Grafana 12.1 enhances system reliability and alert management with new features. Grafana Advisor performs health checks and provides remediation suggestions for misconfigurations. The alerting interface is redesigned for better visibility and performance at scale, allowing users to import Prometheus alert rules. Trendline transformations enable application of regression to time-series data for pattern analysis. Improved dashboard interactivity includes support for custom panel variables. Overall, these updates facilitate easier scaling of dashboarding across teams.
Grafana Advisor performs scheduled health checks across Grafana instances and provides administrators with remediation suggestions. It monitors data sources, plugins, and SSO setups to detect misconfigurations or missing dependencies. Grafana Advisor is available across all editions and can be activated in both open-source and Enterprise versions using a feature toggle.
The new rule list interface supports both grouped and flat views, improving visibility for teams managing large rule sets. A paginated API has been added for performance at scale, and users can now import Prometheus alert rules directly into the UI.
Trendline transformations enable users to apply linear or polynomial regression to time-series data to highlight patterns or extrapolate future values. Grafana Labs described the feature as 'great for spotting patterns in fluctuating or inconsistent time series' and noted that it allows you to infer what the data was at a point that may not be exactly represented in the original dataset.
Guillermo Ruiz, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS, called Grafana 12 'not marketing fluff,' adding that 'this one hits hard for platform engineers... Grafana 12 makes it finally easier to scale dashboarding across teams without chaos.'
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