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Marcus Efraimsson
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Grafana v5.2 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements.
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* [Elasticsearch alerting]({{< relref "#elasticsearch-alerting" >}}) it's finally here!
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* [Native builds for ARM]({{< relref "#native-builds-for-arm" >}}) native builds of Grafana for many more platforms!
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* [Improved Docker image]({{< relref "#improved-docker-image" >}}) with support for docker secrets
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* [Security]({{< relref "#security" >}}) make your Grafana instance more secure
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* [Prometheus]({{< relref "#prometheus" >}}) with alignment enhancements
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* [InfluxDB]({{< relref "#influxdb" >}}) with support for a new function
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* [Alerting]({{< relref "#alerting" >}}) with alert notification channel type for Discord
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* [Dashboards & Panels]({{< relref "#dashboards-panels" >}}) with save & import enhancements
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- [Elasticsearch alerting]({{< relref "#elasticsearch-alerting" >}}) it's finally here!
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- [Native builds for ARM]({{< relref "#native-builds-for-arm" >}}) native builds of Grafana for many more platforms!
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- [Improved Docker image]({{< relref "#improved-docker-image" >}}) with support for docker secrets
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- [Security]({{< relref "#security" >}}) make your Grafana instance more secure
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- [Prometheus]({{< relref "#prometheus" >}}) with alignment enhancements
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- [InfluxDB]({{< relref "#influxdb" >}}) now supports the `mode` function
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- [Alerting]({{< relref "#alerting" >}}) with alert notification channel type for Discord
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- [Dashboards & Panels]({{< relref "#dashboards-panels" >}}) with save & import enhancements
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## Elasticsearch alerting
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## Native builds for ARM
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Grafana v5.2 brings an improved build pipeline with cross platform support. This enables native builds of Grafana for ARMv7 (x32) and ARM64 (x64).
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We've been longing for native ARM build support for a long time. With the help from our amazing community this is now finally available.
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Grafana v5.2 brings an improved build pipeline with cross-platform support. This enables native builds of Grafana for ARMv7 (x32) and ARM64 (x64).
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We've been longing for native ARM build support for ages. With the help from our amazing community this is now finally available.
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Please try it out and let us know what you think.
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Another great addition with the improved build pipeline is that binaries for MacOS/Darwin (x64) and Windows (x64) now automatically are built and
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Another great addition with the improved build pipeline is that binaries for MacOS/Darwin (x64) and Windows (x64) are now automatically built and
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published for both stable and nightly builds.
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## Improved Docker image
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The Grafana docker image now includes support for Docker secrets which enables you to supply Grafana with configuration through files. More
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The Grafana docker image adds support for Docker secrets which enables you to supply Grafana with configuration through files. More
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information in the [Installing using Docker documentation](/installation/docker/#reading-secrets-from-files-support-for-docker-secrets).
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## Security
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v52/login_change_password.png" max-width="800px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
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Starting from Grafana v5.2, when you login with the administrator account using the default password you'll be presented with a form to change the password.
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By this we hope to encourage users to follow Grafana's best practices and change the default administrator password.
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We hope this encourages users to follow Grafana's best practices and change the default administrator password.
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<div class="clearfix"></div>
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## Prometheus
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The Prometheus datasource now aligns the start/end of the query sent to Prometheus with the step, which ensures PromQL expressions with *rate*
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functions get consistent results, and thus avoid graphs jumping around on reload.
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functions get consistent results, and thus avoids graphs jumping around on reload.
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## InfluxDB
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The InfluxDB datasource now includes support for the *mode* function which allows to return the most frequent value in a list of field values.
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The InfluxDB datasource now includes support for the *mode* function which returns the most frequent value in a list of field values.
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## Alerting
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v52/dashboard_save_modal.png" max-width="800px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
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Starting from Grafana v5.2 a modified time range or variable are no longer saved by default. To save a modified
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time range or variable you'll need to actively select that when saving a dashboard, see screenshot.
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This should hopefully make it easier to have sane defaults of time and variables in dashboards and make it more explicit
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Starting from Grafana v5.2, a modified time range or variable are no longer saved by default. To save a modified
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time range or variable, you'll need to actively select that when saving a dashboard, see screenshot.
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This should hopefully make it easier to have sane defaults for time and variables in dashboards and make it more explicit
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when you actually want to overwrite those settings.
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v52/dashboard_import.png" max-width="800px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
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Grafana v5.2 adds support for specifying an existing folder or create a new one when importing a dashboard, a long awaited feature since
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Grafana v5.0 introduced support for dashboard folders and permissions. The import dashboard page have also got some general improvements
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Grafana v5.2 adds support for specifying an existing folder or creating a new one when importing a dashboard - a long-awaited feature since
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Grafana v5.0 introduced support for dashboard folders and permissions. The import dashboard page has also got some general improvements
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and should now make it more clear if a possible import will overwrite an existing dashboard, or not.
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This release also adds some improvements for those users only having editor or admin permissions in certain folders. Now the links to
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*Create Dashboard* and *Import Dashboard* is available in side navigation, dashboard search and manage dashboards/folder page for a
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user that has editor role in an organization or edit permission in at least one folder.
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This release also adds some improvements for those users only having editor or admin permissions in certain folders. The links to
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*Create Dashboard* and *Import Dashboard* are now available in the side navigation, in dashboard search and on the manage dashboards/folder page for a
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user that has editor role in an organization or the edit permission in at least one folder.
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