Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 8.3.6 (2022-02-09)
Source available — automated, not human-reviewed
Component: grafana · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v8.3.6. 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)
- **Cloud Monitoring:** Reduce request size when listing labels. #44365, @mtanda
- **Explore:** Show scalar data result in a table instead of graph. #44362, @tharun208
- **Snapshots:** Updates the default external snapshot server URL. #44563, @DanCech
- **Table:** Makes footer not overlap table content. #44210, @dprokop
- **Tempo:** Add request histogram to service graph datalink. #44671, @connorlindsey
- **Tempo:** Add time range to tempo search query behind a feature flag. #43811, @connorlindsey
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **CloudMonitoring:** Fix resource labels in query editor. #44550, @iwysiu
- **Cursor sync:** Apply the settings without saving the dashboard. #44270, @dprokop
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix for Error while cleaning library panels. #45033, @hugohaggmark
- **Logs Panel:** fix timestamp parsing for string dates without timezone. #44664, @Elfo404
- **Prometheus:** Fix some of the alerting queries that use reduce/math operation. #44380, @ivanahuckova
- **TablePanel:** Fix ad-hoc variables not working on default datasources. #44314, @joshhunt
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/8.3.6)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Cloud Monitoring:** Reduce request size when listing labels. [#44365](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44365), [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda)
- **Explore:** Show scalar data result in a table instead of graph. [#44362](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44362), [@tharun208](https://github.com/tharun208)
- **Snapshots:** Updates the default external snapshot server URL. [#44563](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44563), [@DanCech](https://github.com/DanCech)
- **Table:** Makes footer not overlap table content. [#44210](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44210), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **Tempo:** Add request histogram to service graph datalink. [#44671](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44671), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Add time range to tempo search query behind a feature flag. [#43811](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/43811), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Auto-clear results when changing query type. [#44390](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44390), [@connorlindsey](https://github.com/connorlindsey)
- **Tempo:** Display start time in search results as relative time. [#44568](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44568), [@tharun208](https://github.com/tharun208)
### Bug fixes
- **CloudMonitoring:** Fix resource labels in query editor. [#44550](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44550), [@iwysiu](https://github.com/iwysiu)
- **Cursor sync:** Apply the settings without saving the dashboard. [#44270](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44270), [@dprokop](https://github.com/dprokop)
- **LibraryPanels:** Fix for Error while cleaning library panels. [#45033](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/45033), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
- **Logs Panel:** fix timestamp parsing for string dates without timezone. [#44664](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44664), [@Elfo404](https://github.com/Elfo404)
- **Prometheus:** Fix some of the alerting queries that use reduce/math operation. [#44380](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44380), [@ivanahuckova](https://github.com/ivanahuckova)
- **TablePanel:** Fix ad-hoc variables not working on default datasources. [#44314](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44314), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **Text Panel:** Fix alignment of elements. [#44313](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44313), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Variables:** Fix for constant variables in self referencing links. [#44631](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44631), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)