Grafana v13.0.0 released on 14-04-2026
Grafana v13.0.0 is out now. It delivers a large overhaul to alerting and notifications, major dashboard and provisioning improvements, and platform/security changes that affect APIs, CLI commands and rendering auth.
See the full release notes on Grafana’s download page or the “what’s new” highlights for detailed upgrade guidance and links to GitHub changes.
What’s in this release
- Alerting and notifications revamp — Alert Activity navigation tabs, notification history and activity banners, silence view, routing tree selector with multi-select, instance count badges and labels breakdown in triage.
- Dashboards and provisioning improvements — default layout selector for empty dashboards, As‑Code dashboard editor with schema validation, side‑pane row/tab/link controls, Git Sync and folder/dashboard migrations enabled by default, and repository validation features.
- Infrastructure, security and API changes — Go 1.25.8, Ubuntu base image bumped to 24.04, Image Renderer supports custom CA certs and switches to JWT auth by default, plus removal/internalisation of several legacy APIs and frontend/packaging updates.
Upgrade notes
- Alerting API and permission changes — several legacy Alertmanager/TestReceivers endpoints have been removed or restricted and /api/v2/status is now permission‑protected; review API clients and RBAC rules before upgrading.
- CLI, rendering and packaging changes — the old grafana-cli and grafana-server commands are removed (use “grafana cli” and “grafana server”); Image Renderer now requires valid JWT tokens (empty/default tokens prohibited); update automation, scripts and rendering auth accordingly.
Try the upgrade in staging and share how it goes — report issues or feedback on Grafana’s GitHub and the release pages linked above.
