From a386733c041459f917fc919f602e9d163c02283c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Torkel=20=C3=96degaard?= Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:03:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(): updates to docs --- docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md b/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md index 6f37efe081288..36289ac904194 100644 --- a/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md +++ b/docs/sources/guides/whats-new-in-v2-1.md @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ page_keywords: grafana, new, changes, features, documentation ##More Dynamic Dashboards The Templating system is one of the most powerful and well-used features of Grafana. The 2.1 release brings numerous improvements that make Dashboards more dynamic than ever before. - ### Multi-Value Template Select Multi-Value Select allows for the selection of multiple template variables. These variables can be used in any Panel to make them more dynamic, and automatically show only the desired data. @@ -39,8 +38,10 @@ Grafana can now index Dashboards saved locally as JSON from a given directory. - - - ## Improved authentication engine +New authentication methods add numerous options to manage users, roles and organizations. Grafana 2.1 also includes a "Read-only Editor" role which disables the query editor for that user. ### LDAP support +This highly requested feature now allows your Grafana users to login with their LDAP credentials. You can also specify mappings between LDAP group memberships and Grafana Organization user roles. ### Basic Auth support You can now authenticate against the Grafana API utilizing a simple username and password with basic HTTP authentication. @@ -55,13 +56,13 @@ You can now authenticate utilizing a header (eg. X-Authenticated-User, or X-WEBA ### New “Read-only Editor” User Role -There is a new User role available in this version of Grafana: “Read-only Editor”. This role disables the query editor for the user and puts him in a read-only sandbox of sorts. - -> ***Note:*** Even with this role assigned, Read-only Editors still have access to ALL metrics from that Datasource. This is not a way to achieve a true multitenant segregated environment with Grafana. +There is a new User role available in this version of Grafana: “Read-only Editor”. This role behaves just like the Viewer role does in Grafana 2.0. +That is you can edit graphs and queries but no save dashboards. The Viewer role has been modified in Grafana 2.1 so that users assigned this role +can no longer edit panels. - - - -##Improved data source support +## Improved data source support ### Improved Data Sources We continue to make progress on fully supporting InfluxDB 0.9, but it has proven to be a bit of a moving target. This Grafana release brings a much improved query editor for InfluxDB 0.9 @@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ Experimental support for the KairosDB is now shipping in Grafana. Thank you to < ## Panel Improvements ### Graph Panel -Define series color using regex rule +Define series color using regex rule ![Define series color using regex rule ](/img/v2/regex_color.gif "Define series color using regex rule ") New series style override, negative-y transform and stack groups