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Release notes

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.0-beta1

Grafana Cloud Enterprise Open source

Release notes for Grafana 9.1.0-beta1

Features and enhancements

API: Migrate CSRF to service and support additional options. #48120, @sakjur
API: Move swagger definitions to the handlers and rename operations after them. #52643, @papagian
Access Control: Allow org admins to invite new users. #52894, @IevaVasiljeva
AccessControl: Check dashboards permission for reports. (Enterprise)
Alerting: Add config disabled_labels to disable reserved labels. #51832, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Add custom templated title to Wecom notifier. #51529, @dingweiqings
Alerting: Add file provisioning for alert rules. #51635, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for contact points. #51924, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for mute timings. #52936, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for notification policies. #52877, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add file provisioning for text templates. #52952, @JohnnyQQQQ
Alerting: Add first Grafana reserved label grafana_folder. #50262, @JacobsonMT
Alerting: Add support for images in Kafka alerts. #50758, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Add support for images in VictorOps alerts. #50759, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Adds contact point template syntax highlighting. #51559, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Adds visual tokens for templates. #51376, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Alert rules pagination. #50612, @konrad147
Alerting: Change alertScreenshotToken to alertImageToken. #50771, @grobinson-grafana
Alerting: Configure alert manager data source as an external AM. #52081, @konrad147
Alerting: Do not include button in googlechat notification if URL invalid. #47317, @j6s
Alerting: Group alert state history by labels and allow filtering. #52784, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Make ticker to tick at predictable time. #50197, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Persist rule position in the group. #50051, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Prevent evaluation if “for” shorter than “evaluate”. #51797, @peterholmberg
Alerting: Provisioning UI. #50776, @gillesdemey
Alerting: Rule api to fail update if provisioned rules are affected. #50835, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Scheduler to drop ticks if a rule’s evaluation is too slow. #48885, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Show evaluation interval global limit warning. #52942, @konrad147
Alerting: State manager to use tick time to determine stale states. #50991, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Support for optimistic locking for alert rules. #50274, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Update RBAC for alert rules to consider access to rule as access to group it belongs. #49033, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Update default route groupBy to [grafana_folder, alertname]. #50052, @JacobsonMT
Alertmanager: Adding SigV4 Authentication to Alertmanager Datasource. #49718, @lewinkedrs
Analytics: Save all view time dates as UTC. (Enterprise)
Annotations: Migrate dashboardId to dashboardUID. #52588, @lpskdl
Auditing: Allow users to have more verbose logs. (Enterprise)
Auth: Add lookup params for saml and LDAP sync. (Enterprise)
Auth: Add option for case insensitive login. #49262, @Jguer
Auth: Case insensitive ids duplicate usagestats. #50724, @eleijonmarck
Auth: Implement Token URL Auth. #52578, @Jguer
Auth: Implement Token URL JWT Auth. #52662, @Jguer
Auth: Lockdown non-editables in frontend when external auth is configured. #52160, @Jguer
Azure Monitor: Add new dashboard with geo map for app insights test availability. #52494, @jcolladokuri
Azure Monitor: New template variable editor. #52594, @andresmgot
Azure Monitor: Restore Metrics query parameters: subscription, resourceGroup, metricNamespace and resourceName. #52897, @andresmgot
Chore: Add dashboard UID as query parameter of Get annotation endpoint. #52764, @ying-jeanne
Chore: Remove jest-coverage-badges dep from toolkit. #49883, @zoltanbedi
Chore: Rename dashboardUID to dashboardUIDs in search endpoint and up…. #52766, @ying-jeanne
CloudWatch: Add default log groups to config page. #49286, @iwysiu
CommandPalette: Populate dashboard search when the palette is opened. #51293, @ryantxu
Core Plugins: Add support for HTTP logger. #46578, @toddtreece
Correlations: Add CreateCorrelation HTTP API. #51630, @Elfo404
Correlations: Add DeleteCorrelation HTTP API. #51801, @Elfo404
Custom branding: Add UI for setting configuration. (Enterprise)
Custom branding: Add custom branding service (early access). (Enterprise)
Data Connections: Create a new top-level page. #50018, @leventebalogh
DataSource: Allow data source plugins to set query default values. #49581, @sunker
Docs: CSRF add configuration options and documentation for additional headers and origins. #50473, @eleijonmarck
Elasticsearch: Added modifyQuery method to add filters in Explore. #52313, @svennergr
Explore: Add ability to include tags in trace to metrics queries. #49433, @connorlindsey
Explore: Download and upload service graphs for Tempo. #50260, @connorlindsey
Explore: Make service graph visualization use available vertical space. #50518, @connorlindsey
Explore: Reset Graph overrides if underlying series changes. #49680, @Elfo404
Explore: Sort trace process attributes alphabetically. #51261, @connorlindsey
Frontend Logging: Integrate grafana javascript agent. #50801, @tolzhabayev
Geomap: Add ability to select a data query filter for each layer. #49966, @mmandrus
Geomap: Route/path visualization. #43554, @alexanderzobnin
GeomapPanel: Add base types to data layer options. #50053, @drew08t
Graph Panel: Add feature toggle that will allow automatic migration to timeseries panel. #50631, @ryantxu
Graphite: Introduce new query types in annotation editor. #52341, @itsmylife
Infra: Pass custom headers in resource request. #51291, @aocenas
Insights: Add RBAC for insights features. (Enterprise)
Instrumentation: Add more buckets to the HTTP request histogram. #51492, @bergquist
Instrumentation: Collect database connection stats. #52797, @bergquist
Instrumentation: Convert some metrics to histograms. #50420, @SuperQ
Jaeger: Add support for variables. #50500, @joey-grafana
LDAP: Allow specifying LDAP timeout. #48870, @hannes-256
LibraryPanels: Require only viewer permissions to use a Library Panel. #50241, @joshhunt
Licensing: Usage-based billing reporting enhancements. (Enterprise)
Logs: Handle clicks on legend labels in histogram. #49931, @gabor
Logs: Improve the color for unknown log level. #52711, @gabor
Loki/Logs: Make it possible to copy log values to clipboard. #50914, @Seyaji
Loki: Add hint for pipeline error to query builder. #52134, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Add hints for level-like labels. #52414, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Add support for IP label and line filter in query builder. #52658, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Add unwrap with conversion function to builder. #52639, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Implement hints for query builder. #51795, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Move explain section to builder mode. #52879, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Show label options for unwrap operation. #52810, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Support json parser with expressions in query builder. #51965, @ivanahuckova
Navigation: Display Starred dashboards in the Navbar. #51038, @ashharrison90
Node Graph Panel: Add options to configure units and arc colors. #51057, @connorlindsey
OAuth: Allow role mapping from GitHub and GitLab groups. #52407, @Jguer
Opentsdb: Add tag values into the opentsdb response. #48672, @xy-man
OptionsUI: UnitPicker now supports isClearable setting. #51064, @ryantxu
PanelEdit: Hide multi-/all-select datasource variables in datasource picker. #52142, @eledobleefe
Piechart: Implements series override -> hide in area for the legend or tooltip. #51297, @daniellee
Plugin admin: Add a page to show where panel plugins are used in dashboards. #50909, @ryantxu
Plugins: Add validation for plugin manifest. #52787, @wbrowne
Prometheus: Move explain section to builder mode. #52935, @itsmylife
Prometheus: Support 1ms resolution intervals. #44707, @dankeder
Prometheus: Throw error on direct access. #50162, @aocenas
RBAC: Add RBAC for query caching. (Enterprise)
RBAC: Add access control metadata to folder dtos. #51158, @kalleep
RBAC: Allow app plugins access restriction. #51524, @gamab
RBAC: Rename alerting roles to match naming convention. #50504, @gamab
Report: Calculate grid height unit dynamically instead use hardcode values. (Enterprise)
Reports: Add created column in report_dashboards. (Enterprise)
Reports: Add dashboard title in all pdf pages. (Enterprise)
Reports: Allow saving draft reports. (Enterprise)
Reports: Multiple dashboards improvements. (Enterprise)
SAML : Support Azure Single Sign Out. (Enterprise)
SAML: Add NameIDFormat in SP metadata. (Enterprise)
SAML: Improve debug logs for saml logout. (Enterprise)
SSE: Add noData type. #51973, @kylebrandt
Search: Filter punctuation and tokenize camel case. #51165, @FZambia
Search: Sync state on read for HA consistency. #50152, @FZambia
Security: Choose Lookup params per auth module (CVE-2022-31107). #52312, @Jguer
Service Accounts: Managed permissions for service accounts. #51818, @IevaVasiljeva
Service accounts: Grafana service accounts are enabled by default. #51402, @vtorosyan
ServiceAccounts: Add Prometheus metrics service. #51831, @Jguer
ServiceAccounts: Add Service Account Token last used at date. #51446, @Jguer
SharePDF: Use currently selected variables and time range when generating PDF. (Enterprise)
Slider: Enforce numeric constraints and styling within the text input. #50905, @drew08t
State Timeline: Enable support for annotations. #47887, @dprokop
Table panel: Add multiple data links support to Default, Image and JSONView cells. #51162, @dprokop
TeamSync: Remove LDAP specific example from team sync. #51368, @Jguer
TeamSync: Support case insensitive matches and wildcard groups. (Enterprise)
Tempo: Add context menu to edges. #52396, @joey-grafana
Tempo: Consider tempo search out of beta and remove beta badge and feature flags. #50030, @connorlindsey
Tempo: Tempo/Prometheus links select ds in new tab (cmd + click). #52319, @joey-grafana
Time series panel: Hide axis when series is hidden from the visualization. #51432, @dprokop
TimeSeries: Add option for symmetrical y axes (align 0). #52555, @leeoniya
TimeSeries: Add option to match axis color to series color. #51437, @leeoniya
TimeSeries: Improved constantY rendering parity with Graph (old). #51401, @leeoniya
Timeseries: Support multiple timezones in x axis. #52424, @ryantxu
TopNav: Adds new feature toggle for upcoming nav. #51115, @torkelo
Traces: APM table. #48654, @joey-grafana
Traces: Add absolute time to span details. #50685, @joey-grafana
Traces: Add horizontal scroll. #50278, @joey-grafana
Traces: Consistent span colors for service names. #50782, @joey-grafana
Traces: Move towards using OTEL naming conventions. #51379, @joey-grafana
Traces: Span bar label. #50931, @joey-grafana
Transformations: Add standard deviation and variance reducers. #52769, @ryantxu
Transforms: Add Join by label transformation. #52670, @ryantxu
URL: Encode certain special characters. #51806, @L-M-K-B
ValueMappings: Make value mapping row focusable. #52337, @lpskdl
Variables: Add ‘jsonwithoutquote’ formatting options for variables, and format of variable supports pipeline. #51859, @MicroOps-cn
Variables: Selectively reload panels on URL update. #51003, @toddtreece
Various Panels: Add ability to toggle legend with keyboard shortcut. #52241, @alyssabull

Bug fixes

API: Fix failing test by initialising legacy guardian when creating folder scenario. #50800, @vicmarbev
Access control: Show dashboard settings to users who can edit dashboard. #52532, @IevaVasiljeva
Alerting: Fix RegExp matchers in frontend for Silences and other previews. #51726, @joeblubaugh
Alerting: Fix rule API to accept 0 duration of field For. #50992, @yuri-tceretian
Alerting: Increase alert rule operation perf by replacing subquery with threshold calculation. #53069, @alexweav
Barchart Panel: Fix threshold colors changing when data is refreshed. #52038, @mingozh
Dashboard: Fix iteration property change triggering unsaved changes warning. #51272, @torkelo
Dashboards: Disable variable pickers for snapshots. #52827, @joshhunt
Elasticsearch: Always use fixed_interval. #50297, @gabor
Geomap: Fix tooltip offset bug. #52627, @drew08t
Geomap: Update with template variable change. #52007, @drew08t
Loki: Fix adding of multiple label filters when parser. #52335, @ivanahuckova
Loki: Fix support of ad-hoc filters for specific queries. #51232, @ivanahuckova
Navigation: Hide Dashboards/Starred items from navbar when unauthenticated. #53051, @ashharrison90
PasswordReset: Enforce password length check on password reset request. #51005, @asymness
Prometheus: Fix integer overflow in rate interval calculation on 32-bit architectures. #51508, @andreasgerstmayr
Search: Fix indexing - re-index after initial provisioning. #50959, @FZambia
Slider: Fixes styling of marker dots. #52678, @torkelo
Tracing: Fix links to traces in Explore. #50113, @connorlindsey

Breaking changes

Some swagger operations and responses have been renamed to match the respective handler names in order to better highlight their relation. If you use the Swagger specification for generating code, you have to re-generate it and make the necessary adjustments. Issue #52643

The following metrics have been converted to histograms:

grafana_datasource_request_total
grafana_datasource_request_duration_seconds
grafana_datasource_response_size_bytes
grafana_datasource_request_in_flight
grafana_plugin_request_duration_milliseconds
grafana_alerting_rule_evaluation_duration_seconds Issue #50420

In Elasticsearch versions 7.x, to specify the interval-value we used the interval property. In Grafana 9.1.0 we switched to use the fixed_interval property. This makes it to be the same as in Elasticsearch versions 8.x, also this provides a more consistent experience, fixed_interval is a better match to Grafana’s time intervals. For most situations this will not cause any visible change to query results. Issue #50297

Grafana now reserves alert labels prefixed with `grafana_`

Labels prefixed with grafana_ are reserved by Grafana for special use. If a manually configured label is added beginning with grafana_ it may be overwritten in case of collision.

The current list of labels created by Grafana and available for use anywhere manually configured labels are:

Label	Description
grafana_folder	Title of the folder containing the alert.	Issue #50262

In Prometheus, browser access mode was deprecated in Grafana 7.4.0 and removed in 9.0.0. If you used this mode, please switch to server access mode on the datasource configuration page. Issue #50162

Plugin development fixes & changes

Dropdown: New dropdown component. #52684, @torkelo
Grafana/UI: Add ColorPickerInput component. #52222, @Clarity-89
Plugins: Validate root URLs when signing private plugins via grafana-toolkit. #51968, @wbrowne