Removal of Drilldown Investigations in Grafana: What you need to know

Grafana has decided to deprecate the Drilldown Investigations feature from its open-source software (OSS) and deprovision it from Grafana Cloud, as it never achieved general availability and faced low adoption compared to core Drilldown applications. This decision will not affect the Drilldown apps for metrics, logs, traces, profiles, or the classic Explore feature. The Drilldown Investigations aimed to consolidate findings from different signals to expedite incident response, but its additional complexity did not offer substantial day-to-day benefits for users. Users are encouraged to convert existing investigations into dashboards or copy important notes before the feature's removal in early January. Grafana Assistant Investigations remains available as an alternative for incident analysis, with integration into Grafana's AI-powered chat bot for follow-up actions.