Grafana v6.0.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

Grafana v6.0 introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features. * [What’s new in Grafana v6.0 ](http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v6-0/) * [Download](https://grafana.com/grafana/download) ## New major features: - **Explore** A new query focused workflow for ad-hoc data exploration and troubleshooting. - **Grafana Loki** Integration with the new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs. - **Gauge Panel** A new standalone panel for gauges. - **New Panel Editor UX** improves panel editing and enables easy switching between different visualizations. - **Google Stackdriver Datasource** is out of beta and is officially released. - **Azure Monitor** plugin is ported from being an external plugin to being a core datasource - **React Plugin** support enables an easier way to build plugins. - **Named Colors** in our new improved color picker. - **Removal of user session storage** makes Grafana easier to deploy & improves security. # 6.0.0 stable (2019-02-25) ### Bug Fixes * **Dashboard**: fixes click after scroll in series override menu [#15621](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15621) * **MySQL**: fix mysql query using _interval_ms variable throws error [#14507](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14507) # 6.0.0-beta3 (2019-02-19) ### Minor * **CLI**: Grafana CLI should preserve permissions for backend binaries for Linux and Darwin [#15500](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15500) * **Alerting**: Allow image rendering 90 percent of alertTimeout [#15395](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15395) ### Bug fixes * **Influxdb**: Add support for alerting on InfluxDB queries that use the non_negative_difference function [#15415](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15415), thx [@kiran3394](https://github.com/kiran3394) * **Alerting**: Fix percent_diff calculation when points are nulls [#15443](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15443), thx [@max-neverov](https://github.com/max-neverov) * **Alerting**: Fixed handling of alert urls with true flags [#15454](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15454) # 6.0.0-beta2 (2019-02-11) ### New Features * **AzureMonitor**: Enable alerting by converting Azure Monitor API to Go [#14623](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14623) ### Minor * **Alerting**: Adds support for images in pushover notifier [#10780](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10780), thx [@jpenalbae](https://github.com/jpenalbae) * **Graphite/InfluxDB/OpenTSDB**: Fix always take dashboard timezone into consideration when handle custom time ranges [#15284](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15284) * **Stackdriver**: Template variables in filters using globbing format [#15182](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15182) * **Cloudwatch**: Add `resource_arns` template variable query function [#8207](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8207), thx [@jeroenvollenbrock](https://github.com/jeroenvollenbrock) * **Cloudwatch**: Add AWS/Neptune metrics [#14231](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14231), thx [@tcpatterson](https://github.com/tcpatterson) * **Cloudwatch**: Add AWS/EC2/API metrics [#14233](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14233), thx [@tcpatterson](https://github.com/tcpatterson) * **Cloudwatch**: Add AWS RDS ServerlessDatabaseCapacity metric [#15265](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15265), thx [@larsjoergensen](https://github.com/larsjoergensen) * **MySQL**: Adds datasource SSL CA/client certificates support [#8570](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8570), thx [@bugficks](https://github.com/bugficks) * **MSSQL**: Timerange are now passed for template variable queries [#13324](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13324), thx [@thatsparesh](https://github.com/thatsparesh) * **Annotations**: Support PATCH verb in annotations http api [#12546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12546), thx [@SamuelToh](https://github.com/SamuelToh) * **Templating**: Add json formatting to variable interpolation [#15291](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15291), thx [@mtanda](https://github.com/mtanda) * **Login**: Anonymous usage stats for token auth [#15288](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15288) * **AzureMonitor**: improve autocomplete for Log Analytics and App Insights editor [#15131](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15131) * **LDAP**: Fix IPA/FreeIPA v4.6.4 does not allow LDAP searches with empty attributes [#14432](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14432) * **Provisioning**: Allow testing data sources that were added by config [#12164](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12164) * **Security**: Fix CSRF Token validation for POSTs [#1441](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/1441) ### Breaking changes * **Internal Metrics** Edition has been added to the build_info metric. This will break any Graphite queries using this metric. Edition will be a new label for the Prometheus metric. [#15363](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15363) ### Bug fixes * **Gauge**: Fix issue with gauge requests being cancelled [#15366](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15366) * **Gauge**: Accept decimal inputs for thresholds [#15372](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15372) * **UI**: Fix error caused by named colors that are not part of named colors palette [#15373](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15373) * **Search**: Bug pressing special regexp chars in input fields [#12972](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12972) * **Permissions**: No need to have edit permissions to be able to "Save as" [#13066](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13066) # 6.0.0-beta1 (2019-01-30) ### New Features * **Alerting**: Adds support for Google Hangouts Chat notifications [#11221](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11221), thx [@PatrickSchuster](https://github.com/PatrickSchuster) * **Elasticsearch**: Support bucket script pipeline aggregations [#5968](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5968) * **Influxdb**: Add support for time zone (`tz`) clause [#10322](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10322), thx [@cykl](https://github.com/cykl) * **Snapshots**: Enable deletion of public snapshot [#14109](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14109) * **Provisioning**: Provisioning support for alert notifiers [#10487](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10487), thx [@pbakulev](https://github.com/pbakulev) * **Explore**: A whole new way to do ad-hoc metric queries and exploration. Split view in half and compare metrics & logs and much much more. [Read more here](http://docs.grafana.org/features/explore/) * **Auth**: Replace remember me cookie solution for Grafana's builtin, LDAP and OAuth authentication with a solution based on short-lived tokens [#15303](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15303) ### Minor * **Alerting**: Use separate timeouts for alert evals and notifications [#14701](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14701), thx [@sharkpc0813](https://github.com/sharkpc0813) * **Elasticsearch**: Add support for offset in date histogram aggregation [#12653](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12653), thx [@mattiarossi](https://github.com/mattiarossi) * **Elasticsearch**: Add support for moving average and derivative using doc count (metric count) [#8843](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/8843) [#11175](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11175) * **Elasticsearch**: Add support for template variable interpolation in alias field [#4075](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4075), thx [@SamuelToh](https://github.com/SamuelToh) * **Influxdb**: Fix autocomplete of measurements does not escape search string properly [#11503](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11503), thx [@SamuelToh](https://github.com/SamuelToh) * **Stackdriver**: Aggregating series returns more than one series [#14581](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14581) and [#13914](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13914), thx [@kinok](https://github.com/kinok) * **Cloudwatch**: Fix Assume Role Arn [#14722](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14722), thx [@jaken551](https://github.com/jaken551) * **Postgres/MySQL/MSSQL**: Nanosecond timestamp support (`$__unixEpochNanoFilter`, `$__unixEpochNanoFrom`, `$__unixEpochNanoTo`) [#14711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14711), thx [@ander26](https://github.com/ander26) * **Provisioning**: Fixes bug causing infinite growth in dashboard_version table. [#12864](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12864) * **Auth**: Prevent password reset when login form is disabled or either LDAP or Auth Proxy is enabled [#14246](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14246), thx [@SilverFire](https://github.com/SilverFire) * **Admin**: Fix prevent removing last grafana admin permissions [#11067](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/11067), thx [@danielbh](https://github.com/danielbh) * **Admin**: When multiple user invitations, all links are the same as the first user who was invited [#14483](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14483) * **LDAP**: Upgrade go-ldap to v3 [#14548](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14548) * **OAuth**: Support OAuth providers that are not RFC6749 compliant [#14562](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14562), thx [@tdabasinskas](https://github.com/tdabasinskas) * **Proxy whitelist**: Add CIDR capability to auth_proxy whitelist [#14546](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14546), thx [@jacobrichard](https://github.com/jacobrichard) * **Dashboard**: `Min width` changed to `Max per row` for repeating panels. This lets you specify the maximum number of panels to show per row and by that repeated panels will always take up full width of row [#12991](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12991), thx [@pgiraud](https://github.com/pgiraud) * **Dashboard**: Retain decimal precision when exporting CSV [#13929](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13929), thx [@cinaglia](https://github.com/cinaglia) * **Templating**: Escaping "Custom" template variables [#13754](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13754), thx [@IntegersOfK](https://github.com/IntegersOfK) * **Templating**: Add percentencode formatting to variable interpolation to be used mainly for url escaping [#12764](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/12764), thx [@cxcv](https://github.com/cxcv) * **Units**: Add blood glucose level units mg/dL and mmol/L [#14519](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14519), thx [@kjedamzik](https://github.com/kjedamzik) * **Units**: Add Floating Point Operations per Second units [#14558](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14558), thx [@hahnjo](https://github.com/hahnjo) * **Table**: Renders epoch string as date if date column style [#14484](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14484) * **Dataproxy**: Override incoming Authorization header [#13815](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13815), thx [@kornholi](https://github.com/kornholi) * **Dataproxy**: Add global datasource proxy timeout setting [#5699](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/5699), thx [@RangerRick](https://github.com/RangerRick) * **Database**: Support specifying database host using IPV6 for backend database and sql datasources [#13711](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13711), thx [@ellisvlad](https://github.com/ellisvlad) * **Database**: Support defining additonal database connection string args when using `url` property in database settings [#14709](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/14709), thx [@tpetr](https://github.com/tpetr) * **Stackdriver**: crossSeriesAggregation not being sent with the query [#15129](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15129), thx [@Legogris](https://github.com/Legogris) ### Bug fixes * **Search**: Fix for issue with scrolling the "tags filter" dropdown, fixes [#14486](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14486) * **Prometheus**: Query for annotation always uses 60s step regardless of dashboard range, fixes [#14795](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14795) * **Annotations**: Fix creating annotation when graph panel has no data points position the popup outside viewport [#13765](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/13765), thx [@banjeremy](https://github.com/banjeremy) * **Piechart/Flot**: Fixes multiple piechart instances with donut bug [#15062](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15062) ### Breaking changes * **Text Panel**: The text panel does no longer by default allow unsantizied HTML. [#4117](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/4117). This means that if you have text panels with scripts tags they will no longer work as before. To enable unsafe javascript execution in text panels enable the settings `disable_sanitize_html` under the section `[panels]` in your Grafana ini file, or set env variable `GF_PANELS_DISABLE_SANITIZE_HTML=true`. * **Dashboard**: Panel property `minSpan` replaced by `maxPerRow`. Dashboard migration will automatically migrate all dashboard panels using the `minSpan` property to the new `maxPerRow` property [#12991](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/12991)