Grafana 13.1.0

Grafana 13.1.0 has been released — the latest minor version of the leading open-source observability platform is here, packing accessibility improvements, alerting upgrades, and new visualization options.

♿ Accessibility Advancements

Grafana 13.1.0 makes major strides in accessibility. The team has introduced colorblind-safe line style fill patterns, making charts readable for users with color vision deficiencies. The FilterPill component now ships with aria-pressed state support, and interactivity has been removed from UserIcon when no onClick handler is provided, improving screen reader navigation across dashboards.

🔔 Alerting Amplified

This release is a bumper crop for the alerting ecosystem. Mimir Alertmanager auto-sync configuration has been added to the settings page, making multi-tenant setups easier to manage. A new alerting.rulesAPIV2 feature flag paves the way for the next-generation rules API, while a reusable hook for enrichment query parameters streamlines drawer integrations.

Alert activity gets a major facelift: instance drawer drilldown, silence flows, environment-based groupBy filtering, and a common section in the filter dropdown for Alerts Activity. Viewers are now blocked from editing alert groups, and plugin-provided or provisioned rule groups are locked down from accidental edits. Deduplication and validation of groupBy labels round out the reliability improvements.

📋 Labels & Enrichment

A new label section has been added to enrichment view/edit drawers (Enterprise), alongside blocking of viewer-level edits on alert group routes. The team also added support for label selectors in AlertRule and RecordingRule legacy storage, closing a long-standing gap.

⬆️ Upgrade at Your Pace

Grafana 13.1.0 is available now. As always, review the breaking changes in the official changelog before upgrading production instances. The upgrade path from 13.0.x is straightforward, but the alerting changes warrant a close look at your existing configuration.