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title = "What's new in Grafana v5.2"
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description = "Feature and improvement highlights for Grafana v5.2"
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keywords = ["grafana", "new", "documentation", "5.2", "release notes"]
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type = "docs"
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aliases = ["/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v5-2/"]
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[menu.docs]
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name = "Version 5.2"
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identifier = "v5.2"
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parent = "whatsnew"
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weight = -8
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# What's new in Grafana v5.2
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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" >}}) now supports the `mode` function
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- [Alerting]({{< relref "#alerting" >}}) with alert notification channel type for Discord
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- [Dashboards and Panels]({{< relref "#dashboards-panels" >}}) with save and import enhancements
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## Elasticsearch alerting
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v52/elasticsearch_alerting.png" max-width="800px" class="docs-image--right" >}}
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Grafana v5.2 ships with an updated Elasticsearch data source with support for alerting. Alerting support for Elasticsearch has been one of
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the most requested features by our community and now it's finally here. Please try it out and let us know what you think.
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<div class="clearfix"></div>
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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 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) 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 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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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 data source 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 avoids graphs jumping around on reload.
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## InfluxDB
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The InfluxDB data source 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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By popular demand Grafana now includes support for an alert notification channel type for [Discord](https://discordapp.com/).
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## Dashboards and Panels
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### Modified time range and variables are no longer saved by default
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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 same 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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### Import dashboard enhancements
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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 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. 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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## Changelog
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Check out the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) file for a complete list
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of new features, changes, and bug fixes.
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