Grafana v4.3.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

[Download Page](http://grafana.org/download) [Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/) To view screenshots and examples of the new features read the [What's New in v4.3](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v4-3/) article. 4.3.0-stable (2017-05-23) ## Bug fixes * **Gzip**: Fixed crash when gzip was enabled [#8380](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8380) * **Graphite**: Fixed issue with Toggle edit mode did in query editor [#8377](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8377) * **Alerting**: Fixed issue with state history not showing query execution errors [#8412](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8412) * **Alerting**: Fixed issue with missing state history events/annotations when using sqlite3 database [#7992](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7992) * **Sqlite**: Fixed with database table locked and using sqlite3 database [#7992](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7992) * **Alerting**: Fixed issue with annotations showing up in unsaved dashboards, new graph & alert panel. [#8361](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8361) * **webdav**: Fixed http proxy env variable support for webdav image upload [#7922](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/79222), thx [@berghauz](https://github.com/berghauz) * **Prometheus**: Fixed issue with hiding query [#8413](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8413) ## Enhancements * **VictorOps**: Now supports panel image & auto resolve [#8431](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8431), thx [@davidmscott](https://github.com/davidmscott) * **Alerting**: Alert annotations now provide more info [#8421](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8421) # 4.3.0-beta1 (2017-05-12) ## Enhancements * **InfluxDB**: influxdb query builder support for ORDER BY and LIMIT (allows TOPN queries) [#6065](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6065) Support influxdb's SLIMIT Feature [#7232](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7232) thx [@thuck](https://github.com/thuck) * **Panels**: Delay loading & Lazy load panels as they become visible (scrolled into view) [#5216](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5216) thx [@jifwin](https://github.com/jifwin) * **Graph**: Support auto grid min/max when using log scale [#3090](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3090), thx [@bigbenhur](https://github.com/bigbenhur) * **Graph**: Support for histograms [#600](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/600) * **Prometheus**: Support table response formats (column per label) [#6140](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6140), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Single Stat Panel**: support for non time series data [#6564](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6564) * **Server**: Monitoring Grafana (health check endpoint) [#3302](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3302) * **Heatmap**: Heatmap Panel [#7934](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/7934) * **Elasticsearch**: histogram aggregation [#3164](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3164) ## Minor Enchancements * **InfluxDB**: Small fix for the "glow" when focus the field for LIMIT and SLIMIT [#7799](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/7799) thx [@thuck](https://github.com/thuck) * **Prometheus**: Make Prometheus query field a textarea [#7663](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7663), thx [@hagen1778](https://github.com/hagen1778) * **Prometheus**: Step parameter changed semantics to min step to reduce the load on Prometheus and rendering in browser [#8073](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/8073), thx [@bobrik](https://github.com/bobrik) * **Templating**: Should not be possible to create self-referencing (recursive) template variable definitions [#7614](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7614) thx [@thuck](https://github.com/thuck) * **Cloudwatch**: Correctly obtain IAM roles within ECS container tasks [#7892](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7892) thx [@gomlgs](https://github.com/gomlgs) * **Units**: New number format: Scientific notation [#7781](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7781) thx [@cadnce](https://github.com/cadnce) * **Oauth**: Add common type for oauth authorization errors [#6428](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/6428) thx [@amenzhinsky](https://github.com/amenzhinsky) * **Templating**: Data source variable now supports multi value and panel repeats [#7030](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7030) thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Telegram**: Telegram alert is not sending metric and legend. [#8110](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8110), thx [@bashgeek](https://github.com/bashgeek) * **Graph**: Support dashed lines [#514](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/514), thx [@smalik03](https://github.com/smalik03) * **Table**: Support to change column header text [#3551](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3551) * **Alerting**: Better error when SMTP is not configured [#8093](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8093) * **Pushover**: Add an option to attach graph image link in Pushover notification [#8043](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8043) thx [@devkid](https://github.com/devkid) * **WebDAV**: Allow to set different ImageBaseUrl for WebDAV upload and image link [#7914](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7914) * **Panels**: type-ahead mixed datasource selection [#7697](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7697) thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Security**:User enumeration problem [#7619](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7619) * **InfluxDB**: Register new queries available in InfluxDB - Holt Winters [#5619](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5619) thx [@rikkuness](https://github.com/rikkuness) * **Server**: Support listening on a UNIX socket [#4030](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4030), thx [@mitjaziv](https://github.com/mitjaziv) * **Graph**: Support log scaling for values smaller 1 [#5278](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5278) * **InfluxDB**: Slow 'select measurement' rendering for InfluxDB [#2524](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2524), thx [@sbhenderson](https://github.com/sbhenderson) * **Config**: Configurable signout menu activation [#7968](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/7968), thx [@seuf](https://github.com/seuf) ## Fixes * **Table Panel**: Fixed annotation display in table panel, [#8023](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8023) * **Dashboard**: If refresh is blocked due to tab not visible, then refresh when it becomes visible [#8076](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8076) thanks [@SimenB](https://github.com/SimenB) * **Snapshots**: Fixed problem with annotations & snapshots [#7659](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7659) * **Graph**: MetricSegment loses type when value is an asterisk [#8277](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8277), thx [@Gordiychuk](https://github.com/Gordiychuk) * **Alerting**: Alert notifications do not show charts when using a non public S3 bucket [#8250](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8250) thx [@rogerswingle](https://github.com/rogerswingle) * **Graph**: 100% client CPU usage on red alert glow animation [#8222](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8222) * **InfluxDB**: Templating: "All" query does match too much [#8165](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8165) * **Dashboard**: Description tooltip is not fully displayed [#7970](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7970) * **Proxy**: Redirect after switching Org does not obey sub path in root_url (using reverse proxy) [#8089](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8089) * **Templating**: Restoration of ad-hoc variable from URL does not work correctly [#8056](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8056) thx [@tamayika](https://github.com/tamayika) * **InfluxDB**: timeFilter cannot be used twice in alerts [#7969](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7969) * **MySQL**: 4-byte UTF8 not supported when using MySQL database (allows Emojis) [#7958](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7958) * **Alerting**: api/alerts and api/alert/:id hold previous data for "message" and "Message" field when field value is changed from "some string" to empty string. [#7927](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7927) * **Graph**: Cannot add fill below to series override [#7916](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7916) * **InfluxDB**: Influxb Datasource test passes even if the Database doesn't exist [#7864](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7864) * **Prometheus**: Displaying Prometheus annotations is incredibly slow [#7750](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7750), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Graphite**: grafana generates empty find query to graphite -> 422 Unprocessable Entity [#7740](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7740) * **Admin**: make organisation filter case insensitive [#8194](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8194), thx [@Alexander-N](https://github.com/Alexander-N) ## Changes * **Elasticsearch**: Changed elasticsearch Terms aggregation to default to Min Doc Count to 1, and sort order to Top [#8321](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8321) ## Tech * **Library Upgrade**: inconshreveable/log15 outdated - no support for solaris [#8262](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8262) * **Library Upgrade**: Upgrade Macaron [#7600](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7600)