What’s new in Grafana v12.1

Introducing LogicMonitor data source plugin.

The LogicMonitor Devices data source plugin enables you to query and visualize Device Instance Data, and to list Devices, Datasources, and Instances directly within Grafana. Available in public preview in Grafana Cloud and all supported versions of self-managed Grafana Enterprise.

For better security, Google advises using Service Account Tokens with Service Account Impersonation. If a Service Account Token is ever compromised, it can’t be used to access Google Cloud APIs without the associated service account for impersonation, making it much harder for unauthorized access. This added security layer is now supported in the BigQuery data source configuration.

The Grafana Advisor is designed to help Grafana server administrators keep their instances running smoothly, securely and in keeping with best practices.

It performs a series of periodic checks against your Grafana instance to highlight issues requiring the server administrator’s attention.

The alert rule page has received a total redesign. The new page features a smoother, faster, and more flexible design to help make your alert rule management easier.

The new alert rule page features two views, each with their own uses. The Grouped view is arranged by namespaces, so you can drill down to the specific groups you’re looking for. The List view is a full list of all alert rules, designed for quick searches and easy filtering, which has become much more efficient thanks to recent performance improvements.

Mute Timings have been renamed to Active Time Intervals to better align with their usage.

We recently added support for importing data source-managed rules through the alerting UI. However, users couldn’t import their existing Prometheus rules when no ruler was available.

This update introduces the ability to import rules directly from a Prometheus YAML file using the same alerting UI.

Apply this transformation to any dataset to add a trendline as a new series, fitted to your data using linear regression. This allows you to infer what the data was at a point that may not be exactly represented in the original dataset, or plot predicted values in the future. Trendlines are great for spotting patterns in fluctuating or inconsistent time series. This transformation is extra useful because trendlines can be styled and used just like any other series in your visualization. The Trendline transformation supports both linear and polynomial regression models.

See examples of this transformation on Grafana Play.

We’re excited to announce that you can now define custom variables within visualization actions. When you trigger an action (such as an API request), you’ll be prompted to provide input for those variables. This makes actions more dynamic and interactive, allowing you to tailor requests in real time without modifying the dashboard configuration.

This feature is especially useful when actions require user-supplied input upon being triggered. For example, it enables scenarios like setting a thermostat to a specific temperature or entering a problem description when creating a support ticket.

Grafana server administrators can now define custom time range presets for the time picker on dashboards — perfect for teams that routinely analyze specific, context-driven time windows.

By configuring [time_picker] quick_ranges in your server config, you can set server-wide defaults specific to the data you are monitoring:

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[time_picker]
quick_ranges = """[
{"from":"now-6s","to":"now","display":"Last 6 seconds"},
{"from":"now-10m","to":"now","display":"Last 10 minutes"},
{"from":"now-25h","to":"now","display":"Last 24 hours"},
{"from":"now/w","to":"now/w","display":"This week"},
{"from":"now-1w/w","to":"now-1w/w","display":"Last week"}
]"""

Previously, Grafana automatically abbreviated large currency values like $1,235,667 to $1.24M or $555,558 into $555.6K. While this works well for most visualizations, financial data often requires exact values to be displayed.

We enhanced our custom currency format to solve this. Instead of the standard currency format, you can now use currency:financial:<unit>, which displays the complete numeric value instead of scaled abbreviations.

Grafana now supports Entra Workload Identity, significantly enhancing authentication capabilities with federated credentials. This update simplifies the OAuth flow and improves security for Grafana instances leveraging Microsoft Azure, and was a valuable contribution from an external contributor. Thank you mehiglow.

For more details on configuring Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) authentication, please refer to the official documentation.