diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/PanelChrome/PanelContext.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/PanelChrome/PanelContext.ts
index 309f3cc1b81..336ca47e105 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/PanelChrome/PanelContext.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/PanelChrome/PanelContext.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   ThresholdsConfig,
   SplitOpen,
   CoreApp,
+  DataFrame,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 
 import { AdHocFilterItem } from '../Table/types';
@@ -82,6 +83,12 @@ export interface PanelContext {
    * Called when a panel is changing the sort order of the legends.
    */
   onToggleLegendSort?: (sortBy: string) => void;
+
+  /**
+   * Optional, only some contexts support this. This action can be cancelled by user which will result
+   * in a the Promise resolving to a false value.
+   */
+  onUpdateData?: (frames: DataFrame[]) => Promise<boolean>;
 }
 
 export const PanelContextRoot = React.createContext<PanelContext>({
diff --git a/public/app/features/dashboard/dashgrid/PanelStateWrapper.tsx b/public/app/features/dashboard/dashgrid/PanelStateWrapper.tsx
index 08a09b9c45b..9d5f2f13b2d 100644
--- a/public/app/features/dashboard/dashgrid/PanelStateWrapper.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/dashboard/dashgrid/PanelStateWrapper.tsx
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   AnnotationEventUIModel,
   CoreApp,
   DashboardCursorSync,
+  DataFrame,
   EventFilterOptions,
   FieldConfigSource,
   getDataSourceRef,
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ import { InspectTab } from 'app/features/inspector/types';
 import { getPanelLinksSupplier } from 'app/features/panel/panellinks/linkSuppliers';
 import { getDatasourceSrv } from 'app/features/plugins/datasource_srv';
 import { applyFilterFromTable } from 'app/features/variables/adhoc/actions';
+import { onUpdatePanelSnapshotData } from 'app/plugins/datasource/grafana/utils';
 import { changeSeriesColorConfigFactory } from 'app/plugins/panel/timeseries/overrides/colorSeriesConfigFactory';
 import { dispatch } from 'app/store/store';
 import { RenderEvent } from 'app/types/events';
@@ -116,6 +118,7 @@ export class PanelStateWrapper extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
         canEditAnnotations: props.dashboard.canEditAnnotations.bind(props.dashboard),
         canDeleteAnnotations: props.dashboard.canDeleteAnnotations.bind(props.dashboard),
         onAddAdHocFilter: this.onAddAdHocFilter,
+        onUpdateData: this.onUpdateData,
       },
       data: this.getInitialPanelDataState(),
     };
@@ -146,6 +149,10 @@ export class PanelStateWrapper extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
     return CoreApp.Dashboard;
   }
 
+  onUpdateData = (frames: DataFrame[]): Promise<boolean> => {
+    return onUpdatePanelSnapshotData(this.props.panel, frames);
+  };
+
   onSeriesColorChange = (label: string, color: string) => {
     this.onFieldConfigChange(changeSeriesColorConfigFactory(label, color, this.props.panel.fieldConfig));
   };
diff --git a/public/app/features/scenes/dashboard/DashboardsLoader.test.ts b/public/app/features/scenes/dashboard/DashboardsLoader.test.ts
index 8d758d979c2..f99c01732c4 100644
--- a/public/app/features/scenes/dashboard/DashboardsLoader.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/scenes/dashboard/DashboardsLoader.test.ts
@@ -99,8 +99,6 @@ describe('DashboardLoader', () => {
       const loader = new DashboardLoader({});
       await loader.load('fake-dash');
       expect(loader.state.dashboard).toBeInstanceOf(DashboardScene);
-      // @ts-expect-error - private
-      expect(loader.state.dashboard?.urlSyncManager).toBeDefined();
       expect(loader.state.isLoading).toBe(false);
     });
   });
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana/utils.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana/utils.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ec9b6ff321c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana/utils.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import { DataFrame, DataFrameJSON, dataFrameToJSON } from '@grafana/data';
+import appEvents from 'app/core/app_events';
+import { GRAFANA_DATASOURCE_NAME } from 'app/features/alerting/unified/utils/datasource';
+import { PanelModel } from 'app/features/dashboard/state';
+import { ShowConfirmModalEvent } from 'app/types/events';
+
+import { GrafanaQuery, GrafanaQueryType } from './types';
+
+/**
+ * Will show a confirm modal if the current panel does not have a snapshot query.
+ * If the confirm modal is shown, and the user aborts the promise will resolve with a false value,
+ * otherwise it will resolve with a true value.
+ */
+export function onUpdatePanelSnapshotData(panel: PanelModel, frames: DataFrame[]): Promise<boolean> {
+  return new Promise<boolean>((resolve) => {
+    if (panel.datasource?.uid === GRAFANA_DATASOURCE_NAME) {
+      updateSnapshotData(frames, panel);
+      resolve(true);
+      return;
+    }
+
+    appEvents.publish(
+      new ShowConfirmModalEvent({
+        title: 'Change to panel embedded data',
+        text: 'If you want to change the data shown in this panel Grafana will need to remove the panels current query and replace it with a snapshot of the current data. This enabled you to edit the data',
+        yesText: 'Continue',
+        icon: 'pen',
+        onConfirm: () => {
+          updateSnapshotData(frames, panel);
+          resolve(true);
+        },
+        onDismiss: () => {
+          resolve(false);
+        },
+      })
+    );
+  });
+}
+
+function updateSnapshotData(frames: DataFrame[], panel: PanelModel) {
+  const snapshot: DataFrameJSON[] = frames.map((f) => dataFrameToJSON(f));
+
+  const query: GrafanaQuery = {
+    refId: 'A',
+    queryType: GrafanaQueryType.Snapshot,
+    snapshot,
+    datasource: { uid: GRAFANA_DATASOURCE_NAME },
+  };
+
+  panel.updateQueries({
+    dataSource: { uid: GRAFANA_DATASOURCE_NAME },
+    queries: [query],
+  });
+
+  panel.refresh();
+}