Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v1.5.1
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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 v1.5.1. Source highlight: maxDataPoints must be an integer #184 (thanks @frejsoya for fixing this)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- maxDataPoints must be an integer #184 (thanks @frejsoya for fixing this)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
### Fixes:
- maxDataPoints must be an integer #184 (thanks @frejsoya for fixing this)
For people who are find Grafana slow for large time spans or high resolution metrics. This is most likely due to graphite returning a large number of datapoints. The maxDataPoints parameter solves this issue. For maxDataPoints to work you need to run the latest graphite-web (some builds of 0.9.12 does not include this feature):
Read this for more info:
https://github.com/torkelo/grafana/wiki/Performance-for-large-time-spans