Grafana 2.0 represents a major update to Grafana. It brings new capabilities, many of which are enabled by its new backend and integrated database.
The new backend lays a foundation for many new capabilities that we hope to deliver on over the coming months. For Grafana 2.0, we've focused on user and organization management and server-side sharing and rendering.
We've attempted to provide a smooth migration path for V1.9 users to migrate to Grafana 2.0. Details are below:
The 'config.js' file has been deprecated. Data sources are now managed via the UI or [HTTP API](../reference/http_api.md). Go the `Data Sources` view via the side menu (which can be toggled via the Grafana icon in the upper left of your browser.
Add any Graphite, InfluxDB, elasticsearch, and OpenTSDB datasources that you were using with Grafana 1.x. Grafana 2.0 can be configured to communicate with your datasource using a backend mode which can eliminate many CORS-related issues, as well as provide more secure authentication to your datasources.
Grafana 2.0 now has integrated dashboard storage engine that can be configured to use an internal sqllite database, MySQL, or Postgres. This eliminates the need to use Elasticsearch for dashboard storage for Graphite users. Grafana 2.0 no longer supports storing dashboards in InfluxDB.
Start by going to the `Data Sources` view (via the side menu), and add your elasticsearch datasource. Specify the elasticsearch index name where your Grafana v1.x dashboards are stored (default is `grafana-dash`).
Your dashboards should be automatically imported into the Grafana 2.0 backend. Dashboards will no longer be stored in your previous elasticsearch or InfluxDB databases.
