You can now override the validation that checks for metric existence when you create a PromQL-based alerting policy

## Feature You can now override the validation that checks for metric existence when you create a PromQL-based alerting policy. For more information, see [Disable check for metric existence](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/promql/create-promql-alerts#disable-validation). ## Feature Text widgets can now link to sections of a dashboard and they can render variables. For more information, see the following documents: * [Add text to a dashboard](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/text-and-grouping#add%5Ftext%5Fbox) * [Add sections to a dashboard](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/text-and-grouping#add%5Fsection%5Fheader) * [Create and manage variables and pinned filters](https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/dashboards/filter-permanent)