diff --git a/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md b/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md index 36289ac9041..fe7c43fb5e8 100644 --- a/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md +++ b/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md @@ -4,28 +4,37 @@ page_description: What's new in Grafana v2.1 page_keywords: grafana, new, changes, features, documentation --- -#What's new in Grafana v2.1 +# What's new in Grafana v2.1 -##More Dynamic Dashboards -The Templating system is one of the most powerful and well-used features of Grafana. The 2.1 release brings numerous improvements that make Dashboards more dynamic than ever before. +Grafana 2.1 brings improvements in three core areas: dashboarding, authentication, and data sources. +As with every Grafana release, there is a whole slew of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. To see everyting +that's been added to Grafana 2.1 head over to the 2.1 milestone issues section. -### Multi-Value Template Select -Multi-Value Select allows for the selection of multiple template variables. -These variables can be used in any Panel to make them more dynamic, and automatically show only the desired data. -Multi-Value Select is also a basis for enabling Repeating Rows and Repeating Panels. + +## More Dynamic Dashboards +The Templating system is one of the most powerful and well-used features of Grafana. +The 2.1 release brings numerous improvements that make dashboards more dynamic than ever before. + +### Multi-Value Template Variables +A template variable with Multi-Value enabled allows for the selection of multiple values selected at the +same time. These variables can then be used in any Panel to make them more dynamic, and to give you the perfect view of +your data. Multi-Value variables is also enabling the new Row repeat and Panel repeat feature described below. ![Multi-Value Select](/img/v2/multi-select.gif "Multi-Value Select")

### Repeating Rows and Panels -It’s now possible to create a Dashboard that automatically adds (and removes) both Rows and Panels based on which Template variables you have selected. -Any Row or Any Panel can be configured to repeat (duplicate itself) based on the Multi-Value Template variables selected. +It’s now possible to create a Dashboard that automatically adds (or removes) both Rows and Panels based +on selected variable values. Any row or any panel can be configured to repeat (duplicate itself) based +on a multi-value template variable.

![Repeating Rows and Panels](/img/v2/panel-row-repeat.gif "Repeating Rows and Panels")

-### Dashboard Links -To support better navigation between Dashboarads, it is possible to create custom and dynamic links from individual Panels to appropriate Dashboards (1888) +### Dashboard Links & Navigation +To support better navigation between Dashboarads, it's now possible to create custom and dynamic links from individual +Panels to appropriate Dashboards. You also have the ability to create flexible top-level links on any +given Dashboard thanks to the new Dashboard navigation bar feature. ![Dashboard Links](/img/v2/panel-link.png "Dashboard Links")

@@ -37,53 +46,63 @@ Grafana can now index Dashboards saved locally as JSON from a given directory. - - - -## Improved authentication engine -New authentication methods add numerous options to manage users, roles and organizations. Grafana 2.1 also includes a "Read-only Editor" role which disables the query editor for that user. +## New Authentication Options +New authentication methods add numerous options to manage users, roles and organizations. +Grafana 2.1 also includes a "Read-only Editor" role. ### LDAP support -This highly requested feature now allows your Grafana users to login with their LDAP credentials. You can also specify mappings between LDAP group memberships and Grafana Organization user roles. +This highly requested feature now allows your Grafana users to login with their LDAP credentials. +You can also specify mappings between LDAP group memberships and Grafana Organization user roles. -### Basic Auth support +### Basic Auth Support You can now authenticate against the Grafana API utilizing a simple username and password with basic HTTP authentication. -> ***Note:*** This can be useful for provisioning and config management systems that need to utilize the API without having to create an API key. +> ***Note:*** This can be useful for provisioning and config management systems that need +> to utilize the API without having to create an API key. -### User authentication utilizing headers +### Auth Proxy Support You can now authenticate utilizing a header (eg. X-Authenticated-User, or X-WEBAUTH-USER) > ***Note:*** this can be useful in situations with reverse proxies. ### New “Read-only Editor” User Role -There is a new User role available in this version of Grafana: “Read-only Editor”. This role behaves just like the Viewer role does in Grafana 2.0. -That is you can edit graphs and queries but no save dashboards. The Viewer role has been modified in Grafana 2.1 so that users assigned this role -can no longer edit panels. +There is a new User role available in this version of Grafana: “Read-only Editor”. This role behaves just +like the Viewer role does in Grafana 2.0. That is you can edit graphs and queries but no save dashboards. +The Viewer role has been modified in Grafana 2.1 so that users assigned this role can no longer edit panels. - - - -## Improved data source support +## Data source Improvements -### Improved Data Sources -We continue to make progress on fully supporting InfluxDB 0.9, but it has proven to be a bit of a moving target. This Grafana release brings a much improved query editor for InfluxDB 0.9 +### InfluxDB 0.9 Support +Grafana 2.1 now comes with full support for InfluxDB 0.9. There is a new query editor designed from the start +for the new features InfluxDB 0.9 enables. ![InfluxDB Support](/img/v2/influx-query.gif "InfluxDB Support")

### OpenTSDB Data Source improvements -Grafana now supports template variable values lookup queries, as well as limiting tags by metric +Grafana OpenTSDB data source now supports template variable values queries. This means you can create +template variables that fetches the values from OpenTSDB (for example metric names, tag names, or tag values). +The query editor is also enhanced to limiting tags by metric. > ***Note:*** OpenTSDB config option tsd.core.meta.enable_realtime_ts must enabled for OpenTSDB lookup api) - ### New Data Source: KairosDB -Experimental support for the KairosDB is now shipping in Grafana. Thank you to < > for their hard work in getting it to this point. +The Cassandra backed time series database KairosDB is now supported in Grafana out of the box. Thank you to +masaori335 for his hard work in getting it to this point. - - - ## Panel Improvements +Grafana 2.1 gives you even more flexibility customizing how individual panels render. +Overriding the colors of specific series using regular expressions, changing how series stack, +and allowing string values will help you better understand your data at a glance. + ### Graph Panel Define series color using regex rule ![Define series color using regex rule ](/img/v2/regex_color.gif "Define series color using regex rule ")