What’s new in Grafana v11.0-preview

What’s new in Grafana v11.0-preview

What's new in Grafana v11.0-preview | Grafana documentation

Welcome to Grafana 11.0-preview! This release contains some major improvements: most notably, the ability to explore your Prometheus metrics and Loki logs without writing any PromQL or LogQL, using Explore Metrics and Explore Logs. The dashboard experience is better than ever with edit mode for dashboards, AI-generated dashboard names and descriptions, and general availability for subfolders. You can also take advantage of improvements to the canvas and table visualizations, new transformations, a revamp of the Alert Rule page, and more.

Why “preview?” The Grafana 11.0 stable release is planned for this May. This is an early release to coincide with Grafanacon 2024, so that you can try the new functionality early. To understand the differences between preview and GA releases, review the release life cycle.

For even more detail about all the changes in this release, refer to the changelog. For the specific steps we recommend when you upgrade to v11.0-preview, check out our Upgrade Guide.

Breaking changes

For Grafana v11.0-preview, we’ve also provided a list of breaking changes to help you upgrade with greater confidence. For information about these along with guidance on how to proceed, refer to Breaking changes in Grafana v11.0-preview.

Explore Metrics and Logs

Explore Metrics

Public preview in all editions of Grafana

Explore Metrics is a query-less experience for browsing Prometheus-compatible metrics. Search or filter to find a metric. Quickly find related metrics - all in just a few clicks. No PromQL to be found anywhere! With Explore Metrics, you can:

• easily slice and dice metrics based on their labels, so you can see anomalies right away
• See the right visualization for your metric based on its type (e.g. gauge vs. counter) without writing it yourself
• surface other metrics relevant to the current metric
• “explore in a drawer” - expand a drawer over a dashboard with more content, so you don’t lose your place
• view a history of user steps when navigating through metrics and their filters
• easily pivot to other related telemetry - IE, logs or traces

… all without writing any queries!

To learn more, refer to the Explore Metrics documentation as well as the following video demo:

Explore Logs

Experimental in Grafana Open Source and Enterprise

Explore Logs is a queryless experience for exploring Loki logs - no LogQL required! The primary interaction modes are point-and-click based on log volume, similar to Explore Metrics.

Highlights:

• View log volume and log line samples when you first land in Explore Logs (no more “blank screen!”)
• Explore additional labels and detected fields in a similar way, focusing on volume and distribution; add them to your “query” to refine your logs search without needing LogQL – See common patterns in your log lines, to easily filter out noise or focus in on anomalies
• For power users, an easy way to hop into the familiar Explore while preserving context

Explore Logs is Open Source, and experimental - some papercuts are to be expected. Give it a try and let us know what you think!

Dashboards and visualizations

Scenes powered Dashboards

Available in public preview in all editions of Grafana

For the past few months we’ve been working on a major update of our Dashboards architecture and migrated it to the Scenes library. This migration provides us with more stable, dynamic, and flexible dashboards as well as setting the foundation for what we envision the future of Grafana dashboards will be. Here are two of the improvements that are being introduced as part of this work.

Edit mode

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