• Removal of Drilldown Investigations in Grafana: What you need to know Back in May, we introduced the public preview of Grafana Drilldown Investigations, a new feature intended to help Grafana OSS and Grafana Cloud users accelerate their incident response. • Now, as we head into the new year, we’ve made the difficult decision to deprecate this feature from OSS and deprovision it from Grafana Cloud. • To be clear, your Drilldown apps (logs, metrics, traces, profiles) will not be affected, and neither will the classic Explore. • Also, Drilldown Investigations should not be confused with Grafana Assistant Investigations, which remains available to all Grafana Cloud users. • Though this feature never became generally available, we want to be transparent about the decision. • Below you’ll find the timeline, what changes, and strategies on how to preserve notes and links you’ve saved.
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- Grafana has announced it will deprecate the Drilldown Investigations feature from both its open‑source (OSS) distribution and Grafana Cloud. The decision follows low adoption and added complexity that did not justify the effort. The feature will be removed in the week of January 5, along with its documentation, and existing investigations (notes, links, timelines) will no longer be available. Core Drilldown apps (metrics, logs, traces, profiles) and Classic Explore remain unchanged. Users can migrate by converting investigations into dashboards or copying notes and links. Grafana encourages affected teams to reach out to their account manager or community Slack for assistance.
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