Grafana 11.2: What's New, Release History & Support Lifecycle

What Is New in Grafana 11.2

How does the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant simplify moving to Grafana Cloud?

The Cloud Migration Assistant provides a UI-driven, no-code workflow that automates the transfer of dashboards, folders, and core data sources to Grafana Cloud.

• Select the source instance and the target Cloud organization.
• Choose the resources to migrate (dashboards, folders, core data sources).
• Watch real-time status updates as the assistant copies assets securely.
• No manual API calls or scripting required.

In practice this reduces migration time from days to hours and eliminates the most common error-prone steps.

What new transformation capabilities are available in Grafana 11.2?

v11.2 adds a suite of transformations--including Transpose, Group to nested tables, Format string, and cumulative/window calculations--that let you reshape and enrich data directly in the panel.

• Transpose: Pivot rows into columns, useful when the data source lacks native pivot support.
• Group to nested tables: Group rows by one or more fields and perform aggregations per group.
• Format string: Apply upper, lower, title case, etc., to string fields.
• Cumulative & window calculations: Compute running totals, means, standard deviation, or variance over trailing or centered windows.

Example JSON snippet for a cumulative sum:

{
  "type": "addFieldFromCalculation",
  "options": {
    "mode": "cumulative",
    "calc": "sum",
    "field": "value"
  }
}

These transformations are now available in all editions and can be combined with template variables for dynamic dashboards.

How has alerting and observability UI been enhanced in Grafana 11.2?

A centralized alert history page and pagination for state timeline visualizations give you a clearer, scalable view of alert events and state changes.

• Centralized alert history: One page lists every alert state transition, regardless of silences, enabling trend analysis and debugging.
• State timeline pagination: Control page size to limit visible series, improving readability for panels with many series.
• Forward direction search for Loki: Browse logs chronologically forward, useful for tracing user sessions.
• Logs filtering & pinning in Explore: Filter by log level and pin important logs to the outline for quick reference.

Watch out for the feature toggle alertingCentralAlertHistory which must be enabled to see the new alert history page.

Which new data sources and authentication features were introduced in v11.2?

Grafana 11.2 ships public-preview data source plugins for Zendesk, Catchpoint, and Yugabyte, plus OAuth org-role mapping, improved Azure AD SAML handling, and an LDAP settings API.

• Zendesk data source: Query tickets, users, and organizations directly from Grafana.
• Catchpoint data source: Visualize Tests, RUM, and SLO data.
• Yugabyte data source: Connect to YugabyteDB; note that ad-hoc filters and TLS customization are not yet supported.
• Org-specific role mapping: Map OAuth claims to Grafana organizations and roles using org_attribute_path or group attributes.
• Azure AD SAML improvements: Use a service-account application to retrieve large group memberships.
• LDAP configuration API: Manage LDAP settings via the SSO API (experimental behind ssoSettingsLDAP).
• SAML UI enhancements: Private key/certificate optional, generate cert/key from UI, and OpenID Connect Discovery URL for Generic OAuth.

These additions expand the ecosystem and simplify SSO management for large enterprises.