# Grafana v6.0.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Grafana (https://grafana.com)
- **Version:** v6.0.2
- **Released:** Mar 19, 2019
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/grafana/updates/v6.0.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Grafana v6.0.2. Source highlight: Grafana v6.0  introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features.

## New 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

## Bug Fixes
- **Alerting**: Fixed issue with AlertList panel links resulting in panel not found errors. #15975, @torkelo
- **Dashboard**: Improved error handling when rendering dashboard panels. #15970, @torkelo
- **LDAP**: Fix allow anonymous server bind for ldap search. #15872, @marefr
- **Discord**: Fix discord notifier so it doesn't crash when there are no image generated. #15833, @marefr
- **Panel Edit**: Prevent search in VizPicker from stealing focus. #15802, @peterholmberg
- **Datasource admin**: Fixed url of back button in datasource edit page, when root_url configured. #15759, @dprokop