Operator Changelog¶

1.9.0(2026-08-26)¶

• Added OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation injection for Java, Python, and Node.js applications (#98, #101, #102)
• Improved instrumentation injection safety and configuration fault tolerance to prevent incompatible configurations from affecting application Pods (#87, #105)
• Fixed an issue where DDTrace Java might not take effect when the Admission Webhook was invoked again (#100)

1.8.10(2026-07-06)¶

• Added support for injecting environment variables that reference Kubernetes Secrets through secretKeyRef (#95)

1.8.9(2026-06-23)¶

• Improved Cluster API Pod query performance and added a reduced view for eBPF, decreasing response size and parsing overhead in large clusters (#94)

1.8.8(2026-05-28)¶

• Fixed an issue where check_annotation might not take effect as expected during ddtrace injection (#91)

1.8.7(2026-05-14)¶

• Updated image tags in the Helm Chart and YAML

1.8.6(2026-05-12)¶

• Added support for injecting the Node.js ddtrace agent (#89)

1.8.5(2026-05-09)¶

• Fixed an issue where fields from the original Pod could be overwritten or lost in some resource injection scenarios, preventing the Pod from running correctly (#88)

1.8.4(2026-04-03)¶

• Fixed an issue where the RestartPolicy of an initContainer could be discarded during resource injection (#86)

1.8.3(2026-03-20)¶

• Added support for injecting the PHP ddtrace agent (#82)

1.8.2(2026-03-10)¶

• Fixed an issue where the /logging/configs endpoint returned an error in some scenarios (#85)
• Improved selected log messages to simplify troubleshooting the Operator's runtime status

1.8.1(2026-02-11)¶

• Added support for injecting environment variables in resourceFieldRef format. Container resource limits and requests can now be referenced, including limits.cpu, limits.memory, requests.cpu, and requests.memory (#84)
• Added support for injecting the Python ddtrace agent (#82)
• Added a proxy API for retrieving Pod data from the local cluster (#79)

1.8.0(2026-01-29)¶

• admission_inject_v2 now includes the check_annotation field for compatibility with admission.datakit/java-lib.version usage (#81)
• Added compatibility with Profiler injection through the legacy admission_inject.profiler configuration (#81)

1.7.3(2026-01-08)¶

• Added the from_beginning_threshold_size configuration field for the ClusterLoggingConfig CRD (#80)

1.7.2(2025-12-18)¶

• Fixed a potential mount error when injecting logfwd (#78)

1.7.1(2025-12-17)¶

• Fixed compatibility with legacy configurations (#77)
• In admission_inject_v2, injection is skipped when both namespace_selectors and label_selectors are empty (#77)
• Added the enable_prometheus_annotations option to Flameshot injection for adding Prometheus.io Annotations (#74)
• Changed the Flameshot port configuration from the FLAMESHOT_HTTP_LOCAL_ADDR environment variable to FLAMESHOT_HTTP_LOCAL_PORT (#75)
• Fixed the incorrect requirement to configure log_configs when injecting logfwd, because logfwd can use a CRD configuration source (#76)

1.7.0(2025-12-12)¶

• Added admission_inject_v2 to replace admission_inject while retaining backward compatibility (#73)
• Added Flameshot injection to replace the legacy Profiler injection (#72)
• When both namespace_selectors and label_selectors are configured, their relationship is now AND instead of OR
• Removed support for the admission.datakit/logfwd.log_configs and admission.datakit/logfwd.volume_paths Annotations (supported only in v1.6.X)
• Removed support for the admission.datakit/java-lib.version Annotation (injection can still be disabled with admission.datakit/ddtrace.enabled:"false")

1.6.1(2025-12-02)¶

• Improved error checking for the Kubernetes ClusterLoggingConfig CRD. When the resource does not exist, the Operator logs the condition and disables the feature (#71)

1.6.0(2025-11-19)¶

• Added support for the Kubernetes ClusterLoggingConfig CRD and a new HTTP endpoint that returns log collection configurations (#70)
• Adjusted and improved logfwd injection for the new CRD-based log collection configuration (#70)

1.5.18(2025-07-15)¶

• Added support for manually configuring Resources Requests and Resources Limits when injecting ddtrace (#68)

1.5.17(2025-06-03)¶

• Added a UOS arm64 image release

1.5.16(2025-04-16)¶

• Adjusted the matching order for injected logging configurations (#64)

1.5.15(2025-04-15)¶

• Fixed Namespace matching support when deploying on Kubernetes 1.19 (#63)

1.5.14(2025-04-01)¶

• Simplified Namespace regular expressions: use * instead of .* to match all Namespaces (#59)

1.5.13(2025-03-31)¶

• Added regular expression matching for Namespaces and Labels when injecting DDtrace and Profiler (#58)
• Added regular expression matching for Namespaces and Labels when injecting logging configurations (#59)

1.5.12(2025-02-28)¶

• Added support for manually configuring Resources Requests and Resources Limits when injecting logfwd and Profiler (#57)

1.5.11(2025-02-20)¶

• Added support for adding the datakit/logs Annotation configuration to target Pods and automatically mounting directories (#53)
• Improved directory mount handling for logfwd Sidecar injection; existing mounts are now reused by default (#55)

1.5.10(2024-12-10)¶

• Adjusted the injection order of the DD_TAGS environment variable so it can always reference preceding environment variable values (#51)

1.5.9(2024-11-25)¶

• Changed the injected image pullPolicy to Always (#50)

1.5.8(2024-10-10)¶

• Changed the ddtrace Python injection logic to inject only basic environment variables, without an image or library (#35)

1.5.7(2024-09-18)¶

• Fixed incorrect DD_TAGS environment variable injection in v1.5.5 and v1.5.6 (#48)
• Added Annotations to Pods (admission.datakit/ddtrace.enabled="false", admission.datakit/logfwd.enabled="false", and admission.datakit/profiler.enabled="false") for selectively disabling individual injection types (#49)

1.5.6(2024-09-13)¶

• Improved Profiler volumeMount injection so a mount is not added when the same path already exists (#46)

1.5.5(2024-09-02)¶

• Improved DD_TAGS environment variable injection for ddtrace. If DD_TAGS already exists in the original Pod, the new value is now appended instead of ignored (#45)

1.5.4(2024-08-27)¶

• Removed resources from ddtrace injection and reduced resources for logfwd and Profiler (#44)

1.5.3(2024-04-09)¶

• Fixed missing files in ddtrace mounts for multi-container Pods (#42)

1.5.2(2024-04-08)¶

• Added batch ddtrace injection based on labelSelector (#41)

1.5.1(2024-04-07)¶

• Added the current version and build information to logs (#41)

1.5.0(2024-03-18)¶

• Added the admission.datakit/enabled="false" Annotation for disabling all injections on a Pod, including ddtrace, logfwd, and Profiler (#39)
• Added batch ddtrace injection for specified Namespaces (#38)
• Added the option to reuse volumes during logfwd injection, avoiding errors caused by mounting the same path multiple times (#34)

1.4.3(2023-12-21)¶

• Fixed mount errors caused by wildcard paths in logfiles during logfwd injection (#31)
• Fixed injection failures that affected startup of the original Pod when it contained two or more containers (#32)
• Improved one log message

1.4.2(2023-09-18)¶

• Fixed inconsistent ordering of injected environment variables (#28)

1.4.1(2023-09-15)¶

• Added support for injecting environment variables into logfwd (#27)

1.4.0(2023-09-13)¶

• Added environment variable configuration through Kubernetes Downward API FieldRef (#26)
• Added DD_TAGS by default for ddtrace (#26)

1.3.1(2023-08-24)¶

• Updated the default Profiler image

1.3.0(2023-07-17)¶

• Changed the minimum unit of Admission injection to a Pod; update the YAML to the latest version or datakit-operator-v1.3.0.yaml (#22)
• Added Profiler injection (#5)
• Added Resource Limits to injected Sidecars (#20)

1.2.1(2023-06-28)¶

• Changed the default image registry (#19)
• Updated the Helm structure

1.2.0(2023-06-13)¶

• Added JSON configuration for DataKit Operator while retaining compatibility with the existing environment variable configuration (#19)

1.0.5(2023-05-11)¶

• Added a new ping API (#18)
• Added an API dedicated to DataKit election, implementing task distribution for DataKit collectors (#15)

1.0.4(2023-04-10)¶

• Added logfwd injection through Kubernetes Admission (#12)
• Added the DD_AGENT_HOST and DD_TRACE_AGENT_PORT environment variables by default when injecting the ddtrace agent (#14)
• Changed the list of resources supported by Admission; native Pods are no longer supported (#12)
• Restructured the code and completed unit tests for ddtrace and logfwd
• Improved the datakit.yaml structure
• Removed the docs directory and its documentation, and added new documentation links to the README

1.0.3(2023-03-27)¶

• Added English documentation
• Added dd-agent image address configuration through environment variables (#9)
• Improved several environment variable names
• Changed datakit.yaml to ignore webhook errors by default (#11)

1.0.2(2023-03-09)¶

• Added the CHANGELOG (#9)
• Fixed access failures caused by expired certificates by regenerating self-signed certificates with a longer validity period (#8)
• Fixed a minor error encountered when publishing images (#10)
• Changed YAML installation so it no longer creates the Namespace, and documented the required step (#7)

1.0.1(2022-12-28)¶

• Added Makefile, Dockerfile, and CI configuration (#2)
• Added ddtrace file and environment variable injection through Kubernetes Admission (#1)