Grafana Labs released Grafana 12, the latest version of the company's flagship open source data visualization platform, introducing a comprehensive approach to observability as code that enables a more consistent and stable experience.
"We reimagined what it means to provision dashboards and how APIs and schema are structured," said Torkel Ödegaard, Co-Founder, Grafana Labs. "These are fundamental changes that have become the basis for a range of improvements we've made to how users can interact with Grafana through code. With Grafana 12, we focused on providing everything users need to more easily and efficiently create and manage dashboards."
Key features of Grafana 12 include:
- App Platform: The backbone of the observability as code strategy, providing consistent, versioned APIs for managing Grafana resources like dashboards, plus a set of tools for building custom applications on top of Grafana.
- New Dashboard Schema: A new JSON structure that decouples general settings from content, enhancing readability when rendered as code and making it easier to generate dashboards.
- Dynamic Dashboards: Powered by the new dashboard schema, this feature allows for more flexible dashboard creation with improved customization options.
- Git Sync: Users can automatically synchronize Grafana dashboards to a GitHub repository and review changes using pull requests, for higher-quality and more portable dashboards.
- New As Code Tools: A set of new products that can be integrated into pipelines or GitHub Actions, supporting customers who already have observability as code setups in place. These include improvements to the Terraform provider and a new CLI tool, GrafanaCTL.
- 15 New Data Sources: Explore product analytics data, DB data, and developer tools with new data sources like DynamoDB, CosmosDB, Cloudflare, Atlassian Statuspage, and Pagerduty.
- SQL Expressions: Use SQL to combine and transform data from different sources and merge disparate data sets in real time.
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