Grafana v6.5 Released

Grafana 6.5 introduces a wide array of enhancements and new features across various components including CloudWatch, Explore, Templating, Azure Monitor, and Docker, among others. Notable updates include the introduction of Ubuntu-based Docker images alongside the default Alpine-based images, providing users more flexibility, and significant improvements to the CloudWatch data source in collaboration with Amazon, such as adopting the GetMetricData API for faster data retrieval at scale. This release also sees enhanced functionalities like dynamic typeahead queries, multi-value template variables, and derived fields for log messages, which allow parts of log entries to be turned into links. Additionally, the Explore feature has been advanced with hover/tooltip support in graphs, time-sync of split views, and a simplified log row details view. Alerting support has been expanded to Azure Application Insights, and new provisioning settings allow saving changes to provisioned dashboards directly from the UI. Other enhancements include improvements in authentication processes, such as mixing auth proxy with Grafana login tokens and session cookies, and refined OAuth role mapping. The release encourages users to explore the upgraded image renderer plugin and provides comprehensive documentation and changelogs for detailed guidance on the new and improved features.