Release Highlights

The Grafana 4.6 release contains some exciting and much anticipated new additions:

The new Postgres Data Source

Create your own Annotations for the Graph panel

Cloudwatch Alerting Support

Prometheus query editor enhancements

This is a big release so check out the other features and fixes in the Changelog section below.

Annotations

Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events. 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. You can now setup alert rules for any Cloudwatch metric!

Postgres

Grafana v4.6 now ships with a built-in datasource plugin for PostgreSQL. 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 (for a single point in time instead of a time range) 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

Here are just a few highlights from the Changelog.

New Features

Annotations : Add support for creating annotations from graph panel #8197

: Add support for creating annotations from graph panel #8197 GCS : Adds support for Google Cloud Storage #8370 thx @chuhlomin

: Adds support for Google Cloud Storage #8370 thx @chuhlomin Prometheus : Adds /metrics endpoint for exposing Grafana metrics. #9187

: Adds /metrics endpoint for exposing Grafana metrics. #9187 Jaeger : Add support for open tracing using jaeger in Grafana. #9213

: Add support for open tracing using jaeger in Grafana. #9213 Unit types : New date & time unit types added, useful in singlestat to show dates & times. #3678, #6710, #2764

: New date & time unit types added, useful in singlestat to show dates & times. #3678, #6710, #2764 Prometheus : Add support for instant queries #5765, thx @mtanda

: Add support for instant queries #5765, thx @mtanda Cloudwatch : Add support for alerting using the cloudwatch datasource #8050, thx @mtanda

: Add support for alerting using the cloudwatch datasource #8050, thx @mtanda Pagerduty : Include triggering series in pagerduty notification #8479, thx @rickymoorhouse

: Include triggering series in pagerduty notification #8479, thx @rickymoorhouse Prometheus : Align $__interval with the step parameters. #9226, thx @alin-amana

: Align $__interval with the step parameters. #9226, thx @alin-amana Prometheus : Autocomplete for label name and label value #9208, thx @mtanda

: Autocomplete for label name and label value #9208, thx @mtanda Postgres : New Postgres data source #9209, thx @svenklemm

: New Postgres data source #9209, thx @svenklemm Datasources: Make datasource HTTP requests verify TLS by default. closes #9371, #5334, #8812, thx @mattbostock

Minor

SMTP : Make it possible to set specific HELO for smtp client. #9319

: Make it possible to set specific HELO for smtp client. #9319 Alerting : Add diff and percent diff as series reducers #9386, thx @shanhuhai5739

: 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

: Allow images to be uploaded to slack when Token is present #7175, thx @xginn8 Table : Add support for displaying the timestamp with milliseconds #9429, thx @s1061123

: Add support for displaying the timestamp with milliseconds #9429, thx @s1061123 Hipchat : Add metrics, message and image to hipchat notifications #9110, thx @eloo

: Add metrics, message and image to hipchat notifications #9110, thx @eloo Kafka: Add support for sending alert notifications to kafka #7104, thx @utkarshcmu

Tech

Webpack: Changed from systemjs to webpack (see readme or building from source guide for new build instructions). Systemjs is still used to load plugins but now plugins can only import a limited set of dependencies. See PLUGIN_DEV.md for more details on how this can effect some plugins.

Download

Head to the v4.6 download page for download links & instructions.





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