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"]
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