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# What's new in Grafana v7.3

This topic includes the release notes for the Grafana v7.3. For all details, read the full [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).

## Highlights

Grafana 7.3 comes with a number of features and enhancements:

- [**Google Cloud Monitoring:** Out of the box dashboards]({{< relref "#cloud-monitoring-out-of-the-box-dashboards" >}})
- [**Shorten URL for dashboards and Explore**]({{< relref "#shorten-url-for-dashboards-and-explore" >}})

#### Cloud monitoring out-of-the-box dashboards

The updated Cloud monitoring data source is shipped with pre-configured dashboards for five of the most popular GCP services:

- BigQuery
- Cloud Load Balancing
- Cloud SQL
- Google Compute Engine `GCE`
- Google Kubernetes Engine `GKE`

To import the pre-configured dashboards, go to the configuration page of your Google Cloud Monitoring data source and click on the `Dashboards` tab. Click `Import` for the dashboard you would like to use. To customize the dashboard, we recommend to save the dashboard under a different name, because otherwise the dashboard will be overwritten when a new version of the dashboard is released.

For more details, see the [Google Cloud Monitoring docs]({{<relref "../datasources/cloudmonitoring/#out-of-the-box-dashboards">}})

## Shorten URL for dashboards and Explore

This is an amazing new feature that was created in cooperation with one of our community members. The new **share shortened link** capability allows you to create smaller and simpler URLs of the format `/goto/:uid` instead of using longer URLs that can contain complex query parameters. In Explore, you can create a shortened link by clicking on the share button in Explore toolbar. In the dashboards, a shortened url option is available through the share panel or dashboard button.

## Grafana Enterprise features

These features are included in the Grafana Enterprise edition software.

### Auditing

### Datasource Usage Insights

### SAML Improvements

## Upgrading

See [upgrade notes]({{< relref "../installation/upgrading.md" >}}).

## Changelog

Check out [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes.