Version 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 login whitelist
Added Service network topology
Other feature optimizations
- Pipeline usage optimization
- Log Pattern analysis supports custom fields
- Support viewing associated logs after splitting oversized logs
- Backup log display optimization
- Data authorization sensitive fields now support all data types except metrics

DataKit Updates¶

Prometheus collector supports data collection via Unix Socket
Allow non-root users to run DataKit
Optimized eBPF httpflow protocol detection
Optimized DataKit installation and upgrade commands on Windows
Optimized Pythond usage encapsulation
Pipeline provides more detailed error messages
Pipeline reftable provides local storage implementation based on SQLite

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

Official Intelligent Inspection items "Memory Leak", "Application Performance Detection", "Disk Usage" are deprecated
Added cloud account instance dimension billing inspection
Added Alibaba Cloud preemptible instance survival inspection

For more details, refer to 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 Profiling and network billing
Optimized Guance registration flow
Added Warroom functionality
Added Dashboard carousel functionality
Workspace binding to external SLS indexes
Optimized trace Explorer chart display
Other feature optimizations
- View variable interaction optimization
- Optimized interaction for binding built-in view configurations
- Optimized workspace arrears lock process
- Optimized workspace invite user experience
- Added rating system to help documentation, including "Good" and "Poor"
- Optimized monitor batch operations
- Added enable/disable functionality for SLO
- Optimized Wildcard left * matching query restrictions

DataKit Updates¶

Added Golang Profiling integration
logfwd supports LOGFWD_TARGET_CONTAINER_IMAGE for image field injection
trace collectors:
- Optimized error-stack/error-message format issues
- SkyWalking compatibility adjustments, supporting full 8.X series
eBPF httpflow added pid/process_name fields, optimized kernel version support
datakit.yaml has been adjusted; it is recommended to update the yaml
GPU collector supports remote mode

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

Added Intelligent Inspection guide page
Intelligent Inspection components support custom redirect links

Best Practices Updates¶

Scene - SpringBoot project with external Tomcat scenario trace observability

For more details, refer to 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 user experience optimization
- Added manual input for chart units, colors, and aliases. You can customize preset units, colors, and aliases according to the standard format, e.g., unit input format: aggregation_function(metric), such as last(usage_idle)
- Time Series charts added Y-axis configuration, allowing manual configuration of min and max values
- Time Series and Pie charts added group display, showing only tag values in the legend when enabled
- Hexbin, China Map, and World Map added gradient intervals, including auto and custom
- Bar chart and Histogram display optimization
View variable usage experience optimization
- View variables now support multi-select
- Added option to set multiple default values when configuring view variables
RUM Session Explorer adjustments
Events added mobile jump option
Other feature optimizations
- Optimized new user guide page, supporting minimization
- Optimized RUM application list, added time widget custom interval switching queries
- Optimized host label addition interaction

Intelligent Inspection Updates¶

Kubernetes Pod abnormal restart inspection
MySQL performance inspection
Server-side application error inspection
Memory leak inspection
Disk usage inspection
Application performance inspection
Frontend application log error inspection

Best Practices Updates¶

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) - Performance Optimization - Using async-profiler for application performance tuning

Deployment Plan Updates¶

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

For more details, refer to 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 configurations
- Supports setting any Pipeline script as the "default Pipeline script"
- Script function categorization
Event optimization
- Supports writing user custom events
- Added quick filtering on the left in the Unrecovered Events Explorer
Custom Explorer supports selecting more data types
Member Management added member grouping functionality
Optimized built-in view binding functionality
Added one-click import/export of Dashboards, Custom Explorers, and Monitors in the workspace
APM log page added custom association fields
Other feature optimizations
- When using wildcard and not wildcard filters, left * matching is supported
- Infrastructure analysis dimension optimization: last report time in host details page
- Supports quick login to the last SSO session
- APM blacklist now supports filtering "all services"
- Optimized the upgrade process for users registered at the "China Region 4 (Guangzhou)" site
- Field descriptions are now viewable in quick filters, display columns, etc.

DataKit Updates¶

Added SNMP collector
Added IPMI collector
Added batch injection DDTrace-Java tool
Latest DDTrace-Java SDK enhanced SQL desensitization functionality
Pipeline supports source mapping configuration for batch configuration between Pipeline and data sources
Pipeline provides function classification information for remote Pipeline writing
Optimized Kafka message subscription, no longer limited to SkyWalking-related data, supports rate limiting, multi-version coverage, sampling, and load balancing
Added additional configuration parameter (ENV_INPUT_CONTAINER_LOGGING_SEARCH_INTERVAL) to alleviate short-lived Pod log collection issues
In pure container environments, supports configuring container log collection via labels
Added new Pipeline functions

Best Practices Updates¶

Guance Skills - DataKit HTTPS configuration
APM - Common ddtrace parameter usage
APM - ddtrace-api usage guide
APM - ddtrace sampling
APM - ddtrace log correlation

For more details, refer to 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 and SLS joint solution
Optimized new user guide page
Added 3 Intelligent Inspection configuration documents
Added trace Error Tracking Explorer
Optimized Time Series and Summary chart period-over-period comparison
Other feature optimizations
- Dashboard/Notes/Explorers added a "Save Snapshot" button under "Settings"
- Time widget added more options
- Pipeline and Blacklist functionality added import, batch export, and batch delete
- Intelligent Inspection added Dashboard and Bar chart components
- Func page optimization under Integrations menu

DataKit Updates¶

Enhanced Prometheus ecosystem compatibility, added ServiceMonitor and PodMonitor collection recognition
Added Java Profiling integration based on async-profiler
eBPF collector added interval parameter to adjust collected data volume
All remote collectors now default to using their collection address as the host field value, avoiding misinterpretation of the host field during remote collection
APM data collected by DDTrace can automatically extract error-related fields for better APM error tracking in the center
MySQL collector added additional fields Com_commit/Com_rollback collection

Best Practices Updates¶

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

Deployment Plan Updates¶

Deployment Plan now supports Profiling functionality

For more details, refer to 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 is a product iteration release, mainly with the following updates:

Guance Updates¶

Monitoring optimization
- Added outlier detection
- Mutation detection logic optimization
- Interval detection logic optimization
- Data gap configuration: "Trigger data gap event" and "Trigger recovery event" changed to time range configuration with suggestions based on input time range
- Supports configuring Monitor detection based on "Event" data
- Alert configuration added "Info" event notification level
Scene chart optimization
- Added Histogram chart component
- Summary, Treemap, and Funnel charts added time slicing functionality
- Time Series "View similar trend metrics" adjusted from only metric queries to support all data types, including Log, APM, RUM, etc.
- Top List supports viewing all content beyond chart width
- Hexbin chart display optimization
Explorer optimization
- Explorer supports analysis mode
- Optimized associated log viewing experience
Log Index optimization
Optimized Metrics Analysis chart queries
Other feature optimizations
- In the RUM application list, clicking into an application now has a dropdown menu in the top-left corner to help users quickly switch between different application data
- Added Pipelines shortcut under Metrics, RUM, APM, Infrastructure, and Security Check directories

DataKit Updates¶

DataKit collector configurations and Pipeline now support synchronization via etcd/Consul and other configuration centers
Prometheus Remote Write optimization
Collection supports filtering tags via regex
Supports filtering measurement names via regex
Pipeline optimization
- Optimized grok() and other functions to be used in if/else statements to determine if the operation is effective
- Added match() function
- Added cidr() function
Process collector added open file list details field
Enhanced disk caching and queue processing for external data types (T/R/L)
Monitor added usage overrun warning: if the current workspace usage is exceeded, red text "Beyond Usage" appears at the bottom of the monitor
Optimized log collection position functionality: in container environments, the file is mounted to the host to avoid losing position records after DataKit restart
Optimized collection delay in sparse log scenarios

Best Practices Updates¶

Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM) - Ansible batch processing in practice
Log - Guance collecting Amazon ECS logs

For more details, refer to 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 is a fix release, mainly with the following updates:

Guance Updates¶

Fixed an 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
Redesigned Metrics Explorer, renamed from "Metrics Explorer" to "Metrics Analysis"
Optimized Metrics Management
Added event content export as PDF
Monitor adjustments
Mute rules support dynamic configuration
Optimized Pipeline configuration page
Other feature optimizations
- Notes added global lock time configuration: after configuring the lock time, all charts on the note page display data according to the lock time
- Unrecovered Events query changed to last 48 hours of data, supports manual refresh
- RUM supports user view override logic for same user
- Intelligent Inspection added support for self-built inspections
- Generate Metrics page action column adjustments: added "Open in Metrics Analysis" and "Open in Metrics Management" action icons
- Management navigation menu position adjustments: SSO Management moved to Member Management, Notification Targets moved to Monitoring, Built-in Views moved to Scenes

Best Practices Updates¶

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

For more details, refer to 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 minor bugs

For more details, refer to 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 Notes text component Markdown format
Added Infrastructure YAML display
Added Log Explorer DQL search mode
Optimized APM, including trace and Profiling Explorer detail page optimization
Optimized Monitor event notification content editing mode
Added Mute Management support for periodic mute configuration
Other feature optimizations
- Scene Dashboard group display optimization
- Infrastructure Explorer display optimization: added CPU usage, MEM usage hints, etc.
- Metrics Explorer removed list view mode, retained tile and mixed view modes
- Log multi-index supports jump viewing
- Explorer quick filter value TOP 5 supports viewing ratio, time field format optimization, default display format changed to 2022/09/15 20:53:40
- Trace Explorer Time Series chart added legend display, quick filter added HTTP-related fields

Best Practices Updates¶

Monitoring - Middleware - Insights into MySQL

For more details, refer to 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 added event correlation analysis
Log added multi-index mode
Optimized backup log rules
Optimized log context
Optimized RUM
- Added custom RUM application ID
- Added RUM network request ERROR error correlation with trace viewing
Intelligent Inspection fully upgraded
Optimized monitoring
- Adjusted groups to Alert Policy
- Optimized Monitor configuration
- Added "Infrastructure survival detection"
- Added "Process anomaly detection"
- Optimized "APM metric detection"
Optimized Member Management
Other feature optimizations
- Metric aggregation function in charts changed from default last to avg, log data aggregation function changed from default last to count
- Optimized Time Series and Pie chart legend copy experience
- Optimized interactive display in note editing mode
- Snapshot now supports saving Explorer display column information
- Trace detail page formats time fields, converting timestamps to date format
- Deployment Plan management backend supports modifying workspace data retention policy

DataKit Updates¶

1. Breaking changes

In GitLab and Jenkins collectors, time fields related to CI/CD data have been adjusted to unify data display on the frontend page

2. Collector function adjustments

Optimized IO module data processing to improve data throughput
Added disk caching on various Trace types
DataKit's own metrics set added goroutine usage-related metrics set (datakit_goroutine)
MySQL collector added mysql_dbm_activity metrics set
Added netstat collector
TDengine added log collection
Optimized fstype filtering in disk collector, default only collects common file systems
Log collector added message_length field for each log to indicate log length, allowing filtering by length
CRD supports locating Pod scope via DaemonSet
eBPF removed go-bindata dependency
Container collector now enables k8s and container-related metrics by default, which may consume additional time series

3. Bug fixes

Fixed DataKit's own CPU usage calculation error
Fixed SkyWalking middleware identification issue
Fixed Oracle exit issue
Fixed Sink DataWay invalidation issue
Fixed HTTP /v1/write/:category interface JSON write issue

4. Documentation adjustments

Added jump tags to almost every section for permanent reference by other documents
pythond documentation moved to custom development directory
Collector documentation moved from "Integrations" to "DataKit" documentation library
DataKit documentation directory structure adjusted, reducing directory levels
Almost every collector added k8s configuration entry
Adjusted documentation header display, added election identifier for collectors supporting election in addition to OS identifier

For more DataKit updates, refer to DataKit Version History.

Best Practices Updates¶

Cloud Native
- Using CRD to start your Ingress observability journey
Monitoring
- APM - DDtrace Custom Instrumentation
- APM - DDtrace Guance secondary development practice

For more best practices updates, refer to 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 APM, RUM, and Log added data retention policy and corresponding unit price

Guance Updates¶

Optimized Explorer
- Added filter history
- Added quick filter value sorting
- Added time widget input format hint page
- Added display column field separator and text hints
Added view permissions for Scene Dashboard/Notes/Explorers
Added snapshot view permissions
Optimized Monitors and Events
- Added Monitor test
- Optimized Intelligent Inspection information display
- Optimized event detail page
Other feature optimizations
- Guance added support for email verification authentication
- Explorer detail page association network page optimized display for Host, Pod, and Deployment types
- Added switch icon when adding charts in Dashboard and built-in views, adjusted view variable edit button position
- Time Series legend value added sum aggregate statistic, optimized legend display and interaction
- Monitor and chart queries for log data added wildcard and not wildcard filter options

DataKit Updates¶

Pipeline added reftable functionality
DataKit 9529 HTTP supports binding to domain socket
- Corresponding changes needed for eBPF and Oracle collector configuration
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 related naming
Election collectors still support disabling election on specific collectors when DataKit has election enabled
Supports io block configuration for specified data types
DDTrace collector sampling added meta information recognition
DataKit's own metrics set added 9529 HTTP request-related metrics
Optimized Zipkin collector memory usage
DDTrace collector defaults to blocking IO feed when disk cache is enabled
eBPF added process_name field
DCA new version released
Log class HTTP data write (logstreaming/Jaeger/OpenTelemetry/Zipkin) all added queue support
Log collection added automatic multi-line support
Fixed MySQL collector connection leak issue
Fixed Pipeline JSON value issue
Fixed macOS ulimit setting invalidation issue
Fixed sinker-Dataway invalidation in Kubernetes
Fixed HTTP data write interface data validation issue
Fixed eBPF collector structure offset calculation failure after kernel change
Fixed DDTrace close-resource issue

Best Practices Updates¶

Monitoring
- Using extract + TextMapAdapter to implement custom traceId
Insight
- Scene - CDB
- Scene - CLB
- Scene - COS
- Scene - CVM
- Scene - Intranet scenario Dubbo microservice integration with Guance

For more details, refer to 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¶

Minor bug fixes on Func platform

For more details, refer to 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 version launched
Optimized Explorer search, quick filter, time widget, and display columns
Optimized Explorer detail page
Added global Explorer auto-refresh configuration
Added global Blacklist functionality
Added custom feature menu
Added chart query aliases
Added Time Series and Pie chart legend styles
Optimized object historical data retention policy
Adjusted snapshot save location
Other feature optimizations
- Time Series time interval added millisecond precision
- Management backend added workspace-level index configuration entry
- Log Explorer distribution chart added support for custom time interval selection
- RUM Explorer page added current data extended field page display

For more details, refer to 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 trace write performance
Other minor bug fixes

For more details, refer to 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 features: Memory Leak, Disk Usage, Application Performance Detection
Optimized Explorer search and filter: added "not wildcard" reverse fuzzy matching, workspace-level and personal-level filter modes
Added data query by modifying the time range in the URL
Added Dashboard view variable configuration for Log, APM, RUM, and Security Check data sources
Optimized chart query interaction
Added RUM metric detection event notification template variables
Optimized event content one-click link opening

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

Best Practices Updates¶

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

DataKit Updates¶

prom collector built-in timeout is 3 seconds
Log issue fixes:
- Added log_read_offset field for log collection
- Fixed bug where log file was not correctly read after rotate
Container collection issue fixes:
- Fixed incompatibility with environment variable NODE_NAME
- Changed k8s auto-discovered prom collector to serial, node distributed collection
- Added mapping configuration for log source and multi-line
- Fixed bug where replaced log source still used previous multiline and pipeline
- Corrected container log, set file active duration to 12 hours
- Optimized image field for Docker container logs
- Optimized host field for k8s Pod objects
- Fixed container metrics and object collection not adding host tag
eBPF related:
- Fixed uprobe event name naming conflict
- Added more environment variable configurations for easy deployment in cloud k8s environments
Optimized data processing for APM data receiving interface, alleviating client freeze and memory usage issues
SQLServer collector fixes:
- Restored TLS 1.0 support
- Supports filtering by instance collection to reduce time series consumption
Pipeline function adjust_timezone() adjusted
IO module optimization, improved overall data processing capability, maintained relatively controllable memory consumption
Monitor updates:
- Fixed possible long freeze when Monitor is busy
- Optimized Monitor display, added IO module information display for parameter adjustment
Fixed Redis crash issue
Removed some redundant logs
Fixed election-type collectors not appending host tag in non-election mode

For more details, refer to 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 Explorer three filter modes: positive selection, inverse selection, and fuzzy matching
Optimized Explorer quick filter
Added multiple quick operations for Explorer display columns
Optimized Explorer detail page attribute/field quick filter
Optimized historical snapshot functionality, supporting three time retention strategies
Added Pipeline one-click sample test data retrieval
Added Scene custom Explorer text analysis mode
Added Log Explorer detail page association with network Pod and Deployment views
Added Explorer detail page association network 48-hour data replay functionality
Adjusted Unrecovered Events retention policy, supports manual event recovery
Other feature optimizations
- Chart lock time added "Latest 5 minutes" time range, time interval added "5s", "10s", "30s" second-level options
- Scene Explorer display columns and view variable basic object field attributes/tags support custom input
- Adjusted event detail association Dashboard position
- Added time series count statistics in Metrics Management
- Optimized log detail page association with traces, displaying flame graph based on trace_id and span_id in the log and selecting all data of the corresponding span
- Optimized RUM service display and interaction
- RUM, Network, Synthetic Monitoring, and CI Explorer dropdown options changed to tile display
- Monitor event notification content supports template variable field mapping, supports configuring template variable values in DQL query statements
- Help Center homepage added shortcut entry for key features

For more details, refer to 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
Line protocol filter supports all data types
9529 HTTP service added timeout mechanism
MySQL: dbm metrics set name adjustment, service field conflict issue
Container object added field container_runtime_name to distinguish container names at different levels
Redis adjusted slowlog collection, changed data to log storage
Optimized TDEngine collection
Improved Containerd log collection
Pipeline added support for Profile data type
Container/Pod log collection supports adding additional tags via Label/Annotation
Fixed Jenkins CI data collection time precision issue
Fixed Tracing resource-type value inconsistency
eBPF added HTTPS support
Fixed possible log collector crash issue
Fixed prom collector leak issue
Supports configuring IO disk cache via environment variables
Added Kubernetes CRD support

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

Best Practices Updates¶

Skywalking JVM observability best practices
Minio observability best practices

For more details, refer to 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 completely relaunched
Added Profile observability
Pipeline covers text analysis processing for all data types
Added Deployment network details and network distribution
Optimized event detection dimension jump to other Explorers
Added Log Explorer JSON format message field search
Added RUM support for custom app_id input when creating new applications
Optimized process detection to Infrastructure object detection
Other feature optimizations
- Infrastructure Pod Explorer in hex mode added CPU usage and memory usage fill metrics
- Optimized Log Blacklist configuration: supports manual input of log source as blacklist source
- Optimized APM service list data query time widget, supporting custom time range selection
- Optimized guidance text for installing DataKit on K8S, automatically adds current workspace token when configuring DataWay data gateway address
- Optimized Monitor configuration UI style

DataKit Updates¶

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

Best Practices Updates¶

APM: GraalVM and Spring Native project 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, refer to 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 time series billing logic and metric data retention policy

Guance Updates¶

Added Jenkins CI observability
Added custom Explorer chart synchronization search
Added network topology and service topology drill-down analysis
Added deletion of data and indexes in Resource Catalog
Added Explorer snapshot view entry
Added Explorer filter condition editing functionality
Optimized RUM View Explorer association with trace as Fetch/XHR
Added chart data loading high-performance mode
Added alert configuration event notification level
Other feature optimizations
- Scene Dashboard composite chart supports hiding/showing main title
- Optimized event detail page event type text display
- Infrastructure list view added field sorting functionality
- Log Explorer added hide distribution chart button
- Explorer supports searching display columns by keyword, supports custom display columns as preset fields, after Pipeline cuts fields and reports data, the reported data can be displayed directly
- Added one-click view of corresponding integration documentation in built-in template library and built-in views, helping you quickly configure corresponding collectors
- Built-in views now support custom key and value binding for related views in addition to binding trace service, application, log source, project, tag, etc.; also supports binding built-in views on service side-slide detail page
- Optimized notification target Feishu robot, supports custom security key verification
- When configuring a Monitor, if the configured data range is smaller than the detection frequency, a prompt will indicate that there may be data gaps

DataKit Updates (2022/5/12)¶

Pipeline adjusted: all data types can be processed by configuring Pipeline
grok() directly supports extracting fields as specified types, no need for additional cast() function for type conversion
Pipeline added multi-line string support: for long strings (e.g., regex patterns in grok), they can be written in multiple lines for readability
The running status of each Pipeline can be viewed via datakit monitor -V
Added Kubernetes Pod object CPU/memory metrics
Helm added more Kubernetes version installation adaptation
Optimized OpenTelemetry, HTTP protocol added JSON support
DataKit added log records for correction behavior when auto-correcting line protocol, for debugging data issues
Removed all string metrics from time series data
In DaemonSet installation, if election namespace is configured, a specific tag (election_namespace) will be added to the data of collectors participating in election
CI observability, added Jenkins support

Best Practices Updates¶

APM
- Using SkyWalking to achieve RUM, APM, and log linkage analysis based on Guance
Monitoring best practices
- OpenTelemetry observability construction
- 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, refer to 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 Scene Dashboard user view template library
Added Scene custom Explorer log source and filter linkage
Added event detail page content copy as JSON format
Added log data desensitization processing
Optimized Log Explorer and detail page
Added network data detection Monitor
Optimized built-in view binding functionality
Other feature optimizations
- Plans & Billing added Prepaid Card balance
- Infrastructure detail style optimization
- Trace detail page attribute line break display optimization
- Monitor configuration template variable display optimization
- Added shortcut entry, DQL query and snapshot menus moved under shortcut entry
- Guance management backend supplemented template management classification information

DataKit Updates (2022/5/12)¶

eBPF added arm64 support
Line protocol construction supports auto-correction
DataKit main configuration added example configuration
Prometheus Remote Write supports tag renaming
Merged Deployment Plan DataKit existing functions, 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 by service name wildcard

Best Practices Updates¶

Cloud Native
- Using Guance to start Rancher observability journey
Microservice observability best practices
- Kubernetes cluster application using SkyWalking for trace data collection
- Kubernetes cluster log reporting to the same node DataKit best practices
Gitlab-CI observability best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

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

For more details, refer to 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, and trace detail page association with network
Scene module optimization
- Optimized Dashboard, removed edit mode
- Added chart link display toggle
- Optimized DQL query and simple query conversion
Monitor and Event module optimization
- Added event correlation information
- Added data gap event name and content configuration
- Optimized Synthetic Testing Anomaly Detection
- Optimized alert notification template, added correlation jump links
Other feature optimizations
- Optimized Service Map metrics query performance
- Added Explorer numeric field support for 5 formats
- Added Metrics Explorer tag cascade filtering
- Optimized DQL query error return messages

DataKit Updates¶

Process collector filter only affects metrics collection, object collection is not affected
Optimized DataKit DataWay timeout issue
Optimized GitLab collector
Fixed log collection truncation issue
Fixed various trace collector reload issues where some configurations did not take effect

Integration Template Updates¶

Added data storage Redis Sentinel integration document and view

For more details, refer to 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

Launcher:¶

Supports TLS certificate replacement for domain names
Adapted Ingress Kind networking.k8s.io/v1 and extensions/v1beta1 two apiVersions
Other minor 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 refresh frequency setting
Added process 48-hour replay
Added integrated DataKit Kubernetes (Helm) installation guide page
Added APM global overview, service classification filtering, service topology map distinguishing environment and version
Other feature optimizations
- Added "All Sources" option for associated logs in trace detail page
- Added metric filter support for inverse selection, aggregation function position adjustment
- Optimized metrics generation for Log, APM, RUM, and Security Check: the "frequency" selected time also serves as the aggregation period
- Optimized Guance Deployment Plan workspace owner transfer permission functionality removed, supports management backend setting
- Optimized alert notification SMS template
- Optimized Synthetic Monitoring new test list, supports direct selection of HTTP, TCP, ICMP, WEBSOCKET tests
- SSO login user whitelist changed to email domain, used to verify if the email suffix entered at single sign-on matches; matching emails can obtain the SSO login link online

DataKit Updates¶

Pipeline module fixed dynamic multi-line pattern issue in Grok
DaemonSet optimized Helm installation, added pprof environment variable configuration, all default enabled collector configurations in DaemonSet support environment variable configuration
Tracing collector initially supports Pipeline data processing, refer to DDTrace configuration example
Test collector added failed task exit mechanism
Log added unknown level (status): logs without specified level are all 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 source value order is as follows
- Object reporting no longer limited by 32KB word size (due to Annotation content exceeding 32KB), all Kubernetes objects have annotations removed
- Fixed prom collector not exiting due to Pod exit

Best Practices Updates¶

Microservice observability best practices
- Service mesh microservice architecture from development to canary release full process best practices (Part 1)
- Service mesh microservice architecture from development to canary release full process best practices (Part 2)
- Service mesh microservice architecture from development to canary release full process best practices (Part 3)
Monitoring best practices
- JAVA OOM exception observability best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

Added documents
- 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, refer to 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 Explorer
Synthetic Monitoring added TCP/ICMP/Websocket test protocols
Added Infrastructure network module
Infrastructure container Pod added HTTP layer 7 network data display
Added Explorer quick filter "inverse selection" and "reset" functionality
Optimized Log Blacklist
Other feature optimizations
- Added trace detail page span count statistics
- Optimized trace associated host timeline drawing method
- Optimized Summary chart time slicing, removed option; if the previous Summary chart had time slicing enabled, it is now changed to disabled by default
- Optimized composite chart editing: when browser is zoomed, entering edit mode could not switch to edit different chart queries
- Optimized Log Explorer: when manually pausing page refresh, scrolling to the top does not trigger auto-refresh

DataKit Updates¶

Added memory limit when running on host, supports memory limit configuration during installation
CPU collector added load5s metric
Supports Guance optimized Log Blacklist function, adjusted monitor layout, added blacklist filtering status display
DaemonSet installation added Helm support, added DaemonSet installation best practices
eBPF added HTTP protocol collection; when installing on host, eBPF collector is not installed by default, requires specific installation command; DaemonSet installation is not affected

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
- Performance observability practice for multi-microservice projects
- ddtrace advanced usage
- Kubernetes cluster using ExternalName to map DataKit service
Integration best practices
- OpenTelemetry trace data integration best practices
Microservice observability best practices
- Alibaba Cloud ASM-based microservice observability best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Oracle integration document, view, and Monitor
Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB PostgreSQL integration document, view, and Monitor
Added Alibaba Cloud RDS SQLServer integration document, view, and detection library
Added Alibaba Cloud DataKit integration document, view, and Monitor
Added Alibaba Cloud Nacos integration document, view

For more details, refer to 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 Explorer
Optimized snapshot sharing supports permanent valid links
Optimized chart time interval
Optimized data gap trigger policy for Process, APM, and RUM detection
Other feature optimizations
- Optimized DataKit and Func installation guide pages
- Optimized single log full display in Log Explorer
- Added Explorer associated search NOT combination
- Optimized member permission editing display

DataKit Updates¶

Added DataKit command-line completion, providing command hints and parameter completion in terminal operations
Allows DataKit upgrade to non-stable versions to experience the latest experimental features. For production environments, please upgrade with caution.
Initially supports Kubernetes/Containerd architecture data collection
Network test added TCP/UDP/ICMP/Websocket protocol support
Adjusted Remote Pipeline local storage in DataKit to avoid file name case issues caused by different file systems
Pipeline added decode() function to avoid configuring encoding in log collectors, enabling encoding conversion within Pipeline; add_pattern() added scope management

Best Practices Updates¶

Scene best practices: RUM data reporting to DataKit cluster best practices
Log best practices: Pod log collection best practices

Integration Template Updates¶

Added Alibaba Cloud PolarDB MySQL integration document, view, and detection library

For more details, refer to 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 RUM Explorer for Resource, Action, Long Task, and Error
Added Pod network details and network distribution

DataKit Updates¶

DataKit collector added support for SkyWalking, Jaeger, Zipkin data sampling strategy configuration. For more details, refer to Datakit Tracing Frontend.
DataKit collector added support for OpenTelemetry data integration.
DataKit documentation library added a document on DataKit overall log collection introduction, including four methods: obtaining logs from disk files, obtaining logs via environment API, remote push logs to DataKit, and Sidecar-style log collection.

SDK Updates¶

RUM compatible with Opentracing protocol tracing tools. Web, Mini Program, Android, iOS SDKs support data linkage with OTEL, SkyWalking, Jaeger, and other tracing tools.

Best Practices Updates¶

Best practices for quickly getting started with pythond collector
Alibaba Cloud "Cloud Monitor data" integration best practices
logback socket log collection best practices

Scene Template Updates¶

Added Scene custom Explorer MySQL database Explorer template

Integration Template Updates¶

Added host system EthTool integration document and view
Added host system Conntrack integration document and view

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 record, associated SLO
Added snapshot save default absolute time
Optimized Monitor data gap trigger event configuration and trigger condition unit hints
Optimized chart query expression calculation unit
Added "Time Series" pay-as-you-go billing model
Other optimizations
- Chart query data sources Log, APM, Security Check, and Network support select all (*)
- Chart query text, button styles, and text hints optimized
- Workspace operation buttons iconified, such as edit, delete, etc.
- Other UI display optimizations