Is it possible to prevent Grafana from displaying all selected values in the drop-down menu of the template variables?

In newer versions of Grafana, especially from version 11.x, all selected values are displayed in the drop-down menu of the template variables. This behavior can lead to confusion with a large number of selected values. Does Grafana offer an option to change or deactivate this behavior?

  • What Grafana version and what operating system are you using?
    Grafana Version 11.4.0 in docker

  • What are you trying to achieve?
    In a long list of possible values for a dashboard variable, I don’t want to select the values that I need, but conversely deselect the ones that I don’t need. The reason for this is that the list of possible values is very long (several hundred entries).

  • How are you trying to achieve it?
    I would like to select all values in the dropdown filter by clicking on “Selected” and then deselect the values that I do not need.

  • What happened?
    If I select all possible values with “selected” as described, all selected values are displayed. Because there are so many, it becomes very confusing and I find it difficult to deselect individual values.

  • What did you expect to happen?
    As in old versions of Grafana (e.g. 10.0.3), I would like this preview of selected values not to be displayed.

Checkout the business variable plugin that you can use which has a much cleaner UI