Grafana v8.3.4stable Released Jan 19, 2022
Impact Score: 5/10

Grafana: 8.3.4 (2022-01-17)

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โšก Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Grafana v8.3.4. Source highlight: Download page

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

๐Ÿ’ป Software Engineers & Devs

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๐Ÿ“Š Product & Engineering Leads

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โš™๏ธ DevOps & Security

Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.

โœจ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • **Alerting:** Allow configuration of non-ready alertmanagers. #43063, @alexweav
  • **Alerting:** Allow customization of Google chat message. #43568, @alexweav
  • **Alerting:** Allow customization of Google chat message (#43568). #43723, @alexweav
  • **AppPlugins:** Support app plugins with only default nav. #43016, @torkelo
  • **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL: query editor: skip fields in metadata queries. #42543, @gabor
  • **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Cancel in-flight SQL query if user cancels query in grafana. #43890, @mdvictor

๐Ÿ”ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

  • **Azure Monitor:** Bug fix for variable interpolations in metrics dropdowns. #43251, @sarahzinger
  • **Azure Monitor:** Improved error messages for variable queries. #43213, @sunker
  • **CloudMonitoring:** Fixes broken variable queries that use group bys. #43914, @sunker
  • **Configuration:** You can now see your expired API keys if you have no active ones. #42452, @ashharrison90
  • **Elasticsearch:** Fix handling multiple datalinks for a single field. #44029, @Elfo404
  • **Export:** Fix error being thrown when exporting dashboards using query variables that reference the default datasource. #44034, @ashharrison90
๐Ÿ“„ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.3.4) [What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/) ### Features and enhancements - **Alerting:** Allow configuration of non-ready alertmanagers. [#43063](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43063), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav) - **Alerting:** Allow customization of Google chat message. [#43568](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43568), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav) - **Alerting:** Allow customization of Google chat message (#43568). [#43723](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43723), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav) - **AppPlugins:** Support app plugins with only default nav. [#43016](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43016), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **InfluxDB:** InfluxQL: query editor: skip fields in metadata queries. [#42543](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42543), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor) - **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL:** Cancel in-flight SQL query if user cancels query in grafana. [#43890](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43890), [@mdvictor](https://github.com/mdvictor) - **Prometheus:** Forward oauth tokens after prometheus datasource migration. [#43686](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43686), [@MasslessParticle](https://github.com/MasslessParticle) ### Bug fixes - **Azure Monitor:** Bug fix for variable interpolations in metrics dropdowns. [#43251](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43251), [@sarahzinger](https://github.com/sarahzinger) - **Azure Monitor:** Improved error messages for variable queries. [#43213](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43213), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker) - **CloudMonitoring:** Fixes broken variable queries that use group bys. [#43914](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43914), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker) - **Configuration:** You can now see your expired API keys if you have no active ones. [#42452](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42452), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90) - **Elasticsearch:** Fix handling multiple datalinks for a single field. [#44029](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44029), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404) - **Export:** Fix error being thrown when exporting dashboards using query variables that reference the default datasource. [#44034](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44034), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90) - **ImportDashboard:** Fixes issue with importing dashboard and name ending up in uid. [#43451](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43451), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **Login:** Page no longer overflows on mobile. [#43739](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43739), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90) - **Plugins:** Set backend metadata property for core plugins. [#43349](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43349), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr) - **Prometheus:** Fill missing steps with null values. [#43622](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43622), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova) - **Prometheus:** Fix interpolation of $__rate_interval variable. [#44035](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44035), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova) - **Prometheus:** Interpolate variables with curly brackets syntax. [#42927](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42927), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova) - **Prometheus:** Respect the http-method data source setting. [#42753](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/42753), [@gabor](https://github.com/gabor) - **Table:** Fixes issue with field config applied to wrong fields when hiding columns. [#43376](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43376), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo) - **Toolkit:** Fix bug with rootUrls not being properly parsed when signing a private plugin. [#43014](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43014), [@dessen-xu](https://github.com/dessen-xu) - **Variables:** Fix so data source variables are added to adhoc configuration. [#43881](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43881), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark) ### Plugin development fixes & changes - **Toolkit:** Revert build config so tslib is bundled with plugins to prevent plugins from crashing. [#43556](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43556), [@mckn](https://github.com/mckn)