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Grafana v5.1.0stable Released Apr 26, 2018
⚠️ Breaking Change Impact Score: 7/10

Grafana v5.1.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

Breaking-change evidence from the source

  • [Improved docker image](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#migration-from-a-previous-version-of-the-docker-container-to-5-1-or-later) with a breaking change!
  • Docker**: Improved docker image (breaking changes regarding file ownership) [grafana-docker #141](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-docker/issues/141), thx [@Spindel](https://github.com/Spindel), [@ChristianKniep](https://github.com/ChristianKniep), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz) and [@jangaraj](https://github.com/jangaraj)
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📄 .MD
✨ Features 6 ⚡ Improvements 6 🔧 Bug Fixes 2 ⚠️ Breaking & Deprecations 2
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Grafana v5.1.0. Source highlight: The recent 5.0 major release contained a lot of new features, so the Grafana 5.1 release is focused on smoothing out some rough edges and iterating over some of the new features.

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Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

💻 Software Engineers & Devs

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📊 Product & Engineering Leads

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⚙️ DevOps & Security

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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (2)

  • [Improved docker image](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#migration-from-a-previous-version-of-the-docker-container-to-5-1-or-later) with a breaking change!
  • Docker**: Improved docker image (breaking changes regarding file ownership) [grafana-docker #141](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-docker/issues/141), thx [@Spindel](https://github.com/Spindel), [@ChristianKniep](https://github.com/ChristianKniep), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz) and [@jangaraj](https://github.com/jangaraj)

✨ New Features & Capabilities (6)

  • **Templating**: Add comma templating format #10632, thx @mtanda
  • **Alerting**: Add support for retries on alert queries #5855, thx @Thib17
  • **Folders**: A folder admin cannot add user/team permissions for folder/its dashboards #11173
  • **OpsGenie**: Add triggered alerts as description #11046, thx @llamashoes
  • **Cloudwatch**: Add dimension filtering to CloudWatch `dimension_values()` #10029, thx @willyhutw
  • **Singlestat**: Add color to prefix and postfix in singlestat panel #11143, thx @ApsOps

⚡ Performance & Enhancements (6)

  • Improved scrolling experience
  • Improved docker image with a breaking change!
  • **Docker**: Improved docker image (breaking changes regarding file ownership) grafana-docker #141, thx @Spindel, @ChristianKniep, @brancz and @jangaraj
  • **Provisioning**: Improved workflow for provisioned dashboards #10883
  • **Postgres**: improve `$__timeFilter` macro #11578, thx @svenklemm
  • **Permission list**: Improved ux #10747

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (2)

  • **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Fix precision for the time column in table mode #11306
  • **Avatar**: Fix DISABLE_GRAVATAR option #11095
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
The recent 5.0 major release contained a lot of new features, so the Grafana 5.1 release is focused on smoothing out some rough edges and iterating over some of the new features. - [What's new in Grafana v5.1](http://docs.grafana.org/v5.1/guides/whats-new-in-v5-1/) - [Download](https://grafana.com/grafana/download) ### Release Highlights * Improved scrolling experience * [Improved docker image](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/docker/#migration-from-a-previous-version-of-the-docker-container-to-5-1-or-later) with a breaking change! * [Heatmap support for Prometheus](http://docs.grafana.org/v5.1/features/panels/heatmap/#pre-bucketed-data) * [Microsoft SQL Server](http://docs.grafana.org/v5.1/features/datasources/mssql/) as metric & table datasource! * Copy and paste for panels * [Align Zero-Line for Right and Left Y-axes](http://docs.grafana.org/v5.1/features/panels/graph/#y-axes) in the Graph Panel # 5.1.0 (2018-04-26) * **Folders**: Default permissions on folder are not shown as inherited in its dashboards [#11668](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11668) * **Templating**: Allow more than 20 previews when creating a variable [#11508](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11508) * **Dashboard**: Row edit icon not shown [#11466](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11466) * **SQL**: Unsupported data types for value column using time series query [#11703](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11703) * **Prometheus**: Prometheus query inspector expands to be very large on autocomplete queries [#11673](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11673) # 5.1.0-beta1 (2018-04-20) * **MSSQL**: New Microsoft SQL Server data source [#10093](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/10093), [#11298](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11298), thx [@linuxchips](https://github.com/linuxchips) * **Prometheus**: The heatmap panel now support Prometheus histograms [#10009](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10009) * **Postgres/MySQL**: Ability to insert 0s or nulls for missing intervals [#9487](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9487), thanks [@svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Fix precision for the time column in table mode [#11306](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11306) * **Graph**: Align left and right Y-axes to one level [#1271](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1271) & [#2740](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2740) thx [@ilgizar](https://github.com/ilgizar) * **Graph**: Thresholds for Right Y axis [#7107](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7107), thx [@ilgizar](https://github.com/ilgizar) * **Graph**: Support multiple series stacking in histogram mode [#8151](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8151), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Alerting**: Pausing/un alerts now updates new_state_date [#10942](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/10942) * **Alerting**: Support Pagerduty notification channel using Pagerduty V2 API [#10531](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10531), thx [@jbaublitz](https://github.com/jbaublitz) * **Templating**: Add comma templating format [#10632](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10632), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Prometheus**: Show template variable candidate in query editor [#9210](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/9210), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Prometheus**: Support POST for query and query_range [#9859](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9859), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Alerting**: Add support for retries on alert queries [#5855](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5855), thx [@Thib17](https://github.com/Thib17) * **Table**: Table plugin value mappings [#7119](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7119), thx [infernix](https://github.com/infernix) * **IE11**: IE 11 compatibility [#11165](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11165) * **Scrolling**: Better scrolling experience [#11053](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11053), [#11252](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11252), [#10836](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10836), [#11185](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11185), [#11168](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11168) * **Docker**: Improved docker image (breaking changes regarding file ownership) [grafana-docker #141](https://github.com/grafana/grafana-docker/issues/141), thx [@Spindel](https://github.com/Spindel), [@ChristianKniep](https://github.com/ChristianKniep), [@brancz](https://github.com/brancz) and [@jangaraj](https://github.com/jangaraj) * **Folders**: A folder admin cannot add user/team permissions for folder/its dashboards [#11173](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11173) * **Provisioning**: Improved workflow for provisioned dashboards [#10883](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10883) ### Minor * **OpsGenie**: Add triggered alerts as description [#11046](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11046), thx [@llamashoes](https://github.com/llamashoes) * **Cloudwatch**: Support high resolution metrics [#10925](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/10925), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Cloudwatch**: Add dimension filtering to CloudWatch `dimension_values()` [#10029](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10029), thx [@willyhutw](https://github.com/willyhutw) * **Units**: Second to HH:mm:ss formatter [#11107](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11107), thx [@gladdiologist](https://github.com/gladdiologist) * **Singlestat**: Add color to prefix and postfix in singlestat panel [#11143](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11143), thx [@ApsOps](https://github.com/ApsOps) * **Dashboards**: Version cleanup fails on old databases with many entries [#11278](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11278) * **Server**: Adjust permissions of unix socket [#11343](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11343), thx [@corny](https://github.com/corny) * **Shortcuts**: Add shortcut for duplicate panel [#11102](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11102) * **AuthProxy**: Support IPv6 in Auth proxy white list [#11330](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11330), thx [@corny](https://github.com/corny) * **SMTP**: Don't connect to STMP server using TLS unless configured. [#7189](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7189) * **Prometheus**: Escape backslash in labels correctly. [#10555](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10555), thx [@roidelapluie](https://github.com/roidelapluie) * **Variables**: Case-insensitive sorting for template values [#11128](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11128) thx [@cross](https://github.com/cross) * **Annotations (native)**: Change default limit from 10 to 100 when querying api [#11569](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11569), thx [@flopp999](https://github.com/flopp999) * **MySQL/Postgres/MSSQL**: PostgreSQL datasource generates invalid query with dates before 1970 [#11530](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11530) thx [@ryantxu](https://github.com/ryantxu) * **Kiosk**: Adds url parameter for starting a dashboard in inactive mode [#11228](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11228), thx [@towolf](https://github.com/towolf) * **Dashboard**: Enable closing timepicker using escape key [#11332](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11332) * **Datasources**: Rename direct access mode in the data source settings [#11391](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11391) * **Search**: Display dashboards in folder indented [#11073](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11073) * **Units**: Use B/s instead Bps for Bytes per second [#9342](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/9342), thx [@mayli](https://github.com/mayli) * **Units**: Radiation units [#11001](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11001), thx [@victorclaessen](https://github.com/victorclaessen) * **Units**: Timeticks unit [#11183](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11183), thx [@jtyr](https://github.com/jtyr) * **Units**: Concentration units and "Normal cubic metre" [#11211](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11211), thx [@flopp999](https://github.com/flopp999) * **Units**: New currency - Czech koruna [#11384](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11384), thx [@Rohlik](https://github.com/Rohlik) * **Avatar**: Fix DISABLE_GRAVATAR option [#11095](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11095) * **Heatmap**: Disable log scale when using time time series buckets [#10792](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10792) * **Provisioning**: Remove `id` from json when provisioning dashboards, [#11138](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11138) * **Prometheus**: tooltip for legend format not showing properly [#11516](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11516), thx [@svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **Playlist**: Empty playlists cannot be deleted [#11133](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11133), thx [@kichristensen](https://github.com/kichristensen) * **Switch Orgs**: Alphabetic order in Switch Organization modal [#11556](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11556) * **Postgres**: improve `$__timeFilter` macro [#11578](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11578), thx [@svenklemm](https://github.com/svenklemm) * **Permission list**: Improved ux [#10747](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10747) * **Dashboard**: Sizing and positioning of settings menu icons [#11572](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11572) * **Dashboard**: Add search filter/tabs to new panel control [#10427](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10427) * **Folders**: User with org viewer role should not be able to save/move dashboards in/to general folder [#11553](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11553) * **Influxdb**: Dont assume the first column in table response is time. [#11476](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11476), thx [@hahnjo](https://github.com/hahnjo) ### Tech * Backend code simplification [#11613](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11613), thx [@knweiss](https://github.com/knweiss) * Add codespell to CI [#11602](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/11602), thx [@mjtrangoni](https://github.com/mjtrangoni) * Migrated JavaScript files to TypeScript
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