Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.3.0 (2021-11-30)
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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 v8.3.0. Source highlight: Download page
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 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)
- **Alerting:** Prevent folders from being deleted when they contain alerts. #42307, @peterholmberg
- **Alerting:** Show full preview value in tooltip. #42445, @peterholmberg
- **BarGauge:** Limit title width when name is really long. #42346, @torkelo
- **CloudMonitoring:** Avoid to escape regexps in filters. #41961, @andresmgot
- **CloudWatch:** Add support for AWS Metric Insights. #42487, @sunker
- **TooltipPlugin:** Remove other panels' shared tooltip in edit panel. #42187, @mdvictor
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Clear alerting rule evaluation errors after intermittent failures. #42386, @gotjosh
- **Alerting:** Fix refresh on legacy Alert List panel. #42322, @peterholmberg
- **Dashboard:** Fix queries for panels with non-integer widths. #42420, @gabor
- **Explore:** Fix url update inconsistency. #42288, @gabor
- **Prometheus:** Fix range variables interpolation for time ranges smaller than 1 second. #42242, @ivanahuckova
- **ValueMappings:** Fixes issue with regex value mapping that only sets color. #42311, @torkelo
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.3.0)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Alerting:** Prevent folders from being deleted when they contain alerts. [#42307](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42307), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **Alerting:** Show full preview value in tooltip. [#42445](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42445), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **BarGauge:** Limit title width when name is really long. [#42346](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42346), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Avoid to escape regexps in filters. [#41961](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/41961), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **CloudWatch:** Add support for AWS Metric Insights. [#42487](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42487), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **TooltipPlugin:** Remove other panels' shared tooltip in edit panel. [#42187](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42187), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor)
- **Visualizations:** Limit y label width to 40% of visualization width. [#42350](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42350), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Clear alerting rule evaluation errors after intermittent failures. [#42386](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42386), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Fix refresh on legacy Alert List panel. [#42322](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42322), [@peterholmberg](https://github.com/peterholmberg)
- **Dashboard:** Fix queries for panels with non-integer widths. [#42420](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42420), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Explore:** Fix url update inconsistency. [#42288](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42288), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor)
- **Prometheus:** Fix range variables interpolation for time ranges smaller than 1 second. [#42242](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42242), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **ValueMappings:** Fixes issue with regex value mapping that only sets color. [#42311](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42311), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)