diff --git a/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v6-2.md b/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v6-2.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0e4bcd18e48 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v6-2.md @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ ++++ +title = "What's New in Grafana v6.2" +description = "Feature & improvement highlights for Grafana v6.2" +keywords = ["grafana", "new", "documentation", "6.2"] +type = "docs" +[menu.docs] +name = "Version 6.2" +identifier = "v6.2" +parent = "whatsnew" +weight = -13 ++++ + +# What's New in Grafana v6.2 + +> More content will be added to this guide before the stable release. + +For all details please read the full [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) + +If you use a password for your datasources please read the [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2). + +## Improved security + +- Ensure encryption of datasource secrets +- Embedding Grafana not allowed per default +- Disable browser caching for full page requests + +## Provisioning + +- Environment variables support, see [Using environment variables](/administration/provisioning/#using-environment-variables) for more information. +- Reload provisioning configs, see [Admin HTTP API](/http_api/admin/#reload-provisioning-configurations) for more information. +- Do not allow deletion of provisioned dashboards +- When trying to delete or save provisioned dashboard, relative file path to the file is shown in the dialog. + +## Official support for Elasticsearch 7 + +Grafana v6.2 ships with official support for Elasticsearch v7, see [Using Elasticsearch in Grafana](/features/datasources/elasticsearch/#elasticsearch-version) for more information. + +## Bar Gauge Panel + +Grafana v6.2 ships with a new exciting panel! This new panel, named Bar Gauge, is very similar to the current +Gauge panel and shares almost all it's options. The main difference is that the Bar Gauge uses both horizontal and +vertical space much better and can be more efficiently stacked both vertically and horizontally. The Bar Gauge also +comes with 3 unique display modes, Basic, Gradient, and Retro LED. Read the +[preview article](https://grafana.com/blog/2019/04/11/sneak-preview-of-new-visualizations-coming-to-grafana/) to learn +more about the design & features of this new panel. + +Retro LED display mode +{{< docs-imagebox img="/assets/img/blog/bargauge/bar_gauge_retro_led.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge LED mode" >}} + +Gradient mode +{{< docs-imagebox img="/assets/img/blog/bargauge/gradient.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge Gradient mode" >}} + +## Improved table data support + +We have been working on improving table support in our new react panels (Gauge & Bar Gauge) and this is ongoing work +that will eventually come to the new Graph & Singlestat & Table panels we are working on. But you can see it already in +the Gauge and Bar Gauge panels. Without any config, you can visualize any number of columns or choose to visualize each +row as its own gauge. + +## Lazy loading of panels out of view + +This has been one of the most requested features for many years and is now finally here! Lazy loading of panels means +Grafana will not issue any data queries for panels that are not visible. This will greatly reduce the load +on your data source backends when loading dashboards with many panels. + +## Panels without title + +Sometimes your panels do not need a title and having that panel header still take up space makes singlestats and +other panels look strange and have bad vertical centering. In v6.2 Grafana will allow panel content (visualizations) +to use the full panel height in case there is no panel title. + +{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v62/panels_with_no_title.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge Gradient mode" >}} + +## Minor Features and Fixes + +This release contains a lot of small features and fixes: + +- Explore - Adds user time zone support, reconnect for failing datasources and a fix that prevents killing Prometheus instances when Histogram metrics are loaded. +- Alerting - Adds support for configuring timeout durations and retries, see [configuration](/installation/configuration/#evaluation-timeout-seconds) for more information. +- Elasticsearch - A small bug fix to properly display percentiles metrics in table panel. +- InfluxDB - Support for POST HTTP verb. +- CloudWatch - Important fix for default alias disappearing in v6.1. +- Search - Works in a scope of dashboard's folder by default when viewing dashboard + +Checkout the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) file for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes. + +A huge thanks to our community for all the reported issues, bug fixes and feedback. + +## Upgrading + +Read important [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2). diff --git a/docs/sources/index.md b/docs/sources/index.md index 744b04203e4..17f99d4e659 100644 --- a/docs/sources/index.md +++ b/docs/sources/index.md @@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ aliases = ["v1.1", "guides/reference/admin", "v3.1"]

Provisioning

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Screencasts

diff --git a/docs/sources/installation/upgrading.md b/docs/sources/installation/upgrading.md index 6cedf46afa1..bd2a5434b25 100644 --- a/docs/sources/installation/upgrading.md +++ b/docs/sources/installation/upgrading.md @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ The default cookie name for storing the auth token is `grafana_session`. you can Datasources store passwords and basic auth passwords in secureJsonData encrypted by default. Existing datasource will keep working with unencrypted passwords. If you want to migrate to encrypted storage for your existing datasources you can do that by: + - For datasources created through UI, you need to go to datasource config, re enter the password or basic auth password and save the datasource. - For datasources created by provisioning, you need to update your config file and use secureJsonData.password or