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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