Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v5.4.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v5.4.1. Source highlight: Download Page
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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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- **InfluxDB**: Add support for alerting on InfluxDB queries that use the cumulative_sum function. #14314, thx @nitti
- **Cloudwatch**: Add the AWS/SES Cloudwatch metrics of BounceRate and ComplaintRate to auto complete list. #14401, thx @sglajchEG
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (1)
- **Postgres**: Improve PostgreSQL Query Editor if using different Schemas, [#14313](
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Stackdriver**: Fixes issue with data proxy and Authorization header #14262
- **Logging**: Fix for issue where data proxy logged a secret when debug logging was enabled, now redacted. #14319
- **Quotas**: Fixed for updating org & user quotas. #14347, thx #moznion
- **Dashboard Search**: Fixed filtering by tag issues.
- **Graph**: Fixed time region issues, #14425, #14280
- **Graph**: Fixed issue with series color picker popover being placed outside window.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
[Download Page](https://grafana.com/grafana/download/5.4.1)
[Installation Guide](http://docs.grafana.org/installation/)
[Release Notes](https://community.grafana.com/t/release-notes-v5-4-x/12215)
# 5.4.1 (2018-12-10)
* **Stackdriver**: Fixes issue with data proxy and Authorization header [#14262](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14262)
* **Units**: fixedUnit for Flow:l/min and mL/min [#14294](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14294), thx [@flopp999](https://github.com/flopp999).
* **Logging**: Fix for issue where data proxy logged a secret when debug logging was enabled, now redacted. [#14319](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14319)
* **InfluxDB**: Add support for alerting on InfluxDB queries that use the cumulative_sum function. [#14314](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14314), thx [@nitti](https://github.com/nitti)
* **Plugins**: Panel plugins should no receive the panel-initialized event again as usual.
* **Embedded Graphs**: Iframe graph panels should now work as usual. [#14284](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14284)
* **Postgres**: Improve PostgreSQL Query Editor if using different Schemas, [#14313](
https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14313)
* **Quotas**: Fixed for updating org & user quotas. [#14347](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14347), thx [#moznion](https://github.com/moznion)
* **Cloudwatch**: Add the AWS/SES Cloudwatch metrics of BounceRate and ComplaintRate to auto complete list. [#14401](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14401), thx [@sglajchEG](https://github.com/sglajchEG)
* **Dashboard Search**: Fixed filtering by tag issues.
* **Graph**: Fixed time region issues, [#14425](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14425), [#14280](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14280)
* **Graph**: Fixed issue with series color picker popover being placed outside window.