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What's new in Grafana

What's new in Grafana v4.6

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What’s new in Grafana v4.6

Grafana v4.6 brings many enhancements to Annotations, Cloudwatch and Prometheus. It also adds support for Postgres as metric and table data source!

Annotations

You can now add annotation events and regions right from the graph panel! Just hold Ctrl/Cmd+Click or drag region to open the Add Annotation view. The Annotations documentation is updated to include details on this new exciting feature.

Cloudwatch

Cloudwatch now supports alerting. Set up alert rules for any Cloudwatch metric!

Postgres

Grafana v4.6 now ships with a built-in data source plugin for Postgres. Have logs or metric data in Postgres? You can now visualize that data and define alert rules on it like any of our other data sources.

Prometheus

New enhancements include support for instant queries and improvements to query editor in the form of autocomplete for label names and label values. This makes exploring and filtering Prometheus data much easier.

Changelog

New Features

GCS: Adds support for Google Cloud Storage #8370 thx @chuhlomin
Prometheus: Adds /metrics endpoint for exposing Grafana metrics. #9187
Graph: Add support for local formatting in axis. #1395, thx @m0nhawk
Jaeger: Add support for open tracing using jaeger in Grafana. #9213
Unit types: New date and time unit types added, useful in singlestat to show dates and times. #3678, #6710, #2764
CLI: Make it possible to install plugins from any URL #5873
Prometheus: Add support for instant queries #5765, thx @mtanda
Cloudwatch: Add support for alerting using the cloudwatch data source #8050, thx @mtanda
Pagerduty: Include triggering series in pagerduty notification #8479, thx @rickymoorhouse
Timezone: Time ranges like Today and Yesterday now work correctly when timezone setting is set to UTC #8916, thx @ctide
Prometheus: Align $__interval with the step parameters. #9226, thx @alin-amana
Prometheus: Autocomplete for label name and label value #9208, thx @mtanda
Postgres: New Postgres data source #9209, thx @svenklemm
Data sources: closes #9371, #5334, #8812, thx @mattbostock

Minor Changes

SMTP: Make it possible to set specific EHLO for SMTP client. #9319
Dataproxy: Allow Grafana to renegotiate TLS connection #9250
HTTP: set net.Dialer.DualStack to true for all HTTP clients #9367
Alerting: Add diff and percent diff as series reducers #9386, thx @shanhuhai5739
Slack: Allow images to be uploaded to slack when Token is present #7175, thx @xginn8
Opsgenie: Use their latest API instead of old version #9399, thx @cglrkn
Table: Add support for displaying the timestamp with milliseconds #9429, thx @s1061123
Hipchat: Add metrics, message and image to hipchat notifications #9110, thx @eloo
Postgres: modify group by time macro so it can be used in select clause #9527, thanks @svenklemm