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+---
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    The Monasca Fork of Grafana is deprecated due to lack of maintenance
+    and will be removed in the Xena release. Instead, support will be
+    provided to allow Monasca users to migrate to the vanilla Grafana
+    service with the Monasca datasource.