Grafana 3.0 Beta Released

Grafana 3.0 Beta introduces a significant update with over 1500 commits from more than 30 contributors, featuring enhanced extensibility through a revamped plugin SDK/API, allowing new panel and app plugins to enrich the user experience. This release includes commercial support options, improved personalization, and playlist functionalities, as well as a sleek new UI with numerous usability enhancements. Grafana.net is launched as a hub for discovering and managing plugins and dashboards, alongside a new command-line tool, grafana-cli, for easy plugin installation. Notable improvements have been made to data sources like Prometheus, InfluxDB, and OpenTSDB, while the styling system has been modernized with SASS, ES6, and Typescript to improve code maintainability. Although the eagerly anticipated alerting feature is postponed to focus on technical debt reduction, existing dashboards remain largely compatible, with some potential adjustments needed for those using templating.