Grafana Upgrade - From V 3.1.1 to V 4.2

Grafana Installation
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Hello Graf World,
This is my first post as I started working on Grafana few couple of hours ago. I got a requirement for upgrading our in-house Grafana setup from V 3.1.1 to V 4.2. I did my own research and saw not many articles out there for as people says the upgrade process is pretty straight forward.
I got that from this post: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/3382

We use the below setup for Grafana configuration:
Protocol: http
Port: 3000
DB: sqlite3

My question is about the dashboards. I can run the upgrade setup but how can I move/migrate the dashboards from V 3.1…1 to V 4.2? Is that a direct process where the upgrade setup will take care or do I have to run any specific queries for the Dashboards? I know that I need to upgrade plugins manually after the Grafana Upgarde…

Any inputs are appreciated fellas.

Cheers!
Vikram Y

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The upgrade will not remove your dashboards, they will still work as before.

But its good practice to backup your database file before upgrade in case you want to downgrade.

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Thanks @torkel for the reply here. We will perform the upgrade and will let you if we face any challenges or if its successful.

Cheers!