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.
Grafana 2.1 brings improvements in three core areas: dashboarding, authentication, and data sources.
As with every Grafana release, there is a whole slew of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. To see everyting
that's been added to Grafana 2.1 head over to the <ahref="https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues?page=4&q=milestone%3A2.1+is%3Aclosed"target="_blank">2.1 milestone issues section</a>.
### 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.
Multi-Value Select is also a basis for enabling Repeating Rows and Repeating Panels.
## 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 Variables
A template variable with Multi-Value enabled allows for the selection of multiple values selected at the
same time. These variables can then be used in any Panel to make them more dynamic, and to give you the perfect view of
your data. Multi-Value variables is also enabling the new Row repeat and Panel repeat feature described below.
It’s now possible to create a Dashboard that automatically adds (and removes) both Rows and Panels based on which Template variables you have selected.
Any Row or Any Panel can be configured to repeat (duplicate itself) based on the Multi-Value Template variables selected.
It’s now possible to create a Dashboard that automatically adds (or removes) both Rows and Panels based
on selected variable values. Any row or any panel can be configured to repeat (duplicate itself) based
on a multi-value template variable.</p>
![Repeating Rows and Panels](/img/v2/panel-row-repeat.gif"Repeating Rows and Panels")
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### Dashboard Links
To support better navigation between Dashboarads, it is possible to create custom and dynamic links from individual Panels to appropriate Dashboards (1888)
### Dashboard Links & Navigation
To support better navigation between Dashboarads, it's now possible to create custom and dynamic links from individual
Panels to appropriate Dashboards. You also have the ability to create flexible top-level links on any
given Dashboard thanks to the new Dashboard navigation bar feature.
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## 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.
## New Authentication Options
New authentication methods add numerous options to manage users, roles and organizations.
Grafana 2.1 also includes a "Read-only Editor" role.
### 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.
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
### Basic Auth Support
You can now authenticate against the Grafana API utilizing a simple username and password with basic HTTP authentication.
> ***Note:*** This can be useful for provisioning and config management systems that need to utilize the API without having to create an API key.
> ***Note:*** This can be useful for provisioning and config management systems that need
> to utilize the API without having to create an API key.
### User authentication utilizing headers
### Auth Proxy Support
You can now authenticate utilizing a header (eg. X-Authenticated-User, or X-WEBAUTH-USER)
> ***Note:*** this can be useful in situations with reverse proxies.
### New “Read-only Editor” User Role
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.
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.
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## Improved data source support
## Data source Improvements
### 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
### InfluxDB 0.9 Support
Grafana 2.1 now comes with full support for InfluxDB 0.9. There is a new query editor designed from the start
