Grafana 7

Upgrade Grafana

• Stop the previous version of Grafana service running on the instance and change the start type as Manual

• Follow the below steps to backup existing database

  • Navigate to <postgres_installation_path>/bin

  • Backup DB using by executing the command pg_dump --username=username --password=password grafana > grafana_backup

• Download Garfana 7 and Run it as Service

Dashboard Migration

• Export Dashboards as json file from the previous Grafana version

• change the following fields inside targets array of export json file

  • “target” to “queryText”

  • “rawQuery” to “table”

  • “hide”: true to “hide”: false

      "targets": [
        {
          "checkQuery": false,
          "hide": false,
          "table": true,
          "refId": "A",
          "queryText": "<query>"
        }
      ],