Version History¶

v1.56.119 (December 29, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Added MFA authentication management for workspaces
• Added IP access login whitelist for workspaces
• Added Service network topology
• Other feature improvements
  • Pipeline usability improvements
  • Custom field support for log clustering analysis
  • Support for viewing associated logs after splitting very large logs
  • Backup log display improvements
  • Sensitive fields in data authorization support all types of data except Metrics

DataKit Updates¶

• Prometheus collector supports data collection via Unix Socket
• Non-root user execution of DataKit is allowed
• Optimized httpflow protocol detection in eBPF
• Optimized Windows installation and upgrade commands for Datakit
• Optimized Pythond encapsulation usage
• Pipeline provides more detailed error messages for operations
• Pipeline reftable offers local storage implementation based on SQLite

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

• Official intelligent inspections "Memory Leak", "APM Detection", "Disk Usage Rate" have been discontinued
• Added cloud account instance dimension billing inspection
• Added Alibaba Cloud preemptible instance survival inspection

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/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
• Binding external SLS index to workspace
• Optimized link viewer chart display
• Other feature improvements
  • View variable interaction optimization
  • Optimization of built-in view configuration interaction
  • Workspace overdue payment lock process optimization
  • User experience optimization for workspace invitations
  • Help documentation added an evaluation system, including good and poor reviews
  • Batch monitoring function optimization
  • SLO added enable/disable functionality
  • Fuzzy match wildcard left * query limit optimization

DataKit Updates¶

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

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

• Added guidance page for intelligent inspections
• Intelligent inspection components support configuring custom jump links

Best Practices Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/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 user experience optimization
  • Added manual input for chart units, colors, and aliases. You can customize preset units, colors, and aliases according to current specifications, such as unit input format: aggregation function(metrics), like last(usage_idle)
  • Added Y-axis configuration for time series charts, allowing you to manually configure the maximum and minimum values of the Y-axis
  • Added grouped display for time series and pie charts, showing only label values in the legend when enabled
  • Added gradient intervals for hexagon charts, China maps, and world maps, including automatic and custom options
  • Bar chart and histogram display optimization
• View variable user experience optimization
  • Added multi-selection support for view variables
  • Added whether to set multiple default values when configuring view variables
• Adjusted session viewer for RUM
• Added mobile redirection options for events
• Other feature improvements
  • Newbie guide page optimization, supporting minimization
  • Optimized application list for RUM, added customizable interval switching queries for the time widget
  • Host label addition 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
• APM inspection
• Frontend application log error inspection

Best Practices Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.53.115 (November 17, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Pipeline user experience optimization
  • Pipeline supports multi-select filtering conditions
  • Supports setting any Pipeline script as the "default Pipeline script"
  • Script functions are categorized
• Event optimization
  • Supports writing user-defined events
  • Added quick filter on the left side of unrecovered event viewer
• Custom Explorer supports selecting more types of data
• Member management adds member grouping function
• Optimized built-in view binding function
• Added one-click import/export of dashboards, custom explorers, and monitors within the workspace
• APM log page added custom correlation fields
• Other feature improvements
  • When using fuzzy match and fuzzy mismatch, supports left * matching
  • Infrastructure analysis dimensions 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"
  • Workflow for users registered at "China Region 4 (Guangzhou)" upgrading to Commercial Plan has been optimized
  • Field descriptions support viewing in quick filters, displayed columns, etc.

DataKit Updates¶

• Added SNMP collector
• Added IPMI collector
• Added batch injection of DDTrace-Java tool
• Latest DDTrace-Java SDK enhances SQL obfuscation capabilities
• Pipeline supports source mapping configuration, facilitating bulk configuration between Pipelines and data sources
• Pipeline provides function classification information, facilitating remote Pipeline writing
• Optimized Kafka message subscription, no longer limited to obtaining SkyWalking-related data, also supports rate limiting, 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 through labels
• Added new 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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.52.114 (November 3, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Added Guance and SLS joint solution
• Optimized newbie guide page
• Added 3 intelligent inspection configuration documents
• Added trace error tracking viewer
• Optimized time series chart and summary chart comparison features
• Other feature improvements
  • Added a "Save Snapshot" button inside the "Settings" for dashboards/notebooks/explorers;
  • Added more options to the time widget;
  • Added import, batch export, and batch delete functions for Pipeline and blacklist;
  • Added dashboard and bar chart components for intelligent inspections;
  • Optimized Func page under the integration menu.

DataKit Updates¶

• Improved Prometheus ecosystem compatibility, adding ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor collection recognition
• Added Java Profiling integration based on async-profiler
• Added interval parameter to eBPF collection to facilitate adjusting the amount of collected data
• All remote collectors now use their collection address as the value of the host field by default, avoiding possible misinterpretations of the host field during remote collection
• APM data collected by DDTrace can automatically extract error-related fields, facilitating better APM error tracking by the center
• Added extra fields Com_commit/Com_rollback to the MySQL collector

Best Practices Updates¶

• Monitoring
• APM - Kafka Observability Best Practices
• Cloud Platform Integration
• Alibaba Cloud - Alibaba Cloud ACK integration Guance

Private Deployment Edition Updates¶

• Private deployment editions now support Profiling functionality

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.51.112 (October 20, 2022)¶

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

This version is an iterative product version, mainly with the following updates:

Guance Updates¶

• Monitoring optimization
  • Added outlier detection
  • Mutant detection logic optimization
  • Interval detection logic optimization
  • Configuration selection for "Trigger data gap event" and "Trigger recovery event" has been adjusted to time range configuration, and suggestions are provided based on the entered time range.
  • Supports configuring monitor detection based on "event" data.
  • Alert configuration added "information" event notification level selection
• Scene chart optimization
  • Added histogram chart component
  • Summary chart, rectangle tree chart, funnel chart added time slicing functionality
  • Time series chart "View similar trend metrics" changed from supporting only metric queries to supporting all data types, including logs, application performance, user access, etc.
  • Top list supports viewing all content exceeding the chart width
  • Hexagon chart display optimization
• Explorer optimization
  • Explorer supports analysis mode
  • Optimized related log viewing experience
• Log index optimization
• Optimized metric analysis chart queries
• Other feature improvements
  • In the user access monitoring application list, added a dropdown menu option in the top-left corner to help users quickly switch and view different application data
  • Added Pipelines quick entry in the metrics, user access monitoring, APM, infrastructure, security check directories

DataKit Updates¶

• DataKit collector configuration and Pipeline support synchronization via etcd/Consul configuration centers
• Prometheus Remote Write optimization
• Collection supports filtering tags via regular expressions
• Supports filtering metric set names via regular expressions
• Pipeline optimization
• Optimized grok() and other functions so they can be used in if/else statements to determine operation effectiveness
• Added match() function
• Added cidr() function
• Process collector added open file list detail fields
• Enhanced disk caching and queue processing for externally integrated data (T/R/L)
• Monitor added overage prompt: at the bottom of the monitor, if the current space usage exceeds limits, there will be a red Beyond Usage prompt
• Optimized log collection position functionality, mounting the file outside the host machine in container environments to avoid losing original position records upon DataKit restart
• Optimized sparse log scene collection delay issues

Best Practices Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/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 with the following updates:

Guance Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.50.110 (September 29, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Added field management
• Renamed "Metric Viewer" to "Metric Analysis"
• Optimized metric management
• Added PDF format export of event content
• Monitor adjustment
• Silent rules support dynamic configuration
• Optimized Pipeline configuration page
• Other feature improvements
  • Notes added global lock time configuration; after configuring the global lock time, all charts on the note page display data according to this locked time
  • Unresolved event query modified to show the most recent 48 hours of data, supporting manual refresh
  • User access monitoring supports same-name user view override logic
  • Intelligent inspection added support for self-built inspections
  • Operations column on the generated metrics page adjusted, added "Open in Metric Analysis" and "Open in Metric Management" action icons
  • Navigation menu location adjustments: SSO management moved to member management, notification targets management moved to monitoring, built-in views moved to scenes

Best Practices Updates¶

• Cloud Native: Multiple Kubernetes cluster metrics collection best practices

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.49.108 (September 23, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Fixed several small bugs

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.49.107 (September 15, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized Markdown format in notes text components
• Added YAML display for infrastructure
• Added DQL search mode for log explorer
• Optimized APM, including trace and Profile viewer detail page optimizations
• Optimized monitor event notification content editing mode
• Added silent management support for periodic silencing
• Other feature improvements
  • Optimized scene dashboard grouping display
  • Infrastructure explorer display optimization, added CPU usage rate, MEM usage rate, etc., prompt information
  • Removed list view mode for metric explorer, retaining tile view and hybrid view modes
  • Multi-index log support for jumping views
  • Explorer quick filter TOP 5 supports viewing the proportion of quantities, explorer time field format optimization, 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 - Insight into MySQL

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.48.106 (September 1, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Billing updates
• Help documentation directory updates
• 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 correlation trace viewing
• Comprehensive intelligent inspection upgrade
• Monitoring optimization
  • Grouping adjusted to alert strategies
  • Optimized monitor configuration
  • Added "infrastructure liveness detection"
  • Added "process anomaly detection"
  • Optimized "application performance metric detection"
• Optimized member management
• Other feature improvements
  • Changed the default aggregation function for metrics from last to avg, and for log-type data from last to count
  • Optimized legend copy experience for time series and pie charts
  • Optimized interactive display in edit mode for notes
  • Snapshots support saving the display column information of the current explorer
  • Format the timestamp fields in the trace detail page to date format for display
  • Deployment edition management backend supports modifying workspace data retention policies

DataKit Updates¶

1. Breaking Changes

• Adjusted the time fields in Gitlab and Jenkins collectors related to CI/CD data to unify the data presentation effect on the frontend page

2. Collector Functionality 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-related metric sets (datakit_goroutine)
• MySQL collector added mysql_dbm_activity metric set
• Added netstat collector
• TDengine added log collection
• Optimized fstype filtering in the disk collector, defaulting to collecting common filesystems only
• Added message_length field to each log indicating the current log length for filtering logs by length
• CRD supports locating Pod scope via DaemonSet
• Removed go-bindata dependency from eBPF
• Container collectors default to opening k8s and container-related metrics, which may consume additional timelines

3. Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect calculation of DataKit's own CPU usage rate
• Fixed middleware recognition issues in SkyWalking
• Fixed Oracle exit issues
• Fixed Sink DataWay failure issues
• Fixed JSON write issues for the HTTP /v1/write/:category interface

4. Documentation Adjustments

• Almost every chapter added jump tags for permanent references from other documents
• Pythond documentation moved to the custom development directory
• Collector documentation moved from "Integration" to the "DataKit" documentation library
• Reduced directory levels in the DataKit documentation structure
• Added k8s configuration entries to almost every collector
• Adjusted the header display, adding election identifiers for collectors that support elections besides operating system identifiers

More DataKit updates can be found in DataKit Changelog.

Best Practices Updates¶

• Cloud Native
  • Enable your Ingress observability journey using CRD
• Monitoring
  • APM - DDtrace Custom Instrumentation
  • APM - DDtrace Guance secondary development practice

More best practice updates can be found in Best Practices Changelog.

v1.47.103 (August 18, 2022)¶

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

Guance Billing Updates¶

• Guance billing items for APM, RUM PV, and logs added data retention policies and corresponding prices

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized explorers
  • Added history filtering
  • Added quick filter value sorting
  • Added time widget input format prompt page
  • Added display column field separator and text prompts
• Added view permissions for scene 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 improvements
  • Guance added email verification method for authentication
  • Optimized host, Pod, Deployment type display in the network page associated with the explorer detail page
  • Added toggle icons when adding charts in dashboards and built-in views, adjusted the view variable edit button position
  • Added sum aggregation for time series and pie chart legend values, optimizing legend display and interaction
  • Added wildcard and not wildcard filter conditions when querying log data in monitors and charts

DataKit Updates¶

• Added reftable functionality in Pipeline
• DataKit 9529 HTTP supports binding to domain socket
  • Corresponding changes need to be made in the configuration for eBPF and Oracle collection
• 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 on specific collectors even when election is enabled in DataKit
• Supported specifying io block configuration for data types
• DDTrace collector's sampling added meta information recognition
• DataKit's own metric sets added 9529 HTTP request-related metrics
• Optimized Zipkin collection memory usage
• DDTrace collector defaults to blocking IO feed when disk cache is enabled
• Added process name (process_name) field in eBPF
• Released new version of DCA
• Added queue support for HTTP log data writes (logstreaming/Jaeger/OpenTelemetry/Zipkin)
• Added automatic multiline support for log collection
• Fixed MySQL collector connection leak issue
• Fixed Pipeline Json value issue
• Fixed macOS ulimit setting ineffective issue
• Fixed sinker-Dataway inefficiency in Kubernetes
• Fixed data validation issues for HTTP data write interfaces
• 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 scene Dubbo microservice接入Guance

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.46.102 (August 10, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Fixed small bugs in the Func platform

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.46.101 (August 9, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Launched DCA Web end
• Optimized explorer search, quick filter, time widget, display columns
• Optimized explorer detail page
• Added global auto-refresh configuration for explorers
• Added global blacklist function
• Added custom function menu
• Added chart query alias
• Added time series and pie chart legend styles
• Optimized historical data retention strategy for objects
• Adjusted the position of save snapshot
• Other feature improvements
  • Added millisecond-level time intervals for time series charts
  • Added workspace-level index configuration adjustment entry in the management backend
  • Added support for customizing time intervals in the log distribution chart of the log explorer
  • Added extended fields page display for RUM explorer pages

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.45.100 (August 4, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized trace write performance
• Other bug fixes

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.45.99 (July 26, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Added intelligent inspection features: memory leaks, disk usage rate, APM detection
• Optimized explorer search and filter functions: added "not wildcard reverse fuzzy match" in search, added space-level and personal-level filter methods in quick filters
• Added URL modification for time range data queries
• Added configuration for dashboard view variables' log, APM, RUM PV, and security check data sources
• Optimized chart query interaction
• Added user access metrics detection event notification template variables
• Optimized one-click opening of event content links

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

Best Practices Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the best practices help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/best-practices/

DataKit Updates¶

• Built-in timeout duration for prom collector is 3 seconds
• Log-related fixes:
  • Added log_read_offset field for log collection
  • Fixed bug where rotated log files were not correctly readAll
• Container collection-related fixes:
  • Fixed NODE_NAME environment variable incompatibility issue
  • Changed prom collector in k8s auto-discovery to serial, node-distributed collection
  • Added log source and multiline mapping configurations
  • Fixed bug where multiline and pipeline settings were still used after replacing container log source
  • Set active duration for container logs to 12 hours
  • Optimized docker container log image field
  • Optimized k8s pod object host field
  • Fixed issue of not adding host tag to container metrics and objects
• eBPF-related:
  • Fixed uprobe event name conflict
  • Added more environment variable configurations for cloud k8s environment deployment
• Optimized APM data receiving interface data processing, alleviating client freezing and high memory usage issues
• SQLServer collector fixes:
  • Restored TLS1.0 support
  • Supported filtering by instance to reduce timeline consumption
• Pipeline function adjust_timezone() adjustments
• IO module optimization, improving overall data processing capability while maintaining relatively controlled memory consumption
• Monitor updates:
  • Fixed long-term freezing of Monitor during busy periods
  • Optimized Monitor display, added IO module information display to facilitate adjusting IO module parameters
• Fixed Redis crash issue
• Removed redundant verbose logs
• Fixed issue of not appending host tag to non-election collectors

For more details, please refer to the DataKit help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/datakit/changelog/

v1.44.98 (July 7, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized positive, negative, and fuzzy match three screening modes for explorers
• Optimized quick filters for explorers
• Added multiple quick operations for explorer display columns
• Optimized quick filtering of properties/fields in explorer detail pages
• Optimized historical snapshot function, supporting three time retention strategies
• Added one-click acquisition of sample test data for Pipeline
• Added text analysis mode for custom explorer scenes
• Added associated network pod and deployment views to log explorer detail pages
• Added 48-hour data playback function for associated networks in explorer detail pages
• Adjusted unresolved event retention strategy, supporting manual event recovery
• Other feature improvements
• Locked time in charts added ["Latest 5 minutes"] time range, time intervals added ["5s"]["10s"]["30s"] three second-level time selections
• Scene explorer display columns, base object fields/labels in view variables support custom input
• Adjusted the position of associated dashboard in event details
• Added time series count statistics in metric management
• Optimized linked flame graph display in log detail pages based on trace_id and span_id, highlighting selected span data
• Optimized service display and interaction in user access monitoring
• Adjusted drop-down options in RUM, network, availability monitoring, and CI explorers to flat display
• Monitor event notification content supports configuring template variable field mappings, supporting configuring template variable corresponding values in DQL query statements.
• Added key feature quick jump entries on the help center homepage

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

DataKit Updates¶

• Adjusted global tag behavior to avoid tag splits in election collectors
• SQLServer collector added election support
• Line protocol filter supports all data types
• 9529 HTTP service added timeout mechanism
• MySQL: dbm metric set name adjustment, service field conflict resolution
• Added container_runtime_name field to container objects to distinguish different levels of container names
• Redis adjusted slowlog collection to store data as logs
• Optimized TDEngine collection
• Improved Containerd log collection
• Pipeline added Profile data support
• Container/Pod log collection supports adding tags via Label/Annotation
• Fixed Jenkins CI data collection time precision issue
• Fixed Tracing resource-type value inconsistency
• Added HTTPS support to eBPF
• Fixed potential crashes in log collectors
• Fixed prom collector leakage issues
• Supported configuring io disk cache via environment variables
• Added Kubernetes CRD support

For more details, please refer to the DataKit help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/datakit/changelog/

Best Practices Updates¶

• Skywalking JVM observability best practices
• Minio observability best practices

For more details, please refer to the best practices help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/best-practices/

v1.43.97 (June 22, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Guance help documentation launched
• Added Profile observability
• Pipeline covered full data text analysis processing
• Added Deployment network details and 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 to infrastructure object detection
• Other feature improvements
  • Added CPU usage rate, memory usage fill indicators in cell mode for infrastructure POD explorers
  • Optimized log blacklist configuration. Supports manually entering log sources as blacklist sources
  • Optimized data query time component for APM service lists, supporting custom time range selection
  • Optimized K8S DataKit installation guide, automatically adding the current workspace token to the DataWay data gateway address configuration
  • 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 longer than 16KB
• 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 configuring filtering rules via image and K8s Annotation
• Overall documentation library switch

Best Practices Updates¶

• APM: GraalVM and Spring Native project achieving trace observability
• Integration: Host observability best practices (Linux)

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added documents
  • Alibaba Cloud NAT
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN
• Added views
  • Alibaba Cloud NAT
  • Alibaba Cloud CDN

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.42.95 (June 10, 2022)¶

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

Guance Billing Updates¶

• Optimized timeline billing logic and data retention strategy for metric data

Guance Updates¶

• Added Jenkins CI observability
• Added synchronized search for custom explorer charts
• Added drill-down analysis for network topology and service topology
• Added deletion of resource catalog data and indexes
• Added snapshot viewing entry for explorers
• Added filtering condition editing function for explorers
• Optimized user access View explorer associated trace to Fetch/XHR
• Added high-performance mode for chart data loading
• Added alert configuration event notification level
• Other feature improvements
  • Scene dashboard composite charts support hiding/showing large titles
  • Optimized event detail page event type text display
  • Infrastructure list view added sorting by field function
  • Log explorer added hide distribution chart button
  • Explorers support searching display columns by keyword, supporting custom display columns as preset fields, which can directly display reported data after Pipeline cuts fields and reports data.
  • In built-in template library and built-in views, added one-click view of corresponding integration documents to help you quickly configure collectors
  • Built-in views, besides supporting binding link services, applications, log sources, projects, tags, etc., in explorers, added support for custom key and value bindings, and supported binding built-in views in service slide detail pages
  • Optimized Lark bot notifications, supporting custom whether a secret key security check is needed
  • When configuring monitors, if the configured data range is smaller than the detection frequency, a prompt is triggered indicating potential data gaps

DataKit Updates (2022/5/12)¶

• Pipeline adjustments allow all data types to be processed additionally via Pipeline configuration
• grok() supports directly extracting fields as specified types without needing cast() for type conversion
• Pipeline supports multiline string, enhancing readability for long strings (like grok regular expression cutting)
• Each Pipeline's runtime status can be viewed directly via datakit monitor -V
• Added CPU/memory metrics for Kubernetes Pod objects
• Helm added more Kubernetes version installation compatibility
• Optimized OpenTelemetry, added JSON support for HTTP protocol
• DataKit automatically corrects line protocol errors and logs correction actions for easier debugging
• Removed all string metrics from time series data
• In DaemonSet installations, if an election namespace is configured, election collectors add a specific tag (election_namespace) to their data
• CI observability added Jenkins support

Best Practices Updates¶

• APM
  • Based on Guance, using SkyWalking to achieve RUM, APM, and log correlation analysis
• Monitoring Best Practices
  • Building Observability with OpenTelemetry
  • OpenTelemetry to Jaeger, Grafana, ELK
  • OpenTelemetry to Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry to Guance
• Guance Tips
  • OpenTelemetry Sampling Best Practices

Integration Template Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.41.94 (May 28, 2022)¶

pubrepo.guance.com/dataflux/1.41.94:launcher-249ba21-165## v1.41.94 (May 28, 2022)

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

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized the registration process for Guance Commercial Plan
• Added a user view template library for scene dashboards
• Added log source and filter linkage for custom explorers in scenes
• Added JSON format content copying on the event detail page
• Added log data desensitization processing
• Optimized log explorer and detail pages
• Added network data monitoring monitors
• Optimized built-in view binding function
• Other feature improvements
  • Added prepaid card balance to billing and accounts
  • Optimized infrastructure details style
  • Line breaks in attributes display optimization on trace detail pages
  • Optimized template variable display in monitor configuration
  • Added quick entries; DQL query and snapshot menus moved to quick entries
  • Guance management backend added template management category information

DataKit Updates (2022/5/12)¶

• Added arm64 support to eBPF
• Line protocol construction supports automatic error correction
• DataKit main configuration added example configurations
• Prometheus Remote Write supports tag renaming
• Merged deployment edition DataKit existing features, mainly including Sinker functionality and filebeat collectors
• Adjusted container log collection; DataKit now directly supports collecting container stdout/stderr logs from containerd
• Adjusted hostname acquisition strategy in DaemonSet mode
• Trace collector supports filtering resources (resource) by service name (service) wildcards

Best Practices Updates¶

• Cloud Native
  • Utilize Guance to start your Rancher observability journey with one click
• Microservices Observability Best Practices
  • Using SkyWalking to collect trace data for applications in Kubernetes clusters
  • Best practices for reporting Kubernetes cluster logs to the same node's DataKit
• Gitlab-CI Observability Best Practices

Integration Template Updates¶

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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.40.93 (May 9, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Optimized the upgrade process for Guance Commercial Plan
• Added network association to process, log, and trace detail pages
• Scene module optimization
  • Removed edit mode from dashboards
  • Added chart link visibility toggle
  • Optimized conversion between DQL queries and simple queries
• Monitor and event module optimization
  • Added associated information to events
  • Added configuration for data gap event names and content
  • Optimized availability data detection
  • Optimized alert notification templates, adding associated jump links
• Other feature improvements
  • Optimized service map metric query performance
  • Added five writing methods for numeric fields in explorers
  • Added cascading filter support for metric explorer labels
  • Optimized DQL query return error prompts

DataKit Updates¶

• Filtering functions of the process collector only apply to metric collection, object collection is unaffected
• Optimized DataKit sending DataWay timeout issues
• Optimized Gitlab collector
• Fixed log truncation issues
• Fixed some configurations not taking effect after reloading various trace collectors

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added Redis Sentinel integration documents and views for data storage

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.39.92 (May 5, 2022)¶

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

Installer Launcher:¶

• Supports replacing TLS certificates for domain names
• Compatible with Ingress Kind networking.k8s.i0/v1 and extensions/v1beta1 two apiVersions
• Fixed other small bugs

v1.39.91 (April 26, 2022)¶

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

Guance Updates¶

• Fixed some front-end bugs

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 refresh frequency setting
• Added 48-hour replay for processes
• Added guide page for integrating DataKit Kubernetes (Helm) installation
• Added global APM overview, service classification filtering, and environment and version distinction in service topology maps
• Other feature improvements
  • Added "All Sources" option for related logs in trace detail pages
  • Added reverse selection support for metric filters, adjusted aggregation function position
  • Optimized generation of metrics from logs, APM, RUM PV, and security checks; the selected "frequency" time also serves as the aggregation period
  • Canceled workspace owner transfer permission function in Guance deployment editions, supporting management backend settings
  • Optimized SMS templates for alert notifications
  • Optimized new dial test list creation for availability monitoring, supporting direct selection of HTTP, TCP, ICMP, WEBSOCKET tests
  • Adjusted SSO login configuration user whitelist to email domain, used to verify the suffix of the email entered at single sign-on, matching emails can obtain the SSO login link online

DataKit Updates¶

• Pipeline module fixed Grok dynamic multiline pattern issue
• Optimized Helm installation for DaemonSet, added pprof environment variable configuration, all default enabled collectors in DaemonSet support configuration via environment variables
• Tracing collector preliminarily supports Pipeline data processing, referencing DDtrace configuration examples.
• Dial test collector added failed task exit mechanism
• Logs added unknown level (status), for logs without specified levels, they are set to unknown
• Container collector fixes:
  • Fixed cluster field naming issue
  • Fixed namespace field naming issue
  • If Pod Annotation does not specify log source, the default order for source values is
  • Object reporting no longer limited by 32KB character length (due to Annotation content exceeding 32KB), all Kubernetes objects removed annotations
  • Fixed prom collector not stopping due to Pod exit

Best Practices Updates¶

• Microservices Observability Best Practices
  • Full lifecycle best practices from development to canary release for service mesh microservices architecture (Part 1)
  • Full lifecycle best practices from development to canary release for service mesh microservices architecture (Part 2)
  • Full lifecycle best practices from development to canary release for service mesh microservices architecture (Part 3)
• Monitoring Best Practices
  • JAVA OOM exception observability best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

• Added documents
  • 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

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.38.89 (April 10, 2022)¶

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

Guance Billing Updates¶

• Added Alibaba Cloud account settlement method

Guance Updates¶

• Added DQL query explorer
• Added TCP/ICMP/Websocket dial test protocols for availability monitoring
• Added infrastructure network module
• Added HTTP Layer 7 network data display for infrastructure container Pods
• Added "reverse select" and "reset" functions to explorer quick filters
• Optimized log blacklist
• Other feature improvements
  • Added span count statistics in trace detail pages
  • Optimized host timeline drawing method in trace associations
  • Optimized summary chart time slicing, removing options; if previous summary charts had time slicing enabled, they will default to disabled after optimization
  • Fixed composite chart switching editing different chart queries when entering edit mode under browser zoom conditions
  • Fixed auto-refresh triggered by scrolling to the top when manually pausing page refresh in log explorers

DataKit Updates¶

• Added memory limit for host runtime during installation, supporting memory limit configuration during installation
• CPU collector added load5s metric
• Supported Guance optimized log blacklist function, adjusting monitor layout, adding blacklist filtering situation display
• DaemonSet installation added Helm support, new DaemonSet installation best practices
• eBPF added HTTP protocol collection, host installation no longer installs eBPF collector by default unless using specific installation commands; DaemonSet installation remains unaffected

Guance Mobile App Updates¶

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

Best Practices Updates¶

• Guance Tips
  • Multi-microservice project performance observability practice
  • Advanced ddtrace usage
  • Using ExternalName in Kubernetes clusters to map DataKit services
• Integration Best Practices
  • OpenTelemetry trace data integration 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 documents, views, and monitors
• Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB PostgreSQL integration documents, views, and monitors
• Added Alibaba Cloud RDS SQLServer integration documents, views, and detection libraries
• Added Alibaba Cloud DataKit integration documents, views, and monitors
• Added Alibaba Cloud Nacos integration documents, views

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/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, changed original "China Region 1 (Alibaba Cloud)" to "China Region 1 (Hangzhou)", and "China Region 2 (AWS)" to "China Region 2 (Ningxia)".

Guance Updates¶

• Added workspace data authorization
• Added saving online Pipeline sample test data
• Optimized resource catalog explorer
• Optimized permanent link sharing for snapshots
• Optimized chart time intervals
• Optimized data gap trigger strategies for process, application performance, and user access detection
• Other feature improvements
  • Optimized DataKit and Func installation guide pages
  • Optimized full display of single log lines in log explorers
  • Added NOT combination search in associated explorers
  • Optimized member permission display

DataKit Updates¶

• Added command-line completion functionality to DataKit, helping you with command hints and parameter completion in terminal operations
• Allowed DataKit to upgrade to non-stable versions, enabling experience of the latest experimental features; if in production environments, please upgrade cautiously
• Preliminarily supported data collection for Kubernetes/Containerd architectures
• Network dial testing added TCP/UDP/ICMP/Websocket protocol support
• Adjusted Remote Pipeline storage in DataKit locally to avoid filename case issues caused by different file systems
• Pipeline added decode() function to avoid configuring encoding in log collectors, implementing encoding conversion in 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 documents, views, and detection libraries

For more details, please refer to the help documentation: https://docs.guance.com/release-notes/

v1.36.85 (March 14, 2022)¶

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

Guance Billing Updates¶

• Added Guance prepaid card billing

Guance Updates¶

• Added user access monitoring resource (resource), action (action), long_task (long task), error (error) explorers
• Added Pod network details and distribution

DataKit Updates¶

• DataKit collector added support for configuring sampling strategies for SkyWalking, Jaeger, Zipkin data, more details can be found in Datakit Tracing Frontend.
• DataKit collector added support for OpenTelemetry data ingestion.
• DataKit documentation added DataKit overall log collection introduction, including four methods: obtaining logs from disk files, acquiring logs through calling environment APIs, remote 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 correlation.

Best Practices Updates¶

• Quick start best practices for pythond collector
• Alibaba Cloud "CloudMonitor data" integration best practices
• Logback socket log collection best practices

Scene Template Updates¶

• Added custom explorer MySQL database viewer template

Integration Template Updates¶

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

v1.35.84 (February 22, 2022)¶

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

• Added log configuration pipeline script
• Added IFrame chart component
• Added event detail history records, associated SLO
• Added default absolute time for saving snapshots
• Optimized monitor data gap trigger event configuration and unit prompt for trigger conditions
• Optimized chart query expression calculation units
• Added "Time Series" pay-as-you-go mode
• Other optimizations
  • Chart query data sources for logs, APM, security inspection, and network support full selection (*);
  • Optimized chart query text, button styles, and text prompts;
  • Iconified workspace operation buttons, such as edit, delete, etc.
  • Other UI display optimizations