Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v1.4.0
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Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v1.4.0. Source highlight: #44 Annotations! Required a lot of work to get right. Read wiki article for more info. Supported annotations data sources are graphite metrics and graphite events. Support for more will be added in the future!
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
New Features:
#44 Annotations! Required a lot of work to get right. Read [wiki](https://github.com/torkelo/grafana/wiki/Annotations) article for more info. Supported annotations data sources are graphite metrics and graphite events. Support for more will be added in the future!
#35 Support for multiple graphite servers! (Read [wiki](https://github.com/torkelo/grafana/wiki/Multiple-datasources) article for more)
#116 Back to dashboard link in top menu to easily exist full screen / edit mode.
#114, #97 Legend values now use the same y axes formatter
#77 Improvements and polish to the light theme
Changes:
#98 Stack is no longer by default turned on in graph display settings.
Hide controls (Ctrl+h) now hides the sub menu row (where filtering, and annotations are). So if you had filtering enabled and hide controls enabled you will not see the filtering sub menu.
Fixes:
#94 Fix for bug that caused dashboard settings to sometimes not contain timepicker tab.
#110 Graph with many many metrics caused legend to push down graph editor below screen. You can now scroll in edit mode & full screen mode for graphs with lots of series & legends.
#104 Improvement to graphite target editor, select wildcard now gives you a "select metric" link for the next node.
#105 Added zero as a possible node value in groupByAlias function