1. @grafana/data is not supported in grafana 5.x and 6.2. The workaround is the module `./libs/grafana/events` that include copy-pasted events from @grafana/data and app/core from grafana sources. 2. Newly Grafana versions flood Console with "Usage strings as events is deprecated ..." messages. This module has a function to detect if Grafana’s Emitter support AppEvent style event ids.