Grafana 13.2 release: easier ways to query and explore your data

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Grafana 13.2 is here, bringing more improvements to help you and your team explore your data and get to insights faster.In this post, we’ll highlight the latest updates to saved queries, a feature that lets teams share, discover, and reuse queries to get to trusted answers faster and help new teammates get up to speed. We’ll also explore how the new View panel sidebar makes exploring busy panels a breeze. If you want to read about all the latest updates in Grafana 13.2, please refer to the changelog or our What’s New documentation. Saved queries: reuse trusted queries across dashboards and teams Good queries are hard-won. Writing one means knowing both the query language and your own data, like which of four similarly named metrics is the one you can trust. That knowledge usually sits with a few experienced people, or is gradually learned through exploration (increasingly AI-assisted), validation, and revision. Often teams end up rebuilding the same Grafana queries over and over, and the best ones live in pinned Slack messages or get copy-pasted from old dashboards. New team members feel it most, since their first weeks are often spent reverse-engineering existing dashboards just t