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* Docs: Fixes what'new menu and creates index page, adds first draft of release notes to docs * Minor tweaks * Fixed missing letter * Updates * Updated Co-authored-by: Drone <drone@grafana.com>
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title = "What's new in Grafana v6.2"
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description = "Feature and improvement highlights for Grafana v6.2"
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keywords = ["grafana", "new", "documentation", "6.2", "release notes"]
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aliases = ["/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v6-2/"]
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# What's new in Grafana v6.2
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For all details please read the full [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md).
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If you use a password for your data sources please read the [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2).
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Check out the [demo dashboard](https://play.grafana.org/d/ZvPm55mWk/new-features-in-v6-2?orgId=1) of some the new features in v6.2.
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## Improved security
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Data sources now store passwords and basic auth passwords in `secureJsonData` encrypted by default. Existing data source with unencrypted passwords will keep working.
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Read the [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2) on how to migrate existing data sources to use encrypted storage.
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To mitigate the risk of [Clickjacking](https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking), embedding Grafana is no longer allowed per default.
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Read the [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2) for further details of how this may affect you.
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To mitigate the risk of sensitive information being cached in browser after a user has logged out, browser caching is now disabled for full page requests.
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## Provisioning
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- Environment variables support, see [Using environment variables](/administration/provisioning/#using-environment-variables) for more information.
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- Reload provisioning configs, see [Admin HTTP API](/http_api/admin/#reload-provisioning-configurations) for more information.
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- Do not allow deletion of provisioned dashboards
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- When trying to delete or save provisioned dashboard, relative file path to the file is shown in the dialog.
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## Official support for Elasticsearch 7
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Grafana v6.2 ships with official support for Elasticsearch v7, see [Using Elasticsearch in Grafana]({{< relref "../datasources/elasticsearch/#elasticsearch-version" >}}) for more information.
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## Bar Gauge Panel
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Grafana v6.2 ships with a new exciting panel! This new panel, named Bar Gauge, is very similar to the current
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Gauge panel and shares almost all it's options. The main difference is that the Bar Gauge uses both horizontal and
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vertical space much better and can be more efficiently stacked both vertically and horizontally. The Bar Gauge also
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comes with 3 unique display modes, Basic, Gradient, and Retro LED. Read the
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[preview article](https://grafana.com/blog/2019/04/11/sneak-preview-of-new-visualizations-coming-to-grafana/) to learn
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more about the design and features of this new panel.
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Retro LED display mode
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/assets/img/blog/bargauge/bar_gauge_retro_led.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge LED mode" >}}
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Gradient mode
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/assets/img/blog/bargauge/gradient.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge Gradient mode" >}}
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## Improved table data support
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We have been working on improving table support in our new react panels (Gauge and Bar Gauge) and this is ongoing work
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that will eventually come to the new Graph and Singlestat and Table panels we are working on. But you can see it already in
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the Gauge and Bar Gauge panels. Without any config, you can visualize any number of columns or choose to visualize each
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row as its own gauge.
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## Lazy loading of panels out of view
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This has been one of the most requested features for many years and is now finally here! Lazy loading of panels means
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Grafana will not issue any data queries for panels that are not visible. This will greatly reduce the load
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on your data source backends when loading dashboards with many panels.
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## Panels without title
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Sometimes your panels do not need a title and having that panel header still take up space makes singlestats and
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other panels look strange and have bad vertical centering. In v6.2 Grafana will allow panel content (visualizations)
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to use the full panel height in case there is no panel title.
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{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v62/panels_with_no_title.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge Gradient mode" >}}
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## Minor Features and Fixes
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This release contains a lot of small features and fixes:
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- Explore - Adds user time zone support, reconnect for failing data sources and a fix that prevents killing Prometheus instances when Histogram metrics are loaded.
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- Alerting - Adds support for configuring timeout durations and retries, see [configuration](/administration/configuration/#evaluation-timeout-seconds) for more information.
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- Azure Monitor - Adds support for multiple subscriptions per data source.
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- Elasticsearch - A small bug fix to properly display percentiles metrics in table panel.
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- InfluxDB - Support for POST HTTP verb.
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- CloudWatch - Important fix for default alias disappearing in v6.1.
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- Search - Works in a scope of dashboard's folder by default when viewing dashboard.
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Check out the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) file for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes.
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A huge thanks to our community for all the reported issues, bug fixes and feedback.
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## Upgrading
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Read important [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2).
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