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Obcerv Platform 2.x Release Notes
Overview Copied
Obcerv Platform release notes contain the list of new features and known issues in the Obcerv Platform.
For the latest highlights, see What’s New in Obcerv.
Before you install Obcerv, make sure to review the Obcerv Compatibility Matrix. For details on installation, administration, and usage, you may refer to Obcerv Documentation.
To learn more about Obcerv, visit the Obcerv product page.
Obcerv Platform 2.7.1 Copied
Released: 24 October 2024
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2621 | Changed the Timeseries cache preload logic and limit. |
| HP-2625 | The latest chunk for a hypertable is now uncompressed. |
| HP-2630 | Added PostgreSQL WAL stats in PostgreSQL metrics collector. |
| HP-2632 | Lowered PostgreSQL max_wal_size for improved WAL volume management. |
| HP-2633 | Reduced PostgreSQL logging verbosity. |
| HP-2634 | Disabled log collection by default. |
| HP-2648 | Updated Obcerv Operator resource requests and limits to match that of version 2.6.1. |
| HP-2650 | Consumer subscription is retried after being removed of the consumer group. |
| HP-2651 | Added periodic stats logging to the downsampled metric stream. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2626 | Collection Agent self-metrics are now collected at 30-second intervals. |
| HP-2654 | Collection Agent DaemonSet pods no longer fail to start on OpenShift if log collection is disabled. |
Obcerv Platform 2.7.0 Copied
Released: 23 October 2024
Caution
Before upgrading to Obcerv Platform 2.7.0, make sure that you are running version 2.6.1. If you are on an earlier version, you need to upgrade to version 2.6.1 first.
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-1974 | Added last severity to each aggregated group. |
| HP-1983 | Added the clear condition for the DPD task that watches for large timescale chunks. |
| HP-2028 | Added the MapReduceMetrics endpoint to the Metric Query Service. |
| HP-2186 | While requesting a seasonal model, daylight saving needs to be taken into consideration. The time change(s) will result in different offset in how much time to go back. |
| HP-2304 | Auto-tuned chunk sizes for non-dynamic hypertables. |
| HP-2338 | Added additional signal context for DPD-generated log signals. |
| HP-2398 | EQUALS and NOT_EQUALS comparison predicates can now have empty values in compiled expressions. |
| HP-2399 | EQUALS and NOT_EQUALS comparison predicates can now have empty values in entity and metric queries. |
| HP-2409 | Tracked last update and last received timestamps for status metrics. |
| HP-2418 | Added option to return only root operations in TraceQueryService GetOperations. |
| HP-2446 | Added support for entity filtering per column for metrics and status metrics in pipeline grouped aggregation tasks. |
| HP-2463 | New percentile fields that accept values between 0 and 100 are added to the following Metric Query Service endpoints to replace the current percentile fields:
The current percentile fields are deprecated, but are retained for backwards compatibility. |
| HP-2469 | Real-time dataview pipeline. |
| HP-2475 | Implemented ordering and limiting options for GetTraces request. |
| HP-2482 | Improved GetTraceDetails query performance. |
| HP-2493 | Free text filter against grouping key values in the GroupedAggregationView output. |
| HP-2512 | Improved GetNames performance. |
| HP-2513 | Added support for optional map functions for GetMetricAggregations. |
| HP-2515 | Upgraded Kafka to version 3.7.1. |
| HP-2516 | Upgraded Keycloak to version 25.0.6. |
| HP-2522 | Added the GetMergedHistogramSeries endpoint to the Metric Query Service. |
| HP-2530 | Removed the use of FencedLock in the DPD bootstrapping process. |
| HP-2536 | Updated Azure Plugin containment rules. |
| HP-2547 | Added timestamp to ColumnResultValue. |
| HP-2548 | Take column type into account in dataview column uniqueness checks. |
| HP-2555 | Defined a single-entity view for DPD DataViewSubscription. |
| HP-2586 | Increased self-metrics collection interval. |
| HP-2589 | Improved GetValues performance. |
| HP-2592 | Added additional output filtering capabilities in DPD DataView. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2376 | Postgres no longer crashes when recompressing a large hypertable chunk. |
| HP-2504 | Upgrading to the new Timescale version no longer causes the “out of shared memory” error. |
| HP-2508 | Resolved an issue where failed ALTER EXTENSION does not cause the schema install script to abort. |
| HP-2532 | Resolved an issue where signals received at the same time a signal subscription begins could be overlooked and not returned to that subscriber. |
| HP-2539 | Resolved an exception in the PG metrics collector. |
| HP-2572 | Fixed an issue where metric aggregation pipeline tasks with grouped aggregation of metrics using bucketed data could result in a TYPE_NOT_SET exception with no clear cause. |
| HP-2590 | Upgraded protobuf-java to version 3.25.5 due to CVE-2024-7254. |
| HP-2591 | Resolved an issue where rows without a value present for the order-by column are excluded from the output in DPD DataView. |
Obcerv Platform 2.6.1 Copied
Released: 7 September 2024
Caution
Due to breaking changes, if you have set identified parameters in your config prior to Obcerv Platform version 2.6.1, you must remove them or rename them to the new parameter names. See Breaking changes for version 2.6.1 release.
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2558 | Upgraded the Ubuntu base image and Postgres to version 14.13 for Timescale. |
| HP-2553 | Disabled transparent huge pages for stream workloads. |
| HP-2554 | Fixed the high inode usage by Loki. |
| HP-2531 | Finetuned JMX exporter configuration. |
| HP-2519 | Refactored Kafka consumer properties configuration. |
| HP-2507 | Supported upgrade process from Zookeeper to KRaft for existing installations. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2560 | The Kafka topic job no longer fails to retryable describe topic errors. |
Obcerv Platform 2.5.0 Copied
Released: 24 June 2024
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-843 | Phased in calendar configuration. |
| HP-1415 | All Obcerv Platform Docker images are now based on Red Hat UBI version 9. |
| HP-1915 | Added support for status metric summary aggregation. |
| HP-2092 | Added the following options to the type_filter field in EntityService.getNames() for filtering based on attributes of a specific type of value:
The |
| HP-2129 | Ingestion, storage, and retrieval of OpenTelemetry traces are now supported. |
| HP-2187 | Added a new endpoint in Entity Service, GetEntitySeverity, which returns the max severity for entities matching the given filter. |
| HP-2209 | Platform workloads now produce distributed traces. |
| HP-2374 | Updated metric forecasting libraries. |
| HP-2379 | Included span datapoints in platform-statusd statistics and tracking. |
| HP-2396 | Made the number of etcd replicas an immutable parameter in the Obcerv Operator. |
| HP-2410 | Added a metric type for the GetLatestMetrics response. |
| HP-2413 | Supported Obcerv installation in OpenShift OKD. |
| HP-2449 | Updated the unit of the jvm_runtime_start_time metric to EPOCH_MILLISECONDS. |
| HP-2451 | Improved query performance when using the MatchOn field. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2426 | Resolved an issue where CA DaemonSet pods in a second Obcerv instance did not start when watching all namespaces. |
| HP-2444 | Provided a workaround for when etcd-defrag job fails when Linkerd is enabled. See etcd-defrag job error. |
| HP-2445 | On DPD Signal Generators, source events with NONE as a unit are no longer allowed to be evaluated against defined thresholds in DPD tasks. |
Obcerv Platform 2.4.0 Copied
Released: 14 May 2024
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-1936 | Constrain Collection Agent pods to nodes with Obcerv workloads. |
| HP-1995 | Included entity count per aggregation group in data pipeline aggregation views. |
| HP-2090 | The API now supports matching for specific types of values when using existence, comparison, or set predicates in entity filter expressions. The predicates can match specifically for DIMENSIONS, ATTRIBUTES, or STATUS METRICS using the new MatchOn field. The default value is ANY, which tries to match for any of the value types. |
| HP-2136 | Added support for different window durations per column. |
| HP-2169 | Updated base Java images to the latest version, Java 17. |
| HP-2198 | Adjusted Postgres checkpoint tuning for different deployment sizes. |
| HP-2265 | Matching for a specific type of value (such as DIMENSION, ATTRIBUTE, or STATUS_METRIC) is now supported in existence, comparison, and set predicates. This improves the performance of queries with entity filter expressions using these predicates. |
| HP-2344 | Upgraded gRPC to version 1.62. |
| HP-2348 | Optimized GetBulkMetrics performance. |
| HP-2365 | Updated containment rules to reflect changes in FKM dimensions. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2203 | Resolved a possible deadlock when upserting entities from sinkd. |
| HP-2347 | Fixed an issue where the GrpcManagedChannel builder failed to clean up resources after a build exception. |
| HP-2372 | The GetValues value filter on hierarchy is no longer case-sensitive. |
Obcerv Platform 2.3.0 Copied
Released: 22 April 2024
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2102 | The Configuration Service is now run as a standalone workload. |
| HP-2139 | Introduced a new OK signal severity type to distinguish between the absence of signals for an entity or metrics (NONE) and situations where signals are present but indicate a positive state (OK). For Geneos namespaced datapoints lacking a defined signal severity or set to None, the severity defaults to None if the signal context indicates Undefined or Inactive. Otherwise, it defaults to OK. |
| HP-2141 | Made the time window optional for GetLatestMetrics, GetLatestStatusMetrics, and GetLatestMetricsCount. |
| HP-2249 | Metrics returned by the metrics query service’s GetMetrics and GetBulkMetrics endpoints now include a new type field that denotes the metric type. |
Obcerv Platform 2.2.0 Copied
Released: 27 March 2024
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-1463 | Added support for seeding tasks with historic metric data from Timescale. |
| HP-1896 | Added support for seasonal model pipeline and view. |
| HP-1954 | Added DPD task namespace and name to the Signals context map. |
| HP-1962 | Grouping by entity attributes now available in MetricQueryService. |
| HP-1972 | Added GetMetricAggregations in the metric query service that supports Map/Reduce aggregations for metric datapoints. |
| HP-1976 | Added support for histograms in data pipeline aggregation tasks. |
| HP-2087 | Added support for aggregation of numeric attributes. |
| HP-2164 | The YAML in config maps is now readable when viewed through kubectl get -o yaml. |
| HP-2166 | Added support for Map/Reduce semantics in DPD pipeline tasks and view subscriptions. |
| HP-2197 | Added stddev and variance functions to GetMetrics and GetBulkMetrics. |
| HP-2247 | Optimized autovacuum settings for non-hypertables to improve performance, focusing on specific configurations for autovacuum_analyze, autovacuum_vacuum, and fillfactor. Notably, autovacuum_naptime has been reduced to 30 seconds, decreasing dead tuple accumulation and ensuring that tables remain efficient. These adjustments were designed to enhance vacuuming efficiency and table responsiveness. |
| HP-2248 | Added a pre-install validation check to ensure that the last installed version matches the version being installed. |
| HP-2250 | Updated containment rules for the Azure plugin. |
| HP-2252 | Updated containment rules for the GCP plugin. |
| HP-2259 | Updated RocksDB configuration for DownsampledMetrics stream memory usage. |
| HP-2266 | Updated containment rules for the AWS plugin. |
| HP-2267 | Added containment rules for FKM data that originates from Kubenetes and forms FKM data including the new originalSeverity data. |
| HP-2268 | Added containment rules for the MongoDB plugin. |
| HP-2277 | Updated the Kube hierarchy to move a node up. |
| HP-2282 | Added new endpoints in Metric Query Service for getting merged histograms over a time period:
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| HP-2314 | Parameterized durations used in default eviction rules. |
| HP-2326 | Made the sinkd evid cache size configurable and updated the minimum and maximum cache constraints. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-1595 | The entity stream now enforces a limit (500 by default) to the number of distinct signals that can be attached to a single entity. Once the limit is exceeded, signals continue being processed but the entity’s severity is no longer updated and the entity is marked with an events-partially-applied attribute. The attribute gets cleared and the entity’s severity updates again once the number of open signals for the entity drops back under the clearing limit (300 by default). |
| HP-2253 | Fixed an issue where GetMetricMetadata did not correctly match the none unit. |
| HP-2260 | Fixed an issue causing some signals created in short sequence via the API to be discarded by the entities subsystem, which led to an inconsistency between entity severities and signals timelines. |
| HP-2264 | Upgrade Keycloak to version 23.0.4 to resolve CVE-2023-6134. |
| HP-2270 | The configuration installer now handles conflict with custom entity containment rules during upgrades. |
| HP-2275 | Styles are now correctly loaded on the Keycloak login page. |
| HP-2276 | Metric requests using the Bucket Function Percentile now require the percentile value to be specified within the exclusive range (0,1). |
| HP-2278 | Fixed unit normalization in DPD. |
| HP-2294 | Deployment no longer fails to complete when using downsampledMetricsStream.storeRetention with minimum config. |
| HP-2310 | Fixed an issue where, under certain conditions, some entities would remain active forever, preventing them from being evicted. |
| HP-2322 | Fixed an error that caused a deadlock due to entity updates. |
Obcerv Platform 2.1.0 Copied
Released: 23 January 2024
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-1786 | The Obcerv Operator now prevents Obcerv Platform upgrades that skip a required incremental upgrade. |
| HP-2017 | Upgraded slf4j and logback to the latest versions. |
| HP-2089 | All matching time series are now fetched from GetMetrics/GetDownsampledMetrics/GetHistograms. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2227 | Fixed an issue where Timescale pod termination can take too long when backups are enabled. |
| HP-2231 | An SQL exception no longer occurs in GetMetrics/GetDsMetrics/GetHistograms when applying an entity filter with a hierarchy. |
| HP-2251 | Collection Agent startup now skips malformed entry in the workflow store. |
Obcerv Platform 2.0.1 Copied
Released: 21 December 2023
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-2229 | The pre-upgrade drain job no longer runs when updating the Obcerv Platform and the version remains the same or does not require draining. |
| HP-2234 | Fixed an issue that caused upgrades to fail when entities have status metrics and attributes with identical namespaces and names. |
| HP-2243 | Fixed an issue where a missing entity_attributes relation caused the timescale-schema job to fail during an Obcerv Platform upgrade. |
Obcerv Platform 2.0.0 Copied
Released: 4 December 2023
Note
Obcerv Platform version 2.0.0 requires you to uninstall and reinstall all your Obcerv apps to their latest versions. See Obcerv Compatibility Matrix.
Highlights Copied
These are the highlights of this release:
- Scalability enhancements allow the system to sustain much higher entity counts (at least 2 orders of magnitude).
- Delivery of technical requirements for the development of the new Obcerv Ingestion app.
- Scalability and performance enhancements in the storage and retrieval of signals.
- Enhancements to the Data Pipeline Daemon (DPD), including streaming metrics and pivot tables.
- Enabler for Obcerv SaaS production environment.
- Milestone to prepare for new features such as intelligent views.
New features and enhancements Copied
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-19 | Metric query result limits. |
| HP-1367 | Audit entity matching performance with RBAC and possibly refactor. |
| HP-1568 | Added an API call to retrieve the current obcerv version. |
| HP-1577 | Added the rate function to BucketFunction options. |
| HP-1590 | Added the Obcerv Platform configuration service. |
| HP-1615 | API and data model for Pivot tables. |
| HP-1652 | New Final Entity Stream implementation bringing better performance and horizontal scalability. |
| HP-1666 | Refactored the SQL query used by licensed to collect entity counts. |
| HP-1669 | Completed the migration to paginated APIs. |
| HP-1672 | Implemented the paginated version of EntityService’s query API called getEntities. |
| HP-1678 | Upgraded Kafka to version 3.4.1. |
| HP-1691 | Upgraded to Keycloak 22.0.1 to address security vulnerabilities. |
| HP-1712 | Signal timeline support for bucketed and non-bucketed timelines. |
| HP-1751 | Upgraded Timescale to version 2.11.x and Postgres to version 14.9. |
| HP-1787 | Resolved duplicate Kubernetes labels collected by the Prom and Kubernetes plugins. |
| HP-1794 | Implemented ingress normalization. |
| HP-1809 | Patroni usage and configuration audit. |
| HP-1833 | Deprecated severity in snooze events. |
| HP-1880 | Added support for EntityFilter in signal service query APIs. |
| HP-1882 | The Obcerv Collection Agent image now has privileged filesystem access and can be run as a non-root user. |
| HP-1883 | Decreased excessive LinkerD resource allocation requests and limits. |
| HP-1899 | The DPD now utilizes downsampled streams. |
| HP-1919 | Rounded off datapoint nanosecond timestamps to nearest microsecond at ingestion time. |
| HP-1920 | Added the Obcerv Platform status service. |
| HP-1945 | Eviction configuration can now be changed at runtime. |
| HP-1989 | Included the cluster name dimension in data points from Kubernetes, statsd, and prometheus plugins. |
| HP-1990 | Upgraded PL/Java library to version 1.6.5 and added the jdk.unsupported JRE module. |
| HP-1994 | Allowed for new global configuration defaults to override previous defaults. |
| HP-2004 | Removed OP5 ingestion support. |
| HP-2010 | Expression evaluator: added expression introspection to determine whether the expression uses attributes. |
| HP-2018 | Improved grouping of containment rules. |
| HP-2043 | The Obcerv Operator now generates strong passwords for default users during installation. |
| HP-2076 | GetAttributeHistory paging uses token instead of offset. |
| HP-2082 | MetricQueryService’s grouping by dimension is now case-sensitive. |
| HP-2088 | Improved handling of and defense against repeated ingestion authentication failures. |
| HP-2130 | Refactored ingestion validation. |
| HP-2193 | Disabled PG synchronous commits for metrics insertion. |
Issues fixed Copied
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Release description |
|---|---|
| HP-1562 | Fixed an issue where GetNames calls with time filters were slow. |
| HP-1637 | Out of order metrics cause DS metrics stream performance degradation. |
| HP-1691 | Upgraded Keycloak to version 22.0.1 to address security vulnerabilities. |
| HP-1720 | Fixed an issue where metric queries without an entity filter could return metrics for entities that are marked for deletion. |
| HP-1738 | Fixed an issue where the upgrade did not finish if the license was expired. |
| HP-1817 | Fixed validation of data point dimensions, namespaces, and names in the entity service. |
| HP-1831 | Snooze events no longer have a severity. |
| HP-1875 | The Signal service now validates timestamps of published signals. |
| HP-2020 | Fixed validation of data point dimensions, namespaces, and names in the signals service. |
| HP-2021 | Fixed an issue where the iam-grafana-setup job failed when reinstalling grafana. |
| HP-2058 | Fixed an issue where the Expression Evaluator rendered incorrect output for expressions/comparison with EQUALS. |
| HP-2059 | Fixed an issue where the DS Stream used incorrect start/end timestamps when processing old buckets. |
| HP-2064 | Fixed an issue where IES should publish inactive platform entities without an update-timestamp-ns property. |
| HP-2091 | Fixed an issue where signal stream filters were able to support a signal or reference filter term with only namespace or name, but not both. |
| HP-2106 | Fixed an issue where there was a missing button in the Keycloak login theme that should allow login with OIDC when user federation is enabled. |
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