There's various new features in Grafana v2.
Here's a few I'd like to start using:
- Embedding and sharing of individual graphs. http://docs.grafana.org/reference/sharing/
- Logarithmic scales. (http://play.grafana.org/dashboard/db/new-features-in-v20)
- Panel type "Dashlist". (For improved discovery of dashboards on the home page)
- Shared tooltip not broken when graph contains metrics with different resolution, E.g. when having a moving-daily overlay. https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/978
There've also been various bug fixes and performance improvements. Our current version has quite a few annoying bugs and sluggish behaviour at times that I can't reproduce v2.
We currently install Grafana via Trebuchet:
- https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-software-grafana
- https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/production/modules/grafana/manifests/init.pp
- http://docs.grafana.org/guides/whats-new-in-v2/
I don't know to what extent there are breaking changes or migration requirements, but if not, pushing a build may be all that's needed. It looks like v2 involves a Go server.