Grafana v13.1.0 released on 01-07-2026
Grafana v13.1.0 is out now. It delivers a broad set of alerting and notification improvements, observability refinements for logs, traces and metrics, and a number of provisioning and GitOps fixes that operators and plugin authors should review.
Full release notes and downloads are on Grafana.com: see the download page and the what’s new highlights for detailed guidance.
What’s in this release
- Alerting & Notifications: UI workflow updates (Alerts Activity enhancements, instance drawer drilldowns, improved silence flow, filters moved to the sidebar), richer rule and enrichment handling, and feature flags for Rules API v2 and notifications migration.
- Observability (Logs, Traces & Metrics): Logs Panel and Log Details gains (copy log entries as JSON, inline expand/shrink, keyboard navigation, “unspecified” log level), Tempo/Jaeger rendering fixes, and Prometheus client updates.
- Provisioning, GitOps & Reporting: stronger repository handling and validation (webhook checks, replay protection, repo uniqueness by URL/branch/path), improved sync and error reporting, commit-signing UI, and enterprise reporting/provisioning enhancements.
Upgrade notes
- Breaking changes and deprecations to check: Prometheus core changes remove azure and sigv4 auth and the grafana-prometheus package; Zipkin has been removed from core plugins; some notification provisioning endpoints are marked deprecated. Review datasource and plugin compatibility before upgrading and consult the release notes for migration steps (download page).
- Testing and rollback: an alerting-related revert is recorded in the notes. Test alerting and notification provisioning in staging, and verify behaviour with the new feature flags (for example alerting.rulesAPIV2 and the notifications API migration flag) before rolling out to production.
Share your experience and any upgrade notes you find useful — others will appreciate practical feedback on how the changes behave in real deployments.
