Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v4.4.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v4.4.0. Source highlight: Download Page
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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✨ New Features & Capabilities (4)
- **Elasticsearch**: Added filter aggregation label #8420, thx @tianzk
- **Sensu**: Added option for source and handler #8405, thx @joemiller
- **DingDing**: Add DingDing Alert Notifier #8473 thx @jiamliang
- **Elasticsearch**: Add option for result set size in raw_document #3426 #8527, thx @mk-dhia
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (2)
- **CSV**: Configurable csv export datetime format #8058, thx @cederigo
- **Table Panel**: Column style that preserves formatting/indentation (like pre tag) #6617
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- **Graph**: Bug fix for negative values in histogram mode #8628
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](http://grafana.org/download)
[Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/)
To view screenshots and examples of the new features read the [What's New in v4.4](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v4-4/) article.
**Highlights**:
- Dashboard History - version control for dashboards.
The changelog with a list of all the changes can be found below. The blog post for this release can be found [here](https://grafana.com/blog/2017/07/04/grafana-4.4-release/).
## New Features
**Dashboard History**: View dashboard version history, compare any two versions (summary & json diffs), restore to old version. This big feature
was contributed by **Walmart Labs**. Big thanks to them for this massive contribution!
Initial feature request: [#4638](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4638)
Pull Request: [#8472](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8472)
## Enhancements
* **Elasticsearch**: Added filter aggregation label [#8420](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8420), thx [@tianzk](github.com/tianzk)
* **Sensu**: Added option for source and handler [#8405](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8405), thx [@joemiller](github.com/joemiller)
* **CSV**: Configurable csv export datetime format [#8058](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8058), thx [@cederigo](github.com/cederigo)
* **Table Panel**: Column style that preserves formatting/indentation (like pre tag) [#6617](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6617)
* **DingDing**: Add DingDing Alert Notifier [#8473](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8473) thx [@jiamliang](https://github.com/jiamliang)
## Minor Enhancements
* **Elasticsearch**: Add option for result set size in raw_document [#3426](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3426) [#8527](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8527), thx [@mk-dhia](github.com/mk-dhia)
## Bug Fixes
* **Graph**: Bug fix for negative values in histogram mode [#8628](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8628)