Grafana v6.0 introduces a new way of exploring your data, support for log data and tons of other features.

New major features:

Explore A new query focused workflow for ad-hoc data exploration and troubleshooting.
Grafana Loki Integration with the new open source log aggregation system from Grafana Labs.
Gauge Panel A new standalone panel for gauges.
New Panel Editor UX improves panel editing and enables easy switching between different visualizations.
Google Stackdriver Datasource is out of beta and is officially released.
Azure Monitor plugin is ported from being an external plugin to being a core datasource
React Plugin support enables an easier way to build plugins.
Named Colors in our new improved color picker.
Removal of user session storage makes Grafana easier to deploy & improves security.

6.0.1 (2019-03-06)

Metrics: Fixes broken usagestats metrics for /metrics #15651
Dashboard: Fixes kiosk mode should have &kiosk appended to the url #15765
Dashboard: Fixes kiosk=tv mode with autofitpanels should respect header #15650
Image rendering: Fixed image rendering issue for dashboards with auto refresh, . #15818, @torkelo
Dashboard: Fix only users that can edit a dashboard should be able to update panel json. #15805, @marefr
LDAP: fix allow anonymous initial bind for ldap search. #15803, @marefr
UX: Fixed scrollbar not visible initially (only after manual scroll). #15798, @torkelo
Datasource admin TestData #15793, @hugohaggmark
Dashboard: Fixed scrolling issue that caused scroll to be locked to bottom. #15792, @torkelo
Explore: Viewers with viewers_can_edit should be able to access /explore. #15787, @jschill
Security fix: limit access to org admin and alerting pages. #15761, @marefr
Panel Edit minInterval changes did not persist #15757, @hugohaggmark
Teams: Fixed bug when getting teams for user. #15595, @hugohaggmark
Stackdriver: fix for float64 bounds for distribution metrics #14509
Stackdriver: no reducers available for distribution type #15179