| Grafana 12.1 Adds Monitoring Tool |
| Written by Kay Ewbank | |||
| Tuesday, 19 August 2025 | |||
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Grafana 12.1 has been released, with automated health checks for your Grafana instance, streamlined views in Grafana Alerting, and visualization updates. The release follows the major upgrade to Grafana 12 in May, which introduced a new suite of observability-as-code tools to assist with automating observability workflows. Grafana offers a robust time-series database. It was created as a fork of Elastic's Kibana (ElasticSearch’s analytics and visualization platform) to add support for monitoring metrics that was lacking at that point in Kibana.
Grafana 12's new "observability as code" features can be used to version, validate, and deploy dashboards like any other code base in an organization. It also added dashboard deployment courtesy of reusable code templates, version control, and automation. Grafana 12 also added Git Sync, a new observability as code tool that brings Git workflows into the Grafana UI, allowing users to merge dashboard changes, create branches, and open pull requests without leaving Grafana. Dynamic dashboards were also added. These can be used to monitor and troubleshoot a system from a single dashboard. Grafana says dynamic dashboards make it easier to navigate complex dashboards and find information faster with functionality such as tabs, which allows users to segment dashboards by context, user group, or usage without splitting metrics across multiple dashboards, and conditional rendering, which enables users to show or hide panels or entire rows based on variable selections or whether the panel has data to show. Grafana also added a new model for Grafana APIs. The new APIs enable Git Sync and power Grafana's new Terraform resources for dashboards and are the engine behind the grafanactl CLI tool. In Grafana 12, this new model is used for dashboards, folders, and elements like announcement banners and playlists, but there are plans to extend it to all Grafana resources. Grafana 12.1 adds a new alert rule page that makes it easier to find what you need quickly. It also adds a regression analysis transformation that can be used to predict future data values or estimate missing data points that might not be exactly represented in the original dataset. There's also a new monitoring tool, Grafana Advisor, which automatically detects plugin, data source, and SSO issues, to keep Grafana instance healthy and secure. Grafana Advisor performs a series of periodic checks against your Grafana instance to highlight issues requiring the server administrator's attention. Finally, Grafana now supports Entra Workload Identity, simplifying OAuth and increasing security for instances using Microsoft Azure. Grafana 12.1 is available now.
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