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Release notes for Grafana 8.3.11

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.11

Features and enhancements

Rendering: Add support for renderer token (#54425). #54436, @joanlopez

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.6

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.6

Features and enhancements

Cloud Monitoring: Reduce request size when listing labels. #44365, @mtanda
Explore: Show scalar data result in a table instead of graph. #44362, @tharun208
Snapshots: Updates the default external snapshot server URL. #44563, @DanCech
Table: Makes footer not overlap table content. #44210, @dprokop
Tempo: Add request histogram to service graph datalink. #44671, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Add time range to tempo search query behind a feature flag. #43811, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Auto-clear results when changing query type. #44390, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Display start time in search results as relative time. #44568, @tharun208

Bug fixes

CloudMonitoring: Fix resource labels in query editor. #44550, @iwysiu
Cursor sync: Apply the settings without saving the dashboard. #44270, @dprokop
LibraryPanels: Fix for Error while cleaning library panels. #45033, @hugohaggmark
Logs Panel: fix timestamp parsing for string dates without timezone. #44664, @Elfo404
Prometheus: Fix some of the alerting queries that use reduce/math operation. #44380, @ivanahuckova
TablePanel: Fix ad-hoc variables not working on default datasources. #44314, @joshhunt
Text Panel: Fix alignment of elements. #44313, @ashharrison90
Variables: Fix for constant variables in self referencing links. #44631, @hugohaggmark

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.7

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.3.7

Bug fixes

Provisioning: Ensure that the default value for orgID is set when provisioning datasources to be deleted. #44244, @filewalkwithme

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0

Features and enhancements

API: Extract OpenAPI specification from source code using go-swagger. #40528, @papagian
AccessControl: Disable user remove and user update roles when they do not have the permissions. #43429, @Jguer
AccessControl: Provisioning for teams. #43767, @gamab
API: Add usage stats preview endpoint. #43899, @Jguer
Alerting: Move slow queries in the scheduler to another goroutine. #44423, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Use time.Ticker instead of alerting.Ticker in ngalert. #44395, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: add custom grouping to Alert Panel. #44559, @gillesdemey
Analytics: Add user id tracking to google analytics. #42763, @autoric
Angular: Add AngularJS plugin support deprecation plan to docs site. #45149, @torkelo
Auth: implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. #43502, @sakjur
Azure Monitor Logs: Order subscriptions in resource picker by name. #45228, @sunker
Azure monitor Logs: Optimize data fetching in resource picker. #44549, @sunker
AzureMonitor: Filter list of resources by resourceType. #43522, @andresmgot
BarChart: color by field, x time field, bar radius, label skipping. #43257, @leeoniya
Chore: Implement OpenTelemetry in Grafana. #42674, @idafurjes
Cloud Monitoring: Adds metric type to Metric drop down options. #43268, @tw1nk
CloudWatch: Add Data Lifecycle Manager metrics and dimension. #43310, @ilyastoli
CloudWatch: Add Missing Elasticache Host-level metrics. #43455, @dhendo
CloudWatch: Add all ElastiCache Redis Metrics. #43336, @siavashs
CloudWatch: Add new AWS/ES metrics. #43034, @sunker
Cloudwatch: Add syntax highlighting and autocomplete for “Metric Search”. #43985, @sarahzinger
Explore: Support custom display label for exemplar links for Prometheus datasource. #42732, @JokerQueue
Hotkeys: Make time range absolute/permanent. #43802, @davkal
Playlists: Enable sharing direct links to playlists. #44161, @ashharrison90
SQLStore: Prevent concurrent migrations. #44101, @papagian
SSE: Add Mode to drop NaN/Inf/Null in Reduction operations. #43583, @kylebrandt
Setting: Support configuring feature toggles with bools instead of just passing an array. #43326, @bergquist
TimeSeries: Add support for negative Y and constant transform. #44774, @dprokop
Transformations: Add ‘JSON’ field type to ConvertFieldTypeTransformer. #42624, @sd2k

Bug fixes

Auth: Guarantee consistency of signed SigV4 headers. #45054, @wbrowne
CloudWatch: Fix MetricName resetting on Namespace change. #44165, @yaelleC
Cloudwatch : Fixed resetting metric name when changing namespace in Metric Query. #44612, @yaelleC
Explore: Avoid locking timepicker when range is inverted. #44790, @Elfo404
Instrumentation: Fix HTTP request instrumentation of authentication failures. #44234, @marefr
LibraryPanels: Prevent long descriptions and names from obscuring the delete button. #45190, @zuchka
OAuth: Fix parsing of ID token if header contains non-string value. #44159, @marefr
Panel Edit: Visualization search now works correctly with special characters. #45137, @ashharrison90
Provisioning: Fix duplicate validation when multiple organizations have been configured. #44151, @marefr
QueryField: Fix issue with undo history when suggestion is inserted (#28656). #39114, @glintik
TablePanel: Do not prefix columns with frame name if multiple frames and override active. #45174, @mdvictor

Deprecations

AngularJS plugin support is now in a deprecated state, meaning it will be removed in a future release. Currently, that is planned for version 10 (in 2023). The documentation site has an article with more details on why, when, and how. Issue #45149

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Support WeCom as a contact point type. #40975, @smallpath
Alerting: UI for mute timings. #41578, @nathanrodman
Alerting: add settings for peer reconnection in HA mode. #42300, @JohnnyQQQQ
Auth: implement auto_sign_up for auth.jwt. #37040, @Roguelazer
Dashboard: Add Show unknown variables toggle to dashboard settings. #41854, @hugohaggmark
Instrumentation: Logger migration from log15 to gokit/log. #41636, @ying-jeanne
MSSQL: Change regex to validate Provider connection string. #40248, @ianselmi
MSSQL: Configuration of certificate verification for TLS connection. #31865, @mortenaa
Middleware: Don’t require HTTPS for HSTS headers to be emitted. #35147, @alexmv
Navigation: Implement Keyboard Navigation. #41618, @axelavargas
News: Reload feed when changing the time range or refreshing. #42217, @ashharrison90
UI/Plot: Implement keyboard controls for plot cursor. #42244, @kaydelaney

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.1

Features and enhancements

Cloudwatch: Add support for AWS/PrivateLink* metrics and dimensions. #45515, @szymonpk
Configuration: Add ability to customize okta login button name and icon. #44079, @DanCech
Tempo: Switch out Select with AsyncSelect component to get loading state in Tempo Search. #45110, @CatPerry

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix migrations by making send_alerts_to field nullable. #45572, @santihernandezc

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.10

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.10

Bug fixes

Security: Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. #52218, @IevaVasiljeva

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.11

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.11

Features and enhancements

Rendering: Add support for renderer token (#54425). #54437, @joanlopez

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.2

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.2

Features and enhancements

OAuth: Add setting to skip org assignment for external users. #34834, @baez90
Tracing: Add option to map tag names to log label names in trace to logs settings. #45178, @connorlindsey

Bug fixes

Explore: Fix closing split pane when logs panel is used. #45602, @ifrost

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.3

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.3

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Grafana uses > instead of >= when checking the For duration. #46010
Alerting: Use expanded labels in dashboard annotations. #45726, @grobinson-grafana
Logs: Escape windows newline into single newline. #45771, @perosb

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix use of > instead of >= when checking the For duration. #46011, @grobinson-grafana
Azure Monitor: Fixes broken log queries that use workspace. #45820, @sunker
CloudWatch: Remove error message when using multi-valued template vars in region field. #45886, @sunker
Middleware: Fix IPv6 host parsing in CSRF check. #45911, @ying-jeanne

Plugin development fixes & changes

ClipboardButton: Use a fallback when the Clipboard API is unavailable. #45831, @ashharrison90

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.4

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.4

Features and enhancements

Loki: Add unpack to autocomplete suggestions (#44623). #46573, @glintik
Plugins: allow using both Function and Class components for app plugins. #46148, @leventebalogh
TimeSeries: Add migration for Graph panel’s transform series override. #46577, @dprokop
TimeSeries: Preserve null/undefined values when performing negative y transform. #46584, @dprokop

Bug fixes

CloudWatch: Use default http client from aws-sdk-go. #46370, @sunker
Dashboards: Fixes repeating by row and no refresh. #46565, @torkelo
Gauge: Fixes blank viz when data link exists and orientation was horizontal. #46335, @torkelo
Search: sort results correctly when using postgres. #46466, @xlson
TagsInput: fix tags remove button accessibility issues. #46254, @Elfo404
TextPanel: Sanitize after markdown has been rendered to html. #46166, @ashharrison90

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.5

Features and enhancements

Instrumentation: Make backend plugin metrics endpoints available with optional authentication. #46467, @marefr
Table panel: Show datalinks for cell display modes JSON View and Gauge derivates. #46020, @mdvictor

Bug fixes

Azure Monitor: Small bug fixes for Resource Picker. #46665, @sarahzinger
Logger: Use specified format for file logger. #46970, @sakjur
Logs: Handle missing fields in dataframes better. #46963, @gabor
ManageDashboards: Fix error when deleting all dashboards from folder view. #46877, @joshhunt

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.6

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.6

Security: Fixes CVE-2022-24812. For more information, see our blog

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.7

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.4.7

Features and enhancements

CloudWatch: Added missing MemoryDB Namespace metrics. #47290, @james-deee
Histogram Panel: Take decimal into consideration. #47330, @mdvictor
TimeSeries: Sort tooltip values based on raw values. #46738, @dprokop

Bug fixes

API: Include userId, orgId, uname in request logging middleware. #47183, @marefr
Elasticsearch: Respect maxConcurrentShardRequests datasource setting. #47120, @alexandrst88

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add contact points provisioning API. #47197, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add resolved count to notification title when both firing and resolved present. #46697, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Alert rule should wait For duration when execution error state is Alerting. #47052, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Classic conditions can now display multiple values. #46971, @gotjosh
Alerting: Display query from grafana-managed alert rules on /api/v1/rules. #45969, @gotjosh
Alerting: Enhance support for arbitrary group names in managed alerts. #47785, @gillesdemey
Alerting: add field for custom slack endpoint. #45751, @nathanrodman
Azure Monitor : Adding json formatting of error messages in Panel Header Corner and Inspect Error Tab. #44877, @yaelleC
Azure Monitor: Add 2 more Curated Dashboards for VM Insights. #45187, @jcolladokuri
CloudWatch: Handle new error codes for MetricInsights. #47033, @Gabrielopesantos
Dashboards: show changes in save dialog. #46557, @ryantxu
DataSource: Default data source is no longer a persisted state but just the default data source for new panels. #45132, @torkelo
DataSourcePlugin API: Allow queries import when changing data source type. #47435, @dprokop
Explore: Remove return to panel button. #45018, @gelicia
Explore: allow users to save Explore state to a new panel in a new dashboard. #45148, @Elfo404
Instrumentation: Proxy status code correction and various improvements. #47473, @marefr
Logging: Introduce feature toggle to activate gokit/log format. #47336, @ying-jeanne
NewsPanel: Add support for Atom feeds. #45390, @kaydelaney
Plugins: Add deprecation notice for /api/tsdb/query endpoint. #45238, @wbrowne
Plugins: Adding support for traceID field to accept variables. #45559, @vinisdl
PostgreSQL: __unixEpochGroup to support arithmetic expression as argument. #46764, @s0nik42
Profile/Help: Expose option to disable profile section and help menu. #46308, @cameronwaterman
Prometheus: Enable new visual query builder by default. #46634, @torkelo
SAML: Allow disabling of SAML signups. #47481, @mmandrus
SAML: Allow disabling of SAML signups. (Enterprise)
Table: New pagination option. #45732, @zoltanbedi
TablePanel: Add cell inspect option. #45620, @dprokop
Tempo / Trace Viewer: Support Span Links in Trace Viewer. #45632, @Shachi16
Tempo: Download span references in data inspector. #47074, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Separate trace to logs and loki search datasource config. #46655, @connorlindsey
Trace View: Show number of child spans. #44393, @tharun208
Transformations: Support escaped characters in key-value pair parsing. #47901, @aangelisc

Bug fixes

Azure Monitor: Bug Fix for incorrect variable cascading for template variables. #47478, @jcolladokuri
CloudWatch: List all metrics properly in SQL autocomplete. #45898, @sunker
CloudWatch: Run query on blur in logs query field. #47454, @fridgepoet
Dashboard: Template variables are now correctly persisted when clicking breadcrumb links. #46790, @ashharrison90
DashboardPage: Remember scroll position when coming back panel edit / view panel. #47639, @torkelo
Panel Edit: Options search now works correctly when a logarithmic scale option is set. #47927, @ashharrison90
Postgres: Return tables with hyphenated schemes. #45754, @zuchka
Table panel: Fix horizontal scrolling when pagination is enabled. #47776, @dprokop
Variables: Ensure variables in query params are correctly recognised. #47049, @ashharrison90
Variables: Fix crash when changing query variable datasource. #44957, @joshhunt
Visualizations: Stack negative-valued series downwards. #47373, @leeoniya

Breaking changes

For a proxied request, e.g. Grafana’s datasource or plugin proxy:

If the request is cancelled, e.g. from the browser/by the client, the HTTP status code is now 499 Client closed request instead of 502 Bad gateway
If the request times out, e.g. takes longer time than allowed, the HTTP status code is now 504 Gateway timeout instead of 502 Bad gateway. Issue #47473

The change in behavior is that negative-valued series are now stacked downwards from 0 (in their own stacks), rather than downwards from the top of the positive stacks. We now automatically group stacks by Draw style, Line interpolation, and Bar alignment, making it impossible to stack bars on top of lines, or smooth lines on top of stepped lines. Issue #47373

The meaning of the default data source has now changed from being a persisted property in a panel. Before when you selected the default data source for a panel and later changed the default data source to another data source it would change all panels who were configured to use the default data source. From now on the default data source is just the default for new panels and changing the default will not impact any currently saved dashboards. Issue #45132

The Tooltip component provided by @grafana/ui is no longer automatically interactive (that is you can hover onto it and click a link or select text). It will from now on by default close automatically when you mouse out from the trigger element. To make tooltips behave like before set the new interactive property to true.
Issue #45053

Deprecations

/api/tsdb/query API has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use /api/ds/query instead. Issue #45238

Plugin development fixes & changes

Card: Increase clickable area when meta items are present. #47935, @ashharrison90
Loki: Fix operator description propup from being shortened. #46575, @glintik
Tooltips: Make tooltips non interactive by default. #45053, @torkelo

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0-beta1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

Add config option to enable/disable reporting. (Enterprise)
Alerting: Accurately set value for prom-compatible APIs. #47216, @gotjosh
Alerting: Provisioning API - Notification Policies. #46755, @alexweav
Analytics: Enable grafana and plugin update checks to be operated independently. #46352, @wbrowne
Azure Monitor: Add support for multiple template variables in resource picker. #46215, @sarahzinger
Caching: Add separate TTL for resources cache. (Enterprise)
Caching: add support for TLS configuration for Redis Cluster. (Enterprise)
NewsPanel: Remove Use Proxy option and update documentation with recommendations. #47189, @joshhunt
OAuth: Sync GitHub OAuth user name to Grafana if it’s set. #45438, @pallxk

Bug fixes

Plugins: Fix Default Nav URL for dashboard includes. #47143, @wbrowne

Breaking changes

When user is using Github OAuth, GitHub login is showed as both Grafana login and name. Now the GitHub name is showed as Grafana name, and GitHub login is showed as Grafana Login. Issue #45438

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.1

Bug fixes

Azure Monitor: Fix space character encoding for metrics query link to Azure Portal. #48139, @kevinwcyu
CloudWatch: Prevent log groups from being removed on query change. #47994, @asimpson
Cloudwatch: Fix template variables in variable queries. #48140, @iwysiu
Explore: Prevent direct access to explore if disabled via feature toggle. #47714, @Elfo404
InfluxDB: Fixes invalid no data alerts. #48295, @yesoreyeram
Navigation: Prevent navbar briefly showing on login. #47968, @ashharrison90
Plugins Catalog: Fix styling of hyperlinks. #48196, @marefr
Table: Fix filter crashes table. #48258, @zoltanbedi
TimeSeries: Properly stack series with missing datapoints. #48321, @leeoniya

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.10

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.10

Bug fixes

RBAC: Fix Anonymous Editors missing dashboard controls. #52649, @gamab

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.11

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.11

Features and enhancements

Rendering: Add support for renderer token (#54425). #54438, @joanlopez
Alerting: AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. #53681, @yuri-tceretian

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.13

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.13

Features and enhancements

Plugins: Expose @emotion/react to plugins to prevent load failures. #55297, @jackw

Bug fixes

AuthNZ: Security fixes for CVE-2022-35957 and CVE-2022-36062. #55495, @IevaVasiljeva

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.2

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.2

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add safeguard for migrations that might cause dataloss. #48526, @JohnnyQQQQ
AzureMonitor: Add support for not equals and startsWith operators when creating Azure Metrics dimension filters. #48077, @aangelisc
Elasticsearch: Add deprecation notice for < 7.10 versions. #48506, @ivanahuckova
Traces: Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. #48209, @joey-grafana

Bug fixes

AzureAd Oauth: Fix strictMode to reject users without an assigned role. #48474, @kyschouv
CloudWatch: Fix variable query tag migration. #48587, @iwysiu
Plugins: Ensure catching all appropriate 4xx api/ds/query scenarios. #47565, @wbrowne

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.3

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.3

Bug fixes

Security: fixes CVE-2022-29170. #49240, @xlson

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.4

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.4

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Remove disabled flag for data source when migrating alerts. #48559, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Show notification tab of legacy alerting only to editor. #49624, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. #49192, @yuri-tceretian
AzureMonitor: Do not quote variables when a custom “All” variable option is used. #49428, @andresmgot
AzureMonitor: Update allowed namespaces. #48468, @jcolladokuri
CloudMonitor: Correctly encode default project response. #49510, @aangelisc
Cloudwatch: Add support for new AWS/RDS EBS* metrics. #48798, @szymonpk
InfluxDB: Use backend for influxDB by default via feature toggle. #48453, @yesoreyeram
Legend: Use correct unit for percent and count calculations. #49004, @dprokop
LokI: use millisecond steps in Grafana 8.5.x. #48630, @gabor
Plugins: Introduce HTTP 207 Multi Status response to api/ds/query. #48550, @wbrowne
Reporting: Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise)
Transformations: Add an All Unique Values Reducer. #48653, @josiahg
Transformers: avoid error when the ExtractFields source field is missing. #49368, @wardbekker
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Update migration to migrate only alerts that belong to existing org\dashboard. #49199, @grafanabot
[v8.5.x] Reporting: Improve PDF file size using grid layout. (Enterprise)

Bug fixes

Alerting: Allow disabling override timings for notification policies. #48648, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Allow serving images from custom url path. #49022, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Apply Custom Headers to datasource queries. #47860, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Fix RBAC actions for notification policies. #49185, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. #49270, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Fix anonymous access to alerting. #49203, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: correctly show all alerts in a folder. #48684, @gillesdemey
AzureMonitor: Fixes metric definition for Azure Storage queue/file/blob/table resources. #49101, @aangelisc
Dashboard: Fix dashboard update permission check. #48746, @IevaVasiljeva
DashboardExport: Fix exporting and importing dashboards where query data source ended up as incorrect. #48410, @torkelo
FileUpload: clicking the Upload file button now opens the modal correctly. #48766, @ashharrison90
GrafanaUI: Fix color of links in error Tooltips in light theme. #49327, @joshhunt
LibraryPanels: Fix library panels not connecting properly in imported dashboards. #49161, @joshhunt
Loki: Improve unpack parser handling. #49074, @gabor
RolePicker: Fix menu position on smaller screens. #48429, @Clarity-89
TimeRange: Fixes updating time range from url and browser history. #48657, @torkelo
TimeSeries: Fix detection & rendering of sparse datapoints. #48841, @leeoniya
Timeseries: Fix outside range stale state. #49633, @ryantxu
Tooltip: Fix links not legible in Tooltips when using light theme. #48748, @joshhunt
Tooltip: Sort decimals using standard numeric compare. #49084, @dprokop
Transforms: Labels to fields, fix label picker layout. #49304, @torkelo
Variables: Fixes issue with data source variables not updating queries with variable. #49478, @torkelo
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Fix RBAC actions for notification policies (#49185). #49348, @yuri-tceretian
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Fix access to alerts for viewer with editor permissions when RBAC is disabled. #49427, @konrad147
[v8.5.x] Alerting: Fix anonymous access to alerting. #49268, @yuri-tceretian

Breaking changes

For a data source query made via /api/ds/query :

If the DatasourceQueryMultiStatus feature is enabled and
- The data source response has an error set as part of the DataResponse, the resulting HTTP status code is now 207 Multi Status instead of 400 Bad gateway
If the DatasourceQueryMultiStatus feature is not enabled and
- The data source response has an error set as part of the DataResponse, the resulting HTTP status code is 400 Bad Request (no breaking change) –> Issue #48550

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.5

Features and enhancements

Azure Monitor: Include datasource ref when interpolating variables. #49543, @kevinwcyu
CloudWatch: Add multi-value template variable support for log group names in logs query builder. #49737, @kevinwcyu
Cloudwatch: Add template variable query function for listing log groups. #50100, @yaelleC

Bug fixes

Alerting: Do not overwrite existing alert rule condition. #49920, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Remove double quotes from matchers. #50044, @alexweav

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.6

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.6

Bug fixes

Dashboard: Fixes random scrolling on time range change. #50379, @torkelo
Security: Fixes minor code scanning security warnings in old vendored javascript libs. #50382, @torkelo

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.9

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 8.5.9

Bug fixes

Security: Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. #52238, @xlson

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0

Features and enhancements

API: Add GET /api/annotations/:annotationId endpoint. #47739, @scottbock
API: Add endpoint for updating a data source by its UID. #49396, @papagian
AccessControl: Add enterprise only setting for rbac permission cache. #49006, @kalleep
AccessControl: Document basic roles changes and provisioning V2. #48910, @gamab
AccessControl: Enable RBAC by default. #48813, @IevaVasiljeva
AddDataSourceConfig: Remove deprecated checkHealth prop. #50296, @kaydelaney
Alerting: Add Image URLs to Microsoft Teams notifier. #49385, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Add RBAC actions and role for provisioning API routes. #50459, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Add Screenshot URLs to Pagerduty Notifier. #49377, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Add a “Reason” to Alert Instances to show underlying cause of state. #49259, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Add a general screenshot service and alerting-specific image service. #49293, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Add image url or file attachment to email notifications. #49381, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Add image_urls to OpsGenie notification details. #49379, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Add notification policy flow chart. #49405, @peterholmberg
Alerting: Attach image URL to alerts in Webhook notifier format. #49378, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Attach image URLs or upload files to Discord notifications. #49439, @alexweav
Alerting: Attach image URLs to Google Chat notifications. #49445, @alexweav
Alerting: Attach screenshot data to Unified Alerting notifications. #49374, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Create folder for alerting when start from the scratch. #48866, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Modify alertmanager endpoints for proxying using the datasource UID. #47978, @papagian
Alerting: Modify endpoint for testing a datasource rule using the UID. #48070, @papagian
Alerting: Modify prometheus endpoints for proxying using the datasource UID. #48052, @papagian
Alerting: State Manager takes screenshots. #49338, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Use UID scope for folders authorization. #48970, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: modify ruler endpoints for proxying using the datasource UID. #48046, @papagian
Angular: Adds back two angular directives that are still used by remaining angular bits and plugins. #50380, @torkelo
Azure Monitor: Add Resource Picker to Metrics Queries. #49029, @sarahzinger
Azure Monitor: Add search feature to resource picker. #48234, @sarahzinger
AzureMonitor: Add support for selecting multiple options when using the equals and not equals dimension filters. #48650, @aangelisc
AzureMonitor: Remove deprecated code. #48328, @andresmgot
Build: Change names to PascalCase to match. #48949, @zuchka
Chore: Remove deprecated DataSourceAPI methods. #49313, @ifrost
Chore: Upgrade typescript to 4.6.4. #49016, @kaydelaney
Cloud Monitoring: Use new annotation API. #49026, @kevinwcyu
CloudMonitoring: Allow to set a custom value or disable graph_period. #48646, @andresmgot
CloudWatch: Add generic filter component to variable editor. #47907, @iwysiu
CloudWatch: Added missing AWS/AppRunner metrics. #49174, @Aton-Kish
CloudWatch: Enable support for dynamic labels with migrated alias patterns. #49173, @sunker
Cloudwatch: Pass label in deep link. #49160, @sunker
Cloudwatch: Use new annotation API. #48102, @sunker
Dashboard: Validate dashboards against schema on save. #48252, @sdboyer
DashboardPickerByID: Add option to exclude dashboards. #49211, @Clarity-89
DashboardPickerById: Add optionLabel prop. #47556, @Clarity-89
Dashboards: Display values of 0 with the configured decimal places. #48155, @wx1322
Data: Remove deprecated types and functions from valueMappings. #50035, @kaydelaney
Elasticsearch: Remove browser access mode. #49014, @gabor
Elasticsearch: Remove support for versions after their end of the life (<7.10.0). #48715, @ivanahuckova
Encryption: Add support for multiple data keys per day. #47765, @joanlopez
Encryption: Enable envelope encryption by default. #49301, @joanlopez
Explore: Remove support for legacy, compact format URLs. #49350, @gelicia
Explore: Skip Angular error handling when Angular support is disabled. #49311, @ifrost
Explore: simplify support for multiple query editors. #48701, @Elfo404
FeatureToggles: Support changing feature toggles with URL parameters. #50275, @ryantxu
FileUpload: Make component accessible by keyboard navigation. #47497, @tolzhabayev
Formatting: Make SI number formats more robust. #50117, @kaydelaney
Graph: Deprecate Graph (old) and make it no longer a visualization option for new panels. #48034, @torkelo
IconButton: IconButtons are now correctly aligned in Safari. #48759, @ashharrison90
Logger: Enable new logging format by default. #47584, @ying-jeanne
Loki: Add more query patterns. #50248, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Enable new visual query builder by default. #48346, @ivanahuckova
Loki: use the same dataframe-format for both live and normal queries. #47153, @gabor
OAuth: Make allowed email domain case insensitive. #49252, @Jguer
Panels: Use the No value option when showing the no data message. #47675, @torkelo
Plugins: Remove plugin list panel. #46914, @tolzhabayev
Query History: Enable new query history by default. #49407, @ifrost
QueryEditorRow: Show query errors next to query in a consistent way across Grafana. #47613, @torkelo
SAML: Implement Name Templates for assertion_attribute_name option. #48022, @mmandrus
Service accounts: Do not display service accounts assigned to team. #48995, @eleijonmarck
Settings: Use Grafana Azure SDK to pass Azure env vars for external plugins. #48954, @kostrse
Shortcuts: Add shortcut to show shortcuts to the list of shortcuts. #48395, @ivanahuckova
Traces Panel: Add new Traces Panel visualization. #47534, @joey-grafana
Traces: Filter by service/span name and operation in Tempo and Jaeger. #48209, @joey-grafana
Transformations: Allow more complex regex expressions in Rename by regex. #48179, @ashharrison90
grafana/ui: Add default type=“button” to

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix database unavailable removes rules from scheduler. #49874, @grobinson-grafana
AzureMonitor: Fix auto-selection of time-grain for metrics. #49278, @aangelisc
DataSources: Fixes issue with expressions not being queried. #50446, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
GraphNG: Fix thresholds by color not following data update. #48571, @zoltanbedi
Jaeger: Update operations dropdown. #49329, @joey-grafana
Login: Fix mismatching label on auth_module in user list. #49177, @Jguer
Playlists: Save button now correctly creates a new playlist. #50381, @ashharrison90
RBAC: Fix migrations running in the wrong order causing inheritance problem in enterprise. #50452, @gamab
RBAC: Fix migrations running into the wrong order. (Enterprise)
ServiceAccounts: Add identifiable token prefix to service account tokens. #49011, @Jguer
Traces: Fix missing CopyButton on KeyValueTables and overlapping of panels. #49271, @svennergr

Breaking changes

The @grafana/ui package helper function selectOptionInTest used in frontend tests has been removed as it caused testing libraries to be bundled in the production code of Grafana. If you were using this helper function in your tests please update your code accordingly:

// before
import { selectOptionInTest } from '@grafana/ui';
// ...test usage
await selectOptionInTest(selectEl, 'Option 2');

// after
import { select } from 'react-select-event';
// ...test usage
await select(selectEl, 'Option 2', { container: document.body });

Issue #50442

Removed deprecated checkHealth prop from the @grafana/e2e addDataSource config. Previously this value defaulted to false, and has not been used in end-to-end tests since Grafana 8.0.3. Issue #50296

Removes the deprecated LegacyBaseMap, LegacyValueMapping, LegacyValueMap, and LegacyRangeMap types, and getMappedValue function from grafana-data. Migration is as follows:

Old	New
`LegacyBaseMap`	`MappingType`
`LegacyValueMapping`	`ValueMapping`
`LegacyValueMap`	`ValueMap`
`LegacyRangeMap`	`RangeMap`
`getMappedValue`	`getValueMappingResult`

This change fixes a bug in Grafana where intermittent failure of database, network between Grafana and the database, or error in querying the database would cause all alert rules to be unscheduled in Grafana. Following this change scheduled alert rules are not updated unless the query is successful.

The get_alert_rules_duration_seconds metric has been renamed to schedule_query_alert_rules_duration_seconds. Issue #49874

Any secret (data sources credential, alert manager credential, etc, etc) created or modified with Grafana v9.0 won’t be decryptable from any previous version (by default) because the way encrypted secrets are stored into the database has changed. Although secrets created or modified with previous versions will still be decryptable by Grafana v9.0.
If required, although generally discouraged, the disableEnvelopeEncryption feature toggle can be enabled to keep envelope encryption disabled once updating to Grafana v9.0.
In case of need to rollback to an earlier version of Grafana (i.e. Grafana v8.x) for any reason, after being created or modified any secret with Grafana v9.0, the envelopeEncryption feature toggle will need to be enabled to keep backwards compatibility (only from v8.3.x a bit unstable, from 8.5.x stable).
As a final attempt to deal with issues related with the aforementioned situations, the grafana-cli admin secrets-migration rollback command has been designed to move back all the Grafana secrets encrypted with envelope encryption to legacy encryption. So, after running that command it should be safe to disable envelope encryption and/or roll back to a previous version of Grafana.
Alternatively or complementarily to all the points above, backing up the Grafana database before updating could be a good idea to prevent disasters (although the risk of getting some secrets corrupted only applies to those updates/created with after updating to Grafana v9.0). Issue #49301
According to the dynamic labels documentation, you can use up to five dynamic values per label. There’s currently no such restriction in the alias pattern system, so if more than 5 patterns are being used the GetMetricData API will return an error.
Dynamic labels only allow ${LABEL} to be used once per query. There’s no such restriction in the alias pattern system, so in case more than 1 is being used the GetMetricData API will return an error.
When no alias is provided by the user, Grafana will no longer fallback with custom rules for naming the legend.
In case a search expression is being used and no data is returned, Grafana will no longer expand dimension values, for instance when using a multi-valued template variable or star wildcard * in the dimension value field. Ref https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/20729
Time series might be displayed in a different order. Using for example the dynamic label ${PROP('MetricName')}, might have the consequence that the time series are returned in a different order compared to when the alias pattern {{metric}} is used

Issue #49173

In Elasticsearch, browser access mode was deprecated in grafana 7.4.0 and removed in 9.0.0. If you used this mode, please switch to server access mode on the datasource configuration page. Issue #49014

Environment variables passed from Grafana to external Azure plugins have been renamed:

AZURE_CLOUD renamed to GFAZPL_AZURE_CLOUD
AZURE_MANAGED_IDENTITY_ENABLED renamed to GFAZPL_MANAGED_IDENTITY_ENABLED
AZURE_MANAGED_IDENTITY_CLIENT_ID renamed to GFAZPL_MANAGED_IDENTITY_CLIENT_ID

There are no known plugins which were relying on these variables. Moving forward plugins should read Azure settings only via Grafana Azure SDK which properly handles old and new environment variables. Issue #48954

Removes support for for ElasticSearch versions after their end-of-life, currently versions < 7.10.0. To continue to use ElasticSearch data source, upgrade ElasticSearch to version 7.10.0+. Issue #48715

Application Insights and Insight Analytics queries in Azure Monitor were deprecated in Grafana 8.0 and finally removed in 9.0. Deprecated queries will no longer be executed. Please refer to the documentation for more information about this change.

Issue #48328

grafana/ui: Button now specifies a default type=“button”

The Button component provided by @grafana/ui now specifies a default type="button" when no type is provided. In previous versions, if the attribute was not specified for buttons associated with a <form> the default value was submit per the specification

You can preserve the old behavior by explicitly setting the type attribute: <Button type="submit" />

Github Issue #41863. Issue #48183

The Rename by regex transformation has been improved to allow global patterns of the form /<stringToReplace>/g. Depending on the regex match used, this may cause some transformations to behave slightly differently. You can guarantee the same behaviour as before by wrapping the match string in forward slashes (/), e.g. (.*) would become /(.*)/ Issue #48179

<Select /> menus will now portal to the document body by default. This is to give more consistent behaviour when positioning and overlaying. If you were setting menuShouldPortal={true} before you can safely remove that prop and behaviour will be the same. If you weren’t explicitly setting that prop, there should be no visible changes in behaviour but your tests may need updating. Please see the original PR (https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/36398) for migration guides. If you were setting menuShouldPortal={false} this will continue to prevent the menu from portalling.

Issue #48176

Grafana alerting endpoint prefixed with api/v1/rule/test that tests a rule against a Corte/Loki data source now expects the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue #48070

Grafana alerting endpoints prefixed with api/prometheus/ that proxy requests to a Cortex/Loki data source now expect the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue #48052

Grafana alerting endpoints prefixed with api/ruler/ that proxy requests to a Cortex/Loki data source now expect the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue #48046

Grafana alerting endpoints prefixed with api/alertmanager/ that proxy requests to an Alertmanager now expect the data source UID as a path parameter instead of the data source numeric identifier. Issue #47978

The format of log messages have been updated, lvl is now level and erorand dbug has been replaced with error and debug. The precision of timestamps has been increased. To smooth the transition, it is possible to opt-out of the new log format by enabling the feature toggle oldlog. This option will be removed in a future minor release. Issue #47584

In the Loki data source, the dataframe format used to represent Loki logs-data has been changed to a more efficient format. The query-result is represented by a single dataframe with a “labels” column, instead of the separate dataframes for every labels-value. When displaying such data in explore, or in a logs-panel in the dashboard will continue to work without changes, but if the data was loaded into a different dashboard-panel, or Transforms were used, adjustments may be necessary. For example, if you used the “labels to fields” transformation with the logs data, please switch to the “extract fields” transformation. Issue #47153

Deprecations

setExploreQueryField, setExploreMetricsQueryField and setExploreLogsQueryField are now deprecated and will be removed in a future release. If you need to set a different query editor for Explore, conditionally render based on props.app in your regular query editor. Please refer to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developers/plugins/add-support-for-explore-queries/ for more information. Issue #48701

Plugin development fixes & changes

Chore: Remove react-testing-lib from bundles. #50442, @jackw
Select: Portal menu by default. #48176, @ashharrison90

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0-beta1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

AccessControl: Add setting for permission cache. (Enterprise)
AccessControl: Check dashboard permissions for reports. (Enterprise)
Auth: Remove grafana ui dependency to the aws sdk. #43559, @sunker
BasicRoles: Add API endpoint to reset basic roles permissions to factory. (Enterprise)
LDAP Mapping: Allow Grafana Admin mapping without org role. #37189, @krzysdabro
Licensing: Only enforce total number of users. (Enterprise)
Loki: do not convert NaN to null. #45389, @gabor
Report: API support for multiple dashboards. (Enterprise)
Report: Support sending embedded image in the report email. (Enterprise)
Report: UI for multiple dashboards. (Enterprise)
Reporting: Remove redundant empty attachment when export to CSV is enabled. (Enterprise)
SAML: Implement Name Templates for assertion_attribute_name option. (Enterprise)
SSE/Alerting: Support prom instant vector responses. #44865, @kylebrandt
Tracing: Add trace to metrics config behind feature toggle. #46298, @connorlindsey

Bug fixes

Fix: Prevent automatic parsing of string data types to numbers. #46035, @joshhunt
Prometheus: Fix inconsistent labels in exemplars resulting in marshal json error. #46135, @hanjm

Breaking changes

In the Loki data source, for consistency and performance reasons, we changed how we represent NaN (not a number) values received from Loki. In the past versions, we converted these to null in the frontend (for dashboard and explore), and kept as NaN in the alerting path. Starting with this version, we will always keep it as NaN. This change should be mostly invisible for the users. Issue #45389

The dependency to grafana/aws-sdk is moved from grafana/ui to the plugin. This means that any plugin that use SIGV4 auth need to pass a SIGV4 editor component as a prop to the DataSourceHttpSettings component. Issue #43559

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0-beta2

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0-beta2

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add legacy indicator to navbar. #49511, @peterholmberg
Alerting: Add templated subject config to email notifier. #49742, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Enable Unified Alerting for open source and enterprise. #49834, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Make alertmanager datasource stable. #49485, @gillesdemey
Angular: Remove deprecated angular modal support and libs. #49781, @torkelo
AuthProxy: Remove deprecated ldap_sync_ttl setting. #49902, @kalleep
Build: Enable long term caching for frontend assets. #47625, @jackw
Chore: Remove deprecated TextDisplayOptions export. #49705, @kaydelaney
Chore: Remove deprecated surface prop from IconButton. #49715, @kaydelaney
Chore: Remove usage of deprecated getColorForTheme function. #49519, @kaydelaney
DatePicker: Add minDate prop. #49503, @alexanderzobnin
Notification history: Enable by default. #49502, @ashharrison90
Prometheus: Add pluginVersion to query. #49414, @toddtreece
Prometheus: Enable prometheusStreamingJSONParser by default. #49475, @toddtreece
Prometheus: Predefined scopes for Azure authentication. #49557, @kostrse
Prometheus: Streaming JSON parser performance improvements. #48792, @toddtreece
ValueMapping: Add support for regex replacement over multiple lines. #49607, @ashharrison90

Bug fixes

Accessibility: Pressing escape in a Modal or DashboardSettings correctly closes the overlay. #49500, @ashharrison90
Alerting: Validate alert notification UID length. #45546, @wbrowne
BackendSrv: Throw an error when fetching an invalid JSON. #47493, @leventebalogh
Fix: Timeseries migration regex override. #49629, @zoltanbedi
Loki: Fix unwrap parsing in query builder. #49732, @ivanahuckova
Navigation: Position hamburger menu correctly in mobile view. #49603, @ashharrison90
PanelEditor: Fixes issue with Table view and multi data frames. #49854, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
Preferences: Fix updating of preferences for Navbar and Query History. #49677, @ivanahuckova
TimeRange: Fixes issue when zooming out on a timerange with timespan 0. #49622, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
Variables: Fixes DS variables not being correctly used in panel queries. #49323, @JoaoSilvaGrafana

Breaking changes

Drop support for deprecated setting ldap_sync_ttl under [auth.proxy] Only sync_ttl will work from now on Issue #49902

Removes support for deprecated heading and description props. Moving forward, the Card.Heading and Card.Description components should be used. Issue #49885

Removes the deprecated link variant from the Button component. To migrate, replace any usage of variant="link" with fill="text". Issue #49843

Removes the deprecated surface prop from the IconButton component. This prop hasn’t actually done anything for a while, so it should be safe to just remove any instances of its usage. Issue #49715

Removes the deprecated TextDisplayOptions export from @grafana/data in favor of VizTextDisplayOptions from @grafana/schema. To migrate, just replace usage of TextDisplayOptions with VizTextDisplayOptions. Issue #49705

Removed support for the deprecated getColorForTheme(color: string, theme: GrafanaTheme) function in favor of the theme.visualization.getColorByName(color: string) method. The output of this method is identical to the removed function, so migration should just be a matter of rewriting calls of getColorForTheme(myColor, myTheme) to myTheme.visualization.getColorByName(myColor). Issue #49519

In the Prometheus data source, for consistency and performance reasons, we changed how we represent NaN (not a number) values received from Prometheus. In the past versions, we converted these to null in the frontend (for dashboard and explore), and kept as NaN in the alerting path. Starting with this version, we will always keep it as NaN. This change should be mostly invisible for the users. Issue #49475

Plugins using custom Webpack configs could potentially break due to the changes between webpack@4 and webpack@5. Please refer to the official migration guide for assistance.

Webpack 5 does not include polyfills for node.js core modules by default (e.g. buffer, stream, os). This can result in failed builds for plugins. If polyfills are required it is recommended to create a custom webpack config in the root of the plugin repo and add the required fallbacks:

// webpack.config.js

module.exports.getWebpackConfig = (config, options) => ({
  ...config,
  resolve: {
    ...config.resolve,
    fallback: {
      os: require.resolve('os-browserify/browser'),
      stream: require.resolve('stream-browserify'),
      timers: require.resolve('timers-browserify'),
    },
  },
});

Please refer to the webpack build error messages or the official migration guide for assistance with fallbacks. Issue #47826

We have changed the internals of backendSrv.fetch() to throw an error when the response is an incorrect JSON.

// PREVIOUSLY: this was returning with an empty object {} - in case the response is an invalid JSON
return await getBackendSrv().post(`${API_ROOT}/${id}/install`);

// AFTER THIS CHANGE: the following will throw an error - in case the response is an invalid JSON
return await getBackendSrv().post(`${API_ROOT}/${id}/install`);

When is the response handled as JSON?

If the response has the "Content-Type: application/json" header, OR
If the backendSrv options (BackendSrvRequest) specify the response as JSON: { responseType: 'json' }

How does it work after this change?

In case it is recognised as a JSON response and the response is empty, it returns an empty object {}
In case it is recognised as a JSON response and it has formatting errors, it throws an error

How to migrate? Make sure to handle possible errors on the callsite where using backendSrv.fetch() (or any other backendSrv methods). Issue #47493

Plugin development fixes & changes

UI/Card: Remove deprecated props. #49885, @kaydelaney
UI/Button: Remove deprecated “link” variant. #49843, @kaydelaney
Toolkit: Bump dependencies. #47826, @jackw

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0-beta3

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.0-beta3

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add provenance guard to config api. #50147, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Make folder filter clearable in Alert list panel. #50093, @peterholmberg
Alerting: Provisioning API - Alert rules. #47930, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Remove Image Upload code from Slack notifier. #50062, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Remove double quotes from matchers. #50038, @gotjosh
Cloudwatch: Dynamic labels autocomplete. #49794, @sunker
Datasource: Remove deprecated max_idle_connections_per_host setting. #49948, @marefr
Datasource: Remove support for unencrypted passwords. #49987, @marefr
Dependencies: Update to Golang version 1.17.11. #50253, @dsotirakis
Loki: Run query when pressing Enter on line-filters. #49913, @svennergr
Metrics: Remove support for using summaries instead of histogram for HTTP instrumentation. #49985, @bergquist
Plugins: Remove deprecated /api/tsdb/query metrics endpoint. #49916, @wbrowne
Plugins: Support headers field for check health. #49930, @marefr
Prometheus/Loki: Add raw query and syntax highlight in explain mode. #50070, @aocenas
Prometheus: Migrate metadata queries to use resource calls. #49921, @srclosson
RBAC: Make RBAC action names more consistent. #49730, @IevaVasiljeva
RBAC: Make RBAC action names more consistent. (Enterprise)
Settings: Sunset non-duration based login lifetime config. #49944, @sakjur
[9.0.x] Alerting: Update alert rule diff to not see difference between nil and empty map. #50198, @yuri-tceretian

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix alert list panel showing firing alerts with no instances. #50069, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Fix notification policy “Override grouping” form save. #50031, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Remove double quotes from matchers. #50046, @alexweav
Alerting: Use correct permission scope for external AM updates. #50159, @gillesdemey
Datasource: Fix allowed cookies to be forwarded as header to backend datasources. #49541, @marefr
Licensing: Fix trial expiration warning. (Enterprise)
Loki: Fix uncaught errors if labelKey contains special characters. #49887, @svennergr
Prometheus: Fix aligning of labels of exemplars after backend migration. #49924, @aocenas
SharePDF: Fix repeated datasource variables in PDF. (Enterprise)
State Timeline: Fix Null Value Filling and Value Transformation. #50054, @codeincarnate
Usage stats: Divide collection into multiple functions to isolate failures. #49928, @sakjur

Breaking changes

Removes support for storing/using datasource password and basicAuthPassword unencrypted which was deprecated in Grafana v8.1.0. Please use secureJsonData.password and secureJsonData.basicAuthPassword. Issue #49987

Removes the option to instrument HTTP request in Grafana using summaries instead of histograms. Issue #49985

Removes support for deprecated dataproxy.max_idle_connections_per_host setting. Please use max_idle_connections instead. Issue #49948

Removes the deprecated getFormStyles function from grafana-ui. Prefer using GrafanaTheme2 and the useStyles2 hook. Issue #49945

The configuration options auth.login_maximum_inactive_lifetime_days and auth.login_maximum_lifetime_days were deprecated in Grafana v7.2.0 and have now been removed. Use login_maximum_inactive_lifetime_duration and login_maximum_lifetime_duration to customize the maximum lifetime of a login session. Issue #49944

Removed the deprecated isFocused and isInvalid props from the InlineLabel component. These props haven’t done anything for a while, so migration is just a matter of removing the props. Issue #49929

Removed the deprecated onColorChange prop from ColorPicker. Moving forward the onChange prop should be used. Issue #49923

/api/tsdb/query API has been removed. Use /api/ds/query instead. Issue #49916

onClipboardCopy and onClipboardError APIs have been changed such that the callback’s argument is just the text that’s been copied rather than the old ClipboardEvent interface. Migration should just be a matter of going from

<ClipboardButton
  {/*other props... */}
  onClipboardCopy={(e) => {
    console.log(`Text "${e.text}" was copied!`);
  }}
/>

<ClipboardButton
  {/* other props... */}
  onClipboardCopy={(copiedText) => {
    console.log(`Text "${copiedText}" was copied!`);
  }}
/>

Related Issue #49847

The following RBAC action renames have been carried out:

users.authtoken:update -> users.authtoken:write;
users.password:update -> users.password:write;
users.permissions:update -> users.permissions:write;
users.quotas:update -> users.quotas:write;
org.users.role:update -> org.users:write;
alert.instances:update -> alert.instances:write;
alert.rules:update -> alert.rules:write;
users.authtoken:list -> users.authtoken:read;
users.quotas:list -> users.quotas:read;
users.teams:read -> replaced by users.read + teams:read

We’ve added a migration from the old action names to the new names and have updated our documentation. But you will have to update any scripts and provisioning files that are using the old action names. Issue #49730

The following RBAC action renames have been carried out:

reports.admin:write -> reports:write;
reports.admin:create -> reports:create;
licensing:update -> licensing:write;
roles:list -> roles:read;
teams.roles:list -> teams.roles:read;
users.roles:list -> users.roles:read;
users.permissions:list -> users.permissions:read

Plugin development fixes & changes

UI: Remove deprecated getFormStyles function. #49945, @kaydelaney
InlineLabel: Remove deprecated props. #49929, @kaydelaney
ColorPicker: Remove deprecated onColorChange prop. #49923, @kaydelaney
ClipboardButton: Simplify callbacks. #49847, @kaydelaney

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.1

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add support for image annotation in Alertmanager alerts. #50686, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Add support for images in SensuGo alerts. #50718, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Add support for images in Threema alerts. #50734, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Adds Mimir to Alertmanager data source implementation. #50943, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Invalid setting of enabled for unified alerting should return error. #49876, @grobinson-grafana
AzureMonitor: Clean namespace when changing the resource. #50311, @andresmgot
AzureMonitor: Update supported namespaces and filter resources by the right type. #50788, @andresmgot
CLI: Allow relative symlinks in zip archives when installing plugins. #50537, @marefr
Dashboard: Don’t show unsaved changes modal for automatic schema changes. #50822, @torkelo
Dashboard: Unsaved changes warning should not trigger when only pluginVersion has changed. #50677, @torkelo
Expression: Execute hidden expressions. #50636, @yesoreyeram
Geomap: Support showing tooltip content on click (not just hover). #50985, @ryantxu
Heatmap: Remove alpha flag from new heatmap panel. #50733, @ryantxu
Instrumentation: Define handlers for requests that are not handled with named handlers. #50613, @bergquist
Log Panel: Improve log row hover contrast and visibility. #50908, @Seyaji
Logs: Handle backend-mode errors in histogram. #50535, @gabor
Loki: Do not show histogram for instant queries. #50711, @gabor
Loki: Handle data source configs with path in the url. #50971, @gabor
Loki: Handle invalid query type values. #50755, @gabor
OAuth: Redirect to login if no oauth module is found or if module is not configured. #50661, @kalleep
OptionsUI: Move internal options editors out of @grafana/ui. #50739, @ryantxu
Prometheus: Don’t show undefined for step in collapsed options in query editor when value is “auto”. #50511, @aocenas
Prometheus: Show query patterns in all editor modes for Prometheus and Loki. #50263, @ivanahuckova
Tempo: Add link to Tempo Search with node service selected. #49776, @joey-grafana
Time Series Panel: Add Null Filling and “No Value” Support. #50907, @codeincarnate
TimeSeries: Add an option to set legend width. #49126, @bobrik
Timeseries: Improve cursor Y sync behavior. #50740, @ryantxu
Traces: Do not use red in span colors as this looks like an error. #50074, @joey-grafana

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix AM config overwrite when SQLite db is locked during sync. #50951, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Fix alert instances filtering for prom rules. #50850, @konrad147
Alerting: Fix alert rule page crashing when datasource contained URL unsafe characters. #51105, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Fix automatically select newly created folder option. #50949, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Fix removal of notification policy without labels matchers. #50678, @konrad147
CloudWatch: Allow hidden queries to be executed in case an ID is provided. #50987, @sunker
Dashboard: Prevent non-repeating panels being dropped from repeated rows when collapsed/expanded. #50764, @ashharrison90
Dashboards: Fix folder picker not showing correct results when typing too fast. #50303, @joshhunt
Datasource: Prevent panic when proxying for non-existing data source. #50667, @wbrowne
Explore: Fix log context scroll to bottom. #50600, @ivanahuckova
Explore: Revert “Remove support for compact format URLs (#49350)”. #50873, @gelicia
Expressions: Fixes dashboard schema migration issue that caused Expression datasource to be set on panel level. #50945, @torkelo
Formatting: Fixes valueFormats for a value of 0. #50719, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
GrafanaData: Fix week start for non-English browsers. #50582, @AgnesToulet
LibraryPanel: Resizing a library panel to 6x3 no longer crashes the dashboard on startup. #50400, @ashharrison90
LogRow: Fix placement of icon. #51010, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix bug in labels framing. #51015, @gabor
Loki: Fix issues with using query patterns. #50414, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix showing of duplicated label values in dropdown in query builder. #50680, @ivanahuckova
MSSQL: Fix ParseFloat error. #50815, @zoltanbedi
Panels: Fixes issue with showing ‘Cannot visualize data’ when query returned 0 rows. #50485, @torkelo
Playlists: Disable Create Playlist buttons for users with viewer role. #50840, @asymness
Plugins: Fix typo in plugin data frames documentation. #50554, @osisoft-mbishop
Prometheus: Fix body not being included in resource calls if they are POST. #50833, @aocenas
RolePicker: Fix submenu position on horizontal space overflow. #50769, @Clarity-89
Tracing: Fix trace links in traces panel. #50028, @connorlindsey

Deprecations

Support for compact Explore URLs is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Until then, when navigating to Explore using the deprecated format the URLs are automatically converted. If you have existing links pointing to Explore update them using the format generated by Explore upon navigation.

You can identify a compact URL by its format. Compact URLs have the left (and optionally right) url parameter as an array of strings, for example &left=["now-1h","now"...]. The standard explore URLs follow a key/value pattern, for example &left={"datasource":"test"...}. Please be sure to check your dashboards for any hardcoded links to Explore and update them to the standard URL pattern. Issue #50873

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.2

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.2

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Add support for images in Pushover alerts. #51372, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Don’t stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid. #51253, @gotjosh
Alerting: Don’t stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid (…. #51341, @gotjosh
Alerting: Skip the default data source if incompatible. #51452, @gillesdemey
AzureMonitor: Parse non-fatal errors for Logs. #51320, @andresmgot
OAuth: Restore debug log behavior. #51244, @Jguer
Plugins: Improved handling of symlinks. #51324, @marefr

Bug fixes

Alerting: Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. #51353, @alexweav
Alerting: Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. #50731, @alexweav
Annotations: Fix annotation autocomplete causing panels to crash. #51164, @ashharrison90
Barchart: Fix warning not showing. #51190, @joshhunt
CloudWatch: Enable custom session duration in AWS plugin auth. #51322, @sunker
Dashboards: Fixes issue with the initial panel layout counting as an unsaved change. #51315, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
Plugins: Use a Grafana specific SDK logger implementation for core plugins. #51229, @marefr
Search: Fix pagination in the new search page. #51366, @ArturWierzbicki

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.3

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.3

Features and enhancements

Access Control: Allow dashboard admins to query org users. #51652, @IevaVasiljeva
Access control: Allow organisation admins to add existing users to org. #51668, @IevaVasiljeva
Alerting: Add method to provisioning API for obtaining a group and its rules. #51761, @alexweav
Alerting: Add method to provisioning API for obtaining a group and its rules. #51398, @alexweav
Alerting: Allow filtering of contact points by name. #51933, @alexweav
Alerting: Disable /api/admin/pause-all-alerts with Unified Alerting. #51895, @joeblubaugh
Analytics: Add total queries and cached queries in usage insights logs. (Enterprise)
Annotations: Use point marker for short time range annotations. #51520, @codeincarnate
AzureMonitor: Update UI to experimental package. #52123, @asimpson
AzureMonitor: Update resource and namespace metadata. #52030, @despian
CloudWatch: Remove simplejson in favor of ’encoding/json’. #51062, @asimpson
DashboardRow: Collapse shortcut prevent to move the collapsed rows. #51589, @ivanortegaalba
Insights: Add dashboard UID to exported logs. (Enterprise)
Navigation: Highlight active nav item when Grafana is served from subpath. #51767, @kianelbo
Plugins: InfluxDB datasource - set epoch query param value as “ms”. #51651, @itsmylife
Plugins: InfluxDB update time range query. #51833, @itsmylife
StateTimeline: Try to sort time field. #51569, @zoltanbedi

Bug fixes

API: Do not validate/save legacy alerts when saving a dashboard if legacy alerting is disabled. #51883, @papagian
Access Control: Fix missing folder permissions. #52153, @IevaVasiljeva
Alerting: Add method to reset notification policy tree back to the default. #51934, @alexweav
Alerting: Fix Teams notifier not failing on 200 response with error. #52254, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Fix bug where state did not change between Alerting and Error. #52204, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Fix consistency errors in OpenAPI documentation. #51935, @alexweav
Alerting: Fix normalization of alert states for panel annotations. #51637, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Provisioning API respects global rule quota. #52180, @alexweav
CSRF: Fix additional headers option. #50629, @sakjur
Chore: Bump parse-url to 6.0.2 to fix security vulnerabilities. #51796, @jackw
Chore: Fix CVE-2020-7753. #51752, @jackw
Chore: Fix CVE-2021-3807. #51753, @jackw
Chore: Fix CVE-2021-3918. #51745, @jackw
Chore: Fix CVE-2021-43138. #51751, @jackw
Chore: Fix CVE-2022-0155. #51755, @jackw
Custom Branding: Fix login logo size. (Enterprise)
Dashboard: Fixes tooltip issue with TimePicker and Setting buttons. #51836, @torkelo
Dashboard: Prevent unnecessary scrollbar when viewing single panel. #52122, @lpskdl
Logs: Fixed wrapping log lines from detected fields. #52108, @svennergr
Loki: Add missing operators in label filter expression. #51880, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix error when changing operations with different parameters. #51779, @svennergr
Loki: Fix suggesting of correct operations in query builder. #52034, @ivanahuckova
Plugins: InfluxDB variable interpolation fix. #51917, @itsmylife
Plugins: InfluxDB variable interpolation fix for influxdbBackendMigration feature flag. #51624, @itsmylife
Reports: Fix line breaks in message. (Enterprise)
Reports: Fix saving report formats. (Enterprise)
SQLstore: Fix fetching an inexistent playlist. #51962, @papagian
Security: Fixes for CVE-2022-31107 and CVE-2022-31097. #52279, @kminehart
Snapshots: Fix deleting external snapshots when using RBAC. #51897, @idafurjes
Table: Fix scrollbar being hidden by pagination. #51501, @zoltanbedi
Templating: Changing between variables with the same name now correctly triggers a dashboard refresh. #51490, @ashharrison90
Time series panel: Fix an issue with stacks being not complete due to the incorrect data frame length. #51910, @dprokop
[v9.0.x] Snapshots: Fix deleting external snapshots when using RBAC (#51897). #51904, @idafurjes

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.4

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.4

Features and enhancements

Browse/Search: Make browser back work properly when visiting Browse or search. #52271, @torkelo
Logs: Improve getLogRowContext API. #52130, @gabor
Loki: Improve handling of empty responses. #52397, @gabor
Plugins: Always validate root URL if specified in signature manfiest. #52332, @wbrowne
Preferences: Get home dashboard from teams. #52225, @sakjur
SQLStore: Support Upserting multiple rows. #52228, @joeblubaugh
Traces: Add more template variables in Tempo & Zipkin. #52306, @joey-grafana
Traces: Remove serviceMap feature flag. #52375, @joey-grafana

Bug fixes

Access Control: Fix missing folder permissions. #52410, @IevaVasiljeva
Access control: Fix org user removal for OSS users. #52473, @IevaVasiljeva
Alerting: Fix Slack notification preview. #50230, @ekrucio
Alerting: Fix Slack push notifications. #52391, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Fixes slack push notifications. #50267, @jgillick
Alerting: Preserve new-lines from custom email templates in rendered email. #52253, @alexweav
Insights: Fix dashboard and data source insights pages. (Enterprise)
Log: Fix text logging for unsupported types. #51306, @papagian
Loki: Fix show context not working in some occasions. #52458, @svennergr
Loki: Fix incorrect TopK value type in query builder. #52226, @ivanahuckova

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.5

Features and enhancements

Access control: Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. #52535, @grafanabot
Alerting: Allow the webhook notifier to support a custom Authorization header. #52515, @gotjosh
Chore: Upgrade to Go version 1.17.12. #52523, @sakjur
Plugins: Add signature wildcard globbing for dedicated private plugin type. #52163, @wbrowne
Prometheus: Don’t show errors from unsuccessful API checks like rules or exemplar checks. #52193, @darrenjaneczek

Bug fixes

Access control: Allow organisation admins to add existing users to org (#51668). #52553, @vtorosyan
Alerting: Fix alert panel instance-based rules filtering. #52583, @konrad147
Apps: Fixes navigation between different app plugin pages. #52571, @torkelo
Cloudwatch: Upgrade grafana-aws-sdk to fix auth issue with secret keys. #52420, @sarahzinger
Grafana/toolkit: Fix incorrect image and font generation for plugin builds. #52661, @academo
Loki: Fix show context not working in some occasions. #52458, @svennergr
RBAC: Fix permissions on dashboards and folders created by anonymous users. #52615, @gamab

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.6

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.6

Features and enhancements

Access Control: Allow org admins to invite new users to their organization. #52904, @IevaVasiljeva

Bug fixes

Grafana/toolkit: Fix incorrect image and font generation for plugin builds. #52927, @academo
Prometheus: Fix adding of multiple values for regex operator. #52978, @ivanahuckova
UI/Card: Fix card items always having pointer cursor. #52809, @gillesdemey

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.7

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.7

Features and enhancements

CloudMonitoring: Remove link setting for SLO queries. #53031, @andresmgot

Bug fixes

GrafanaUI: Render PageToolbar’s leftItems regardless of title’s presence. #53285, @Elfo404
Reports: Fix inconsistency reports. (Enterprise)
Reports: Set UID when it’s not received in the query. (Enterprise)
Reports: Save and update in reports should be transactional. (Enterprise)

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.8

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.8

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Hide “no rules” message when we are fetching from data sources. #53778, @gillesdemey
Rendering: Add support for renderer token (#54425). #54439, @joanlopez
Reports: Title is showing under panels. (Enterprise)
Alerting: AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. #53680, @yuri-tceretian

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.9

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.0.9

Bug fixes

AngularPanels: Fixing changing angular panel options not taking having affect when coming back from panel edit. #54834, @grafanabot
AuthNZ: Security fixes for CVE-2022-35957 and CVE-2022-36062. #55498, @IevaVasiljeva
FIX: RBAC prevents deleting empty snapshots (#54385). #54509, @gamab

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.0

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.0

Features and enhancements

API: Allow creating teams with a user defined identifier. #48710, @papagian
Alerting: Adds interval and For to alert rule details. #53211, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Extend PUT rule-group route to write the entire rule group rather than top-level fields only. #53078, @alexweav
Alerting: Use Adaptive Cards in Teams notifications. #53532, @grobinson-grafana
Azure Monitor: Add Network Insights Dashboard. #50362, @Teddy-Lin
Chore: Improve logging of unrecoverable errors. #53664, @sakjur
Correlations: Add UpdateCorrelation HTTP API. #52444, @Elfo404
Dashboard: Reverted the changes of hiding multi-select and all variable in the datasource picker. #53521, @lpskdl
Geomap: Add alpha day/night layer. #50201, @ryantxu
Geomap: Add measuring tools. #51608, @drew08t
GrafanaUI: Add success state to ClipboardButton. #52069, @evictorero
Heatmap: Replace the heatmap panel with new implementation. #50229, @ryantxu
KVStore: Allow empty value in kv_store. #53416, @spinillos
Prometheus: Promote Azure auth flag to configuration. #53447, @andresmgot
Reports: Save and update in reports should be transactional. (Enterprise)
Reports: Set uid when we don’t receive it in the query. (Enterprise)
Search: Display only dashboards in General folder of Search Folder View. #53607, @lpskdl
Status history/State timeline: Support datalinks. #50226, @jloupdef
Transform: Add a limit transform. #49291, @josiahg
Transformations: Add standard deviation and variance reducers. #49753, @selvavm

Bug fixes

API: Fix snapshot responses. #52998, @papagian
Access Control: Fix permission error during dashboard creation flow. #53214, @IevaVasiljeva
Access Control: Set permissions for Grafana’s test data source. #53247, @IevaVasiljeva
Alerting: Fix migration failure. #53253, @papagian
BarGauge: Show empty bar when value, minValue and maxValue are all equal. #53314, @ashharrison90
Dashboard: Fix color of bold and italics text in panel description tooltip. #53380, @joshhunt
Loki: Fix passing of query with defaults to code mode. #53646, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix producing correct log volume query for query with comments. #53254, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix showing of unusable labels field in detected fields. #53319, @ivanahuckova
Reports: Fix inconsistency reports. (Enterprise)
Tracing: Fix OpenTelemetry Jaeger context propagation. #53269, @zhichli
Tracing: Fix OpenTelemetry Jaeger context propagation (#53269). #53724, @idafurjes
[9.1.x] Alerting: AlertingProxy to elevate permissions for request forwarded to data proxy when RBAC enabled. #53679, @yuri-tceretian

Breaking changes

Alert notifications to Microsoft Teams now use Adaptive Cards instead of Office 365 Connector Cards. Issue #53532

Starting at 9.1.0, existing heatmap panels will start using a new implementation. This can be disabled by setting the useLegacyHeatmapPanel feature flag to true. It can be tested on a single dashbobard by adding ?__feature.useLegacyHeatmapPanel=true to any dashboard URL. Please report any heatmap migration issues.. The most notable changes are:

Significantly improved rendering performance
When calculating heatmaps, the buckets are now placed on reasonable borders (1m, 5m, 30s etc)
Round cells are no longer supported Issue #50229

Plugin development fixes & changes

Plugins: Only pass rootUrls field in request when not empty. #53135, @wbrowne

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.0-beta1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

API: Migrate CSRF to service and support additional options. #48120, @sakjur
API: Move swagger definitions to the handlers and rename operations after them. #52643, @papagian
Access Control: Allow org admins to invite new users. #52894, @IevaVasiljeva
AccessControl: Check dashboards permission for reports. (Enterprise)
Alerting: Add config disabled_labels to disable reserved labels. #51832, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Add custom templated title to Wecom notifier. #51529, @dingweiqings
Alerting: Add file provisioning for alert rules. #51635, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for contact points. #51924, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for mute timings. #52936, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for notification policies. #52877, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for text templates. #52952, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add first Grafana reserved label grafana_folder. #50262, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Add support for images in Kafka alerts. #50758, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Add support for images in VictorOps alerts. #50759, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Adds contact point template syntax highlighting. #51559, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Adds visual tokens for templates. #51376, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Alert rules pagination. #50612, @konrad147
Alerting: Change alertScreenshotToken to alertImageToken. #50771, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Configure alert manager data source as an external AM. #52081, @konrad147
Alerting: Do not include button in googlechat notification if URL invalid. #47317, @j6s
Alerting: Group alert state history by labels and allow filtering. #52784, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Make ticker to tick at predictable time. #50197, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Persist rule position in the group. #50051, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Prevent evaluation if “for” shorter than “evaluate”. #51797, @peterholmberg
Alerting: Provisioning UI. #50776, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Rule api to fail update if provisioned rules are affected. #50835, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Scheduler to drop ticks if a rule’s evaluation is too slow. #48885, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Show evaluation interval global limit warning. #52942, @konrad147
Alerting: State manager to use tick time to determine stale states. #50991, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Support for optimistic locking for alert rules. #50274, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Update RBAC for alert rules to consider access to rule as access to group it belongs. #49033, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Update default route groupBy to [grafana_folder, alertname]. #50052, @JacobsonMT
Alertmanager: Adding SigV4 Authentication to Alertmanager Datasource. #49718, @lewinkedrs
Analytics: Save all view time dates as UTC. (Enterprise)
Annotations: Migrate dashboardId to dashboardUID. #52588, @lpskdl
Auditing: Allow users to have more verbose logs. (Enterprise)
Auth: Add lookup params for saml and LDAP sync. (Enterprise)
Auth: Add option for case insensitive login. #49262, @Jguer
Auth: Case insensitive ids duplicate usagestats. #50724, @eleijonmarck
Auth: Implement Token URL Auth. #52578, @Jguer
Auth: Implement Token URL JWT Auth. #52662, @Jguer
Auth: Lockdown non-editables in frontend when external auth is configured. #52160, @Jguer
Azure Monitor: Add new dashboard with geo map for app insights test availability. #52494, @jcolladokuri
Azure Monitor: New template variable editor. #52594, @andresmgot
Azure Monitor: Restore Metrics query parameters: subscription, resourceGroup, metricNamespace and resourceName. #52897, @andresmgot
Chore: Add dashboard UID as query parameter of Get annotation endpoint. #52764, @ying-jeanne
Chore: Remove jest-coverage-badges dep from toolkit. #49883, @zoltanbedi
Chore: Rename dashboardUID to dashboardUIDs in search endpoint and up…. #52766, @ying-jeanne
CloudWatch: Add default log groups to config page. #49286, @iwysiu
CommandPalette: Populate dashboard search when the palette is opened. #51293, @ryantxu
Core Plugins: Add support for HTTP logger. #46578, @toddtreece
Correlations: Add CreateCorrelation HTTP API. #51630, @Elfo404
Correlations: Add DeleteCorrelation HTTP API. #51801, @Elfo404
Custom branding: Add UI for setting configuration. (Enterprise)
Custom branding: Add custom branding service (early access). (Enterprise)
Data Connections: Create a new top-level page. #50018, @leventebalogh
DataSource: Allow data source plugins to set query default values. #49581, @sunker
Docs: CSRF add configuration options and documentation for additional headers and origins. #50473, @eleijonmarck
Elasticsearch: Added modifyQuery method to add filters in Explore. #52313, @svennergr
Explore: Add ability to include tags in trace to metrics queries. #49433, @connorlindsey
Explore: Download and upload service graphs for Tempo. #50260, @connorlindsey
Explore: Make service graph visualization use available vertical space. #50518, @connorlindsey
Explore: Reset Graph overrides if underlying series changes. #49680, @Elfo404
Explore: Sort trace process attributes alphabetically. #51261, @connorlindsey
Frontend Logging: Integrate grafana javascript agent. #50801, @tolzhabayev
Geomap: Add ability to select a data query filter for each layer. #49966, @mmandrus
Geomap: Route/path visualization. #43554, @alexanderzobnin
GeomapPanel: Add base types to data layer options. #50053, @drew08t
Graph Panel: Add feature toggle that will allow automatic migration to timeseries panel. #50631, @ryantxu
Graphite: Introduce new query types in annotation editor. #52341, @itsmylife
Infra: Pass custom headers in resource request. #51291, @aocenas
Insights: Add RBAC for insights features. (Enterprise)
Instrumentation: Add more buckets to the HTTP request histogram. #51492, @bergquist
Instrumentation: Collect database connection stats. #52797, @bergquist
Instrumentation: Convert some metrics to histograms. #50420, @SuperQ
Jaeger: Add support for variables. #50500, @joey-grafana
LDAP: Allow specifying LDAP timeout. #48870, @hannes-256
LibraryPanels: Require only viewer permissions to use a Library Panel. #50241, @joshhunt
Licensing: Usage-based billing reporting enhancements. (Enterprise)
Logs: Handle clicks on legend labels in histogram. #49931, @gabor
Logs: Improve the color for unknown log level. #52711, @gabor
Loki/Logs: Make it possible to copy log values to clipboard. #50914, @Seyaji
Loki: Add hint for pipeline error to query builder. #52134, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Add hints for level-like labels. #52414, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Add support for IP label and line filter in query builder. #52658, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Add unwrap with conversion function to builder. #52639, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Implement hints for query builder. #51795, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Move explain section to builder mode. #52879, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Show label options for unwrap operation. #52810, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Support json parser with expressions in query builder. #51965, @ivanahuckova
Navigation: Display Starred dashboards in the Navbar. #51038, @ashharrison90
Node Graph Panel: Add options to configure units and arc colors. #51057, @connorlindsey
OAuth: Allow role mapping from GitHub and GitLab groups. #52407, @Jguer
Opentsdb: Add tag values into the opentsdb response. #48672, @xy-man
OptionsUI: UnitPicker now supports isClearable setting. #51064, @ryantxu
PanelEdit: Hide multi-/all-select datasource variables in datasource picker. #52142, @eledobleefe
Piechart: Implements series override -> hide in area for the legend or tooltip. #51297, @daniellee
Plugin admin: Add a page to show where panel plugins are used in dashboards. #50909, @ryantxu
Plugins: Add validation for plugin manifest. #52787, @wbrowne
Prometheus: Move explain section to builder mode. #52935, @itsmylife
Prometheus: Support 1ms resolution intervals. #44707, @dankeder
Prometheus: Throw error on direct access. #50162, @aocenas
RBAC: Add RBAC for query caching. (Enterprise)
RBAC: Add access control metadata to folder dtos. #51158, @kalleep
RBAC: Allow app plugins access restriction. #51524, @gamab
RBAC: Rename alerting roles to match naming convention. #50504, @gamab
Report: Calculate grid height unit dynamically instead use hardcode values. (Enterprise)
Reports: Add created column in report_dashboards. (Enterprise)
Reports: Add dashboard title in all pdf pages. (Enterprise)
Reports: Allow saving draft reports. (Enterprise)
Reports: Multiple dashboards improvements. (Enterprise)
SAML : Support Azure Single Sign Out. (Enterprise)
SAML: Add NameIDFormat in SP metadata. (Enterprise)
SAML: Improve debug logs for saml logout. (Enterprise)
SSE: Add noData type. #51973, @kylebrandt
Search: Filter punctuation and tokenize camel case. #51165, @FZambia
Search: Sync state on read for HA consistency. #50152, @FZambia
Security: Choose Lookup params per auth module (CVE-2022-31107). #52312, @Jguer
Service Accounts: Managed permissions for service accounts. #51818, @IevaVasiljeva
Service accounts: Grafana service accounts are enabled by default. #51402, @vtorosyan
ServiceAccounts: Add Prometheus metrics service. #51831, @Jguer
ServiceAccounts: Add Service Account Token last used at date. #51446, @Jguer
SharePDF: Use currently selected variables and time range when generating PDF. (Enterprise)
Slider: Enforce numeric constraints and styling within the text input. #50905, @drew08t
State Timeline: Enable support for annotations. #47887, @dprokop
Table panel: Add multiple data links support to Default, Image and JSONView cells. #51162, @dprokop
TeamSync: Remove LDAP specific example from team sync. #51368, @Jguer
TeamSync: Support case insensitive matches and wildcard groups. (Enterprise)
Tempo: Add context menu to edges. #52396, @joey-grafana
Tempo: Consider tempo search out of beta and remove beta badge and feature flags. #50030, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Tempo/Prometheus links select ds in new tab (cmd + click). #52319, @joey-grafana
Time series panel: Hide axis when series is hidden from the visualization. #51432, @dprokop
TimeSeries: Add option for symmetrical y axes (align 0). #52555, @leeoniya
TimeSeries: Add option to match axis color to series color. #51437, @leeoniya
TimeSeries: Improved constantY rendering parity with Graph (old). #51401, @leeoniya
Timeseries: Support multiple timezones in x axis. #52424, @ryantxu
TopNav: Adds new feature toggle for upcoming nav. #51115, @torkelo
Traces: APM table. #48654, @joey-grafana
Traces: Add absolute time to span details. #50685, @joey-grafana
Traces: Add horizontal scroll. #50278, @joey-grafana
Traces: Consistent span colors for service names. #50782, @joey-grafana
Traces: Move towards using OTEL naming conventions. #51379, @joey-grafana
Traces: Span bar label. #50931, @joey-grafana
Transformations: Add standard deviation and variance reducers. #52769, @ryantxu
Transforms: Add Join by label transformation. #52670, @ryantxu
URL: Encode certain special characters. #51806, @L-M-K-B
ValueMappings: Make value mapping row focusable. #52337, @lpskdl
Variables: Add ‘jsonwithoutquote’ formatting options for variables, and format of variable supports pipeline. #51859, @MicroOps-cn
Variables: Selectively reload panels on URL update. #51003, @toddtreece
Various Panels: Add ability to toggle legend with keyboard shortcut. #52241, @alyssabull

Bug fixes

API: Fix failing test by initialising legacy guardian when creating folder scenario. #50800, @vicmarbev
Access control: Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. #52532, @IevaVasiljeva
Alerting: Fix RegExp matchers in frontend for Silences and other previews. #51726, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Fix rule API to accept 0 duration of field For. #50992, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Increase alert rule operation perf by replacing subquery with threshold calculation. #53069, @alexweav
Barchart Panel: Fix threshold colors changing when data is refreshed. #52038, @mingozh
Dashboard: Fix iteration property change triggering unsaved changes warning. #51272, @torkelo
Dashboards: Disable variable pickers for snapshots. #52827, @joshhunt
Elasticsearch: Always use fixed_interval. #50297, @gabor
Geomap: Fix tooltip offset bug. #52627, @drew08t
Geomap: Update with template variable change. #52007, @drew08t
Loki: Fix adding of multiple label filters when parser. #52335, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix support of ad-hoc filters for specific queries. #51232, @ivanahuckova
Navigation: Hide Dashboards/Starred items from navbar when unauthenticated. #53051, @ashharrison90
PasswordReset: Enforce password length check on password reset request. #51005, @asymness
Prometheus: Fix integer overflow in rate interval calculation on 32-bit architectures. #51508, @andreasgerstmayr
Search: Fix indexing - re-index after initial provisioning. #50959, @FZambia
Slider: Fixes styling of marker dots. #52678, @torkelo
Tracing: Fix links to traces in Explore. #50113, @connorlindsey

Breaking changes

Some swagger operations and responses have been renamed to match the respective handler names in order to better highlight their relation. If you use the Swagger specification for generating code, you have to re-generate it and make the necessary adjustments. Issue #52643

The following metrics have been converted to histograms:

grafana_datasource_request_total
grafana_datasource_request_duration_seconds
grafana_datasource_response_size_bytes
grafana_datasource_request_in_flight
grafana_plugin_request_duration_milliseconds
grafana_alerting_rule_evaluation_duration_seconds Issue #50420

In Elasticsearch versions 7.x, to specify the interval-value we used the interval property. In Grafana 9.1.0 we switched to use the fixed_interval property. This makes it to be the same as in Elasticsearch versions 8.x, also this provides a more consistent experience, fixed_interval is a better match to Grafana’s time invervals. For most situations this will not cause any visible change to query results. Issue #50297

Grafana now reserves alert labels prefixed with `grafana_`

Labels prefixed with grafana_ are reserved by Grafana for special use. If a manually configured label is added beginning with grafana_ it may be overwritten in case of collision.

The current list of labels created by Grafana and available for use anywhere manually configured labels are:

Label	Description
grafana_folder	Title of the folder containing the alert.	Issue #50262

In Prometheus, browser access mode was deprecated in Grafana 7.4.0 and removed in 9.0.0. If you used this mode, please switch to server access mode on the datasource configuration page. Issue #50162

Plugin development fixes & changes

Dropdown: New dropdown component. #52684, @torkelo
Grafana/UI: Add ColorPickerInput component. #52222, @Clarity-89
Plugins: Validate root URLs when signing private plugins via grafana-toolkit. #51968, @wbrowne

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.1

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.1

Features and enhancements

Cloud Monitoring: Support SLO burn rate. #53710, @itkq
Schema: Restore “hidden” in LegendDisplayMode. #53925, @academo
Timeseries: Revert the timezone(s) property name change back to singular. #53926, @academo

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix links in Microsoft Teams notifications. #54003, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Fix notifications for Microsoft Teams. #53810, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Fix width of Adaptive Cards in Teams notifications. #53996, @grobinson-grafana
ColorPickerInput: Fix popover in disabled state. #54000, @Clarity-89
Decimals: Fixes auto decimals to behave the same for positive and negative values. #53960, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
Loki: Fix unique log row id generation. #53932, @gabor
Plugins: Fix file extension in development authentication guide. #53838, @pbzona
TimeSeries: Fix jumping legend issue. #53671, @zoltanbedi
TimeSeries: Fix memory leak on viz re-init caused by KeyboardPlugin. #53872, @leeoniya

Plugin development fixes & changes

TimePicker: Fixes relative timerange of less than a day not displaying. #53975, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
GrafanaUI: Fixes ClipboardButton to always keep multi line content. #53903, @JoaoSilvaGrafana

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.2

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.2

Features and enhancements

AdHoc variable: Correctly preselect datasource when provisioning. #54088, @dprokop
AzureMonitor: Added ARG query function for template variables. #53059, @yaelleC
Dashboard save: Persist details message when navigating through dashboard save drawer’s tabs. #54084, @vbeskrovnov
Dashboards: Correctly migrate mixed data source targets. #54152, @dprokop
Elasticsearch: Use millisecond intervals for alerting. #54157, @gabor
Elasticsearch: Use millisecond intervals in frontend. #54202, @gabor
Geomap: Local color range. #54348, @adela-almasan
Plugins Catalog: Use appSubUrl to generate plugins catalog urls. #54426, @academo
Rendering: Add support for renderer token. #54425, @joanlopez

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix saving of screenshots uploaded with a signed url. #53933, @VDVsx
AngularPanels: Fixing changing angular panel options not taking having affect when coming back from panel edit. #54087, @torkelo
Explore: Improve a11y of query row collapse button. #53827, @L-M-K-B
Geomap: Fix tooltip display. #54245, @adela-almasan
QueryEditorRow: Filter data on mount. #54260, @asimpson
Search: Show all dashboards in the folder view. #54163, @ryantxu
Tracing: Fix the event attributes in opentelemetry tracing. #54117, @ying-jeanne

Plugin development fixes & changes

GrafanaUI: Fix styles for invalid selects & DataSourcePicker. #53476, @Elfo404

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.3

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.3

Features and enhancements

API: Do not expose user input in datasource error responses. #53483, @papagian
Alerting: Write and Delete multiple alert instances. #54072, @joeblubaugh
Library Panel: Allow to delete them when deprecated. #54662, @ivanortegaalba
Plugins Catalog: Allow to filter plugins using special characters. #54474, @murtazaqa

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix UI bug when setting custom notification policy group by. #54607, @JacobsonMT
AppRootPage: Fix issue navigating between two app plugin pages. #54519, @torkelo
Correlations: Use correct fallback handlers. #54511, @kalleep
FIX: RBAC prevents deleting empty snapshots (#54385). #54510, @gamab
LibraryElements: Fix inability to delete library panels under MySQL. #54600, @kaydelaney
Metrics: fix grafana_database_conn_* metrics, and add new go_sql_stats_* metrics as eventual replacement. #54405, @hairyhenderson
TestData DB: Fix node graph not showing when the Data type field is set to random. #54298, @CrypticSignal

Deprecations

The grafana_database_conn_* metrics are deprecated, and will be removed in a future version of Grafana. Use the go_sql_stats_* metrics instead. Issue #54405

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.4

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.4

Bug fixes

GrafanaUI: Fixes Chrome issue for various query fields. #54566, @kaydelaney

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.5

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.5

Features and enhancements

Alerting: Sanitize invalid label/annotation names for external alertmanagers. #54537, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Telegram: Truncate long messages to avoid send error. #54339, @ZloyDyadka
DisplayProcessor: Handle reverse-ordered data when auto-showing millis. #54923, @leeoniya
Heatmap: Add option to reverse color scheme. #54365, @leeoniya
PluginLoader: Alias slate-react as @grafana/slate-react. #55027, @kaydelaney
Search: Add substring matcher, to bring back the old dashboard search behavior. #54813, @ArturWierzbicki
Traces: More visible span colors. #54513, @joey-grafana

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix incorrect propagation of org ID and other fields in rule provisioning endpoints. #54603, @alexweav
Alerting: Resetting the notification policy tree to the default policy will also restore default contact points. #54608, @alexweav
AzureMonitor: Fix custom namespaces. #54937, @asimpson
AzureMonitor: Fix issue where custom metric namespaces are not included in the metric namespace list. #54826, @andresmgot
CloudWatch: Fix display name of metric and namespace. #54860, @sunker
Cloudwatch: Fix annotation query serialization issue. #54884, @sunker
Dashboard: Fix issue where unsaved changes warning would appear even after save, and not being able to change library panels. #54706, @torkelo
Dashboard: Hide overflow content for single left pane. #54882, @lpskdl
Loki: Fix a bug where adding adhoc filters was not possible. #54920, @svennergr
Reports: Fix handling expired state. (Enterprise)

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.6

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.6

Features and enhancements

Auth: Trigger auth token cleanup job. (Enterprise)
DataSource: Adding possibility to hide queries from the inspector. #54892, @mckn
Inspect: Hide Actions tab when it is empty. #55272, @ryantxu
PanelMenu: Remove hide legend action as it was showing on all panel types. #54876, @torkelo
Provisioning Contact points: Support disableResolveMessage via YAML. #54122, @mmusenbr
PublicDashboards: Support subpaths when generating pubdash url. #55204, @owensmallwood

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix legacy migration crash when rule name is too long. #55053, @alexweav
Alerting: Fix send resolved notifications. #54793, @grobinson-grafana
Azure Monitor: Fix migration issue with MetricDefinitionsQuery template variable query types. #55262, @yaelleC
Browse: Hide dashboard actions if user does not have enough permission. #55218, @lpskdl
ElasticSearch: Fix dispatching queries at a wrong time. #55225, @svennergr
Panel: Disable legends when showLegend is false prior to schema v37. #55126, @ivanortegaalba
Prometheus: Fix metadata requests for browser access mode. #55403, @itsmylife
Search: Avoid requesting all dashboards when in Folder View. #55169, @JoaoSilvaGrafana
TablePanel/StatPanel: Fix values not being visible when background transparent. #55092, @mdvictor

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.7

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:37:59 +0000

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.7

Features and enhancements

Chore: Upgrade Go version to 1.19.1 (backport). #55733, @sakjur
CloudWatch: Add missing AWS/Prometheus metrics. #54990, @jangaraj
Explore: Add feature tracking events. #54514, @L-M-K-B
Graphite: Add error information to graphite queries tracing. #55249, @jesusvazquez
Prometheus: Restore FromAlert header. #55255, @kylebrandt
SAML: Account for all orgs in org_mapping (#3855). (Enterprise)
Search: Add search index configuration options. #55525, @ArturWierzbicki
Thresholds: Add option for dashed line style. #55875, @leeoniya

Bug fixes

Alerting: Fix default query’s data source when no default datasource specified. #55435, @konrad147
Alerting: Fix mathexp.NoData cannot be reduced. #55347, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Skip unsupported file types on provisioning. #55573, @JohnnyQQQQ
AzureMonitor: Ensure resourceURI template variable is migrated. #56095, @aangelisc
Dashboard: Fix plugin dashboard save as button. #55197, @lpskdl
Docs: Fix decimals: auto docs for panel edit. #55477, @joshhunt
Fix: RBAC handle error no resolver found. #55676, @gamab
Fix: RBAC handle error no resolver found. (Enterprise)
LibraryPanelSearch: Refactor and fix hyphen issue. #55314, @kaydelaney
Live: Fix live streaming with live-service-web-worker feature flag enabled. #55528, @ArturWierzbicki
QueryField: Fix wrong cursor position on autocomplete. #55576, @svennergr