Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.2.2 (2021-10-21)
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.2.2. 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
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- **Annotations:** We have improved tag search performance. #40567, @ashharrison90
- **Application:** You can now configure an error-template title. #40310, @benrubson
- **AzureMonitor:** We removed a restriction from the resource filter query. #40690, @andresmgot
- **Caching:** Make cache size metric collection optional. (Enterprise)
- **Packaging:** We removed the ProcSubset option in systemd. This option prevented Grafana from starting in LXC environments. #40339, @kminehart
- **Prometheus:** We removed the autocomplete limit for metrics. #39363, @ivanahuckova
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix panic when Slack's API sends unexpected response. #40721, @santihernandezc
- **Alerting:** The Create Alert button now appears on the dashboard panel when you are working with a default datasource. #40334, @domasx2
- **Explore:** We fixed the problem where the Explore log panel disappears when an Elasticsearch logs query returns no results. #40217, @Elfo404
- **Graph:** You can now see annotation descriptions on hover. #40581, @axelavargas
- **Logs:** The system now uses the JSON parser only if the line is parsed to an object. #40507, @ivanahuckova
- **Prometheus:** We fixed the issue where the system did not reuse TCP connections when querying from Grafana alerting. #40349, @kminehart
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.2.2)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Annotations:** We have improved tag search performance. [#40567](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40567), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Application:** You can now configure an error-template title. [#40310](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40310), [@benrubson](https://github.com/benrubson)
- **AzureMonitor:** We removed a restriction from the resource filter query. [#40690](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40690), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **Caching:** Make cache size metric collection optional. (Enterprise)
- **Packaging:** We removed the ProcSubset option in systemd. This option prevented Grafana from starting in LXC environments. [#40339](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40339), [@kminehart](https://github.com/kminehart)
- **Prometheus:** We removed the autocomplete limit for metrics. [#39363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/39363), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Request interceptor:** Allow MSSQL's named instances. (Enterprise)
- **Table:** We improved the styling of the type icons to make them more distinct from column / field name. [#40596](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40596), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **ValueMappings:** You can now use value mapping in stat, gauge, bar gauge, and pie chart visualizations. [#40612](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40612), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix panic when Slack's API sends unexpected response. [#40721](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40721), [@santihernandezc](https://github.com/santihernandezc)
- **Alerting:** The Create Alert button now appears on the dashboard panel when you are working with a default datasource. [#40334](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40334), [@domasx2](https://github.com/domasx2)
- **Explore:** We fixed the problem where the Explore log panel disappears when an Elasticsearch logs query returns no results. [#40217](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40217), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Graph:** You can now see annotation descriptions on hover. [#40581](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40581), [@axelavargas](https://github.com/axelavargas)
- **Logs:** The system now uses the JSON parser only if the line is parsed to an object. [#40507](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40507), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **Prometheus:** We fixed the issue where the system did not reuse TCP connections when querying from Grafana alerting. [#40349](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40349), [@kminehart](https://github.com/kminehart)
- **Prometheus:** We fixed the problem that resulted in an error when a user created a query with a $__interval min step. [#40525](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40525), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **RowsToFields:** We fixed the issue where the system was not properly interpreting number values. [#40580](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40580), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Scale:** We fixed how the system handles NaN percent when data min = data max. [#40622](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40622), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Table panel:** You can now create a filter that includes special characters. [#40458](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/40458), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)