diff --git a/licenses.d2iq.yaml b/licenses.d2iq.yaml
index a27a069944..b10af493da 100644
--- a/licenses.d2iq.yaml
+++ b/licenses.d2iq.yaml
@@ -96,6 +96,12 @@ resources:
       - license_path: LICENSE
         ref: v1.19.2-d2iq
         url: https://github.com/mesosphere/gitea
+  - container_image: docker.io/grafana/grafana:8.5.26
+    sources:
+      - license_path: LICENSE
+        notice_path: NOTICE.md
+        ref: v${image_tag}
+        url: https://github.com/grafana/grafana
   - container_image: docker.io/grafana/grafana:9.4.7
     sources:
       - license_path: LICENSE
diff --git a/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml b/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml
index 7be6cb35a4..7273bb1551 100644
--- a/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml
+++ b/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ data:
   values.yaml: |
     ---
     priorityClassName: "dkp-critical-priority"
-    # pinning grafana to 9.5 since it appears that upgrading to v10 is causing issues with prometheus scraping
-    # grafana metrics
+    # pinning grafana to 8.5 since it appears that v9+ is causing the kubernetes audit dashboard to crash
     image:
-      tag: 9.5.13
+      tag: 8.5.26
     datasources:
       datasources.yaml:
         apiVersion: 1
diff --git a/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/grafana.yaml b/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/grafana.yaml
index 28ec2019cb..cc388fab2d 100644
--- a/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/grafana.yaml
+++ b/services/grafana-logging/6.60.1/grafana.yaml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ data:
   dashboardLink: "/dkp/logging/grafana"
   docsLink: "https://grafana.com/docs/"
   # Check https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/grafana/grafana/6.58.6 for app version
-  version: "9.5.13"
+  version: "8.5.26"
 ---
 apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
 kind: ClusterRole
diff --git a/services/project-grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml b/services/project-grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml
index 3b7de6a9f9..5884c2d511 100644
--- a/services/project-grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml
+++ b/services/project-grafana-logging/6.60.1/defaults/cm.yaml
@@ -7,10 +7,9 @@ data:
   values.yaml: |
     ---
     priorityClassName: "dkp-critical-priority"
-    # pinning grafana to 9.5 since it appears that upgrading to v10 is causing issues with prometheus scraping
-    # grafana metrics
+    # pinning grafana to 8.5 since it appears that v9+ is causing the kubernetes audit dashboard to crash
     image:
-      tag: 9.5.13
+      tag: 8.5.26
     datasources:
       datasources.yaml:
         apiVersion: 1