grafana - v5.0.0

Published by daniellee over 6 years ago

Grafana v5.0 is going to be the biggest and most foundational release Grafana has ever had, coming with a ton of UX improvements, a new dashboard grid engine, dashboard folders, user teams and permissions. Checkout out this video preview of Grafana v5 and the What's New section in the docs for an overview of new features.

What's new in Grafana v5.0
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New Major Features

Dashboards Dashboard folders, #1611
Teams User groups (teams) implemented. Can be used in folder & dashboard permission list.
Dashboard grid: Panels are now layed out in a two dimensional grid (with x, y, w, h). #9093.
Templating: Vertical repeat direction for panel repeats.
UX: Major update to page header and navigation
Dashboard settings: Combine dashboard settings views into one with side menu, #9750
Persistent dashboard url's: New url's for dashboards that allows renaming dashboards without breaking links. #7883

New Dashboard Grid

The new grid engine is a major upgrade for how you can position and move panels. It enables new layouts and a much easier dashboard building experience. The change is backward compatible. So you can upgrade your current version to 5.0 without breaking dashboards, but you cannot downgrade from 5.0 to previous versions. Grafana will automatically upgrade your dashboards to the new schema and position panels to match your existing layout. There might be minor differences in panel height. If you upgrade to 5.0 and for some reason want to rollback to the previous version you can restore dashboards to previous versions using dashboard history. But that should only be seen as an emergency solution.

Dashboard panels and rows are positioned using a gridPos object {x: 0, y: 0, w: 24, h: 5}. Units are in grid dimensions (24 columns, 1 height unit 30px). Rows and Panels objects exist (together) in a flat array directly on the dashboard root object. Rows are not needed for layouts anymore and are mainly there for backward compatibility. Some panel plugins that do not respect their panel height might require an update.

5.0.0-stable (2018-03-01)

Fixes

oauth Fix Github OAuth not working with private Organizations #11028 @lostick
kiosk white area over bottom panels in kiosk mode #11010
alerting Fix OK state doesn't show up in Microsoft Teams #11032, thx @manacker

5.0.0-beta5 (2018-02-26)

Fixes

Orgs Unable to switch org when too many orgs listed #10774
Folders Make it easier/explicit to access/modify folders using the API #10630
Dashboard Scrollbar works incorrectly in Grafana 5.0 Beta4 in some cases #10982
ElasticSearch Custom aggregation sizes no longer allowed for Elasticsearch #10124
oauth Github OAuth with allowed organizations fails to login #10964
heatmap Heatmap panel has partially hidden legend #10793
snapshots Expired snapshots not being cleaned up #10996

5.0.0-beta4 (2018-02-19)

Fixes

Dashboard Fixed dashboard overwrite permission issue #10814
Keyboard shortcuts Fixed Esc key when in panel edit/view mode #10945
Save dashboard Fixed issue with time range & variable reset after saving #10946

5.0.0 - Beta3

Fixes

MySQL Fixed new migration issue with index length #10931
Modal Escape key no closes modals everywhere, fixes [#10887]https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10887)
Row repeats Fix for repeating rows issue, fixes [#10932]https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10932)
Docs Team api documented, fixes [#10832]https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10832)
Plugins Plugin info page broken, fixes [#10943]https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/10943)

5.0.0 - Beta2

Fixes

Permissions Fixed search permissions issues #10822
Permissions Fixed problem issues displaying permissions lists #10864
PNG-Rendering Fixed problem rendering legend to the right #10526
Reset password Fixed problem with reset password form #10870
Light theme Fixed problem with light theme in safari, #10869
Provisioning Now handles deletes when dashboard json files removed from disk #10865
MySQL Fixed issue with schema migration on old mysql (index too long) #10779
Github OAuth Fixed fetching github orgs from private github org #10823
Embedding Fixed issues embedding panel #10787

5.0.0 - Beta1

Breaking changes

[dashboard.json] have been replaced with dashboard provisioning.
Config files for provisioning datasources as configuration have changed from /conf/datasources to /conf/provisioning/datasources.
From /etc/grafana/datasources to /etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources when installed with deb/rpm packages.
Pagerduty The notifier now defaults to not auto resolve incidents. More details at #10222
HTTP API
- GET /api/alerts property dashboardUri renamed to url and is now the full url (that is including app sub url).

New Features

Alerting: Add support for internal image store #6922, thx @FunkyM
Data Source Proxy: Add support for whitelisting specified cookies that will be passed through to the data source when proxying data source requests #5457, thanks @robingustafsson
Postgres/MySQL: add __timeGroup macro for mysql #9596, thanks @svenklemm
Text: Text panel are now edited in the ace editor. #9698, thx @mtanda
Teams: Add Microsoft Teams notifier as #8523, thx @anthu
Datasources: Its now possible to configure datasources with config files #1789
Graphite: Query editor updated to support new query by tag features #9230
Dashboard history: New config file option versions_to_keep sets how many versions per dashboard to store, #9671
Dashboard as cfg: Load dashboards from file into Grafana on startup/change #9654 #5269
Prometheus: Grafana can now send alerts to Prometheus Alertmanager while firing #7481, thx @Thib17 and @mtanda
Table: Support multiple table formated queries in table panel #9170, thx @davkal
Security: Protect against brute force (frequent) login attempts #7616

Minor

Graph: Don't hide graph display options (Lines/Points) when draw mode is unchecked #9770, thx @Jonnymcc
Prometheus: Show label name in paren after by/without/on/ignoring/group_left/group_right #9664, thx @mtanda
Alert panel: Adds placeholder text when no alerts are within the time range #9624, thx @straend
Mysql: MySQL enable MaxOpenCon and MaxIdleCon regards how constring is configured. #9784, thx @dfredell
Cloudwatch: Fixes broken query inspector for cloudwatch #9661, thx @mtanda
Dashboard: Make it possible to start dashboards from search and dashboard list panel #1871
Annotations: Posting annotations now return the id of the annotation #9798
Systemd: Use systemd notification ready flag #10024, thx @jgrassler
Github: Use organizations_url provided from github to verify user belongs in org. #10111, thx
@adiletmaratov
Backend: Fixed bug where Grafana exited before all sub routines where finished #10131
Azure: Adds support for Azure blob storage as external image stor #8955, thx @saada
Telegram: Add support for inline image uploads to telegram notifier plugin #9967, thx @rburchell

Fixes

Sensu: Send alert message to sensu output #9551, thx @cjchand
Singlestat: suppress error when result contains no datapoints #9636, thx @utkarshcmu
Postgres/MySQL: Control quoting in SQL-queries when using template variables #9030, thanks @svenklemm
Pagerduty: Pagerduty dont auto resolve incidents by default anymore. #10222
Cloudwatch: Fix for multi-valued templated queries. #9903

Deprecation notes

HTTP API

The following operations have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release:

GET /api/dashboards/db/:slug -> Use GET /api/dashboards/uid/:uid instead
DELETE /api/dashboards/db/:slug -> Use DELETE /api/dashboards/uid/:uid instead

The following properties have been deprecated and will be removed in a future release:

uri property in GET /api/search -> Use new url or uid property instead
meta.slug property in GET /api/dashboards/uid/:uid and GET /api/dashboards/db/:slug -> Use new meta.url or dashboard.uid property instead

grafana - v5.0.0-beta5

Published by daniellee over 6 years ago