Upgrade Grafana OSS from v10.3.4 to 11.6

Hi,
I am new to grafana and I have given task to upgrade Grafana v 10.3.4 to latest , we have installed in on azure VM.
Can anyone suggest me how to plan this upgrade , we have various dashboard created in v10.3.4 so we want to have it available after upgrade with minimal changes.

What OS is it on

We are using OS -RHEL 9

Anyone has suggestion on this?

there are a few possible ways. first can you please tell us if you are using sqlite backend or something else for your grafana instance?

We are using default DB for grafana and we are getting data from zabbix monitoring tools to built the dashboard in grafana.

easiest and quickest might be to

  • spin up a new vm with version 11.6
  • copy and overwrite the data and conf folders from existing 10.3.4 to vm with 11.6
  • restart the new vm with 11.6 and see if all looks good.

good to know , all data and conf folder from 10.3.4 should show all dashboard in 11.6 , (i know its hard to tell but based on your experience) , i will test this first as we dont have any test environment.

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exactly. also you can do it locally on your pc/laptop

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