Upgrading on the fly from v5.1.4 to current - how to and is it possible?

Grafana Installation
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Hello all,

I have a situation and, hence, a need for orientation: :slight_smile:

  • I have Grafana 5.1.4 running (for a long time, don’t change what is running smoothly is my moto) with about 15 full-fledged dashboards with a lot of graphs, singlestat… panels, with alarms and so on

  • I just had a big situation with one of the dashboards : the alerting system in v5.1.4 does not re-send alarms, it only fires once (the “repeat” function was added after, on v5.4 I think) and consequently, we had a serious problem on one of the system monitored by the alerting system since the alarm was sent once and nobody paid attention to this first alert…

  • Now, I MUST upgrade Grafana to the latest version to allow for the use of the “repeat” alarm function.

Problem: I’m a NOOB (in Computer Science at least) and our IT guy is gone… I’m left temporarily alone to cope with this problem.

My question: what would be the step-by-step procedure to upgrade my Grafana server from 5.1.4 to current version without having to redesign all the dashboards and without loosing any configuration (like all the alerting system) ?

Thanks in advance, I’m in a pretty messed-up situation :blush:

Luc

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Hi,

First you need to export your dashboard, see below :slight_smile:https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/reference/export_import/

Optional : Make a dump of grafana database

With the link above you have also the command for update Grafana. Or you can manually download the right package and make the installation.

Regards

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Hello Meruem,
Thanks for the answer. What I did is:

  • I installed Grafana 6 on my personal computer and copyied the grafana.db from my server to my computer.
  • I checked that nothing was lost, that was the case.
  • Then I made a copy of grafana.db and grafana.ini on my server (in case) and I installed the upgraded Grafana.

Everything went on perfectly well. I must say that I’m thankfull and admirative for the work done by the Grafana team. Well done guys, this is just perfect !

Thanks and cheers !
Luc
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