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Open Source Analytics Platform Grafana Gets Update
- By Becky Nagel
- May 24, 2019
This week Grafana Labs announced the 6.2 release of its Grafana open source analytics platform, which allows for data from numerous sources and features a wide library of plug-ins and community-created dashboards. It can be hosted locally or in the cloud.
According to Grafana's blog post announcing the new version, the update includes a number of new features, including support for Elasticsearch 7, the latest version of the Lucene library-based search engine, and a brand new bar gauge panel for data visualizations.
This version also includes new support for environment variables, lazy loading of out-of-view panels, and improved alerts.
6.2 also features some security upgrades, including improved password encryption, and limitations on browser caching and embedding in order to prevent certain security risks.
A complete list of changes and the free download version can be found here.
Information on the enterprise version of Grafana can be found here.
About the Author
Becky Nagel is vice president of AI for 1105 Media, where she specializes in training internal and external customers on maximizing their business potential via a wide variety of generative AI technologies as well as developing cutting-edge AI content and events. She's the author of "ChatGPT Prompt 101 Guide for Business Uses," regularly leads research studies on generative AI business usage, and serves as the director of AI Boardroom, a new resource for C-level executives looking to excel in the AI era. Prior to her current position she was a technical leader for 1105 Media's Web, advertising and production teams as well as editorial director for a suite of enterprise technology publications, including serving as founding editor of PureAI.com. She has 20 years of enterprise technology journalism experience, and regularly speaks and writes about generative AI, AI, edge computing and other cutting-edge technologies. She can be reached at [email protected].