Grafana has released version 10.2.0 on October 24, 2023. This new release brings a wide range of features and enhancements to the open-source platform for monitoring and observability.

Some of the key features and enhancements in version 10.2.0 include:

• The Canvas feature has been promoted to beta status, allowing users to create rich, interactive dashboards with custom visualizations.
• Improvements to the BarChart component, including enhanced data links in tooltips for better user experience.
• Updated PluginExtensions to ensure the default timeZone is passed in the context.
• PublicDashboards feature has been enabled by default for general availability, and the public preview text has been removed.
• The Grafana UI has added a new Avatar component for user profile images.
• Alerting now includes support for msteams contact point in external Alertmanagers.
• The Insights landing page for Alerting has been enabled by default.
• Various transformations have been improved, including de-emphasizing non-applicable transformations, using short units in graphs, and adding context and timezone support in Format time and Convert field type transformations.
• Playlist now includes create and update timestamps in the database.
• Live now allows users to set the engine password.
• Auth has enabled the None role for version 10.2.
• Playlist has added support for adding folder, dashboard, and data source permissions to service accounts.
• SparklineCell now displays absolute values.
• Various bug fixes and improvements have been made throughout the platform.

In addition to these features and enhancements, there have been bug fixes and improvements to the platform, including fixes for issues related to snapshots, Loki, alerting, transformations, and more.

Please note that there are some breaking changes and deprecations in this release. It is important to review the release notes and update any relevant configurations or code to ensure compatibility with version 10.2.0.

For more details on the new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and breaking changes in Grafana version 10.2.0, you can refer to the release notes.

Loki, an open source log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus, has announced the release of version v2.9.2. This highly-available, multi-tenant system is designed to be cost-effective and easy to operate.

One notable change in this release is the patching of two security vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-39325 and CVE-2023-44487. This was done by upgrading go to v1.21.3, golang.org/x/net to v0.17.0, and grpc-go to v1.56.3. For a comprehensive list of changes, users can refer to the CHANGELOG.

Loki offers two installation options: Docker container and binary.

For those who prefer the Docker container option, the images are available at https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/loki and https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/promtail. To install, simply run the following commands:

$ docker pull grafana/loki:2.9.2
$ docker pull grafana/promtail:2.9.2

Alternatively, Loki provides pre-compiled binary executables for various operating systems and architectures. To install the binary version, follow these steps:

$ curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/loki/releases/download/v2.9.2/loki-linux-amd64.zip"
$ unzip loki-linux-amd64.zip
$ chmod a+x loki-linux-amd64

Grafana, the open-source platform for monitoring and observability, has announced the release of version 10.1.5. This release brings several bug fixes to improve the overall experience for users. The bug fixes address issues related to Cloudwatch, alerting, canvas, browsing dashboards, tempo service map, logs panel, plugin uninstallation, licensing, folder hierarchy, share links, and more.

Users can download the latest version of Grafana from the official download page and can find more information about the new features and enhancements in the release notes.