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# What's new in Grafana v2.5
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+## Release highlights
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+This is an exciting release, and we want to share some of the highlights. The release includes many
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+fixes and enhancements to all areas of Grafana, like new Data Sources, a new and improved timepicker, user invites, panel
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+resize handles and improved InfluxDB and OpenTSDB support.
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+
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+### New time range controls
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/timepicker.png" alt="New Time picker">
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+
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+A new timepicker with room for more quick ranges as well as new types of relative ranges, like `Today`,
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+`The day so far` and `This day last week`. Also an improved time & calendar picker that now works
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+correctly in UTC mode.
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+
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+### Elasticsearch
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+
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/elasticsearch_metrics_ex1.png" alt="Elasticsearch example">
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+<br>
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+
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+This release brings a fully featured query editor for Elasticsearch. You will now be able to visualize
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+logs or any kind of data stored in Elasticserarch. The query editor allows you to build both simple
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+and complex queries for logs or metrics.
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+
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+- Compute metrics from your documents, supported Elasticsearch aggregations:
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+ - Count, Avg, Min, Max, Sum
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+ - Percentiles, Std Dev, etc.
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+- Group by multiple terms or filters
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+ - Specify group by options like Top 5 based on Avg @value
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+- Auto completion for field names
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+- Query only relevant indicies based on time pattern
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+- Alias patterns for short readable series names
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+
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+Try the new Elasticsearch query editor on the [play.grafana.org](http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/elasticsearch-metrics) site.
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+
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+### CloudWatch
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/cloudwatch.png" alt="Cloudwatch editor">
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+Grafana 2.5 ships with a new CloudWatch datasource that will allow you to query and visualize CloudWatch
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+metrics directly from Grafana.
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+
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+- Rich editor with auto completion for metric names, namespaces and dimensions
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+- Templating queries for generic dashboards
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+- Alias patterns for short readable series names
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+
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+### Prometheus
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/prometheus_editor.png" alt="Prometheus editor">
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+Grafana 2.5 ships with a new Prometheus datasource that will allow you to query and visualize data
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+stored in Prometheus.
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+
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+
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+### Mix different data sources
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/mixed_data.png" alt="Mix data sources in the same dashboard or in the same graph!">
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+In previous releases you have been able to mix different data sources on the same dashboard. In v2.5 you
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+will be able to mix then on the same graph! You can enable this by selecting the built in `-- Mixed --` data source.
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+When selected this will allow you to specify data source on a per query basis. This will, for example, allow you
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+to plot metrics from different Graphite servers on the same Graph or plot data from Elasticsearch alongside
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+data from Prometheus. Mixing different data sources on the same graph works for any data source, even custom ones.
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+
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+### Panel Resize handles
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/panel_resize.gif" alt="">
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+This release adds resize handles to the the bottom right corners of panels making is easy to resize both width and height.
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+
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+### User invites
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+<img src="/img/whatsnew_2_5/org_invite.png" alt="">
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+This version also brings some new features for user management.
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+- Organization admins can now invite new users (via email or manually via invite link)
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+- Users can signup using invite link and get automatically added to invited organization
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+- User signup workflow can (if enabled) contain an email verification step.
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+- Check out [#2353](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/2353) for more info.
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+
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+### Miscellaneous improvements
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+- InfluxDB query editor now supports math and AS expressions
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+- InfluxDB query editor now supports custom group by interval
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+- Panel drilldown link is easier to reach
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+- LDAP improvements (can now search for group membership if your LDAP server does not support memberOf attribute)
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+- More units for graph and singlestat panel (Length, Volume, Temperature, Pressure, Currency)
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+- Admin page for all organizations (remove / edit)
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+
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+### Breaking changes
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+There have been some changes to the data source plugin API. If you are using a custom plugin check that there is an update for it before you upgrade. Also
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+the new time picker does not currenty support custom quick ranges like the last one did. This will likey be added in a
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+future release.
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+
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+### Changelog
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+For a detailed list and link to github issues for everything included in the 2.5 release please
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+view the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) file.
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+
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+- - -
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+
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+### <a href="http://grafana.org/download">Download Grafana 2.5 now</a>
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Torkel Ödegaard