#Monitoring

Prometheus 3.0 was released on November 14, 2024, its first new major version in seven years. It brought a completely new web UI, UTF-8 support enabled by default, stable Agent mode, and several breaking changes. Here is what changed.

Prometheus 2.53 was released on June 16, 2024, changing the Go GOGC default from 100 to 75 to greatly reduce memory usage with minimal extra CPU, adding a query_offset option for rule resilience, and optimizing regexp-matcher querying. Here is what changed.

Grafana 11 was released on May 14, 2024, letting users explore Prometheus metrics and Loki logs without writing PromQL or LogQL. It also brought Scenes-powered dashboards with edit mode, AI-generated titles, and generally available subfolders. Here is what changed.

Grafana 10 was released on June 12, 2023, previewing Correlations that link any data source to any other in Explore, promoting the Canvas panel to general availability, and previewing subfolders and the new Scenes library. Here is what changed.

Prometheus 2.40 was released on November 8, 2022, introducing an experimental native way of representing and storing histograms, a more efficient, higher-resolution alternative to classic histograms enabled via a feature flag. Here is what changed.

Grafana 9 was released on June 14, 2022, enabling role-based access control by default, adding a new Traces panel visualization, a redesigned Loki query builder and query history, and screenshots in alert notifications. Here is what changed.