Rendering: Stop preloading apps for rendering requests (#100221)

* Rendering: stop preloading apps

* add feature toggle

* add comment

* add const

* fix linter

* rename feature toggle

* delete old ff

* update toggles_gen.json

packages/grafana-data/src/types/featureToggles.gen.ts

@@ -256,4 +256,5 @@ export interface FeatureToggles {
   alertingJiraIntegration?: boolean;
   alertingRuleVersionHistoryRestore?: boolean;
   newShareReportDrawer?: boolean;
+  rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload?: boolean;
 }

pkg/services/featuremgmt/registry.go

@@ -1789,6 +1789,15 @@ var (
 			HideFromAdminPage: true,
 			HideFromDocs:      true,
 		},
+		{
+			Name:              "rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload",
+			Description:       "Disable pre-loading app plugins when the request is coming from the renderer",
+			Stage:             FeatureStageExperimental,
+			Owner:             grafanaSharingSquad,
+			HideFromAdminPage: true,
+			HideFromDocs:      true,
+			FrontendOnly:      true,
+		},
 	}
 )
 

pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.csv

@@ -237,3 +237,4 @@ pluginsCDNSyncLoader,experimental,@grafana/plugins-platform-backend,false,false,
 alertingJiraIntegration,experimental,@grafana/alerting-squad,false,false,true
 alertingRuleVersionHistoryRestore,experimental,@grafana/alerting-squad,false,false,true
 newShareReportDrawer,experimental,@grafana/sharing-squad,false,false,false
+rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload,experimental,@grafana/sharing-squad,false,false,true

pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.go

@@ -958,4 +958,8 @@ const (
 	// FlagNewShareReportDrawer
 	// Enables the report creation drawer in a dashboard
 	FlagNewShareReportDrawer = "newShareReportDrawer"
+
+	// FlagRendererDisableAppPluginsPreload
+	// Disable pre-loading app plugins when the request is coming from the renderer
+	FlagRendererDisableAppPluginsPreload = "rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload"
 )

pkg/services/featuremgmt/toggles_gen.json

@@ -3593,6 +3593,21 @@
         "hideFromAdminPage": true
       }
     },
+    {
+      "metadata": {
+        "name": "rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload",
+        "resourceVersion": "1740386710764",
+        "creationTimestamp": "2025-02-24T08:45:10Z"
+      },
+      "spec": {
+        "description": "Disable pre-loading app plugins when the request is coming from the renderer",
+        "stage": "experimental",
+        "codeowner": "@grafana/sharing-squad",
+        "frontend": true,
+        "hideFromAdminPage": true,
+        "hideFromDocs": true
+      }
+    },
     {
       "metadata": {
         "name": "reportingRetries",

public/app/app.ts

@@ -205,7 +205,10 @@ export class GrafanaApp {
       setDataSourceSrv(dataSourceSrv);
       initWindowRuntime();
 
-      if (contextSrv.user.orgRole !== '') {
+      // Do not pre-load apps if rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload is true and the request comes from the image renderer
+      const skipAppPluginsPreload =
+        config.featureToggles.rendererDisableAppPluginsPreload && contextSrv.user.authenticatedBy === 'render';
+      if (contextSrv.user.orgRole !== '' && !skipAppPluginsPreload) {
         const appPluginsToAwait = getAppPluginsToAwait();
         const appPluginsToPreload = getAppPluginsToPreload();