Impact Score: 5/10
Grafana v6.0.1 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v6.0.1. Source highlight: Grafana v6.0 introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features.
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 (6)
- **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
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- **Metrics**: Fixes broken usagestats metrics for /metrics #15651
- **Dashboard**: Fixes kiosk mode should have &kiosk appended to the url #15765
- **Dashboard**: Fixes kiosk=tv mode with autofitpanels should respect header #15650
- **Image rendering**: Fixed image rendering issue for dashboards with auto refresh, . #15818, @torkelo
- **Dashboard**: Fix only users that can edit a dashboard should be able to update panel json. #15805, @marefr
- **LDAP**: fix allow anonymous initial bind for ldap search. #15803, @marefr
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
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.
# 6.0.1 (2019-03-06)
### Bug Fixes
* **Metrics**: Fixes broken usagestats metrics for /metrics [#15651](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15651)
* **Dashboard**: Fixes kiosk mode should have &kiosk appended to the url [#15765](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15765)
* **Dashboard**: Fixes kiosk=tv mode with autofitpanels should respect header [#15650](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15650)
* **Image rendering**: Fixed image rendering issue for dashboards with auto refresh, . [#15818](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15818), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Dashboard**: Fix only users that can edit a dashboard should be able to update panel json. [#15805](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15805), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
* **LDAP**: fix allow anonymous initial bind for ldap search. [#15803](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15803), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
* **UX**: Fixed scrollbar not visible initially (only after manual scroll). [#15798](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15798), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Datasource admin** TestData [#15793](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15793), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Dashboard**: Fixed scrolling issue that caused scroll to be locked to bottom. [#15792](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15792), [@torkelo](https://github.com/torkelo)
* **Explore**: Viewers with viewers_can_edit should be able to access /explore. [#15787](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15787), [@jschill](https://github.com/jschill)
* **Security** fix: limit access to org admin and alerting pages. [#15761](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15761), [@marefr](https://github.com/marefr)
* **Panel Edit** minInterval changes did not persist [#15757](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15757), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Teams**: Fixed bug when getting teams for user. [#15595](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/15595), [@hugohaggmark](https://github.com/hugohaggmark)
* **Stackdriver**: fix for float64 bounds for distribution metrics [#14509](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/14509)
* **Stackdriver**: no reducers available for distribution type [#15179](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/15179)