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| 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 | ||||
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| 
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| # What's New in Grafana v6.2 | ||||
| 
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| > 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 | ||||
| 
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| 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. | ||||
| 
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| 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). | ||||
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|         <h4>Provisioning</h4> | ||||
|         <p>A guide to help you automate your Grafana setup & configuration.</p> | ||||
|     </a> | ||||
|     <a href="{{< relref "guides/whats-new-in-v6-0.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide"> | ||||
|         <h4>What's new in v6.0</h4> | ||||
|         <p>Article on all the new cool features and enhancements in v6.0</p> | ||||
|     <a href="{{< relref "guides/whats-new-in-v6-2.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide"> | ||||
|         <h4>What's new in v6.2</h4> | ||||
|         <p>Article on all the new cool features and enhancements in v6.2</p> | ||||
|     </a> | ||||
|     <a href="{{< relref "tutorials/screencasts.md" >}}" class="nav-cards__item nav-cards__item--guide"> | ||||
|         <h4>Screencasts</h4> | ||||
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| 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 | ||||
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