Project: Grafana (Observability and Analysis / Observability)
File: whats-new-in-v7-2.md

_build: list: false aliases: ../guides/whats-new-in-v7-2/ description: Learn about new and updated features in Grafana v7.2 keywords: grafana new documentation '7.2' release notes labels: products: cloud enterprise oss title: What's new in Grafana v7.2 weight: -29 This topic includes the release notes for the Grafana v7.2. For all details, read the full . The main highlights are: - - - - You can now customize how dates are formatted in Grafana. Custom date formats apply to the time range picker, graphs, and other panel visualizations. This screenshot shows both a custom full date format with a 12 hour clock and am/pm suffix. The graph is also showing the same 12-hour clock format and a customized month and day format compared to the Grafana default `MM/DD` format. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v72/date_formats.png" max-width="800px" caption="Custom date time formats" >}} Date formats are set for a Grafana instance by adjusting in the Grafana configuration file. We hope to add org- and user-level settings in the future. ``` [date_formats] full_date = MMM Do, YYYY @ hh:mm:ss a interval_second = hh:mm:ss a interval_minute = hh:mm a interval_hour = MMM DD hh:mm a interval_day = MMM DD interval_month = YYYY-MM interval_year = YYYY ``` There is also experimental support to use the browser location and language to dynamically change the current date format for each user. This feature is disabled by default. The topic has been updated as a result of this change. After lots of testing and user feedback, we removed the beta label from the configuration options in the Field and Override tabs. This release also includes the following feature enhancements. You can now dynamically apply value filters to any table column. This option can be enabled for all columns or one specific column using an override rule. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v72/tablecolumnfilters.png" max-width="800px" caption="Table column filters" >}} has been added as a result of this feature. You can now add override rules that use a regex matcher to choose which fields to apply rules to. Grafana 7.2 includes the following transformation enhancements: A new transformation that allows you to group by multiple fields and add any number of aggregations for other fields. The transformation now allows you to pick one label and use that as the name of the value field. You can drag transformations to reorder them. Remember that transformations are processed in the order they are listed in the UI, so think before you move something! {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v72/transformations.gif" max-width="800px" caption="Group by and reordering of transformations" >}} The up and down arrows, which were previously the only way to change query order, have been

Instead, there is now a grab icon that allows you to drag and drop queries in a list to change their order. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v72/drag-queries.gif" max-width="800px" caption="Drag to reorder queries" >}} The topic has been updated as a result of this change. You can enjoy all the details query inspector gave you in dashboards now in Explore as well. You can open query inspector tab with the button next to query history. See for more details. You can now use the new variable `$rate_interval` in Prometheus for rate functions mainly. `$rateinterval` in general is one scrape interval larger than `$_interval` but is never smaller than four times the scrape interval (which is 15s by default). See the for more details. With this awesome contribution from one of our community members, you can now toggle parsed fields in Explore if your logs are structured in `json` or `logfmt`. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v72/explore-toggle-parsed-fields.gif" max-width="800px" caption="Toggling parsed fields in Explore" >}} The section has been added to as a result of this feature. Alert notification channels now store sensitive settings and secrets, such as API tokens and passwords, encrypted in the database. These features are included in the Grafana Enterprise edition software. A new layout option is available when rendering reports: the grid layout. With this option, your report uses the panel layout from your dashboard, so that what you see is what you get. Learn more about the in the documentation. The grid layout is also available for the feature. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/enterprise/reportsgridlandscape_preview.png" max-width="500px" class="docs-image--no-shadow" alt="Report in grid layout" >}} You can now generate a report with a different time range from the dashboard it is based on. This means that you no longer have to apply workarounds, such as copying dashboards or carefully aligning report generation with the end of the month, to generate reports that cover the period you want. For more information, refer to . You can now configure organization-wide report settings, such as report branding, in the Settings tab on the Reporting page. Settings are applied to all the reports of your current organization. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/enterprise/reports_settings.png" max-width="500px" class="docs-image--no-shadow" caption="Reports settings" >}} For more information, refer to . Check out for a complete list of new features, changes, and bug fixes. In collaboration with Microsoft, we have improved the usability of our ADX datasource plugin by adding a visual query builder. The goal is to make it easier for users, regardless of their previous knowledge of writing KQL (Kusto Query Language) queries, to query and visualize their data. {{< figure src="/static/img/docs/v72/adx-ds.png" max-width="800px" caption="ADX visual query builder" >}} We are pleased to announce our very first version of our data source plugin for AWS X-Ray. You can use this plugin to visualize traces, look at analytics tables, and see insight summaries. For more information, refer to the plugin page.