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+title = "What's New in Grafana v6.2"
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+description = "Feature & improvement highlights for Grafana v6.2"
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+keywords = ["grafana", "new", "documentation", "6.2"]
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+type = "docs"
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+[menu.docs]
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+name = "Version 6.2"
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+identifier = "v6.2"
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+parent = "whatsnew"
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+weight = -13
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+# What's New in Grafana v6.2
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+
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+> More content will be added to this guide before the stable release.
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+For all details please read the full [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
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+If you use a password for your datasources please read the [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2).
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+
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+## Improved security
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+- Ensure encryption of datasource secrets
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+- Embedding Grafana not allowed per default
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+- Disable browser caching for full page requests
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+
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+## Provisioning
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+
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+- Environment variables support, see [Using environment variables](/administration/provisioning/#using-environment-variables) for more information.
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+- Reload provisioning configs, see [Admin HTTP API](/http_api/admin/#reload-provisioning-configurations) for more information.
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+- Do not allow deletion of provisioned dashboards
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+- When trying to delete or save provisioned dashboard, relative file path to the file is shown in the dialog.
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+
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+## Official support for Elasticsearch 7
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+
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+Grafana v6.2 ships with official support for Elasticsearch v7, see [Using Elasticsearch in Grafana](/features/datasources/elasticsearch/#elasticsearch-version) for more information.
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+
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+## Bar Gauge Panel
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+Grafana v6.2 ships with a new exciting panel! This new panel, named Bar Gauge, is very similar to the current
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+Gauge panel and shares almost all it's options. The main difference is that the Bar Gauge uses both horizontal and
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+vertical space much better and can be more efficiently stacked both vertically and horizontally. The Bar Gauge also
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+comes with 3 unique display modes, Basic, Gradient, and Retro LED. Read the
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+[preview article](https://grafana.com/blog/2019/04/11/sneak-preview-of-new-visualizations-coming-to-grafana/) to learn
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+more about the design & features of this new panel.
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+
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+Retro LED display mode
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+{{< docs-imagebox img="/assets/img/blog/bargauge/bar_gauge_retro_led.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge LED mode" >}}
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+Gradient mode
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+{{< docs-imagebox img="/assets/img/blog/bargauge/gradient.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge Gradient mode" >}}
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+
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+## Improved table data support
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+
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+We have been working on improving table support in our new react panels (Gauge & Bar Gauge) and this is ongoing work
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+that will eventually come to the new Graph & Singlestat & Table panels we are working on. But you can see it already in
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+the Gauge and Bar Gauge panels. Without any config, you can visualize any number of columns or choose to visualize each
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+row as its own gauge.
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+
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+## Lazy loading of panels out of view
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+
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+This has been one of the most requested features for many years and is now finally here! Lazy loading of panels means
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+Grafana will not issue any data queries for panels that are not visible. This will greatly reduce the load
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+on your data source backends when loading dashboards with many panels.
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+
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+## Panels without title
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+
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+Sometimes your panels do not need a title and having that panel header still take up space makes singlestats and
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+other panels look strange and have bad vertical centering. In v6.2 Grafana will allow panel content (visualizations)
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+to use the full panel height in case there is no panel title.
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+
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+{{< docs-imagebox img="/img/docs/v62/panels_with_no_title.jpg" max-width="800px" caption="Bar Gauge Gradient mode" >}}
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+
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+## Minor Features and Fixes
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+
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+This release contains a lot of small features and fixes:
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+- Explore - Adds user time zone support, reconnect for failing datasources and a fix that prevents killing Prometheus instances when Histogram metrics are loaded.
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+- Alerting - Adds support for configuring timeout durations and retries, see [configuration](/installation/configuration/#evaluation-timeout-seconds) for more information.
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+- Elasticsearch - A small bug fix to properly display percentiles metrics in table panel.
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+- InfluxDB - Support for POST HTTP verb.
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+- CloudWatch - Important fix for default alias disappearing in v6.1.
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+- Search - Works in a scope of dashboard's folder by default when viewing dashboard
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+
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+Checkout the [CHANGELOG.md](https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md) file for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes.
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+A huge thanks to our community for all the reported issues, bug fixes and feedback.
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+
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+## Upgrading
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+
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+Read important [upgrade notes](/installation/upgrading/#upgrading-to-v6-2).
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Marcus Efraimsson