What’s new in the ClickHouse Grafana plugin

Recent ClickHouse Grafana plugin updates, developed with Grafana Labs and community contributors, aim to make common observability investigations faster without requiring SQL while retaining one-click access to editable generated queries. Version 4.20 or later introduces single-table data source configuration and a compact query mode for searching logs, applying type-aware filters, reviewing query history, and viewing live SQL, with upcoming support for custom fields. Users can now investigate logs interactively through expandable OpenTelemetry attributes, clickable inclusion or exclusion filters, highlighted-text filtering, and improved dashboard ad hoc filters across Map columns and multiple tables. The plugin also includes ready-to-use OpenTelemetry Logs Explorer, Traces Explorer, and service dashboards, plus guided editors that automatically generate SQL for dashboard variables and deployment or rollback annotations. Additional changes improve schema detection, query efficiency, caching, trace lookup, Grafana 13 compatibility, SQL validation, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, and propagation of Grafana user identity to ClickHouse for policies, quotas, and query attribution.

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