Grafana 12.1 introduces several new features aimed at enhancing user experience and operational efficiency, including automated health checks via Grafana Advisor, a redesigned alert rule management interface, and improved data visualization tools such as trendlines and custom variable support. Additional updates focus on authentication enhancements and new data source integrations, ensuring better security and flexibility for users.

Grafana has launched a redesigned alert rules list page that enhances the user experience for managing alerts with improved performance, clarity, and usability. This update introduces two distinct views—grouped and list—for better navigation and quicker access to rules, while addressing previous performance bottlenecks through a new paginated API. Future improvements will focus on enhancing alert triaging capabilities.

Grafana Labs has introduced a new filtering system for alert rules that enhances user experience by providing more filtering options, a cleaner UI, and reduced cognitive load. This update allows users to easily find alert rules using dropdowns for criteria such as Namespace, Label, Evaluation group, and Rule Source, while maintaining existing functionality for manual searches. The new feature is being rolled out in Grafana Cloud and will be available in the Grafana 12.3 release this October.