AWS Collection Agent Plugin 4.x Release Notes

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This page provides information about the AWS Collection Agent plugin version 4.x release, including new features and resolved issues.

For a detailed overview of the Geneos 7.x.x release, including key highlights for other components, see Geneos 7.x Release Notes.

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.4.2 Copied

Released: 17 October 2024 Packaged with Geneos 7.0.4

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
HAAW-479 Updated the protobuf-java dependency to address BDSA-2024-6519 (CVE-2024-7254).

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.4.1 Copied

Released: 18 September 2024 Packaged with Geneos 7.0.3

The AWS Marketplace deployment has been updated in this release.

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These are the issues we have fixed in this release:

Issue key Release description
HAAW-478 Updated the org.json:json dependency used by the Amazon Kinesis Client to version 20240303 to address the security vulnerability CVE-2023-5072.

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.4.0 Copied

Released: 29 August 2024 Packaged with Geneos 7.0.0

The AWS Marketplace deployment has been updated in this release.

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
HAAW-95 Added support for Cloudwatch metric streams via Amazon Data Firehose.

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.3.2 Copied

Released:

New features and enhancements Copied

These are the new features and enhancements of this release:

Issue key Release description
COL-13017 Upgraded Netty to version 4.1.131.Final to resolve the following security vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2025-24970 (BDSA-2025-1033)
  • CVE-2025-55163 (BDSA-2025-8614)
  • CVE-2025-58056 (BDSA-2025-10730)
  • CVE-2025-58057 (BDSA-2025-10732)
COL-13048 Updated the Collection Agent and certain Collection Agent plugins to the following versions:
  • Collection Agent 4.5.2
  • AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.3.2
  • Azure Monitor Collection Agent plugin 4.2.2
  • Fluentd Forward Collection Agent plugin 4.1.2
  • JDBC Collection Agent plugin 4.3.1
  • Kubernetes Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1
  • Prometheus Collection Agent plugin 4.1.1

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.3.0 Copied

Released: 2 July 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.9.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
HAAW-308 In the AWS Collection Agent plugin, datapoints have been updated to reflect status metrics.

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.2.1 Copied

Released: 21 May 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.8.1

Issues fixed Copied

Issue key Release description
COL-12061 The Collection Agent and all associated Collection Agent plugins packaged in Netprobe have been updated to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2024-29025 (BDSA-2024-0720). The affected components have been updated to the following versions:
  • AWS plugin - 4.2.1
  • Azure plugin - 4.1.1
  • Collection Agent - 4.0.3
  • FluentD Forward plugin - 4.0.1
  • Google Cloud Platform plugin - 4.1.1
  • GRPC plugin - 4.0.1
  • JDBC plugin - 4.2.1
  • MongoDB plugin - 4.1.1
  • OpenTelemetry plugin - 4.0.1
  • Prometheus plugin - 4.0.1

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.2.0 Copied

Released: 25 April 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.8.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
HAAW-228 Users can now monitor the CapacityProviderResevervation metric under the AWS/ECS/ManagedScaling namespace. This metric corresponds to the percent of container instances for use in a specific capacity provider.

AWS Collection Agent plugin 4.1.0 Copied

Released: 15 February 2024 Packaged with Geneos 6.7.0

New features and enhancements Copied

Issue key Release description
HAAW-456 The metrics of the following services have been updated based on the latest AWS documentation:
  • Elasticache
  • KMS
  • Kinesis
  • Lambda
  • NetworkFirewall
  • RDS
  • S3

Additionally, you can now access AWS cloud through a proxy host.

HAAW-457 The base image for AWS Marketplace image has been updated from Ubuntu 18.04-LTS to Ubuntu 22.04-LTS to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-48795.

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