Upgrade of grafana from 6.6.1 to 10.3.4

Grafana Installation
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Hi

I have Grafana 6.6.1 running as k8s pod. I am planning to upgrade Grafana 10.3.4.
Can I directly upgrade to 10.3.4 without any issues. or I need to gradually upgrade to v7, v8,v9…
Any one can help with the steps? or any documentation on this will help.

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Wcome to forum @vthandra

Where is this grafana installed at? And what OS and what kind of backend is it using sqlite or mysql?

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Hi yosiasz

It is running in my dev environment on ubuntu 20. backend means I didn’t get

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Should I need to gradually update each version to reach 10.3.4 or can I upgrade directly to 10.3.4

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the backend specified in the ini. either mysql, postgres or sqlite
how many dashboards do you have to migrate?

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I would at the very least upgrade from one major version to the next, so 6.6.1
→ 7.x → 8.x → 9.x → 10.x

“Backend” means “are you using SQLite or MySQL as Grafana’s data store?”

Antony.

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we use postgres and dashboards like loki, alertmanager, k8s pod metrics

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so your backend for grafana is postgres. do you have a separate test environment? @vthandra

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No our test environment is dev . Once upgrade goes well on dev then we implement it in production

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While upgrading the grafana what backups i have to take and only changing the versions will be enough or there will be any configuration chnages in deploy yamls