Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana: 9.1.5 (2022-09-12)
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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 v9.1.5. 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:** Sanitize invalid label/annotation names for external alertmanagers. #54537, @JacobsonMT
- **Alerting:** Telegram: Truncate long messages to avoid send error. #54339, @ZloyDyadka
- **DisplayProcessor:** Handle reverse-ordered data when auto-showing millis. #54923, @leeoniya
- **Heatmap:** Add option to reverse color scheme. #54365, @leeoniya
- **PluginLoader:** Alias slate-react as @grafana/slate-react. #55027, @kaydelaney
- **Search:** Add substring matcher, to bring back the old dashboard search behavior. #54813, @ArturWierzbicki
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Alerting:** Fix incorrect propagation of org ID and other fields in rule provisioning endpoints. #54603, @alexweav
- **Alerting:** Resetting the notification policy tree to the default policy will also restore default contact points. #54608, @alexweav
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix custom namespaces. #54937, @asimpson
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix issue where custom metric namespaces are not included in the metric namespace list. #54826, @andresmgot
- **CloudWatch:** Fix display name of metric and namespace. #54860, @sunker
- **Cloudwatch:** Fix annotation query serialization issue. #54884, @sunker
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/9.1.5)
[What's new highlights](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/whatsnew/)
### Features and enhancements
- **Alerting:** Sanitize invalid label/annotation names for external alertmanagers. [#54537](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54537), [@JacobsonMT](https://github.com/JacobsonMT)
- **Alerting:** Telegram: Truncate long messages to avoid send error. [#54339](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54339), [@ZloyDyadka](https://github.com/ZloyDyadka)
- **DisplayProcessor:** Handle reverse-ordered data when auto-showing millis. [#54923](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54923), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **Heatmap:** Add option to reverse color scheme. [#54365](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54365), [@leeoniya](https://github.com/leeoniya)
- **PluginLoader:** Alias slate-react as @grafana/slate-react. [#55027](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/55027), [@kaydelaney](https://github.com/kaydelaney)
- **Search:** Add substring matcher, to bring back the old dashboard search behavior. [#54813](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54813), [@ArturWierzbicki](https://github.com/ArturWierzbicki)
- **Traces:** More visible span colors. [#54513](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54513), [@joey-grafana](https://github.com/joey-grafana)
### Bug fixes
- **Alerting:** Fix incorrect propagation of org ID and other fields in rule provisioning endpoints. [#54603](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54603), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **Alerting:** Resetting the notification policy tree to the default policy will also restore default contact points. [#54608](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54608), [@alexweav](https://github.com/alexweav)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix custom namespaces. [#54937](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54937), [@asimpson](https://github.com/asimpson)
- **AzureMonitor:** Fix issue where custom metric namespaces are not included in the metric namespace list. [#54826](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54826), [@andresmgot](https://github.com/andresmgot)
- **CloudWatch:** Fix display name of metric and namespace. [#54860](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54860), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Cloudwatch:** Fix annotation query serialization issue. [#54884](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54884), [@sunker](https://github.com/sunker)
- **Dashboard:** Fix issue where unsaved changes warning would appear even after save, and not being able to change library panels. [#54706](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54706), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
- **Dashboard:** Hide overflow content for single left pane. [#54882](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54882), [@lpskdl](https://github.com/lpskdl)
- **Loki:** Fix a bug where adding adhoc filters was not possible. [#54920](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/54920), [@svennergr](https://github.com/svennergr)
- **Reports:** Fix handling expired state. (Enterprise)