Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.2.0 (2021-10-07)
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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 v8.2.0. 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 (6)
- **AWS:** Updated AWS authentication documentation. #39236, @sunker
- **Alerting:** Added support Alertmanager data source for upstream Prometheus AM implementation. #39775, @domasx2
- **Alerting:** Allows more characters in label names so notifications are sent. #38629, @gotjosh
- **Alerting:** Get alert rules for a dashboard or a panel using /api/v1/rules endpoints. #39476, @gerobinson
- **Annotations:** Improved rendering performance of event markers. #39984, @torkelo
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Skip caching for log queries. #39860, @aocenas
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)
- **CodeEditor:** Ensure that we trigger the latest onSave callback provided to the component. #39835, @mckn
- **DashboardList/AlertList:** Fix for missing All folder value. #39772, @hugohaggmark
- **Plugins:** Create a mock icon component to prevent console errors. #39901, @jackw
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.2.0)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **AWS:** Updated AWS authentication documentation. [#39236](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39236), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Alerting:** Added support Alertmanager data source for upstream Prometheus AM implementation. [#39775](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39775), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Alerting:** Allows more characters in label names so notifications are sent. [#38629](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/38629), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Get alert rules for a dashboard or a panel using /api/v1/rules endpoints. [#39476](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39476), [@gerobinson](https://github.com/gerobinson)
- **Annotations:** Improved rendering performance of event markers. [#39984](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39984), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudWatch Logs:** Skip caching for log queries. [#39860](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39860), [@aocenas](https://github.com/aocenas)
- **Explore:** Added an opt-in configuration for Node Graph in Jaeger, Zipkin, and Tempo. [#39958](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39958), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Prometheus:** Metrics browser can now handle label values with special characters. [#39713](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39713), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
### Bug fixes
- **CodeEditor:** Ensure that we trigger the latest onSave callback provided to the component. [#39835](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39835), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)
- **DashboardList/AlertList:** Fix for missing All folder value. [#39772](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39772), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
### Plugin development fixes & changes
- **Plugins:** Create a mock icon component to prevent console errors. [#39901](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39901), [@jackw](https://github.com/jackw)