana v12.0

Welcome to Grafana 12.0! We have a lot to share. This release marks general availability for Grafana Drilldown (previously Explore Metrics, Logs, and Traces), Grafana-managed alerts and recording rules, Cloud migration, and plugin management tooling. You can also try new preview and experimental tools: Sync your dashboards directly to a GitHub repository with Git Sync, and try our new Terraform provider and CLI. Add tabs, new layouts and conditional logic to your dashboards, and load tables and geomaps far faster. Join and transform data limitlessly from multiple sources with SQL Expressions. In Grafana Cloud and Enterprise, sync your users and teams instantly from your SAML identity provider using SCIM (the System for Cross-Domain Identity Management). Lastly, don’t forget to try on one of several new color themes for the user interface.

Read on to learn about these and more improvements to Grafana!

For even more detail about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog. For the specific steps we recommend when you upgrade to v12.0, check out our Upgrade Guide.

Breaking changes in Grafana v12.0

For Grafana v12.0, we’ve also provided a list of breaking changes to help you upgrade with greater confidence. For our purposes, a breaking change is any change that requires users or operators to do something. This includes:

Changes in one part of the system that could cause other components to fail
Deprecations or removal of a feature
Changes to an API that could break automation
Changes that affect some plugins or functions of Grafana
Migrations that can’t be rolled back

For each change, the provided information:

Helps you determine if you’re affected
Describes the change or relevant background information
Guides you in how to mitigate for the change or migrate
Provides more learning resources