Upgrade to Grafana v11.0-preview

Upgrade to Grafana v11.0-preview

We recommend that you upgrade Grafana often to stay current with the latest fixes and enhancements. Because Grafana upgrades are backward compatible, the upgrade process is straightforward, and dashboards and graphs will not change.

In addition to common tasks you should complete for all versions of Grafana, there might be additional upgrade tasks to complete for a version.

Note
There might be breaking changes in some releases. We outline these changes in the What’s New document for most releases or a separate Breaking changes document for releases with many breaking changes.

For versions of Grafana prior to v9.2, we published additional information in the Release Notes.

When available, we list all changes with links to pull requests or issues in the Changelog.

Note
When possible, we recommend that you test the Grafana upgrade process in a test or development environment.

Back up Grafana

This topic explains how to back up a local Grafana deployment, including configuration, plugin data, and the Grafana database.
Back up the Grafana configuration file

Copy Grafana configuration files that you might have modified in your Grafana deployment to a backup directory.

The Grafana configuration files are located in the following directories:

Default configuration: $WORKING_DIR/defaults.ini (Don’t change this file)
Custom configuration: $WORKING_DIR/custom.ini

For more information on where to find configuration files, refer to Configuration file location.

Note
If you installed Grafana using the deb or rpm packages, then your configura