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# Using Google Stackdriver in Grafana
> Only available in Grafana v5.3+.
> The datasource is currently a beta feature and is subject to change.
> Available as a beta feature in Grafana v5.3.x and v5.4.x.
> Officially released in Grafana v6.0.0
Grafana ships with built-in support for Google Stackdriver. Just add it as a datasource and you are ready to build dashboards for your Stackdriver metrics.

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If you just want to explore your data and do not want to create a dashboard then Explore makes this much easier. Explore will show the results as both a graph and a table enabling you to see trends in the data and more detail at the same time (if the datasource supports both graph and table data).
## Turning the Explore Feature On
Explore will be officially released in Grafana 6.0. It is however already in the latest nightly builds of Grafana and can be turned using a feature flag in the config file. Restart Grafana after making the config file change.
```ini
[explore]
# Enable the Explore section
enabled = true
```
Or if using docker:
```bash
docker pull grafana/grafana:master
docker run --name grafana -p 3000:3000 -e "GF_EXPLORE_ENABLED=true" grafana/grafana:master
```
## How to Start Exploring
There is a new Explore icon on the menu bar to the left. This opens a new empty Explore tab.

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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v53/stackdriver-with-heatmap.png" max-width= "600px" class="docs-image--no-shadow docs-image--right" >}}
Grafana v5.3 ships with built-in support for [Google Stackdriver](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/) and enables you to visualize your Stackdriver metrics in Grafana.
Grafana v5.3 ships with built-in support for [Google Stackdriver](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/) and enables you to visualize your Stackdriver metrics in Grafana.
Getting started with the plugin is easy. Simply create a GCE Service account that has access to the Stackdriver API scope, download the Service Account key file from Google and upload it on the Stackdriver datasource config page in Grafana and you should have a secure server-to-server authentication setup. Like other core plugins, Stackdriver has built-in support for alerting. It also comes with support for heatmaps and basic variables.

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# What's New in Grafana v6.0
This update to Grafana introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features.
The main highlights are:
- The new query-focused [Explore]({{< relref "#explore" >}}) workflow for troubleshooting and/or for data exploration.
- [Support for Grafana Loki]({{< relref "#explore-and-grafana-loki" >}}) - a new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs.
- [Easily Switch Visualization with the Panel Edit UX Update]({{< relref "#easily-switch-visualization-with-panel-edit-ux-update" >}})
- [Google Stackdriver Datasource]({{< relref "#google-stackdriver-datasource" >}}) is out of beta and is officially released.
- The [Azure Monitor]({{< relref "#azure-monitor-datasource" >}}) plugin is ported from being an external plugin to being a core datasource
### Explore
Grafana's dashboard UI is all about building dashboards for visualization. **Explore** strips away all the dashboard and panel options so that you can focus on the query. Iterate until you have a working query and then think about building a dashboard.
For infrastructure monitoring and incident response, you no longer need to switch to other tools to debug what went wrong. **Explore** allows you to dig deeper into your metrics and logs to find the cause. Grafana's new logging datasource, [Loki](https://github.com/grafana/loki) is tightly integrated into Explore and allows you to correlate metrics and logs by viewing them side-by-side.
{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v60/explore_split.png" class="docs-image--no-shadow" caption="Screenshot of the new Explore option in the panel menu" >}}
**Explore** is a new paradigm for Grafana. It creates a new interactive debugging workflow that integrates two pillars of observability - metrics and logs.
#### Explore and Prometheus
The first version of Explore features a [custom querying experience for Prometheus](/features/explore/#prometheus-specific-features) and as well as an integration between Prometheus and Grafana Loki (see more about Loki below).
### Explore and Grafana Loki
The Explore feature allows you to combine metric queries and log queries. The first log integration is for the new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs called [Grafana Loki](https://github.com/grafana/loki).
Loki a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus. It is designed to be very cost effective, as it does not index the contents of the logs, but rather a set of labels for each log stream. The logs from Loki are queried in a similar way to querying with label selectors in Prometheus. It uses labels to group log streams which can be made to match up with your Prometheus labels.
Read more about Grafana Loki [here](https://github.com/grafana/loki) or [Grafana Labs hosted Loki](https://grafana.com/loki).
The Explore feature allows you to query logs and features a new log panel.
{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v60/explore_loki.png" class="docs-image--no-shadow" caption="Explore Loki Log Streams" >}}
In the near future, we will be adding support for other log sources to Explore and the next planned integration is ElasticSearch logs.
### Easily Switch Visualization with Panel Edit UX Update
The UX for editing a panel has gotten an update and the major feature is being able to easily switch visualization using the new Visualization option. This means you can quickly switch from a Graph visualization to a Table visualization or any other visualization without having to create a new panel.
### Google Stackdriver Datasource
Built-in support for [Google Stackdriver](https://cloud.google.com/stackdriver/) is officially released in Grafana 6.0. Beta support was added in Grafana 5.3 and we have added lots of improvements since then.
To get started read the guide: [Using Google Stackdriver in Grafana](/features/datasources/stackdriver/).
### Azure Monitor Datasource
One of the goals of the Grafana v6.0 release is to add support for the three major clouds. Amazon Cloudwatch has been a core datasource for years and Google Stackdriver is also now supported. We developed an external plugin for Azure Monitor last year and for this release the [plugin](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource) is being moved into Grafana to be one of the built-in datasources. For users of the external plugin, Grafana will automatically start using the built-in version. As a core datasource, the Azure Monitor datasource will get alerting support for the official 6.0 release.
The Azure Monitor datasource integrates four Azure services with Grafana - Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Application Insights and Azure Application Insights Analytics.
#### Technical Work - moving from Angular to React
The Grafana team is putting a huge amount of work into converting the frontend code in Grafana from Angular to React. Currently, all external plugins for Grafana are written in Angular but we are planning to also support plugins written in React very soon.
## Changelog
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.