Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 9.0.2 (2022-06-28)
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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 v9.0.2. 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)
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in Pushover alerts. #51372, @grobinson-grafana
- **Alerting:** Don't stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid. #51253, @gotjosh
- **Alerting:** Don't stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid (…. #51341, @gotjosh
- **Alerting:** Skip the default data source if incompatible. #51452, @gillesdemey
- **AzureMonitor:** Parse non-fatal errors for Logs. #51320, @andresmgot
- **Plugins:** Improved handling of symlinks. #51324, @marefr
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **OAuth:** Restore debug log behavior. #51244, @Jguer
- **Alerting:** Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. #51353, @alexweav
- **Alerting:** Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. #50731, @alexweav
- **Annotations:** Fix annotation autocomplete causing panels to crash. #51164, @ashharrison90
- **Barchart:** Fix warning not showing. #51190, @joshhunt
- **CloudWatch:** Enable custom session duration in AWS plugin auth. #51322, @sunker
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/9.0.2)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Alerting:** Add support for images in Pushover alerts. [#51372](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51372), [@grobinson-grafana](https://github.com/grobinson-grafana)
- **Alerting:** Don't stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid. [#51253](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51253), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Don't stop the migration when alert rule tags are invalid (…. [#51341](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51341), [@gotjosh](https://github.com/gotjosh)
- **Alerting:** Skip the default data source if incompatible. [#51452](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51452), [@gillesdemey](https://github.com/gillesdemey)
- **AzureMonitor:** Parse non-fatal errors for Logs. [#51320](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51320), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **OAuth:** Restore debug log behavior. [#51244](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51244), [@Jguer](https://github.com/Jguer)
- **Plugins:** Improved handling of symlinks. [#51324](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51324), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. [#51353](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51353), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Code-gen parsing of URL parameters and fix related bugs. [#50731](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/50731), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Annotations:** Fix annotation autocomplete causing panels to crash. [#51164](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51164), [@ashharrison90](https://github.com/ashharrison90)
- **Barchart:** Fix warning not showing. [#51190](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51190), [@joshhunt](https://github.com/joshhunt)
- **CloudWatch:** Enable custom session duration in AWS plugin auth. [#51322](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51322), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboards:** Fixes issue with the initial panel layout counting as an unsaved change. [#51315](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51315), [@JoaoSilvaGrafana](https://github.com/JoaoSilvaGrafana)
- **Plugins:** Use a Grafana specific SDK logger implementation for core plugins. [#51229](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51229), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
- **Search:** Fix pagination in the new search page. [#51366](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/51366), [@ArturWierzbicki](https://github.com/ArturWierzbicki)