Grafana data links are not working in new versions

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Hey everyone,

We have a dashboard that worked fine in Grafana v10, but after upgrading to v11, the data-links in tables broke. Now, you have to click multiple times for them to work. This only happens with table data-links—other visualizations like stats work as expected.

I tried creating a new table, but the issue persists. I also noticed that CPU usage for the page stays above 90% even minutes after loading (with refresh turned off). It seems like the table is constantly re-rendering, and you have to time your clicks between renders; otherwise, nothing happens.

Another issue: Before, I had a URL as a variable value, and it would update with the data-link without reloading the dashboard (since it’s linking to the same dashboard). But in v11, clicking the data-link now reloads the whole dashboard. I found that removing the / from the URL prevents a full reload and only updates the variables. It looks like the new version treats / in variable values differently, causing a full reload.

Has anyone else run into this? Any ideas on a fix?

Thanks!

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I confirm this issue with the latest version 11.5.x. Everything is as described – constantly re-rendering and 100% CPU core utilization by the browser. Data links in the cells also do not work. I checked a few versions back, and the issue starts at least from version 11.3.0. In version 11.2.0, everything works fine.

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Temporary solution:
Disable the Refresh live dashboards option in the dashboard settings.
With this option disabled, the constant re-rendering of the table stops, CPU utilization becomes normal, and data links is working

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I’m experiencing the same error in version 12 of Grafana Bitnami, and the “Refresh live dashboards” option is no longer available. You can see in the browser’s element inspector that the table divs are updating almost instantly and in a loop. Do you know what could be causing this?