Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v7.1.4 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v7.1.4. Source highlight: Download Page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **Azure App Insights Alert error - tsdb.HandleRequest() failed to convert dataframe "" to tsdb.TimeSeriesSlice**. #26897
- **AzureMonitor**: map more units. #26990, @kylebrandt
- **Azuremonitor**: do not set unit if literal "Unspecified". #26839, @kylebrandt
- **Dataframe/Alerting**: to tsdb.TimeSeriesSlice - accept "empty" time series. #26903, @kylebrandt
- **Field overrides**: Filter by field name using regex. #27070, @dprokop
- **Overrides**: expose byType matcher UI. #27056, @ryantxu
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **CloudWatch**: Add FreeStorageCapacity metric. #26503, @waqark3389
- **CloudWatch**: Fix sorting of metrics results. #26835, @aknuds1
- **Cloudwatch**: Add FileSystemId as a dimension key for the AWS/FSx namespace. #26662, @waqark3389
- **InfluxDB**: Update Flux placeholder URL with respect to latest Go client. #27086, @aknuds1
- **InfluxDB**: Upgrade Go client, use data source HTTP client. #27012, @aknuds1
- **Proxy**: Fix updating refresh token in OAuth pass-thru. #26885, @seanlaff
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/7.1.4)
[What's New Highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v7-1/)
[Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v7-1-x/32967)
### Features / Enhancements
* **Azure App Insights Alert error - tsdb.HandleRequest() failed to convert dataframe "" to tsdb.TimeSeriesSlice**. [#26897](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/26897)
* **AzureMonitor**: map more units. [#26990](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26990), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
* **Azuremonitor**: do not set unit if literal "Unspecified". [#26839](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26839), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
* **Dataframe/Alerting**: to tsdb.TimeSeriesSlice - accept "empty" time series. [#26903](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26903), [@kylebrandt](https://github.com/kylebrandt)
* **Field overrides**: Filter by field name using regex. [#27070](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/27070), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
* **Overrides**: expose byType matcher UI. [#27056](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/27056), [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu)
### Bug Fixes
* **CloudWatch**: Add FreeStorageCapacity metric. [#26503](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26503), [@waqark3389](https://github.com/waqark3389)
* **CloudWatch**: Fix sorting of metrics results. [#26835](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26835), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
* **Cloudwatch**: Add FileSystemId as a dimension key for the AWS/FSx namespace. [#26662](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26662), [@waqark3389](https://github.com/waqark3389)
* **InfluxDB**: Update Flux placeholder URL with respect to latest Go client. [#27086](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/27086), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
* **InfluxDB**: Upgrade Go client, use data source HTTP client. [#27012](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/27012), [@aknuds1](https://github.com/aknuds1)
* **Proxy**: Fix updating refresh token in OAuth pass-thru. [#26885](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/26885), [@seanlaff](https://github.com/seanlaff)
* **Templating**: Fixes so texts show in picker not the values. [#27002](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/27002), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)