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What's New in Grafana v4.6

Hightlights

Annotations

Annotations provide a way to mark points on the graph with rich events. When you hover over an annotation you can get event description and event tags. The text field can include links to other systems with more detail.

Cloudwatch

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Postgres

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Prometheus

With the new features instant queries and autocomplete label name and value makes quering with Prometheus a lot easier.

Changelog

New Features

GCS: Adds support for Google Cloud Storage #8370 thx @chuhlomin
Prometheus: Adds /metrics endpoint for exposing Grafana metrics. #9187
Graph: Add support for local formating in axis. #1395, thx @m0nhawk
Jaeger: Add support for open tracing using jaeger in Grafana. #9213
Unit types: New date & time unit types added, useful in singlestat to show dates & times. #3678, #6710, #2764
CLI: Make it possible to install plugins from any url #5873
Prometheus: Add support for instant queries #5765, thx @mtanda
Cloudwatch: Add support for alerting using the cloudwatch datasource #8050, thx @mtanda
Pagerduty: Include triggering series in pagerduty notification #8479, thx @rickymoorhouse
Timezone: Time ranges like Today & Yesterday now work correctly when timezone setting is set to UTC #8916, thx @ctide
Prometheus: Align $__interval with the step parameters. #9226, thx @alin-amana
Prometheus: Autocomplete for label name and label value #9208, thx @mtanda
Postgres: New Postgres data source #9209, thx @svenklemm
Datasources: closes #9371, #5334, #8812, thx @mattbostock

Minor Changes

SMTP: Make it possible to set specific EHLO for smtp client. #9319
Dataproxy: Allow grafan to renegotiate tls connection #9250
HTTP: set net.Dialer.DualStack to true for all http clients #9367
Alerting: Add diff and percent diff as series reducers #9386, thx @shanhuhai5739
Slack: Allow images to be uploaded to slack when Token is precent #7175, thx @xginn8
Opsgenie: Use their latest API instead of old version #9399, thx @cglrkn
Table: Add support for displaying the timestamp with milliseconds #9429, thx @s1061123
Hipchat: Add metrics, message and image to hipchat notifications #9110, thx @eloo

Tech

Go: Grafana is now built using golang 1.9

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