Release Notes v7.0.x

Grafana v7.0 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes.

Breaking changes

  • Removed PhantomJS: PhantomJS was deprecated in Grafana v6.4 and starting from Grafana v7.0.0, all PhantomJS support has been removed. This means that Grafana no longer ships with a built-in image renderer, and we advise you to install the Grafana Image Renderer plugin.
  • Dashboard: A global minimum dashboard refresh interval is now enforced and defaults to 5 seconds.
  • Interval calculation: There is now a new option Max data points that controls the auto interval $__interval calculation. Interval was previously calculated by dividing the panel width by the time range. With the new max data points option it is now easy to set $__interval to a dynamic value that is time range agnostic. For example if you set Max data points to 10 Grafana will dynamically set $__interval by dividing the current time range by 10.
  • Datasource/Loki: Support for deprecated Loki endpoints has been removed.
  • Backend plugins: Grafana now requires backend plugins to be signed, otherwise Grafana will not load/start them. This is an additional security measure to make sure backend plugin binaries and files haven’t been tampered with. Refer to Upgrade Grafana for more information.
  • Docker: Our Ubuntu based images have been upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
  • @grafana/ui: Forms migration notice, see @grafana/ui changelog
  • @grafana/ui: Select API change for creating custom values, see @grafana/ui changelog

Deprecation warnings

  • Scripted dashboards is now deprecated. The feature is not removed but will be in a future release. We hope to address the underlying requirement of dynamic dashboards in a different way. #24059
  • The unofficial first version of backend plugins together with usage of grafana/grafana-plugin-model is now deprecated and support for that will be removed in a future release. Please refer to backend plugins documentation for information about the new officially supported backend plugins.

7.0.6 (2020-07-09)

Bug fixes

  • Templating: Fixed recursive queries triggered when switching dashboard settings view #26137
  • Templating: Fix recursive loop of template variable queries when changing ad-hoc-variable #26191
  • Auth: Add support for forcing authentication in anonymous mode and modify SignIn to use it instead of redirect #25567
  • Auth: Fix POST request failures with anonymous access #26049

7.0.4 (2020-06-25)

Features / Enhancements

  • Dashboard: Redirects for old (pre 7.0) edit & view panel urls. #25653, @torkelo
  • Slider: Update rc-slider dependency to 9.3.1. #25617, @torkelo
  • Stackdriver: Use default project name if project name isn’t set on the query. #25413, @alexashley
  • TablePanel: Sort numbers correctly. #25421, @speakyourcode
  • Update Bitcoin currency to use proper symbol, add mBTC and μBTC. #24182, @overcookedpanda
  • Variables: Links that update variables on current dashboard does not trigger refresh / update. #25192, @torkelo

Bug Fixes

  • Azure Monitor: fixes undefined is not iterable. #25586, @hugohaggmark
  • Datasources: Handle URL parsing error. #25742, @marefr
  • InfluxDB: Fix invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference when schema is missing in URL. #25565, @marefr
  • Security: Use Header.Set and Header.Del for X-Grafana-User header. #25495, @beardhatcode
  • Stackdriver: Fix creating Label Values datasource query variable. #25633, @papagian
  • Table: Support custom date formats via custom unit. #25195, @torkelo
  • Templating: Fixes query variable with ${__searchFilter} value selection not causing refresh & url update. #25770, @torkelo

7.0.3 (2020-06-03)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • Cloudwatch: Fix dimensions of DDoSProtection. #25317, @papagian

  • Configuration: Fix env var override of sections containing hyphen. #25178, @marefr

  • Dashboard: Get panels in collapsed rows. #25079, @peterholmberg

  • Do not show alerts tab when alerting is disabled. #25285, @dprokop

  • Jaeger: fixes cascader option label duration value. #25129, @Estrax

  • Transformations: Fixed Transform tab crash & no update after adding first transform. #25152, @torkelo

7.0.2 (2020-06-03)

  • Security: Urgent security patch release. Please read more in our blog

7.0.1 (2020-05-26)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

7.0.0 (2020-05-18)

Features / Enhancements

  • Azure Monitor: Deep linking from Log Analytic queries to the Azure Portal. #24417, @daniellee
  • Backend plugins: Log deprecation warning when using the unofficial first version of backend plugins. #24675, @marefr
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Add data links to CloudWatch logs for deep linking to AWS. #24334, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch: Unify look of query mode select between dashboard and explore. #24648, @aocenas
  • Docker: Adds tzdata package to Ubuntu image. #24422, @xlson
  • Editor: New line on Enter, run query on Shift+Enter. #24654, @davkal
  • Loki: Allow multiple derived fields with the same name. #24437, @aocenas
  • Orgs: Add future deprecation notice. #24502, @torkelo

Bug Fixes

  • @grafana/toolkit: Use process.cwd() instead of PWD to get directory. #24677, @zoltanbedi
  • Admin: Makes long settings values line break in settings page. #24559, @hugohaggmark
  • Azure Monitor: Fix failure when using table join in Log Analytics queries. #24528, @daniellee
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Add error message when log groups are not selected. #24361, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Allows a user to search for log groups that aren’t there initially. #24695, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Correctly interpolate variables in logs queries. #24619, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix autocomplete after by keyword. #24644, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix field autocomplete suggestions inside function. #24406, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix fields not being refetched when log group changed. #24529, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix panic on multiple aggregations queries. #24683, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix query error when results were sparse. #24702, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix suggestion for already inserted field. #24581, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fix suggestions of fields after comma. #24520, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Fixes various autocomplete issues. #24583, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Handle errors that are not awserr.Error instances. #24641, @aknuds1
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Handle invalidation of log groups when switching data source. #24703, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Make stats hint show consistently. #24392, @aocenas
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Prevents hidden data frame fields from displaying in tables. #24580, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Results of stats queries are now grouped. #24396, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch/Logs: Usability improvements. #24447, @kaydelaney
  • Dashboard: Allow editing provisioned dashboard JSON and add confirmation when JSON is copied to dashboard. #24680, @dprokop
  • Dashboard: Fix for strange “dashboard not found” errors when opening links in dashboard settings. #24416, @torkelo
  • Dashboard: Fix so default data source is selected when data source can’t be found in panel editor. #24526, @mckn
  • Dashboard: Fixed issue changing a panel from transparent back to normal in panel editor. #24483, @torkelo
  • Dashboard: Make header names reflect the field name when exporting to CSV file from the the panel inspector. #24624, @peterholmberg
  • Dashboard: Make sure side pane is displayed with tabs by default in panel editor. #24636, @dprokop
  • Data source: Fix query/annotation help content formatting. #24687, @AgnesToulet
  • Data source: Fixes async mount errors. #24579, @Estrax
  • Data source: Fixes saving a data source without failure when URL doesn’t specify a protocol. #24497, @aknuds1
  • Explore/Prometheus: Show results of instant queries only in table. #24508, @ivanahuckova
  • Explore: Fix rendering of react query editors. #24593, @ivanahuckova
  • Explore: Fixes loading more logs in logs context view. #24135, @Estrax
  • Graphite: Fix schema and dedupe strategy in rollup indicators for Metrictank queries. #24685, @torkelo
  • Graphite: Makes query annotations work again. #24556, @hugohaggmark
  • Logs: Clicking “Load more” from context overlay doesn’t expand log row. #24299, @kaydelaney
  • Logs: Fix total bytes process calculation. #24691, @davkal
  • Org/user/team preferences: Fixes so UI Theme can be set back to Default. #24628, @AgnesToulet
  • Plugins: Fix manifest validation. #24573, @aknuds1
  • Provisioning: Use proxy as default access mode in provisioning. #24669, @bergquist
  • Search: Fix select item when pressing enter and Grafana is served using a sub path. #24634, @tskarhed
  • Search: Save folder expanded state. #24496, @Clarity-89
  • Security: Tag value sanitization fix in OpenTSDB data source. #24539, @rotemreiss
  • Table: Do not include angular options in options when switching from angular panel. #24684, @torkelo
  • Table: Fixed persisting column resize for time series fields. #24505, @torkelo
  • Table: Fixes Cannot read property subRows of null. #24578, @hugohaggmark
  • Time picker: Fixed so you can enter a relative range in the time picker without being converted to absolute range. #24534, @mckn
  • Transformations: Make transform dropdowns not cropped. #24615, @dprokop
  • Transformations: Sort order should be preserved as entered by user when using the reduce transformation. #24494, @hugohaggmark
  • Units: Adds scale symbol for currencies with suffixed symbol. #24678, @hugohaggmark
  • Variables: Fixes filtering options with more than 1000 entries. #24614, @hugohaggmark
  • Variables: Fixes so Textbox variables read value from url. #24623, @hugohaggmark
  • Zipkin: Fix error when span contains remoteEndpoint. #24524, @aocenas
  • SAML: Switch from email to login for user login attribute mapping (Enterprise)
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Hi, IN Version 7.0
i didn’t find this features in new table Plugin … How can i use special variable with URL like previous version ?

7.0.0-beta3 (2020-05-08)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • CloudWatch: Fix error with expression only query. #24362, @aocenas
  • Elasticsearch: Fix building of raw document queries resulting in error Unknown BaseAggregationBuilder error. #24403, @ivanahuckova
  • Prometheus: Fix for prometheus legend formats for instant time series queries. #24407, @torkelo

7.0.0-beta2 (2020-05-07)

Features / Enhancements

Bug Fixes

  • CloudWatch logs: Fix default region interpolation and reset log groups on region change. #24346, @aocenas
  • Dashboard: Fix for folder picker menu not being visible outside modal when saving dashboard. #24296, @tskarhed
  • Dashboard: Go to explore now works even after discarding dashboard changes. #24149, @torkelo
  • Dashboard: Only show cache timeout option in panel edit if enabled in data source plugin json. #24095, @peterholmberg
  • Dashboard: Propagate unhandled errors when saving dashboard. #24081, @peterholmberg
  • Dashboard: Variable without a current value in json model causes crash on load. #24261, @torkelo
  • DashboardManager: Disable editing if there are no folder permissions. #24237, @tskarhed
  • DataLinks: Do not add empty links. #24088, @dprokop
  • Explore/Loki: Removes old query syntax support for regex filter. #24281, @Estrax
  • Explore: Fix showing of results of queries in table. #24018, @ivanahuckova
  • Field options: show field name when title option config is empty. #24335, @dprokop
  • Graph: Fixed graph tooltip getting stuck / not being cleared when leaving dashboard. #24162, @torkelo
  • Graph: Fixed issue with x-axis labels showing “MM/DD” after viewing dashboard with pie chart. #24341, @mckn
  • Jaeger: Fix how label is created in cascader. #24164, @aocenas
  • Loki: Fix label matcher for log metrics queries. #24238, @ivanahuckova
  • Panel inspect: hides Query tab for plugins without Query ability. #24216, @hugohaggmark
  • Prometheus: Refresh query field metrics on data source change. #24116, @s-h-a-d-o-w
  • Select: Fixes so component loses focus on selecting value or pressing outside of input. #24008, @mckn
  • Stat/Gauge/BarGauge: Shows default cursor when missing links. #24284, @hugohaggmark
  • Tracing: Fix view bounds after trace change. #23994, @aocenas
  • Variables: Migrates old tags format for consistency. #24276, @hugohaggmark
  • Reporting: Update report schedule as soon as a report is updated (Enterprise)

7.0.0-beta1 (2020-04-28)

Features / Enhancements

  • @grafana/ui: Create Icon component and replace icons. #23402, @ivanahuckova
  • @grafana/ui: Create slider component. #22275, @ivanahuckova
  • @grafana/ui: Remove ColorPallete component. #23592, @ivanahuckova
  • AWS IAM: Support for AWS EKS ServiceAccount roles for CloudWatch and S3 image upload. #21594, @patstrom
  • Alerting: Adds support for basic auth in Alertmanager notifier. #23231, @melchiormoulin
  • Alerting: Enable Alert rule tags to override PagerDuty Severity setting. #22736, @AndrewBurian
  • Alerting: Handle image renderer unavailable when edit notifiers. #23711, @marefr
  • Alerting: Upload error image when image renderer unavailable. #23713, @marefr
  • Alerting: support alerting on data.Frame (that can be time series). #22812, @kylebrandt
  • Azure Monitor: Add alerting support - Port Azure log analytics to the backend. #23839, @daniellee
  • Backend plugins: Support alerting in external data source plugins. #6841
  • Build: Bundle plugins. #23787, @aknuds1
  • Build: Remove usage of Go vendoring. #23796, @kylebrandt
  • Build: Upgrade to Go 1.14. #23371, @aknuds1
  • CloudWatch: Added AWS Chatbot metrics and dimensions. #23516, @ilyastoli
  • CloudWatch: Added Cassandra namespace. #23299, @vikkyomkar
  • CloudWatch: Added missing Cassandra metrics. #23467, @ilyastoli
  • CloudWatch: Adds support for Cloudwatch Logs. #23566, @kaydelaney
  • CloudWatch: Prefer webIdentity over EC2 role. #23452, @dnascimento
  • CloudWatch: Prefer webIdentity over EC2 role also when assuming a role. #23807, @bruecktech
  • Components: IconButton. #23510, @torkelo
  • Dashboard: Add failsafe for slug generation. #23709, @sakjur
  • Dashboard: Enforce minimum dashboard refresh interval to 5 seconds per default. #23929, @marefr
  • Dashboard: Handle no renderer available in panel share dialog. #23856, @marefr
  • Dashboard: Support additional variable format options (singlequote, doublequote, sqlstring). #21622, @xiaobeiyang
  • Dashboard: Support data links via field overrides. #23590, @dprokop
  • Data source: Max data points now used in interval calculation for all data sources. #23915, @torkelo
  • Database: Order results in UserSearch by username/email. #23328, @aknuds1
  • Database: Update the xorm dependency to v0.8.1. #22376, @novalagung
  • Docker: Upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 in Dockerfiles. #23852, @aknuds1
  • Docs: Adding API reference documentation support for the packages libraries. #21931, @mckn
  • Tracing: Add trace UI to show traces from tracing datasources and Jaeger datasource. #23047, @aocenas
  • Frontend: Adding support to select preferred timezone for presentation of date and time values. #23586, @mckn
  • Grafana Toolkit: Adds template for backend data source. #23864, @bergquist
  • Graphite: Rollup indicator and custom meta data inspector. #22738, @torkelo
  • HTTP API: Allow assigning a specific organization when creating a new user. #21775, @Sytten
  • Image Rendering: New setting to control render request concurrency. #23950, @marefr
  • Image Rendering: Remove PhantomJS support. #23460, @marefr
  • Logs: Derived fields link design. #23695, @aocenas
  • Metrics: Add image rendering metrics. #23827, @alexanderzobnin
  • Metrics: Instrument backend plugin requests. #23346, @bergquist
  • Migration: Add old Input to legacy namespace. #23286, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Admin org edit page. #23866, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Alerting - notifications list. #22548, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Change password. #23623, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Create org. #22542, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Data/Panel link editor. #23778, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Final components to LegacyForms. #23707, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Layout Selector. #23790, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Migrate admin/users. #22759, @mckn
  • Migration: Migrates ad hoc variable type to react/redux. #22784, @mckn
  • Migration: Move Switch from Forms namespace. #23386, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Move last components from Forms namespace. #23556, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Move old Switch to legacy namespace. #23357, @tskarhed
  • Migration: New datasource. #23221, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Org users page. #23372, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Orgs list. #23821, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Remove Button from Forms namespace. #23105, @tskarhed
  • Migration: Teams and alert list. #23810, @tskarhed
  • Migration: TextArea from Forms namespace. #23436, @tskarhed
  • Migration: User edit. #23110, @tskarhed
  • OAuth: Adds Okta provider. #22972, @alexanderzobnin
  • OAuth: Introduce new setting for configuring max age of OAuth state cookie. #23195, @rtrompier
  • Plugins: Add deprecation notice to setEditor method in PanelPlugin. #23895, @dprokop
  • Plugins: Adds support for URL params in plugin routes. #23503, @daniellee
  • Plugins: Fluent API for custom field config and panel options creation for PanelPlugin. #23070, @dprokop
  • Plugins: Hide plugins page from viewers, and limit /api/plugins to only core plugins when called by viewer role. #21901, @dprokop
  • Postgres: Add SSL support for datasource. #21341, @ryankurte
  • Prometheus: Render missing labels in legend formats as an empty string. #22355, @Hixon10
  • Provisioning: Allows specifying uid for datasource and use that in derived fields. #23585, @aocenas
  • Provisioning: Validate that dashboard providers have unique names. #22898, @youshy
  • Search: Replace search implementation. #23855, @sakjur
  • Search: migrate dashboard search to react. #23274, @Clarity-89
  • Server: Don’t include trailing slash in cookie path when hosting Grafana in a sub path. #22265, @consideRatio
  • Stackdriver: Support for SLO queries. #22917, @sunker
  • Table: Add support for organizing fields/columns. #23135, @mckn
  • Table: Improvements to column resizing, style and alignment. #23663, @torkelo
  • Table: upgrades react-table to 7.0.0 and typings. #23247, @hugohaggmark
  • Table: Handle column overflow and horizontal scrolling in table panel. #4157
  • Tracing: Dark theme styling for TraceView. #23406, @aocenas
  • Tracing: Zipkin datasource. #23829, @aocenas
  • Transformations: Adds labels as fields transformer. #23703, @hugohaggmark
  • Transformations: Improve UI and add some love to filter by name. #23751, @dprokop
  • Transformations: calculate a new field based on the row values. #23675, @ryantxu
  • Units: add (IEC) and (Metric) to bits and bytes. #23175, @flopp999
  • Usagestats: Add usage stats about what type of data source is used in alerting. #23125, @bergquist
  • delete old dashboard versions in multiple batches. #23348, @DanCech
  • grafana/data: PanelTypeChangedHandler API update to use PanelModel instead of panel options object [BREAKING]. #22754, @dprokop
  • grafana/ui: Add basic horizontal and vertical layout components. #22303, @dprokop
  • Auth SAML Role and Team Sync (Enterprise)
  • Presence Indicators: Display the avatars of active users on dashboards (Enterprise)
  • Reporting: makes it possible to disable the scheduler (Enterprise)
  • Dashboard: Dashboard usage view (Enterprise)
  • Reporting makes it possible to trigger report emails without scheduler (Enterprise)
  • Search: sorting based on dashboard views and errors (Enterprise)
  • Reporting: improved landscape mode and panel image quality (Enterprise)
  • Reporting: adds config setting for image_scale_factor of panel images (Enterprise)

Bug Fixes

  • @grafana/ui: Fix time range when only partial datetime is provided. #23122, @ivanahuckova
  • Alerting: Only include image in notifier when enabled. #23194, @marefr
  • Alerting: Basic auth should not be required in the Alertmanager notifier. #23691, @bergquist
  • Alerting: Translate notification IDs to UIDs when extracting alert rules. #19882, @aSapien
  • Azure Monitor: Fix for application insights Azure China plugin route. #23877, @daniellee
  • CloudWatch: Add ServerlessDatabaseCapacity to AWS/RDS metrics. #23635, @jackstevenson
  • Dashboard: Fix global variable “__org.id”. #23362, @vikkyomkar
  • Dashboard: Handle min refresh interval when importing dashboard. #23959, @marefr
  • DataSourceProxy: Handle URL parsing error. #23731, @aknuds1
  • Frontend: Fix sorting of organization popup in alphabetical order. #22259, @vikkyomkar
  • Image Rendering: Make it work using serve_from_sub_path configured. #23706, @marefr
  • Image rendering: Fix missing icon on plugins list. #23958, @marefr
  • Logs: Fix error when non-string log level supplied. #23654, @ivanahuckova
  • Rich history: Fix create url and run query for various datasources. #23627, @ivanahuckova
  • Security: Fix XSS vulnerability in table panel. #23816, @torkelo

congratulation! thanks for all your hard work.

WOW, I really love the new UI. :yellow_heart:
Quicker when re-scale panels.
Colors i nice and feels modern.

Thanks a lot all you guys that have work with this release