Release History¶

v1.56.119 (December 29, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.56.119:launcher-e4d9302-1672825365

Guance Updates¶

• Added workspace MFA authentication management
• Added workspace IP access login whitelist
• Added Service network topology
• Other feature optimizations
  • Pipeline usability improvements
  • Log clustering analysis supports custom fields
  • Extremely large logs after splitting support viewing associated logs
  • Backup log display optimization
  • Data authorization sensitive fields support all types of data except Metrics

DataKit Updates¶

• Prometheus collector supports data collection through Unix Socket
• Allows non-root users to run DataKit
• Optimized httpflow protocol determination in eBPF
• Optimized Datakit installation and upgrade commands on Windows
• Optimized Pythond encapsulation usage
• Pipeline provides more detailed operation error messages
• Pipeline reftable provides a localized storage implementation based on SQLite

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

• Official intelligent inspections for "memory leaks", "application performance detection", and "disk usage rate" have been discontinued
• Added cloud account instance-level billing inspection
• Added Alibaba Cloud preemptible instance survival inspection

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.55.117 (December 15, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.55.117:launcher-f4f56ef-1672025178

Guance Updates¶

• Added Profile and network billing
• Guance registration process optimization
• Added Warroom functionality
• Added dashboard carousel function
• Workspace bound to external SLS index
• Link Explorer chart display optimization
• Other feature optimizations
  • View variable interaction optimization
  • Binding built-in view configuration interaction optimization
  • Workspace overdue payment lock process optimization
  • Workspace invitation user experience optimization
  • Help documentation added an evaluation system, including good and poor ratings
  • Monitor batch function optimization
  • SLO added enable/disable function
  • Wildcard left * matching query limit optimization

DataKit Updates¶

• Added Golang Profiling integration
• logfwd supports injecting image field via LOGFWD_TARGET_CONTAINER_IMAGE
• trace collector:
• Optimized error-stack/error-message format issues
• SkyWalking compatibility adjustment, supports full series 8.X
• eBPF httpflow adds pid/process_name fields, optimized kernel version support
• Adjustments made to datakit.yaml, it is recommended to update yaml
• GPU card collection supports remote mode

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

• Intelligent inspection added a guide page
• Intelligent inspection components support configuring custom jump links

Best Practices Updates¶

• Scene (Scene) - SpringBoot project with external Tomcat scene chain observability

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.54.116 (December 1, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.54.116:launcher-56de9cd-1670394824

Guance Updates¶

• APM added service list functionality
• Dashboard chart usage experience optimization
  • Added manual input for chart units, colors, aliases; you can customize preset units, colors, and aliases according to current standards, such as unit input format: aggregate function(metric), like last(usage_idle)
  • Time series charts added Y-axis configuration, where you can manually configure the maximum and minimum values of the Y-axis
  • Time series charts, pie charts added group display, enabling only label values to appear in legends when enabled
  • Heatmap, China map, world map added gradient intervals, including automatic and custom options
  • Bar chart, histogram display optimization
• View variable usage experience optimization
  • View variables added support for multiple selections
  • When configuring view variables, added whether to set multiple default values
• User Analysis Session Explorer adjustments
• Events added mobile end jump options
• Other feature optimizations
  • Newbie guide page optimization, supporting minimization
  • User Analysis application list optimization, added time widget custom range switching queries
  • Host adding Label interaction optimization

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

• Kubernetes Pod abnormal restart inspection
• MySQL performance inspection
• Server-side application error inspection
• Memory leak inspection
• Disk usage rate inspection
• Application performance inspection
• Front-end application log error inspection

Best Practices Updates¶

• APM - Performance Optimization - Utilizing async-profiler for application performance tuning

Private Deployment Version Updates¶

• Supports using custom image repositories
• Supports one-click creation of middleware infrastructure during deployment: MySQL, Redis, OpenSearch, TDengine, etc.
• Supports MySQL 8.x

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.53.115 (November 17, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.53.115:launcher-0da0220-1669271832

Guance Updates¶

• Pipeline usage experience optimization
  • Pipeline supports multi-select filter condition configuration
  • Supports setting any Pipeline script as the "default Pipeline script"
  • Script functions categorized
• Event optimizations
  • Supports writing custom user events
  • The left side of the unrecovered event explorer added quick filtering
• Custom Explorer supports selecting more types of data
• Member management added member grouping function
• Optimized built-in view binding function
• Added one-click import/export of dashboards, custom explorers, monitors within the workspace
• APM log page added custom associated fields
• Other feature optimizations
  • When using fuzzy match and fuzzy not match, supports left * match
  • Infrastructure analysis dimension optimization, host detail page last report time
  • Supports users quickly logging into their previous single sign-on
  • Blacklist APM added support for filtering "all services"
  • Process upgraded to Commercial Plan for users registered at the "China Region 4 (Guangzhou)" site
  • Field descriptions support viewing in quick filters, display columns, etc.

DataKit Updates¶

• Added SNMP collector
• Added IPMI collector
• Added bulk injection of DDTrace-Java tools
• Latest DDTrace-Java SDK enhanced SQL desensitization functionality
• Pipeline supports source mapping configuration, facilitating batch configuration between Pipeline and data sources
• Pipeline provided function classification information, facilitating remote Pipeline writing
• Optimized Kafka message subscription, no longer limited to obtaining SkyWalking related data, while supporting speed limits, multi-version coverage, sampling, and load balancing settings
• By providing additional configuration parameters (ENV_INPUT_CONTAINER_LOGGING_SEARCH_INTERVAL), alleviates short lifecycle Pod log collection issues
• In pure container environments, supports configuring container internal log collection via labels
• Added Pipeline functions

Best Practices Updates¶

• Guance Tips (Skills) - Configuring HTTPS for DataKit
• APM - Common ddtrace parameter usage
• APM - ddtrace-api usage guide
• APM - ddtrace sampling
• APM - ddtrace log association

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.52.114 (November 3, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.52.114:launcher-86c0c1f-1668062771

Guance Updates¶

• Added Guance, SLS joint solution
• Optimized newbie guide page
• Added three intelligent inspection configuration documents
• Added link error tracking explorer
• Optimized同期comparison function of time series charts and summary charts
• Other feature optimizations
  • Dashboards/notes/explorers added a "save snapshot" button in the "settings";
  • Time widget added more options;
  • Pipeline and blacklist functions added import, batch export, batch deletion features;
  • Intelligent inspection added dashboard, bar chart components;
  • Func page under the integration menu optimized.

DataKit Updates¶

• Improved Prometheus ecosystem compatibility, added ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor collection recognition
• Added Java Profiling access based on async-profiler
• eBPF collection added interval parameter, facilitating adjustment of the amount of collected data
• All remote collectors default to using their collection address as the value of the host field, avoiding possible misunderstandings of the host field's value during remote collection
• DDTrace-collected APM data automatically extracts error-related fields, facilitating better APM error tracking at the center
• MySQL collector added extra fields Com_commit/Com_rollback collection

Best Practices Updates¶

• Monitoring
• APM - Kafka observability best practices
• Cloud platform integration
• Alibaba Cloud - Alibaba Cloud ACK integration Guance

Private Deployment Version Updates¶

• Private deployment version supports Profiling functionality

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.51.112 (October 20, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.51.112:launcher-43db8d3-1667315533

This version is a product iteration version, mainly featuring the following updates:

Guance Updates¶

• Monitoring Optimization
  • Added outlier detection
  • Logic optimization for mutation detection
  • Interval detection logic optimization
  • Configuration selection for "trigger data gap event" and "trigger recovery event" adjusted to time range configuration, and suggestions are provided based on the entered time range.
  • Support for configuring monitor detectors based on "event" data.
  • Alert configuration added "information" event notification level selection
• Scenario Chart Optimization
  • Added histogram chart component
  • Summary chart, rectangle tree chart, funnel chart added time slicing function
  • Time series chart "view similar trend metrics" adjusted from only supporting metric queries to supporting all data types, including logs, application performance, user access, etc.
  • Rankings support viewing all content exceeding chart width
  • Heatmap display optimization
• Explorer Optimization
  • Explorer supports analysis mode
  • Optimized associated log viewing experience
• Log Index Optimization
• Optimized metric analysis chart queries
• Other feature optimizations
  • In the user access monitoring application list, click to enter the application, and add a dropdown menu option in the top-left corner to help users quickly switch and view different application data
  • Pipelines shortcut entry added under the Metrics, User Access Monitoring, Application Performance Monitoring, Infrastructure, Security Check categories

DataKit Updates¶

• DataKit collector configurations and Pipeline support synchronization via etcd/Consul configuration centers
• Prometheus Remote Write optimization
• Collection supports filtering tags via regular expressions
• Supports filtering measurement names via regular expressions
• Pipeline optimization
• Optimized grok() and other functions so they can be used in if/else statements to determine operational effectiveness
• Added match() function
• Added cidr() function
• Process collector added open file list detail fields
• Improved disk caching and queue handling for externally accessed data (T/R/L)
• Added usage overage warning on monitor: At the bottom of the monitor, if the current space usage exceeds the quota, there will be a red Beyond Usage warning
• Optimized log collection position function; in container environments, this file will be mounted on the host machine to avoid losing original position records upon DataKit restart
• Optimized sparse log scenario collection delay issues

Best Practices Updates¶

• ITIM - Ansible batch processing in practice
• Logs - Guance collecting Amazon ECS logs

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.50.111 (October 12, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.50.111:launcher-a3b4793-1665543227

This version is a fix version, mainly featuring the following updates:

Guance Updates¶

• Fixed the issue where the Pipeline tester could not be used normally

v1.50.110 (September 29, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.50.110:launcher-bf5e4a7-1664640281

Guance Updates¶

• Added field management
• Measurement Explorer transformed, original "Measurement Explorer" changed to "Measurement Analysis"
• Optimized measurement management
• Added exporting event content in PDF format
• Monitor adjustment
• Mute rules support dynamic configuration
• Optimized Pipeline configuration page
• Other feature optimizations
  • Notes added global lock time configuration; after configuring the global lock time, all charts on the note page will display data according to that locked time
  • Unrecovered event query modified to show the most recent 48 hours of data, with support for manual refresh
  • User Access Monitoring supports same-name user view overlay logic
  • Intelligent inspection added support for self-built inspections
  • Operations in the generate measurement page adjusted, added "open in Measurement Analysis" and "open in Measurement Management" operation icons
  • Management navigation menu location adjusted; SSO management moved to member management, notification targets management moved to monitoring, built-in views moved to scenarios

Best Practices Updates¶

• Cloud Native: Best practices for collecting metrics from multiple Kubernetes clusters

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.49.108 (September 23, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.49.108:launcher-833084a-1663915927

Guance Updates¶

• Fixed several small bugs

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.49.107 (September 15, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.49.107:launcher-e550301-1663603951

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized Markdown format for notes text components
• Added YAML infrastructure display
• Added DQL search mode for log explorer
• Optimized APM, including link and Profile Explorer detail page optimizations
• Optimized monitor event notification content editing mode
• Added mute management support for periodic muting
• Other feature optimizations
  • Scenario dashboard grouped display optimization
  • Infrastructure Explorer display optimization, added CPU usage rate, MEM usage rate prompt information in displayed columns
  • Measurement Explorer removed list view mode, retaining tiled view mode and mixed view mode
  • Log multi-index supports jumping to view
  • Explorer quick filter TOP 5 supports viewing proportion numbers, Explorer time field format optimized, default display format is 2022/09/15 20:53:40
  • Link Explorer time series chart added legend display, quick filter added HTTP related fields

Best Practices Updates¶

• Monitoring - Middleware (MIDDLEWARE) - Insights into MySQL

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.48.106 (September 1, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.48.106:launcher-e40becc-1662478572

Guance Updates¶

• Billing update
• Help documentation directory update
• Added DEMO workspace
• Time series chart added event correlation analysis
• Logs added multi-index mode
• Optimized backup log rules
• Optimized log context
• Optimized user access monitoring
  • Added custom user access monitoring application ID
  • Added user access monitoring network request ERROR error association link viewing
• Comprehensive intelligent inspection upgrade
• Optimized monitoring
  • Group adjustment to alert strategies
  • Optimized monitor configuration
  • Added "infrastructure survival detection"
  • Added "process anomaly detection"
  • Optimized "application performance metric detection"
• Optimized member management
• Other feature optimizations
  • Aggregation functions in charts changed from default last to avg, log data aggregation functions changed from default last to count
  • Legend copy experience optimized for time series and pie charts
  • Interaction display optimized in edit mode for notes
  • Snapshots support saving current explorer display column information
  • Link detail page formatted time fields to convert timestamps into date formats for display
  • Deployment version management backend supports modifying workspace data retention policies

DataKit Updates¶

1. Breaking changes

• CI/CD data-related time fields in Gitlab and Jenkins collectors were adjusted to unify the data display effect on the front-end page

2. Collector function adjustments

• Optimized IO module data processing to improve data throughput efficiency
• Added disk cache functionality to various Traces
• DataKit's own metric sets added goroutine usage-related metric sets (datakit_goroutine)
• MySQL collector added mysql_dbm_activity metric set
• Added netstat collector
• TDengine added log collection
• Optimized fstype filtering in disk collector, now only collects common file systems by default
• Log collector added message_length field for each log line indicating the length of the current log, facilitating filtering logs by length
• CRD supports locating Pod scope via DaemonSet
• Removed go-bindata dependency in eBPF
• Container collector defaults to opening k8s and container-related metrics, which consumes additional timelines to some extent

3. Bug fixes

• Fixed DataKit's own CPU usage rate calculation error
• Fixed SkyWalking middleware recognition problem
• Fixed Oracle exit issue
• Fixed Sink DataWay failure problem
• Fixed JSON write problem in HTTP /v1/write/:category interface

4. Documentation adjustments

• Almost every chapter has added jump labels for easier permanent references from other documents
• pythond documentation has been moved to the custom development directory
• Collector documentation moved from the original "integration" to the "DataKit" documentation library
• DataKit documentation directory structure adjusted, reducing directory levels
• Almost every collector has added k8s configuration entries
• Document header display adjusted, besides operating system identifiers, election identifiers have been added for collectors that support elections

More DataKit updates can be referenced in DataKit Version History.

Best Practices Updates¶

• Cloud Native
  • Enable your Ingress Observability Journey with CRD
• Monitoring
  • APM - DDtrace Custom Instrumentation
  • APM - DDtrace Guance Secondary Development Practice

More best practice updates can be referenced in Best Practices Version History.

v1.47.103 (August 18, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.47.103:launcher-e472ac9-1661174654

Guance Billing Update¶

• Guance billing items for application performance, user access, and logs added data retention strategies and corresponding unit prices

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized Explorer
  • Added filter history
  • Added quick filter value sorting
  • Added time widget input format prompt page
  • Added display column field divider and caption prompts
• Added view permissions for scenario dashboards/notes/explorers.
• Added snapshot view permissions
• Optimized monitors and events
  • Added monitor testing
  • Optimized intelligent inspection information display
  • Optimized event detail page
• Other feature optimizations
  • Guance added email verification method authentication
  • Explorer detail page improved host, Pod, Deployment type displays in associated network pages;
  • Dashboards and built-in views added toggle icons when adding charts, adjusted view variable editor button positions;
  • Time series chart legends added sum aggregation statistics, while optimizing legend display and interactions;
  • Monitors, chart queries for log data added wildcard and not wildcard filters.

DataKit Updates¶

• Added reftable functionality in Pipeline
• DataKit 9529 HTTP supports binding to domain socket
  • Corresponding eBPF collection and Oracle collection configuration methods also need to be changed accordingly.
• RUM sourcemap added Android R8 support
• CRD added log configuration support
  • Complete example
• Optimized container collector documentation
• Added common Tag documentation
• Optimized election configuration and some related naming
• Election collectors still support disabling election functionality on specific collectors even when DataKit has election enabled
• Supports specifying io block configuration for specific data types
• DDTrace collector sampling added meta information identification
• DataKit's own metric set added 9529 HTTP request-related metrics
• Optimized memory usage in Zipkin collection
• DDTrace collector becomes blocking IO feed by default when disk cache is enabled
• eBPF added process name (process_name) field
• DCA new version released
• Log class HTTP data writes (logstreaming/Jaeger/OpenTelemetry/Zipkin) all added queue support
• Log collection added automatic multiline support
• Fixed MySQL collector connection leak issue
• Fixed Pipeline Json value issue
• Fixed macOS ulimit setting ineffective issue
• Fixed sinker-Dataway being ineffective in Kubernetes
• Fixed HTTP data write interface data validation issue
• Fixed eBPF collector failing due to kernel change structure offset calculation
• Fixed DDTrace close-resource issue

Best Practices Updates¶

• Monitoring
  • Implemented custom traceId using extract + TextMapAdapter
• Insight
  • Scene(Scene) - CDB
  • Scene(Scene) - CLB
  • Scene(Scene) - COS
  • Scene(Scene) - CVM
  • Scene(Scene) - Internal network Dubbo microservices accessing Guance

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.46.102 (August 10, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.46.102:launcher-9765d09-1660104260

Guance Updates¶

• Small bug fixes for Func platform

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.46.101 (August 9, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.46.101:launcher-a785aaa-1660058667

Guance Updates¶

• DCA Web release
• Optimized Explorer search, quick filter, time widget, display columns
• Optimized Explorer detail page
• Added global automatic refresh configuration for Explorer
• Added global blacklist function
• Added custom function menu
• Added chart query alias
• Added time series chart/pie chart legend styles
• Optimized object historical data retention strategy
• Adjusted save snapshot location
• Other feature optimizations
  • Time series chart time intervals added to millisecond level
  • Management backend added workspace-level index configuration adjustment entry
  • Log Explorer distribution chart added support for custom time interval selection
  • RUM Explorer page added current data extended field page display

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.45.100 (August 4, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.45.100:launcher-38e7844-1659597427

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized link write performance
• Other bug fixes

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.45.99 (July 26, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.45.99:launcher-fe8f074-1658756821

Guance Updates¶

• Added intelligent inspection functions: memory leaks, disk usage rate, application performance detection
• Optimized Explorer search and filter functions: search added "not wildcard reverse fuzzy match", quick filter added workspace-level and personal-level filter options
• Added ability to modify URL time range for data queries
• Added dashboard view variable log, application performance, user access, security inspection data source configuration
• Optimized chart query interaction
• Added user access metric detection event notification template variables
• Optimized one-click open links for event content

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

Best Practices Updates¶

• Rancher DataKit Deployment Best Practices
• Tencent Cloud Product Observability Best Practices (Function)

More details can be found in the best practices help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/best-practices/

DataKit Updates¶

• prom collector default timeout is 3 seconds
• Log-related issue fixes:
  • Added log_read_offset field to log collection
  • Fixed bug where log files did not correctly readAll after rotating
• Container collection-related issue fixes:
  • Fixed incompatibility with environment variable NODE_NAME
  • Changed prom collector auto-discovery in k8s to serial, node distributed collection
  • Added log source and multiline mapping configuration
  • Fixed bug where container logs replacing source still used previous multiline and pipeline
  • Corrected container logs setting active file duration to 12 hours
  • Optimized docker container log image field
  • Optimized k8s pod object host field
  • Fixed issue where container metrics and objects did not add host tag
• eBPF-related:
  • Fixed uprobe event name conflict
  • Added more environment variable configurations, facilitating cloud k8s environment deployment
• Optimized APM data reception interface data processing, alleviating client freeze and memory usage problems
• SQLServer collector fixes:
  • Restored TLS1.0 support
  • Supports filtering through instance to reduce timeline consumption
• Pipeline function adjust_timezone() has been adjusted
• IO module optimization, improving overall data processing capability while keeping memory usage relatively controlled
• Monitor update:
  • Fixed long-term freeze of Monitor during busy times
  • Optimized Monitor display, added IO module information display to facilitate adjusting IO module parameters
• Fixed Redis crash issue
• Removed some redundant complex logs
• Fixed issue where election collectors did not append host tag in non-election mode

More details can be found in the DataKit help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/datakit/changelog/

v1.44.98 (July 7, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.44.98:launcher-75d7974-1657638696

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized positive/negative selection, fuzzy match three screening modes in Explorer
• Optimized quick filter in Explorer
• Added multiple quick operations for Explorer display columns
• Optimized attribute/field quick filter in Explorer detail page
• Optimized historical snapshot function, supporting three time retention strategies
• Added one-click acquisition of sample test data in Pipeline
• Added text analysis mode in scenario custom Explorer
• Added network pod and deployment view association in log Explorer detail page
• Added 48-hour data replay function in network association in Explorer detail page
• Adjusted unresolved event retention strategy, supporting manual recovery of events
• Other feature optimizations
• Chart locked time added ["Latest 5 Minutes"] time range, time interval added ["5s"]["10s"]["30s"] three second-level time choices
• Scenario Explorer display columns, base object field properties/tags in view variables support custom input
• Adjusted associated dashboard position in event detail
• Added timeline quantity statistics in metric management
• Optimized associated traces in log detail page, showing flame graph and selecting all data corresponding to the span based on trace_id and span_id in the log
• Optimized service display and interaction in user access monitoring
• RUM, network, availability monitoring, CI Explorer dropdown options adjusted to flat display
• Monitor event notification content supports configuring template variable field mappings, supports setting corresponding values for template variables in DQL query statements.
• Help center homepage added quick jump entries for key features

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

DataKit Updates¶

• Adjusted global tag behavior to avoid tag splitting in election collectors
• SQLServer collector added election support
• Row protocol filter supports all data types
• 9529 HTTP service added timeout mechanism
• MySQL: dbm metric set name adjustment, service field conflict issue
• Container objects added container_runtime_name field to differentiate container names at different levels
• Redis adjusted slowlog collection, storing its data as logs
• Optimized TDEngine collection
• Improved Containerd log collection
• Pipeline added Profile data support
• Container/Pod log collection supports appending tags via Labels/Annotations
• Fixed Jenkins CI data collection time precision issue
• Fixed Tracing resource-type value inconsistency issue
• eBPF added HTTPS support
• Fixed possible crash issue in log collector
• Fixed prom collector leakage issue
• Supports configuring io disk cache via environment variables
• Added Kubernetes CRD support

More details can be found in the DataKit help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/datakit/changelog/

Best Practices Updates¶

• Skywalking JVM observability best practices
• Minio observability best practices

More details can be found in the best practices help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/best-practices/

v1.43.97 (June 22, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.43.97:launcher-508cfe1-1656344897

Guance Updates¶

• Guance help documentation fully launched
• Added Profile observability
• Pipeline covered full-text analysis processing of all data
• Added Deployment network details and network distribution
• Optimized event detection dimension jumps to other Explorers
• Added JSON-formatted message information search in log Explorer
• Added support for custom app_id information when creating new applications in user access monitoring
• Optimized process detection as infrastructure object detection
• Other feature optimizations
  • Infrastructure POD Explorer added CPU usage rate, memory usage fill metrics in cell mode
  • Optimized log blacklist configuration. Supports manually entering log sources as blacklist sources
  • Optimized service list data query time component in application performance monitoring, supports custom time range selection
  • Optimized K8S DataKit installation guide text, automatically adds the current workspace token when configuring the DataWay data gateway address
  • Optimized UI style of monitor configuration

DataKit Updates¶

• gitrepo supports passwordless mode
• prom collector
• Supports log mode collection
• Supports configuring HTTP request headers
• Supports collecting container logs over 16KB in length
• Supports TDEngine collector
• Pipeline
• Supports XML parsing
• Remote debugging supports multiple data types
• Supports calling external Pipeline scripts via use() function in Pipeline
• Added IP library (MaxMindIP) support
• Added DDTrace Profile integration
• Containerd log collection supports filtering rules via image and K8s Annotation configuration
• Documentation library overall switch

Best Practices Updates¶

• APM: Achieving chain observability with GraalVM and Spring Native projects
• Integration: Host observability best practices (Linux)

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added documentation
  • Alibaba Cloud NAT
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN
• Added views
  • Alibaba Cloud NAT
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.42.95 (June 10, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.42.95:launcher-8478e83-1654839989

Guance Billing Update¶

• Optimized timeline billing logic and metric data retention strategy

Guance Updates¶

• Added Jenkins CI observability
• Added synchronized search in custom Explorer charts
• Added network topology and service topology drill-down analysis
• Added deletion of data and indices in resource catalogs
• Added snapshot viewing entry for Explorer
• Added filter condition editing function for Explorer
• Optimized user access View Explorer associated links to Fetch/XHR
• Added high-performance mode for chart data loading
• Added alert configuration event notification level
• Other feature optimizations
  • Scenario dashboards combined charts support hiding/showing large titles
  • Optimized event detail page event type text display
  • Infrastructure list view added field sorting function
  • Log Explorer added hide distribution chart button
  • Explorer supports searching display columns via keywords, supports customizing display columns as preset fields, allowing direct display of reported data after cutting fields and reporting data via Pipeline.
  • One-click view of corresponding integration documents added in built-in template libraries and built-in views to help you quickly configure corresponding collectors
  • Built-in views support binding related views for link services, applications, log sources, projects, tags, etc., and support binding related views for custom keys and values, as well as supporting binding built-in views on the service side slide detail page
  • Optimized Lark robot notification target, supports customizing whether key security checks are needed
  • When configuring monitors, if the configured data range is less than the detection frequency, triggers a warning about potential data gaps

DataKit Updates (May 12, 2022)¶

• Pipeline was adjusted so that all data types can be processed via Pipeline configuration
• grok() supports directly extracting fields as specified types without needing to cast() them
• Pipeline added multiline string support, enhancing readability for long strings (such as regex cuts in grok) by writing them across multiple lines
• Each Pipeline's runtime status can be directly viewed via datakit monitor -V
• Added Kubernetes Pod object CPU/memory metrics
• Helm added more Kubernetes version installation compatibility
• Optimized OpenTelemetry, added JSON support for HTTP protocol
• DataKit logs correction actions when automatically correcting line protocols, facilitating debugging data issues
• Removed all string metrics from time-series data
• In DaemonSet installations, if an election namespace is configured, all participating collectors' data will include a specific tag (election_namespace)
• CI observability added Jenkins support

Best Practices Updates¶

• APM
  • Based on Guance, using SkyWalking to achieve RUM, APM, and log linkage analysis
• Monitoring best practices
  • Building OpenTelemetry observability
  • OpenTelemetry to Jaeger, Grafana, ELK
  • OpenTelemetry to Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry to Guance
• Guance Tips
  • OpenTelemetry sampling best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added documentation and views
  • Opentelemetry Collector
  • Kubernetes Scheduler
  • Kubernetes Controller Manager
  • Kubernetes API Server
  • Kubernetes Kubelet
• Added views
  • Kubernetes Nodes Overview
  • JVM Kubernetes

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.41.94 (May 28, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.41.94:launcher-249ba21-1653737335

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized Guance commercial plan registration process
• Added scenario dashboard user view template library
• Added scenario custom Explorer log source and filter linkage
• Added copying event detail page content as JSON format
• Added log data desensitization processing
• Optimized log Explorer and detail page
• Addednetwork data detection monitor
• Optimized built-in view binding function
• Other feature optimizations
  • Paid plans and billing added prepaid card balance
  • Infrastructure detail style optimized
  • Link detail page attribute line break display optimized
  • Monitor template variable display optimized
  • Added quick entry, DQL query and snapshot menu moved to quick entry
  • Guance management backend supplemented template management classification information

DataKit Updates (May 12, 2022)¶

• eBPF added arm64 support
• Line protocol construction supports automatic error correction
• DataKit main configuration added example configuration
• Prometheus Remote Write supports tag renaming
• Merged deployment version DataKit existing features, mainly including Sinker functionality and filebeat collector
• Adjusted container log collection, DataKit directly supports containerd container stdout/stderr log collection
• Adjusted hostname acquisition strategy in DaemonSet mode
• Trace collector supports filtering resources (resource) via service name (service) wildcard

Best Practices Updates¶

• Cloud Native
  • Use Guance to one-click start Rancher observability journey
• Microservices observability best practices
  • Kubernetes cluster applications use SkyWalking to collect trace data
  • Kubernetes cluster logs are reported to the same node's DataKit best practice
• Gitlab-CI observability best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added documentation and views
  • Resin
  • Beats
  • Procstat
• Added views
  • Istio Service
  • ASM Service

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.40.93 (May 9, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.40.93:launcher-aa97377-1652102035

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized Guance commercial plan upgrade process
• Added process, log, link detail page associated network
• Scenario module optimization
  • Optimized dashboard, removed edit mode
  • Added chart link display switch
  • Optimized DQL query and simple query conversion
• Monitor and event module optimization
  • Added event associated information
  • Added data gap event name and content configuration
  • Optimized availability data detection
  • Optimized alert notification template, added associated jump links
• Other feature optimizations
  • Optimized service servicemap metric query performance
  • Added Explorer numerical field supporting five types of writing
  • Added metric Explorer label supporting cascading filter
  • Optimized DQL query return error prompt

DataKit Updates¶

• The filtering function of the process collector only applies to metric collection, object collection is unaffected
• Optimized DataKit sending DataWay timeout issue
• Optimized Gitlab collector
• Fixed log collection truncation issue
• Fixed various trace collectors reload partial configuration not taking effect issue

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added Redis Sentinel data storage integration documentation and views

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.39.92 (May 5, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.39.92:launcher-ffcd8f2-1651715327

Installer Launcher:¶

• Supports replacing TLS certificate for domain names
• Compatible with Ingress Kind networking.k8s.i0/v1, extensions/v1beta1 two apiVersions
• Other small bug fixes

v1.39.91 (April 26, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.39.91:launcher-8943ead-1650979666

Guance Updates¶

• Some frontend bug fixes

v1.39.90 (April 25, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.39.90:launcher-23f161d-1650898148

Guance Updates¶

• Added Gitlab CI observability
• Added online help manual
• Added dashboard set refresh frequency
• Added 48-hour replay for processes
• Added integration DataKit Kubernetes(Helm) installation guide page
• Added application performance global overview, service category filtering, service topology distinguishing environment and version
• Other feature optimizations
  • Added "all sources" option in related logs in link detail page
  • Added reverse selection support for metric filtering, adjusted aggregation function position
  • Optimized generation of metrics from logs, application performance, user access, security inspections, "frequency" selected time also as aggregation period
  • Removed workspace owner transfer permission function for Guance deployment version, supports setting in management backend
  • Optimized SMS template for alert notifications
  • Optimized creation of synthetic tests list, supports direct selection of HTTP, TCP, ICMP, WEBSOCKET tests
  • Adjusted SSO login user whitelist to email domain, used to verify if the email suffix entered at single sign-on matches; matching emails can obtain SSO login link online

DataKit Updates¶

• Pipeline module fixed Grok dynamic multiline pattern issue
• DaemonSet optimized Helm installation, added pprof environmental variable configuration, all default enabled collectors in DaemonSet support configuration via environmental variables
• Tracing collector initially supports Pipeline data processing, refer to DDtrace configuration example.
• Synthetic test collector added failed task exit mechanism
• Logs added unknown level (status), logs without specified level are considered unknown
• Container collector fixes:
  • Fixed cluster field naming issue
  • Fixed namespace field naming issue
  • In container log collection, if Pod Annotation does not specify log source, the default order of values taken is:
  • Objects reporting no longer subject to 32KB character length limit (due to Annotation content exceeding 32KB), all Kubernetes objects delete annotations
  • Fixed prom collector not exiting due to Pod issues

Best Practices Updates¶

• Microservices Observability Best Practices
  • Full-service mesh microservices architecture development to canary release best practices (Part 1)
  • Full-service mesh microservices architecture development to canary release best practices (Part 2)
  • Full-service mesh microservices architecture development to canary release best practices (Part 3)
• Monitoring Best Practices
  • JAVA OOM Exception Observability Best Practices

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added Documentation
  • Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Node.JS
  • Middleware: RocketMQ
• Added Views
  • Container Orchestration: K8s Pods Overview and Istio Mesh
  • Alibaba Cloud: Alibaba Cloud ASM Mesh, Alibaba Cloud ASM Control Plane, and Alibaba Cloud ASM Workload
  • Middleware: RocketMQ

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.38.89 (April 10, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.38.89:launcher-db22a51-1649942760

Guance Billing Update¶

• Added Alibaba Cloud account settlement method

Guance Updates¶

• Added DQL Query Viewer
• Availability monitoring added TCP/ICMP/Websocket synthetic test protocols
• Added infrastructure network module
• Infrastructure container Pod added HTTP layer 7 network data display
• Added quick filter "reverse select" and "reset" functions in Viewer
• Optimized log blacklist
• Other feature optimizations
  • Added span count statistics in link detail page
  • Optimized host timeline drawing method in link association
  • Optimized summary chart time slicing, canceled options; if previous summary charts had time slicing enabled, after optimization, it defaults to disabling time slicing
  • Optimized inability to switch editing different chart queries when entering edit mode under browser scaling for combined charts
  • Optimized manual pause of log viewer page refresh, where scrolling to top does not trigger auto-refresh

DataKit Updates¶

• Increased memory limits for host runtime during installation, supporting memory limit configuration during installation,
• CPU collector added load5s metric
• Supported Guance optimized log blacklist function, adjusted monitor layout, added blacklist filtering situation display
• DaemonSet installation added Helm support, added DaemonSet installation best practices
• eBPF added HTTP protocol collection, during host installation, eBPF collector is no longer installed by default unless using a specific installation command; DaemonSet installation is unaffected

Guance Mobile App Updates¶

• Added site login capability, optimized scenario and event viewers, maintaining the same access experience as the web version.

Best Practices Updates¶

• Guance Tips
  • Multi-microservice project performance observability practices
  • Advanced ddtrace usage
  • Using ExternalName in Kubernetes clusters to map DataKit services
• Access (Integration) Best Practices
  • OpenTelemetry trace data access best practices
• Microservices Observability Best Practices
  • Achieving microservices observability based on Alibaba Cloud ASM best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Oracle integration documentation, views, and monitors
• Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB PostgreSQL integration documentation, views, and monitors
• Added Alibaba Cloud RDS SQLServer integration documentation, views, and detection libraries
• Added Alibaba Cloud DataKit integration documentation, views, and monitors
• Added Alibaba Cloud Nacos integration documentation, views

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.37.86 (March 28, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.37.86:launcher-bd2650e-1648456839

Guance Site Updates¶

• Added "Overseas Region 1 (Oregon)" site, original "China Region 1 (Alibaba Cloud)" changed to "China Region 1 (Hangzhou)", original "China Region 2 (AWS)" changed to "China Region 2 (Ningxia)."

Guance Updates¶

• Added workspace data authorization
• Added saving online Pipeline sample test data
• Optimized resource catalog viewer
• Optimized snapshot sharing to support permanently valid links
• Optimized chart time intervals
• Optimized process, application performance, user access detection data gap triggering strategies
• Other feature optimizations
  • Optimized DataKit, Func installation guide pages
  • Optimized full display of single log in log viewer
  • Added NOT combination associated search in viewer
  • Optimized member permission display during editing

DataKit Updates¶

• Added DataKit command-line completion functionality to help you with command prompts and parameter completions in terminal operations
• Allowed DataKit upgrades to non-stable versions to experience the latest experimental features; if you are in a production environment, please upgrade cautiously
• Preliminarily supported data collection under Kubernetes/Containerd architecture
• Network synthetic testing added TCP/UDP/ICMP/Websocket several protocol supports
• Adjusted Remote Pipeline storage on DataKit locally to avoid filename case issues caused by differences in file systems
• Pipeline added decode() function, avoiding configuring encoding in the log collector and implementing encoding conversion in the Pipeline; add_pattern() added scope management

Best Practices Updates¶

• Scene Best Practices: RUM data reporting DataKit cluster best practices
• Log Best Practices: Pod log collection best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Mysql integration documentation, views, and detection libraries

More details can be found in the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/en/release-notes/

v1.36.85 (March 14, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.36.85:launcher-d8e6ee9-1647272237

Guance Billing Update¶

• Added Guance billing prepaid card

Guance Updates¶

• Added User Analysis Monitoring resource (resource), action (action), long_task (long task), error (error) viewers
• Added Pod network details and network distribution

DataKit Updates¶

• DataKit collector added support for SkyWalking, Jaeger, Zipkin data configuration sampling strategies, more details can be referenced in Datakit Tracing Frontend.
• DataKit collector added support for OpenTelemetry data access.
• DataKit documentation library added document DataKit overall log collection introduction, including four methods: obtaining logs from disk files, acquiring logs by calling environment APIs, remotely pushing logs to DataKit, and Sidecar-style log collection.

SDK Updates¶

• User Access Monitoring compatible with Opentracing protocol trace tracking tools, Web, Mini Program, Android, iOS SDK supports OTEL, SkyWalking, Jaeger, etc., trace tracking tool data linkage.

Best Practices Updates¶

• Quick start pythond collector best practices
• Alibaba Cloud "Cloud Monitoring Data" integration best practices
• logback socket log collection best practices

Scene Template Updates¶

• Added scene custom viewer MySQL database viewer template

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added host system EthTool integration documentation and views
• Added host system Conntrack integration documentation and views

v1.35.84 (February 22, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.35.84:launcher-191ef71-1645780061

• Added log configuration pipeline scripts
• Added IFrame chart component
• Added event detail history records, associated SLO
• Added save snapshot default absolute time enabled
• Optimized monitor data gap trigger event configuration and trigger condition unit prompt
• Optimized chart query expression calculation units
• Added "timeline" pay-as-you-go mode
• Other optimization functions
  • Chart query data sources for logs, application performance, security inspection, and network support full selection (*);
  • Chart query text, button styles, and text prompts optimized;
  • Workspace operation buttons iconified, such as edit, delete, etc.
  • Other UI display optimizations