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title: "Google Cloud Monitoring data source changelog for Grafana"
description: "Data source for Google's monitoring service (formerly named Stackdriver). Google Cloud Monitoring data source plugin for Grafana by Grafana Labs."
---

> This is the Markdown version of https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/stackdriver/changelog/

# Google Cloud Monitoring - Change log

# Changelog

## 12.6.7

- Security: Restrict resource calls to the expected Cloud Monitoring API paths ([#143](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/143))

## 12.6.6

- Update dependencies
- Fix a connection freeze between Grafana and the plugin under heavy query load by updating google.golang.org/grpc to v1.85.0 ([grpc/grpc-go#9330](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/issues/9330))
- Update frontend and backend dependencies ([#139](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/139))

## 12.6.5

- Bump backend dependency

## 12.6.4

- Update Go to 1.27.3 ([#125](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/125))
- Fix security vulnerabilities ([#124](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/124))

## 12.6.3

- Adds datasource configuration schema ([#122](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/122))

## 12.6.2

- Bump go v1.26.7 and grafana-plugin-sdk-go v0.296.4 ([#109](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/109))
- Update contribution document ([#98](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-cloudmonitoring-datasource/pull/98))

## 12.6.1

- Removed included dashboards from plugin.json.

## 12.6.0

- Add support for [Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/workload-identity-federation) as a new authentication type. Available on Grafana Cloud only.

## 12.5.2

- Classified invalid query JSON as downstream errors.

## 12.5.1

- Added included dashboards back to plugin.json.

## 12.5.0

- Add support for [Forward OAuth Identity](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/google-cloud-monitoring/google-authentication/) as a new authentication type. Each query runs as the Google-signed-in Grafana user by forwarding their OAuth token. Requires Grafana to be configured with [Google OAuth](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/setup-grafana/configure-security/configure-authentication/google/) login.

## 12.4.3

- Removed includes from plugin.json so dashboards don't get imported automatically.

## 12.4.2

- Initial release.