What’s New in Grafana v6.1

The ad hoc filter feature allows you to create new key/value filters on the fly with autocomplete for both key and values. The filter condition is then automatically applied to all queries on the dashboard. This makes it easier to explore your data in a dashboard without changing queries and without having to add new template variables.

Other timeseries databases with label-based query languages have had this feature for a while. Recently Prometheus added support for fetching label names from their API and thanks to Mitsuhiro Tanda implementing it in Grafana, the Prometheus datasource finally supports ad hoc filtering.

When the dashboard folders feature and permissions system was released in Grafana 5.0, users with the editor role were not allowed to administrate dashboards, folders or teams. In the 6.1 release, we have added a config option that can change the default permissions so that editors are admins for any Dashboard, Folder or Team they create.

This feature also adds a new Team permission that can be assigned to any user with the editor or viewer role and enables that user to add other users to the Team.

To turn this feature on add the following to your Grafana ini file in the section and then restart the Grafana server:

As the first step of a feature to be able to list a user’s signed in devices/sessions and to be able log out those devices from the Grafana UI, support has been added to the API to list and revoke user authentication tokens.

• A new keyboard shortcut d l toggles all Graph legends in a dashboard.
• A small bug fix for Elasticsearch - template variables in the alias field now work properly.
• Heatmap and Explore fixes.Checkout the file for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes.

A huge thanks to our community for all the reported issues, bug fixes and feedback.