diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
index 89e49671d866..24bb3633caea 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/grafana/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 buildGoModule rec {
   pname = "grafana";
-  version = "7.5.7";
+  version = "8.0.0";
 
   excludedPackages = [ "release_publisher" ];
 
@@ -10,32 +10,32 @@ buildGoModule rec {
     rev = "v${version}";
     owner = "grafana";
     repo = "grafana";
-    sha256 = "sha256-GTQK02zxOBTE+93vT0zLMhAeZ7F3Cq/0lbvbzwB2QZA=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-HtubiSx4Orf9knZcuYy4eF2qwclX/JVd2Ba9L33tM74=";
   };
 
   srcStatic = fetchurl {
     url = "https://dl.grafana.com/oss/release/grafana-${version}.linux-amd64.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "sha256-IQ7aAuUrNa+bSh5ld6IttujM8AgKUSlu8H7pwzDi164=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-bwBpkPy4kwfnkRsLOktUgQx+Sm8WJA2d65efMBCnGp4=";
   };
 
-  vendorSha256 = "sha256-AsPRaRLomp090XAKLXLXKm40ESPO4im9qi6VLpLYRQU=";
+  vendorSha256 = "sha256-Hon5WrhXUvZUtMRxx3XcBDQe3rkRkfqbnXjY3xCzuuM=";
 
-  # grafana-aws-sdk is specified with two versions which causes a problem later:
-  # go: inconsistent vendoring in /build/source:
-  #  github.com/grafana/grafana-aws-sdk@v0.3.0: is explicitly required in go.mod, but not marked as explicit in vendor/modules.txt
-  # Remove the older one here to fix this.
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace go.mod \
-      --replace 'github.com/grafana/grafana-aws-sdk v0.3.0' ""
-
-    substituteInPlace pkg/cmd/grafana-server/main.go \
-      --replace 'var version = "5.0.0"'  'var version = "${version}"'
-  '';
-
-  # main module (github.com/grafana/grafana) does not contain package github.com/grafana/grafana/scripts/go
-  # main module (github.com/grafana/grafana) does not contain package github.com/grafana/grafana/dashboard-schemas
   preBuild = ''
-    rm -r dashboard-schemas scripts/go
+    # The testcase makes an API call against grafana.com:
+    #
+    # --- Expected
+    # +++ Actual
+    # @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+    #  (map[string]interface {}) (len=2) {
+    # - (string) (len=5) "error": (string) (len=16) "plugin not found",
+    # - (string) (len=7) "message": (string) (len=16) "Plugin not found"
+    # + (string) (len=5) "error": (string) (len=171) "Failed to send request: Get \"https://grafana.com/api/plugins/repo/test\": dial tcp: lookup grafana.com on [::1]:53: read udp [::1]:48019->[::1]:53: read: connection refused",
+    # + (string) (len=7) "message": (string) (len=24) "Failed to install plugin"
+    #  }
+    sed -ie '/func TestPluginInstallAccess/a t.Skip();' pkg/tests/api/plugins/api_install_test.go
+
+    # main module (github.com/grafana/grafana) does not contain package github.com/grafana/grafana/scripts/go
+    rm -r scripts/go
   '';
 
   postInstall = ''