Grafana v13.0.0 released on 14-04-2026
Grafana v13.0.0 is out now. Operators, dashboard authors and plugin developers get a significant alerting overhaul alongside dashboard, provisioning, server and developer-platform changes that affect workflow, security and packaging.
For installers, full notes and downloads, visit Grafana’s official download page or the What’s new documentation on grafana.com.
What’s in this release
- Alerting overhaul: UI and workflow improvements (Alert Activity navigation tabs, activity banners, instance count badges, labels breakdown, notification history tab, silence view, triage workbench enhancements) plus new components such as a RoutingTreeSelector with multi-select and a create‑from‑panel drawer.
- Dashboards and visualisations: As Code dashboard editor with schema validation, section‑level variables, PanelStyles registry (trend & candlestick support), accessibility updates including colourblind‑friendly palettes and new themes, and GA for the Gauge panel.
- Provisioning, Git Sync and storage: Git Sync and provisioning enabled by default, richer repository checks and branch protection, folder metadata support, Unified Storage and repository‑managed folder consistency, and Team Folders/Teams UX improvements.
Upgrade notes
- Several breaking changes: /api/v2/status is now protected by a dedicated permission; legacy Alertmanager/TestReceivers endpoints are removed or restricted; the default for server.enable_gzip is now true; packaging no longer exposes grafana-cli/grafana-server commands. Before upgrading, review RBAC and provisioning permissions, check startup scripts and service definitions for renamed commands, and validate rendering/auth settings and plugin manifests in a staging environment.
- If you need to roll back, restore from your backups and reinstall the previous release available from Grafana’s download page; test configuration and RBAC after downgrade before returning to production.
Share your experience with the upgrade — in particular any notes on alerting, provisioning or plugin changes are useful to other users.
