Grafana: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Grafana from Grafana Labs

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-03-07

What is Grafana?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementGrafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application. It provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. A licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities is also available as a self-hosted installation or an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service. It is expandable through a plug-in system. End users can create complex monitoring dashboards[3] using interactive query builders. Grafana is divided into a front end and back end, written in TypeScript and Go, respectively.
 

The entire lifecycle of Grafana

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Grafana. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Grafana (Grafana Labs) release, version and end-of-life information
XGrafana (Grafana Labs) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Grafana (Grafana Labs)
 

What is the Grafana release strategy?

It is not officially confirmed, but apparently always supported the current version n and an earlier version n - 1.

Facts and figures about Grafana

Product
Grafana
Vendor
Grafana Labs
Latest version
12.4.0
Number of releases
12
Number of versions
635
Number of unstable versions
85
Number of versions affected by CVE
496
Licence
GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0
 
 

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