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Grafanav12.0
Grafana 12.0 — Scenes-Based Dashboards and AI Assistant
Grafana 12.0 rewrites the dashboard engine on the Scenes framework for dramatically better performance with hundreds of panels, ships a built-in AI assistant for writing PromQL and LogQL queries, and introduces dashboard-as-code via the new Grafana Operator.
What's New
- 1Scenes-based dashboards — panel rendering is now fully lazy and concurrent; dashboards with 100+ panels load 4× faster
- 2AI Query Assistant (powered by LLMs) — describe what you want to see in plain English; the assistant generates PromQL, LogQL, or SQL
- 3Grafana Operator v1.0 GA — manage dashboards, datasources, and alert rules as Kubernetes CRDs with full GitOps support
- 4Alerting improvements: multi-dimensional alert grouping, contact point health checks, and alert dependency chaining
- 5Explore Logs — dedicated log exploration UI with pattern detection and volume-over-time histograms built in
- 6Native support for OpenTelemetry exemplars across all datasources — trace-to-metric and metric-to-trace correlation
- 7Drilldown plugins (Profiles, Logs, Traces, Metrics) bundled in core — no separate plugin install
Breaking Changes
- Angular plugin support removed — all community plugins must have migrated to React
- Legacy alerting (pre-unified) fully removed
- Minimum PostgreSQL version for Grafana database raised to 14
Upgrade Notes
Angular removal is the most impactful breaking change. Check your installed plugins at grafana.com/plugins and filter for Angular. The Grafana team provides an automatic migration tool for common panel types. Unified alerting migration from legacy must be completed before upgrading.