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title = "What's new in Grafana v6.3"
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description = "Feature and improvement highlights for Grafana v6.3"
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keywords = ["grafana", "new", "documentation", "6.3", "release notes"]
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aliases = ["/docs/grafana/latest/guides/whats-new-in-v6-3/"]
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# What's new in Grafana v6.3
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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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## Highlights
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- New Explore features
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- [Loki Live Streaming]({{< relref "#loki-live-streaming" >}})
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- [Loki Context Queries]({{< relref "#loki-context-queries" >}})
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- [Elasticsearch Logs Support]({{< relref "#elasticsearch-logs-support" >}})
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- [InfluxDB Logs Support]({{< relref "#influxdb-logs-support" >}})
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- [Data links]({{< relref "#data-links" >}})
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- [New Time Picker]({{< relref "#new-time-picker" >}})
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- [Graph Area Gradients]({{< relref "#graph-gradients" >}}) - A new graph display option!
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- Grafana Enterprise
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- [LDAP Active Sync]({{< relref "#ldap-active-sync" >}}) - LDAP Active Sync
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- [SAML Authentication]({{< relref "#saml-authentication" >}}) - SAML Authentication
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## Explore improvements
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This release adds a ton of enhancements to Explore. Both in terms of new general enhancements but also in
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new data source specific features.
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### Loki live streaming
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For log queries using the Loki data source you can now stream logs live directly to the Explore UI.
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### Loki context queries
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After finding a log line through the heavy use of query filters it can then be useful to
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see the log lines surrounding the line your searched for. The `show context` feature
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allows you to view lines before and after the line of interest.
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### Elasticsearch logs support
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This release adds support for searching and visualizing logs stored in Elasticsearch in the Explore mode. With a special
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simplified query interface specifically designed for logs search.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v63/elasticsearch_explore_logs.png" max-width="600px" caption="New Time Picker" >}}
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Please read [Using Elasticsearch in Grafana]({{< relref "../datasources/elasticsearch/#elasticsearch-version" >}}) for more detailed information on how to get started and use it.
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### InfluxDB logs support
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This release adds support for searching and visualizing logs stored in InfluxDB in the Explore mode. With a special
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simplified query interface specifically designed for logs search.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v63/influxdb_explore_logs.png" max-width="600px" caption="New Time Picker" >}}
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Please read [Using InfluxDB in Grafana]({{< relref "../datasources/influxdb/#querying-logs-beta" >}}) for more detailed information on how to get started and use it.
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## Data Links
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We have simplified the UI for defining panel drilldown links (and renamed them to Panel links). We have also added a
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new type of link named `Data link`. The reason to have two different types is to make it clear how they are used
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and what variables you can use in the link. Panel links are only shown in the top left corner of
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the panel and you cannot reference series name or any data field.
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While `Data links` are used by the actual visualization and can reference data fields.
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Example:
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```url
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http://my-grafana.com/d/bPCI6VSZz/other-dashboard?var-server=${__series_name}
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```
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You have access to these variables:
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| Name | Description |
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| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| _${\_\_series_name}_ | The name of the time series (or table) |
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| _${\_\_value_time}_ | The time of the point your clicking on (in millisecond epoch) |
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| _${\_\_url_time_range}_ | Interpolates as the full time range (i.e. from=21312323412&to=21312312312) |
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| _${\_\_all_variables}_ | Adds all current variables (and current values) to the URL |
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You can then click on point in the Graph.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v63/graph_datalink.png" max-width="400px" caption="New Time Picker" >}}
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For now only the Graph panel supports `Data links` but we hope to add these to many visualizations.
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## New Time Picker
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The time picker has been re-designed and with a more basic design that makes accessing quick ranges more easy.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v63/time_picker.png" max-width="400px" caption="New Time Picker" >}}
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## Graph Gradients
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Want more eye candy in your graphs? Then the fill gradient option might be for you! Works really well for
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graphs with only a single series.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v63/graph_gradient_area.jpeg" max-width="800px" caption="Graph Gradient Area" >}}
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Looks really nice in light theme as well.
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{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v63/graph_gradients_white.png" max-width="800px" caption="Graph Gradient Area" >}}
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## Grafana Enterprise
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Substantial refactoring and improvements to the external auth systems has gone in to this release making the features
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listed below possible as well as laying a foundation for future enhancements.
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### LDAP Active Sync
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This is a new Enterprise feature that enables background syncing of user information, org role and teams memberships.
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This syncing is otherwise only done at login time. With this feature you can schedule how often this user synchronization should
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occur.
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For example, lets say a user is removed from an LDAP group. In previous versions of Grafana an admin would have to
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wait for the user to logout or the session to expire for the Grafana permissions to update, a process that can take days.
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With active sync the user would be automatically removed from the corresponding team in Grafana or even logged out and disabled if no longer
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belonging to an LDAP group that gives them access to Grafana.
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[Read more](/auth/enhanced_ldap/#active-ldap-synchronization).
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### SAML Authentication
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Built-in support for SAML is now available in Grafana Enterprise.
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[See docs]({{< relref "../auth/saml.md" >}})
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### Team Sync for GitHub OAuth
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When setting up OAuth with GitHub it's now possible to sync GitHub teams with Teams in Grafana.
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[See docs]({{< relref "../auth/github.md" >}})
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### Team Sync for Auth Proxy
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We've added support for enriching the Auth Proxy headers with Teams information, which makes it possible
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to use Team Sync with Auth Proxy.
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[See docs](/auth/auth-proxy/#auth-proxy-authentication).
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