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What's New in Grafana v5.2

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What’s New in Grafana v5.2

Grafana v5.2 brings new features, many enhancements and bug fixes. This article will detail the major new features and enhancements.

Elasticsearch alerting it’s finally here!
Cross platform build support enables native builds of Grafana for many more platforms!
Improved Docker image with support for docker secrets
Prometheus with alignment enhancements
Alerting with alert notification channel type for Discord
Dashboards & Panels

Elasticsearch alerting

Grafana v5.2 ships with an updated Elasticsearch datasource with support for alerting. Alerting support for Elasticsearch has been one of the most requested features by our community and now it’s finally here. Please try it out and let us know what you think.

Cross platform build support

Grafana v5.2 brings an improved build pipeline with cross platform support. This enables native builds of Grafana for ARMv7 (x32), ARM64 (x64), MacOS/Darwin (x64) and Windows (x64) in both stable and nightly builds.

We’ve been longing for native ARM build support for a long time. With the help from our amazing community this is now finally available.

Improved Docker image

The Grafana docker image now includes support for Docker secrets which enables you to supply Grafana with configuration through files. More information in the Installing using Docker documentation.

Prometheus

The Prometheus datasource now aligns the start/end of the query sent to Prometheus with the step, which ensures PromQL expressions with rate functions get consistent results, and thus avoid graphs jumping around on reload.

Alerting

By popular demand Grafana now includes support for an alert notification channel type for Discord.

Dashboards & Panels

Modified time range and variables are no longer saved by default

Starting from Grafana v5.2 a modified time range or variable are no longer saved by default. To save a modified time range or variable you’ll need to actively select that when saving a dashboard, see screenshot. This should hopefully make it easier to have sane defaults of time and variables in dashboards and make it more explicit when you actually want to overwrite those settings.