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title = "What's New in Grafana v3.0"
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description = "Feature & improvement highlights for Grafana v3.0"
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keywords = ["grafana", "new", "documentation", "3.0"]
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type = "docs"
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[menu.docs]
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name = "Version 3.0"
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identifier = "v3.0"
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parent = "whatsnew"
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weight = 6
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# What's New in Grafana v3.0
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## Commercial Support
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Commercial Support subscriptions for Grafana are now [generally available](https://grafana.com/support/plans/).
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Raintank is committed to a 100% open-source strategy for Grafana. We
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do not want to go down the “open core” route. If your organization
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finds Grafana valuable, please consider purchasing a subscription. Get
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direct support, bug fixes, and training from the core Grafana team.
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## Plugins
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With the popularity of Grafana continuing to accelerate, it has been
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challenging to keep up with all the requests for new features, new
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panels, new data sources, and new functionality. Saying “no” so often
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has been frustrating, especially for an open source project with such
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a vibrant community.
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The team felt that it was time to dramatically improve extensibility
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through plugin support. Grafana 3.0 comes with a completely revamped
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plugin SDK / API.
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We’ve refactored our **Data Source** plugin architecture and added
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two new plugin types:
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* **Panel** plugins let you add new panel types for your Dashboards.
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* **App** plugins bundle **Panels** plugins, **Data Sources** plugins,
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Dashboards, and Grafana **Pages**. Apps are a great way to provide an
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entire experience right within Grafana.
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## Grafana.com
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/grafana_net_tour.png">
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[Grafana.com](https://grafana.com) offers a central repository where the community can come together to discover, create and
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share plugins (data sources, panels, apps) and dashboards.
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We are also working on a hosted Graphite-compatible data source that will be optimized for use with Grafana.
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It’ll be easy to combine your existing data source(s) with this OpenSaaS option. Finally, Grafana.com can
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also be a hub to manage all your Grafana instances. You’ll be able to monitor their health and availability,
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perform dashboard backups, and more.
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We are also working on a hosted Graphite-compatible Data Source that
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will be optimized for use with Grafana. It’ll be easy to combine your
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existing Data Source(s) with this OpenSaaS option.
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Finally, Grafana.com will also be a hub to manage all your Grafana
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instances. You’ll be able to monitor their health and availability,
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perform Dashboard backups, and more.
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Grafana.net will officially launch along with the stable version of
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Grafana 3.0, but go to <a href=https://grafana.com> and check out the preview
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and sign up for an account</a> in the meantime.
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## grafana-cli
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Grafana 3.0 comes with a new command line tool called grafana-cli. You
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can easily install plugins from Grafana.net with it. For
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example:
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```
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grafana-cli install grafana-pie-chart-panel
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```
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## Personalization & Preferences
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The home dashboard, timezone and theme can now be customized on Organization
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and user Profile level. Grafana can also track recently viewed dashboards, which
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can then be displayed in the dashboard list panel.
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## Improved Playlists
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You can now save Playlists, and start them by using a Playlist URL. If
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you update a running Playlist, it will update after its next cycle.
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This is powerful as it allows you to remote control Grafana. If you
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have a big TV display showing Grafana in your company lobby, create a
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playlist named Lobby, and start it on the computer connected to the
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Lobby TV.
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You can now change the Lobby playlist and have the dashboards shown in
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the Lobby update accordingly, automatically.
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The playlist does not even have to contain multiple Dashboards; you
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can use this feature to reload the whole Dashboard (and Grafana)
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periodically and remotely.
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You can also make Playlists dynamic by using Dashboard **tags** to
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define the Playlist.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/playlist.png">
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## Improved UI
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We’ve always tried to focus on a good looking, usable, and responsive
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UI. We’ve continued to pay a lot of attention to these areas in this
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release.
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Grafana 3.0 has a dramatically updated UI that not only looks better
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but also has a number of usability improvements. The side menu now
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works as a dropdown that you can pin to the side. The Organization /
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Profile / Sign out side menu links have been combined into an on hover
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slide out menu.
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In addition, all the forms and the layouts of all pages have been
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updated to look and flow better, and be much more consistent. There
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are literally hundreds of UI improvements and refinements.
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Here’s the new side menu in action:
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/menu.gif">
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And here's the new look for Dashboard settings:
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/dashboard_settings.png">
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Check out the <a href="http://play.grafana.org" target="_blank">Play
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Site</a> to get a feel for some of the UI changes.
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## Improved Annotations
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It is now possible to define a link in each annotation. You can hover
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over the link and click the annotation text. This feature is very
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useful for linking to particular commits or tickets where more
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detailed information can be presented to the user.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/annotation_links.gif">
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## Data source variables
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This has been a top requested feature for very long we are exited to finally provide
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this feature. You can now add a new `Data source` type variable. That will
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automatically be filled with instance names of your data sources.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/data_source_variable.png">
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You can then use this variable as the panel data source:
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/data_source_variable_use.png">
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This will allow you to quickly change data source server and reuse the
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same dashboard for different instances of your metrics backend. For example
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you might have Graphite running in multiple data centers or environments.
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## Prometheus, InfluxDB, and OpenTSDB improvements
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All three of these popular included Data Sources have seen a variety
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of improvements in this release. Here are some highlights:
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### Prometheus
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The Prometheus Data Source now supports annotations.
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### InfluxDB
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You can now select the InfluxDB policy from the query editor.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/influxdb_policy.png">
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Grafana 3.0 also comes with support for InfluxDB 0.11 and InfluxDB 0.12.
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### OpenTSDB
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OpenTSDB 2.2 is better supported and now supports millisecond precision.
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## Breaking changes
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Dashboards from v2.6 are compatible; no manual updates should be necessary. There could
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be some edge case scenarios where dashboards using templating could stop working.
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If that is the case just enter the edit view for the template variable and hit Update button.
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This is due to a simplification of the variable format system where template variables are
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now stored without any formatting (glob/regex/etc), this is done on the fly when the
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variable is interpolated.
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* Plugin API: The plugin API has changed so if you are using a custom
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data source (or panel) they need to be updated as well.
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* InfluxDB 0.8: This data source is no longer included in releases,
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you can still install manually from [Grafana.com](https://grafana.com)
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* KairosDB: This data source has also no longer shipped with Grafana,
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you can install it manually from [Grafana.com](https://grafana.com)
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## Plugin showcase
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Discovering and installing plugins is very quick and easy with Grafana 3.0 and [Grafana.com](https://grafana.com). Here
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are a couple that I encourage you try!
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#### [Clock Panel](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-clock-panel)
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Support's both current time and count down mode.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/clock_panel.png">
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#### [Pie Chart Panel](https://grafana.com/plugins/grafana-piechart-panel)
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A simple pie chart panel is now available as an external plugin.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/pie_chart_panel.png">
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#### [WorldPing App](https://grafana.com/plugins/raintank-worldping-app)
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This is full blown Grafana App that adds new panels, data sources and pages to give
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feature rich global performance monitoring directly from your on-prem Grafana.
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/wP-Screenshot-dash-web.png">
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#### [Zabbix App](https://grafana.com/plugins/alexanderzobnin-zabbix-app)
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This app contains the already very pouplar Zabbix data source plugin, 2 dashboards and a triggers panel. It is
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created and maintained by [Alexander Zobnin](https://github.com/alexanderzobnin/grafana-zabbix).
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<img src="/img/docs/v3/zabbix_app.png">
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Checkout the full list of plugins on [Grafana.com](https://grafana.com/plugins)
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## CHANGELOG
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For a detailed list and link to github issues for everything included
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in the 3.0 release please view the
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[CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
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file.
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