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Release Notes (2023)

This document records the update content of each release of Guance, including DataKit, Guance best practices, Guance integration documents, and Guance.

December 28, 2023

Guance Updates

  • Monitoring:
    • Added User Analysis Intelligent Detection: Supports performance anomaly detection and error analysis for websites/apps; related detection Metrics include LCP, FID, CLS, etc.
    • Infrastructure Survival Detection V2: Added Infrastructure Survival V2 version, optimized detection logic, resolved several trigger issues related to V1 and process detection.
  • User Access Monitoring (RUM):
    • Added Public DataWay method to receive RUM data, no need to install a collector; Web applications support uploading SourceMap directly in the console, allowing multiple files to be uploaded based on different versions and environments.
    • Error Explorer > Error Details: Added Formatted error message page, displaying Sourcemap file-parsed error information, supports switching between formatted and raw format error messages. If no Sourcemap file is configured or if it does not match after upload, only the raw format error message will be displayed.
  • Application Performance Monitoring (APM):
    • Optimized Service Map: Adjusted the display style of upstream/downstream, nodes, service names, etc.;
    • Optimized Service Details: Linked performance view dashboard to show current service performance Metrics, also supports custom same-name user views to override updates, supports drill-down analysis;
    • Optimized flame graph and waterfall chart display for Trace Details: Flame graph added execution time and percentage of execution time; Waterfall chart supports switching between relative and absolute time display.
  • Chart Optimization:
    • Time Series Table Graph added Display Columns configuration: Supports users setting query data display columns, as well as custom column name input; Supports manually adjusting column width in edit mode, and saving settings to display list information based on column width; Supports dragging to adjust the order of displayed columns;
    • Chart links added Value Variables for use in link jumps.
  • Dashboard:
    • Dashboards added Home Dashboard: Supports workspace configuration of home dashboard;
  • Infrastructure:
    • Host Explorer added Only Show Online Hosts filter switch: Optimized logic for getting online host lists, supports selecting whether to only list hosts with data reported in the last 10 minutes.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Supports external platforms embedding Guance pages, which can set parameters in the URL to hide left and top menu bars, and supports hiding floating operations;
  • Supports external platforms embedding Guance dashboards or explorer pages via iframe.

New Integrations

  • Added integration Kubecost

December 14, 2023

Guance Update

  • Monitoring:
    • Added Smart Monitoring:
      • HOST Smart Detection: Supports CPU spike/drop/interval increase, memory spike/drop/interval increase detection;
      • LOG Smart Detection: Supports log count spike/drop, error log spike detection;
      • Application Smart Detection: Supports request count spike/drop, error request count spike, request delay spike/drop/interval increase detection.
    • Mutation Detection: Added preconditions for trigger rules, performing mutation detection rules when the detected value meets this condition, improving monitoring accuracy.
  • Billing Center:
    • Added Data Forwarding Usage Analysis list: View all data forwarding rules within the current workspace. If the forwarding rule is to the backup logs module of Guance, it will display the corresponding retention strategy. Also, supports filtering required data forwarding situations using time widgets, facilitating quick viewing of overall backup history.
  • Events:
    • Added Smart Monitoring Event Explorer: Can view all event information generated by smart monitoring.
  • Logs:
    • Data Access added [Show Only Rules Related to Me] configuration: After enabling, only displays access rules affecting the current account's data queries.
    • LOG > Explorer: Added data access rule restriction prompts.
  • Infrastructure > CONTAINERS > Kubernetes:
    • Added Kubernetes analysis dashboard: Container object analysis dashboard, helping you understand various infrastructure conditions in Kubernetes from different dimensions.
    • CONTAINERS > Explorer: Page UI optimized.
  • Metrics:
    • METRICS > Explorer:
      • Table graphs added [Query Tool] mode: Return results consistent with [Quick Entry > Query Tool]; if adding multiple queries, defaults to returning the first query result; this mode supports exporting up to 1000 query records.
      • Added [Copy] function for query conditions, optimizing page experience.
      • Query component optimization: Simple queries' [by grouping] supports free drag-and-drop adjustment of order.
  • Explorer:
    • Adjusted all explorers to hide trend graph display in analysis mode.
  • SSO:
    • Optimized SSO user workspace listing logic, fixing the issue of automatic logout due to lack of access permissions.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Added Independent Alert Notification Sending configuration: After enabling this configuration, when choosing [Do Not Aggregate Alerts] in alert strategies, each event will send an alert notification, helping efficiently manage alert notifications.
  • Added Event Link Login-Free Viewing configuration: After enabling this configuration, all event-related links sent in workspace alerts can be accessed without logging in. If this configuration is disabled, all previously sent login-free links will become invalid, ensuring data security.
  • Optimized [Scheduled Reports]: Supports customizable query range configuration, upper limit adjusted from 30 days to 360 days, meeting your needs for scheduled report expansion.

New/Updated Integrations

  • Added APISIX
  • Updated Alibaba Cloud Kafka
  • Updated Dameng

November 30, 2023

Guance Update

  • Monitoring:
    • Create Monitor > Event Content > Insert Link: Supports automatically generating jump links based on detection metrics, allowing adjustment of filter conditions and time ranges after inserting the link; supports custom jump links.
    • Alert Strategy Management: Added [Smart Aggregation] mode, where you can group events based on "Title" or "Content" over a clustering period, resulting in one alert notification per group.
  • Management:
    • Overall style optimization of the module menu page.
    • Added [Attribute Claims]: Through fixed fields organization, business, helps quickly identify and perform linked queries globally.
    • Added [Regular Expressions]: Can toggle between [Custom] and [Template Library] lists; supports creating custom regular expression templates and applying them to [Snapshot Sharing] and [Data Access Rules].
    • Ticket Management:
      • Tickets changed from "Account Level" to "Workspace Level", all members can view all tickets within the workspace;
      • Added [All Tickets] list, [Submitter], and [My Tickets] lists.
    • Workspace Management: Dissolution operation added risk confirmation prompt.
    • Workspace [Description] functionality deprecated.
    • Data Forwarding: Query and statistics adjustments optimized
      • Query side: Adjusted content display data range, default shows data other than time;
      • Some robustness optimizations made for the data forwarding feature.
  • Logs:
    • Data Access:
      • Added data desensitization rules, supports configuring multiple fields and applying multiple regular expressions;
      • Supports configuring all [Indexes] and [Roles];
      • Added desensitization preview to judge whether the rules meet requirements.
  • Snapshot > Share Snapshot:
    • Share link validity added 1, 3, 7 days options, default selected as 1 day;
    • Data desensitization: Supports configuring multiple fields and applying multiple regular expressions;
    • Supports previewing snapshots, allowing you to check all configured page effects in advance.
  • RUM: Adjusted layout of [Create Application] page, optimized user experience.
  • Pattern:
    • RUM > Error Explorer & APM > Incident Tracking: Changed clustering analysis mode to drain() algorithm aggregation logic; added input box to modify clustering fields, default is error_message, up to 3 fields can be entered, and can customize clustering fields as needed.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Added support for customizing email headers and logos;
  • Guance will discontinue Banner information settings, no longer providing maintenance for Banner information.

New Integration

  • Added logstash

New Best Practices

  • Incident Tracking and JIRA Two-Way Linkage Best Practices

November 21, 2023

Guance Update

  • Management: Added MFA Security Authentication switch on the [Settings] page. Once administrators/owners enable this feature, all users (regular members / SSO members) must complete MFA authentication before entering the workspace.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Added MFA Security Authentication switch, supporting identity verification through system default or custom methods.

November 16, 2023

Guance Update

  • Monitors:
    • [Mute Alerts] function restored, still defines repeat alert notification intervals through mute alert configurations.
    • Removed the requirement to configure any one of "Critical," "Important," or "Warning" trigger conditions, now supports configuring any one of these triggers: Critical, Important, Warning, Data Break, Information.
    • Infrastructure Survival Monitoring: Supports configuring survival detection for infrastructure metrics, defining higher-frequency survival detection configurations through this mode.
  • Scenarios:
    • Charts:
      • Advanced Settings: [Original Interval] parameter configuration removed, default configuration changed to [Auto Align], supports custom selection of default data time interval for charts.
      • Time Series Chart: [Display Density] changed to [Maximum Return Points], default value is 720, supports defining any integer between 2-1000.
      • Fixed the issue where PromQL linking view variables caused alias functionality to fail.
    • Service Management:
      • Added built-in dropdown for switching services, allowing direct selection of services without returning to the service list.
      • POD page removed from detail pages.
      • [Resource Invocation] performance charts changed to combination charts, optimizing page display experience.
  • Management:
    • SSO Management:
      • When logging in via SSO, workspaces support listing all authorized workspaces under the current [Identity Provider ID]; supports locating target workspaces directly via [Search] function.
      • [User SSO] added [Import/Export] functionality, thus quickly configuring single sign-on for multiple workspaces.
    • Workspace Language:
      • Default display language logic for the console adjusted, defaults to following browser language configuration.
      • When modifying workspace language versions, event, alert, SMS, etc., notification templates will also use the modified language template.
  • Added linkage markers for unresolved events associated with incident tracking:
    • In the unresolved event list, you can understand whether the current event is associated with any incident tracking through icons.
    • Incident Tracking: If there are event information synchronized and created by monitors, you can quickly understand the number of associated events through icons.
  • Infrastructure > HOST: Resolved inaccurate sorting of metric data in the HOST Explorer.
  • Several Pipeline usage experience optimizations:
    • Added warning text prompts for data sources that have already configured Pipeline scripts;
    • Log data sample acquisition added "Index" selection, resolving the issue where users could not obtain sample data due to not using the default index.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Single Sign-On: Supports dynamically appending phone numbers based on returned user information when user accounts log in via OIDC.

New Integrations

  • Added argocd, fluentd, redis-sentinel

November 9, 2023

Guance Update

  • Monitors > Alert Strategy Management:
    • Notification Configuration: Logic changed to configuring one or more notification targets for a single anomaly level.
    • Recovery Notification Logic Change: When historical abnormal alert events recover, Guance sends recovery notifications to corresponding notification targets.
    • Added [Alert Aggregation]: Supports alert notification aggregation based on rule configurations, with two aggregation modes:
      • No Aggregation: In this mode, merges every 20 seconds into one alert notification sent to corresponding notification targets;
      • Rule Aggregation: Can choose four aggregation rules and send alert notifications based on aggregation periods.
    • Added [Aggregation Period]: In rule aggregation mode, new events within 1-30 minutes are aggregated into notifications sent, and new events exceeding the aggregation period will be aggregated into new alert notifications.
  • Management > Data Forwarding: Supports custom time range queries, allowing selection of multiple dates and definition of start and end times.

November 2, 2023

Guance Update

  • Management:
    • SSO Management: Supports OIDC / OAuth2.0 Protocol Single Sign-On Configuration;
    • Data Permission Management: Adds [Role] during authorization configuration, after configuring roles, data viewing restrictions and desensitization limits will be determined based on the role scope for authorized workspaces.
  • Data Forwarding:
    • Navigation position moved to the [Management] module, still accessible via secondary menus of [Logs], [User Access Monitoring], [Application Performance Monitoring] navigation bar to enter [Data Forwarding];
    • AWS S3 and Alibaba Cloud OSS support "Cross-Account Authorization" configuration, enabling mutual authorization of data permissions between two accounts, simplifying the configuration process.
  • Billing Center:
    • Supports data forwarding to internal storage of Guance, statistically measuring the size of data stored in Guance storage objects daily within the workspace;
  • Events > Unresolved Events:
    • Currently, the unresolved event list retains event data from the past 24 hours;
    • Added display preferences: Defaults to [Standard] mode, supports selecting [Extended] mode to open historical trends of event detection results;
    • Supports exporting the current event list as CSV;
    • Event details page added Extended Fields tab; base attributes tab page optimized.
  • Infrastructure > NETWORK:
    • Optimized [Overview] template, added quick filters, allowing users to filter and view network paths. Added 5 statistical charts, supporting analysis of transmitted/received bytes, TCP retransmissions, and other network Metrics;
    • Added [Network Flow] Explorer, can view all L4(netflow), L7(httpflow) network flow data on the timeline;
    • Other Explorer detail pages added [Topology] mode display, allowing direct viewing of upstream/downstream relationships and key network Metrics for the current object.
  • Scenarios:
    • View Variables: Supports adding PromQL Queries;
    • Charts:
      • For Doris data storage workspaces, added [Data Sampling];
      • Time auto-align function optimized: For all Metrics data and Doris data charts, when enabling time auto-align, returned data timestamps will align to "whole seconds/minutes/hours";
      • Top Lists, Overview Charts, Table Charts: Added [Rule Mapping], allowing configuration of font color/background color for mapped numerical ranges.
    • Explorer: Optimized analysis mode, supporting free aggregation queries based on data and displaying analysis in chart form;
    • Service Management > Resource Invocation: Added [Requests Per Second] option to resource rankings.
  • Synthetic Tests > Tasks: Supports import/export.
  • Doris log data engine temporarily does not support with_labels linked queries.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Supports custom configuration of session expiration duration for accounts, uniformly setting Login Session Duration for front-end users.

October 19, 2023

Guance Update

  • Billing Center: Billing item [Data Forwarding] statistical logic changed to "based on data forwarding rules" to measure the size of forwarded data.
  • Management
    • SSO Management: Supports creating multiple SSO IDP configurations and enables/disables individual IDP configurations, enabling SAML mapping.
    • Data Permission Management > Sensitive Data Desensitization: Supports configuring sensitive data masking rules at the role level, allowing regular expression desensitization during configuration, supporting field-level desensitization rule configuration for specific data types, with newly added desensitization rule preview testing.
  • Monitors: Added External Event Detection, sending third-party system anomaly events or records via specified URLs as POST requests to HTTP servers, generating Guance event data.
  • Scenarios
    • Service Management > Resource Invocation: Added quantity sorting for corresponding lists, default sorted from largest to smallest;
    • Chart Links: Added start and end time parameters for currently selected data points, variables being #{timestamp.start} and #{timestamp.end};
    • Chart Aliases: Configured based on legend sequences;
    • Table Charts: Added [Time Series Table Chart].
  • Metrics > Metric Analysis: Added [Time Series Mode] to table charts.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Added Custom Mapping Rule Configuration: After enabling this configuration, corresponding workspaces can define their own mapping rules. The priority of workspace custom mapping rules is greater than those of the management backend;
  • Added Query Quantity Limit: Customized restrictions apply to different user workspaces to avoid performance degradation due to excessive query volumes, impacting product usability;
  • Local accounts added password change functionality.

Integration Update

  • Incident Events Linked with PagerDuty: When our applications or systems experience anomalies, timely handling is usually necessary to ensure normal operation. To better manage and track anomaly events, we can send these events to PagerDuty to create incidents, allowing us to track, analyze, and resolve these issues within PagerDuty. By quickly sending anomaly events to PagerDuty to create incidents, we gain better capabilities for managing and tracking anomaly events, thereby better ensuring the normal operation of the system. Additionally, this method helps us better analyze and solve problems, improving the stability and reliability of the system.

September 26, 2023

Guance Update

  • Scenario > Service Management: Added [Upstream/Downstream Topology] component to resource invocation, allowing users to view upstream/downstream resource invocation relationships for the current resource.
  • Logs > Data Forwarding: Data forwarding rule queries support RUM, APM data.

September 21, 2023

Guance Update

  • Logs:
    • Data Forwarding: Added external storage forwarding rule data query; supports enabling/disabling forwarding rules;
    • Bind Index: Added tag binding for log ease, enabling finer-grained data range query authorization capability.
  • Infrastructure > Custom:
    • Changed the concept of [Default Attributes] to [Required Attributes]: Reported data must contain these attribute fields, otherwise reporting will fail;
    • Supports adding resource catalogs to the secondary menu for easier viewing.
    • Custom Explorer added quick filters.
  • Scenarios:
    • Scheduled Reports: Added [DingTalk], [WeCom], [Lark] three notification methods;
    • Charts: [Time Series Charts, Pie Charts, Bar Charts, Histograms, Scatter Plots, Bubble Charts, Table Charts, Rectangle Tree Maps, Funnel Charts, Rankings, Maps, Hexagonal Maps] added data formats, allowing definition of [Decimal Places] and [Thousands Separator].
  • Monitoring > Notification Targets Management: Dismantled mail group type, existing ones remain unaffected.
  • Snapshots: Shared Snapshots: Added IP whitelist access restrictions.
  • Incident Tracking: [Severity] supports custom creation; supports enabling/disabling default severity levels.
  • Integration > Extension: DataFlux Func (Automata) and RUM Headless now support overseas sites: Oregon, Frankfurt, Singapore.

Integration Update

Huawei Cloud:

  • Huawei CCE: Guance supports monitoring the operational status and service capabilities of various resources in CCE, including Containers, Pods, Services, Deployments, Clusters, Nodes, Replica Sets, Jobs, Cron Jobs, etc. You can install DataKit via DaemonSet in Kubernetes to complete data collection of Kubernetes resources. Ultimately, real-time monitoring of the operational status of various Kubernetes resources occurs in Guance.

  • Huawei CSS (Elasticsearch): Core performance Metrics of Huawei Cloud Search Service CSS for Elasticsearch include query latency, indexing speed, search speed, disk usage rate, and CPU usage rate, all of which are critical Metrics for evaluating and optimizing Elasticsearch performance.

  • Huawei SYS.AS: Core performance Metrics of Huawei SYS.AS include CPU utilization, memory usage, disk I/O, network throughput, and system load, all of which are critical Metrics for evaluating and optimizing auto-scaling system performance.

  • Huawei ASM: Huawei Cloud's ASM outputs tracing data to Guance for viewing and analysis.

AWS:

  • AWS CloudFront: Core performance Metrics of AWS CloudFront include total requests, data transfer volume, HTTP error rates, cache hit rates, and latency, all of which help users evaluate and optimize CDN performance.

  • AWS MediaConvert: Includes data transfer, video errors, job counts, padding, etc.

  • AWS Aurora Serverless V2: AWS Aurora Serverless V2 includes connection counts, IOPS, queues, read/write latency, network throughput, etc.

  • AWS Redshift: Core performance Metrics of AWS Redshift include query performance, disk space usage, CPU utilization, database connection counts, and disk I/O operations, all of which are critical Metrics for evaluating and optimizing data warehouse performance.

  • AWS Simple Queue Service: Displayed Metrics include approximate existence time of the oldest undelivered message in the queue, delayed messages that cannot be immediately read, number of messages in flight, number of messages available for retrieval from the queue, etc.

  • AWS Timestream: Displayed Metrics include total number of system errors (internal service errors), total number of invalid requests for the current AWS region and current AWS account, elapsed time and sample count for successful requests, amount of data stored in memory, and amount of data stored in magnetic storage, etc.

  • AWS Neptune Cluster: Displayed Metrics include cold start time, execution time, concurrent execution count, and memory usage, reflecting Neptune Cluster function response speed, scalability, and resource utilization.

September 7, 2023

Guance Update

  • Scenario > Dashboards/Explorers: Added global cross-workspace query configuration.
  • Scenario > Chart Queries: Automatically aligned time intervals added "1 second" display when time widget range is less than or equal to [Last 15 Minutes].
  • Scenario > Service Management:
    • Service List added binding of multiple built-in views to analysis dashboards; added association, team information;
    • Added resource invocation analysis dashboards;
    • Supports saving snapshots.
  • Logs > Backup Logs:
    • Officially renamed to Data Forwarding;
    • Added trace, user access data sources;
    • Original backup logs billing item name renamed to data forwarding billing item.
  • Logs > Explorer: Added entry point for creating monitors; supports snapshot saving for explorer detail pages.
  • Management:
    • Global Tags: Added global tag functionality for unified tag management;
    • Field Management: Added aliases, set display columns;
    • Workspace Management: Functional consolidation and page optimization;
    • Member Management: Original member groups formally renamed to teams;
    • Sensitive Data Scan: Added scan rule count statistics; added jump links.
  • Monitoring:
    • Synthetic Testing Anomaly Detection: Added test Metrics, allowing detection based on [Metrics] dimension;
    • Mutation, Outlier, Range Detection: Supports selecting all data sources.

Integration Update

Alibaba Cloud:

  • aliyun_analyticdb_postgresql: Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB PostgreSQL Metrics display, including CPU, memory, disk, coordination node, instance queries, etc.
  • aliyun_clickhouse_community: Alibaba Cloud ClickHouse Metrics display, including service status, log traffic, operation counts, overall QPS, etc.
  • aliyun_kafka: Alibaba Cloud KafKa includes message throughput, latency, concurrent connections, and reliability, reflecting Kafka's performance and reliability guarantees when handling large-scale messaging and real-time data streams.
  • aliyun_lindorm: High throughput, low-latency data read/write capabilities, supporting high-concurrency transaction processing, as well as strong consistency and high-reliability data storage and query services.
  • aliyun_polardb_1.0: Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Distributed 1.0 Metrics display includes CPU utilization, memory utilization, network bandwidth, and disk IOPS.
  • aliyun_polardb_2.0: Alibaba Cloud PolarDB Distributed 2.0 Metrics display includes compute layer and storage node Metrics, such as CPU utilization, connection usage, disk usage, disk utilization, memory utilization, network bandwidth, etc.
  • aliyun_rds_postgresql: Alibaba Cloud RDS PostgreSQL Metrics display, including CPU usage rate, memory usage rate, etc.
  • aliyun_rocketmq5: Alibaba Cloud RocketMQ 5.0 Metrics display includes message throughput, latency, reliability, and horizontal scalability capabilities, etc.

AWS:

  • aws_dynamodb_DAX: AWS DynamoDB DAX Metrics display includes CPU usage rate for nodes or clusters, bytes received or transmitted on all network interfaces, number of packets, etc., reflecting the operational status of DynamoDB DAX.
  • aws_memorydb: AWS MemoryDB core performance Metrics include low-latency memory read/write capabilities, high-concurrency transaction processing capabilities, and linearly scalable storage capacity and throughput.

Huawei Cloud:

  • huawei_functiongraph: HUAWEI FunctionGraph Metrics display includes call counts, error counts, rejection counts, concurrency counts, reserved instance counts, runtime (including maximum runtime, minimum runtime, average runtime), etc., reflecting FunctionGraph function run statuses.
  • huawei_kafka: Includes message throughput, latency, concurrent connections, and reliability, reflecting Kafka's performance and reliability guarantees when handling large-scale messaging and real-time data streams.
  • huaweiyun_SYS_DDMS: 'Huawei Cloud SYS.DDMS Monitoring Views Metrics include message throughput, latency, concurrent connections, and reliability, reflecting DDMS's performance and reliability guarantees when handling large-scale messaging and real-time data streams.

Tencent Cloud:

  • tencent_keewidb: Tencent Cloud KeeWiDB Metrics display, including connection counts, requests, caching, keys, slow queries, etc.
  • tencent_mariadb: High-performance read/write capabilities, low-latency query response times, and support for high-concurrency transactions and scalability.
  • tencent_memcached: High-speed memory read/write capabilities, low-latency data access times, and high-concurrency access processing capabilities.
  • tencent_tdsql_c_mysql: High-throughput read/write capabilities, low-latency query response times, and support for high-concurrency transactions and scalability.

Others:

  • openai: OpenAI Metrics display includes total requests, response time, request counts, request error counts, and consumed token counts.
  • monitor_jira: When our applications or systems experience anomalies, timely handling is usually necessary to ensure normal operation. To better manage and track anomaly events, we can send these events to Jira to create incidents, allowing us to track, analyze, and resolve these issues within Jira. By quickly sending anomaly events to Jira to create incidents, we gain better capabilities for managing and tracking anomaly events, thereby better ensuring the normal operation of the system. Simultaneously, this method helps us better analyze and solve problems, improving system stability and reliability.

August 29, 2023

Guance Update

  • Scenario > SLO Charts: Added fault time display.
  • Deployment Edition: Management backend Mapping Rules added application compatibility rules only for newly joined members. When users enable this option, the mapping rules apply only to first-time joining members.

August 24, 2023

Guance Update

  • Billing Items:
    • Backup Logs: Added four archiving type billing items—OSS, OBS, AWS S3, Kafka—based on user-selected archiving types, aggregating and billing forwarded traffic sizes accordingly;
    • Application Performance Trace, User Access PV added 30-day/60-day data retention policies.
  • Monitoring:
    • Mute Rules: Supports configuring alert silencing based on different dimensions.
    • Monitors: Supports adding tags to monitors, filtering lists by tags; added quick filter columns to monitor lists and made some optimizations to the lists;
    • SLO: Added Fault Time display column.
  • Logs > Backup Logs: Added Kafka Message Queue external storage.
  • Explorers/Dashboards: Added Auto Refresh Functionality.
  • Explorer Detail Pages: Added Bind Built-in View entry.

Integration Update

  • Alibaba Cloud RDS MariaDB: Alibaba Cloud RDS MariaDB Metrics display includes response time, concurrent connections, QPS, and TPS.
  • Alibaba Cloud RocketMQ4: Alibaba Cloud RocketMQ 4.0 Metrics display includes message throughput, latency, reliability, and horizontal scalability.
  • Alibaba Cloud Tair Community Edition: Alibaba Cloud Tair Community Edition Metrics display includes CPU usage, memory usage, proxy total QPS, network traffic, hit rate, etc.
  • AWS DynamoDB: AWS DynamoDB Metrics display includes throughput capacity units (Capacity Units), latency, concurrent connections, and read/write throughput, reflecting DynamoDB’s performance and scalability when handling large-scale data storage and access.
  • AWS EventBridge: AWS EventBridge Metrics display includes event delivery latency, throughput, event scale, and scalability, reflecting EventBridge’s performance and reliability when handling large-scale event streams and real-time data delivery.
  • AWS Lambda: AWS Lambda Metrics display includes cold start time, execution time, concurrent execution count, and memory usage, reflecting Lambda functions’ response speed, scalability, and resource utilization.
  • HUAWEI SYS.AS: HUAWEI SYS.AS Metrics display includes response time, concurrent connections, throughput, and reliability, reflecting SYS.AS’s performance and stability when handling application requests and data interactions.
  • HUAWEI SYS.CBR: HUAWEI SYS.CBR Metrics display includes bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss rate, and network throughput, reflecting CBR’s performance and quality assurance in network transmission and bandwidth management.
  • Huawei Cloud GaussDB-Cassandra: Huawei Cloud GaussDB-Cassandra Metrics display includes read/write throughput, latency, data consistency, and scalability, reflecting GaussDB-Cassandra’s performance and reliability when handling large-scale distributed data storage and access.
  • Huawei Cloud GaussDB for MySQL: Huawei Cloud GaussDB for MySQL Metrics display includes response time, concurrent connections, read/write throughput, and scalability, reflecting GaussDB for MySQL’s performance and reliability when handling large-scale relational database operations.
  • Huawei Cloud GaussDB-Influx: Huawei Cloud GaussDB-Influx Metrics display includes write throughput, query latency, data retention policy, and scalability, reflecting GaussDB-Influx’s performance and reliability when handling large-scale time-series data storage and queries.
  • Huawei Cloud GaussDB-Redis: Huawei Cloud GaussDB-Redis Metrics display includes read/write throughput, response time, concurrent connections, and data persistence, reflecting GaussDB-Redis’s performance and reliability when handling high-concurrency data storage and caching.
  • Huawei Cloud GaussDB SYS.GAUSSDBV5: Huawei Cloud GaussDB SYS.GAUSSDBV5, providing CPU, memory, disk, deadlock, SQL response time Metrics data.
  • Huawei Cloud MongoDB: Huawei Cloud MongoDB Metrics display includes read/write throughput, latency, concurrent connections, and data reliability, reflecting MongoDB’s performance and scalability when handling large-scale document storage and queries.
  • Huawei Cloud RDS PostgreSQL: Huawei Cloud RDS PostgreSQL Metrics display includes query performance, transaction throughput, concurrent connections, and data reliability, reflecting RDS PostgreSQL’s performance and reliability when handling large-scale relational data storage and transaction processing.
  • Tencent Cloud CKafka: Tencent Cloud CKafka Metrics display includes message throughput, latency, concurrent connections, and reliability, reflecting CKafka’s performance and reliability guarantees when handling large-scale message transmission and real-time data streams.
  • Zadigx: Zadigx displays include overview, automated builds, automated deployments, automated testing, etc.
  • Lark and Incident Tracking Linkage: To conveniently and promptly obtain new Issues from Incident Tracking, you can create a robot in an internal group in Lark, DingTalk, or WeCom to receive reminders about new Issues or replies in Incident Tracking, helping to handle Issues promptly; you can also quickly reply to Issues via @mentioning the robot, improving our exception handling efficiency.

August 17, 2023

Guance Update

  • Management: Added Sensitive Data Scanning functionality: by creating desensitization rules for data, achieving information shielding.
  • Added billing item: Sensitive Data Scanning Traffic: Based on scanning rules, statistics on the original traffic size of scanned sensitive data (per GB/day).
  • Billing Center: Due to renovation and optimization, the consumption analysis section has been temporarily taken offline.

August 10, 2023

Guance Update

  • Added billing item:
    • Scheduled Reports: Billed based on the number of scheduled reports sent daily within the workspace;
  • Scenario:
    • Added *Service Management*: Service Management is a centralized entry point for accessing all key service information, allowing users to view performance and business data of different services within the current workspace, as well as all associated analyses, quickly identifying and solving service-related problems.
    • All charts support PromQL queries and expression queries.
  • Logs: Support viewing Context Logs directly on the log details page; context search range can be selected.
  • Explorer: Opening a data detail page supports exporting the current data as a JSON file with one click.
  • Application Performance Monitoring > Service > Call Topology: Added a table showing upstream/downstream call relationships for the current service, displaying request counts, average response times, and error counts for single-directional service relationships.
  • Monitor > Threshold Detection: Added Convert to PromQL Query for detection Metrics.
  • Infrastructure > CONTAINERS: Added Kubernets Events components to Pod, Service, Deployment, Node, Replica Set, Cron Job, Daemonset detail pages.

July 27, 2023

Guance Update

  • Scenario > Dashboard: Added Scheduled Report Function, supporting users creating reports based on certain dashboards and configuring timed email sending.
  • Navigation bar added *Invite Members* entry, allowing quick invitation of members through this entry. In the management page, added Invite Approval button. When this button is enabled, after sending invitations to members, approval is required for managing member join applications.
  • Logs > Backup Logs have the following adjustments:
    • Guance default archiving type discontinued:
      • Newly created backup rules will no longer support the 【Guance】default option;
      • Historically created backup rules will still take effect.
    • Added support for backup to external storage Alibaba Cloud OSS.
  • Monitoring > Create: Supports saving monitors as Custom Template Libraries, allowing users to quickly create similar monitor detections subsequently.
  • Monitoring > Create Monitor > Custom Create: In addition to 【Mutation Detection】【Range Detection】【Outlier Detection】, all detection rules' detection frequencies added 【Last 12 Hours】【Last 24 Hours】options.
  • *Incident Tracking: Added **Channel Delivery configuration entry on the new Issue page, supporting multi-selection; added *Unknown** option to severity, defaulting to this option.
  • To meet user data compliance requirements, Snapshots support desensitization of certain content through regular expression syntax for fields.
  • Scenario > Log Stream Diagram added Copy as cURL, export as CSV file functions.
  • User Access Monitoring > Explorer > Error: Added *Cluster Analysis* functionality, making it convenient to view frequently occurring errors.
  • Added data limit prompts: i.e- Log, trace data reaching the daily limit will stop receiving data. To adjust, please contact the account manager.

July 11, 2023

Guance Update

  • Integration Upgrade: Clicking any integration solution allows you to understand the full chain usage plan from configuration access, data collection to data application on the same page.
  • *Monitor > Template* Function Optimization: Supports creating or batch creating based on a single detection rule; supports filtering based on the detection library.
  • Application Performance Monitoring > Trace: Span List page added Waterfall Chart Mode, helping users analyze Span data information more intuitively; *Service Call Relationships* changed from service (service) level to service resource (service / resource) level, allowing deeper analysis of corresponding performance and call issues through drill-down to the interface level, thus helping users find problem points faster via interface-level calls.
  • *Charts > Overview Chart: Added thousand separator; in **Units > Values, “Default” changed to “Ten Thousand System”; added null value mapping in *Value Mapping**.
  • *Charts > Rectangle Tree Map*: Added display value options, enabling direct display of query result values in the chart when selected.
  • *Charts > Add Link*: Added query parameter, removed tags, search two parameters.
  • Application Performance Monitoring > Service list supports export.

Intelligent Inspection Update

Function Optimization:

  • Application Performance Inspection: Added default detection threshold modification entry, now enabling simultaneous adjustment of required detection service trigger values when initiating inspection.
  • RUM Performance Inspection: Optimized root cause display logic in page detail modules, resulting in more accurate root cause positioning after optimization.
  • Workspace Asset Inspection: Added default configuration (7 days), now enabling inspections without parameters.

Added Scripts:

  • Cloud Message Queue RocketMQ4.0
  • Huawei Cloud-CSS
  • Huawei Cloud-RocketMQ
  • Huawei Cloud-RabbitMQ
  • Huawei Cloud-WAF-Event List
  • Huawei Cloud-WAF-Event Overview

June 29, 2023

Guance Update

This update simplifies the registration process:

  • International Guance Product Services officially launched, users can purchase from AWS overseas cloud market.

  • International Guance products adopt a dollar-based pricing system. Workspaces registered under the original Oregon site in the Chinese station will be billed according to the adjusted prices.

  • The concept of Guance Corporate Accounts is officially changed to Billing Center Accounts;

Other updates:

  • Snapshot Permissions: Read-only members support creating and deleting snapshots that are visible only to themselves.

June 20, 2023

Guance Update

  • RUM (Real User Monitoring) collector collects user access monitoring data reported from web or mobile ends. Now provides RUM Headless one-click activation service, automatically installing and deploying in Guance's cloud host, completing DataKit installation and RUM collector deployment automatically. Only manual application connection is required.
  • Explorer: Optimized filtering, search interaction conversion logic, etc., allowing users to truly achieve what-you-see-is-what-you-get, and enabling free switching between UI and handwritten modes. Additionally: The DQL handwritten mode supported by the log explorer will be discontinued after the new version is released.
  • Logs > Backup Logs: Added external storage type selection, supporting writing to S3(AWS) object storage and Huawei Cloud OBS data writing.
  • Logs > Index: Added LogEase data binding configuration entry.
  • Dashboards/Built-in Views support Root Cause Analysis and Drill-down Analysis.
  • Management > Role Management: Supports Cloning Existing User Roles to reduce operational steps, quickly adding/removing permissions and creating roles.
  • Infrastructure > Containers: Added Daemonset Object Data display, drag-and-drop to change object classification display order.
  • Infrastructure > Containers: Deployments, Pods support directly associating Kubernetes event logs, view specific log information directly on the details page.
  • Added Incident Tracking OpenAPI Interface.
  • Management > Member Management lists, Monitoring > Notification Target Management > Email Groups, Incident Tracking > View Members, all notification target selections support searching by member nickname.
  • When work order status updates or there are new replies, customers are reminded via interface or email.
  • Improved prompt for invalid character input or length restrictions in text input boxes.

Intelligent Inspection Update

  • Added Inspections

    • AWS Cloudtrail Anomaly Event Inspection: AWS CloudTrail is a service used to track, log, and monitor activities within an AWS account. It records operations performed within the AWS account, including management console access, API calls, resource changes, etc. We can discover potential security issues by monitoring error events in CloudTrail, such as unauthorized API calls, denied access to resources, abnormal authentication attempts, etc. This helps protect your AWS account and resources from unauthorized access and malicious activities; it also allows you to understand the types, frequency, and impact scope of failures occurring in the system. This helps you quickly identify problems and take appropriate corrective measures to reduce downtime and business impact.

  • Added Scripts

    • Guance Integration (Alibaba Cloud-RDS Error Logs): Collects Alibaba Cloud's RDS error logs for RDS error diagnostics;
    • Filebeats Data Collector: Collects FileBeats performance data for observing FileBeats performance, latency, etc.;
    • Logstash Data Collector: Collects Logstash performance data for observing Logstash performance, latency, etc.

June 6, 2023

Guance Update

  • To further meet user data viewing needs, the Commercial Plan Billing Center added Set High Consumption Warning Function, added consumption analysis lists, supporting viewing various expenditure statistics.
  • Added Menu Style Selection when creating workspaces, supporting selecting different workspace style attributes.
  • Optimized permission-related rules for log data access, further clarifying multi-role data query permissions and their corresponding relationships.
  • Added associated queries under basic attributes in event detail pages, supporting viewing and filtering all field values related to the current detection dimension.
  • Alert strategy management supports sending alerts at different levels to different notification targets.
  • Member Management added nickname annotation functionality, standardizing member usernames within the workspace, supporting searching members via nickname annotations.
  • Added batch operation functions to dashboard, explorer, monitoring, member management, share management, etc. page lists.
  • Application performance monitoring services support color modification and header sorting adjustments.
  • Log, application performance monitoring > error tracking explorer cluster analysis supports document count sorting, default descending order.
  • Supports saving the selected language version for login to the browser locally, automatically displaying the last selected language version upon next login.
  • Generated metric frequency options adjusted, supporting selection of 1 minute, 5 minutes, 15 minutes.

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Management backend added Password Security Policy: Added password 8-character length limit and password validity period function.

Intelligent Inspection Update

  • Added Inspections

    • Workspace Asset Inspection: For service inspections ensuring normal service operation, timely discovering faults or anomalies reduces business losses. Furthermore, inspections help improve service availability and stability by identifying and resolving potential issues. They can also enhance operational efficiency, accelerating issue diagnosis and resolution, optimizing resource allocation. Ensuring secure business operations, through regular inspections of hosts, K8s, containers, etc., operators can ensure these services efficiently and stably support business, providing enterprises with a continuously reliable operating environment.

  • Added Scripts

    • Gitlab Development Efficiency Analysis: Displays team development efficiency based on Gitlab code commit frequency and each code volume, segmented by team, individual, and time dimensions.

June 1, 2023

Guance Update

DataFlux Func is Guance's extension programming platform, usable for synchronizing cloud platform data, function development, management, and execution. Now supports one-click activation service for DataFlux Func Managed Edition across all domestic sites. After activation, Func can be automatically deployed in cloud hosts, and quick login to the corresponding Func platform can be accessed in the workspace’s Integration section.

May 22, 2023

Guance Update

  • RUM application configuration added Custom Types and associated view analysis
  • DQL functions support Regular Expression Aggregation data statistics display returns, added string regular expression parsing functions, extracting fields based on regular expressions, determining if fields contain matching substrings
  • Added PromQL syntax query entry, supporting PromQL Queries for time-series data
  • show_tag_value() function supports querying associated tags for Metrics fields
  • Mini Program SDK supports collecting startup parameter-related information; Added Custom Error.
  • Status Page supports Subscribe to Fault Notifications
  • Added field management functionality, in Monitors, Chart Queries, Explorers, etc., displays corresponding descriptions and unit information if related fields are selected
  • Metric Analysis added table functionality, supports downloading
  • Work Order Status adjustment
  • Added Incident Tracking guidance page, channel added Time Range Filtering
  • Backup Logs Optimization:
    • New Backup rule entry moved to Backup Logs > Backup Management;
    • Added full backup logic: not adding filters indicates saving all log data

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Management backend added Audit Events logging

Intelligent Inspection Update

  • Added Inspections

    • Idle Cloud Resource Inspection: Cloud computing has rapidly developed as a new IT service model, providing convenient, fast, and elastic IT infrastructure and application services for enterprises and individuals, bringing high efficiency and economic benefits. However, with cloud resources becoming the main component of enterprise data centers, the enormous waste of cloud resources becomes increasingly significant. Especially within enterprises, due to demand fluctuations and departmental isolation, some cloud resources cannot be fully utilized, forming large amounts of idle resources. This situation causes enterprise cloud service costs to rise sharply, decreases resource efficiency, and may lower security and performance levels. To better manage and optimize idle cloud resources, enhancing the use benefits and resource utilization rate of cloud computing, performing idle cloud resource inspections is very necessary. Through inspections, unnecessary resources in current cloud services can be discovered and handled promptly, avoiding unnecessary expenses, data leaks, poor performance, and other issues caused by long-term use.

    • Host Restart Inspection: Host abnormal restart monitoring is an important aspect of modern internet system operations. On one hand, the stability and reliability of computer systems are crucial for smooth business operations and user experience. When a host experiences abnormal restarts, it can lead to system crashes, service interruptions, and data loss risks, affecting business operations and user satisfaction. On the other hand, with the increasing number and scale of hosts in cloud computing and virtualization environments, system complexity increases, raising the probability of issues occurring. Therefore, system administrators need to use relevant system monitoring tools for real-time monitoring and timely discovery and resolution of abnormal restarts. Thus, reasonably implementing host abnormal restart monitoring can help enterprises quickly diagnose problems, reduce business risks, improve operational efficiency, and enhance user experience.

  • Function Optimization

    • Idle Host Inspection: Added cost-related information association for cloud host types.

For more intelligent inspection updates, refer to Intelligent Inspection Version History.

April 27, 2023

Guance Update

  • Overview charts support displaying multiple comparative dimensions simultaneously (daily comparison/weekly comparison/monthly comparison/...).
  • Standard members added snapshot sharing functionality.
  • DQL Query renamed to Query Tool, added execution button.
  • Host list display optimized, hosts under alert silence added mute prompts.
  • SLO alert notification content optimized, added workspace and site information.
  • Optimized display logic for workspace ID and token, default hidden, supports viewing and copying.
  • Free Plan workspaces added Session Replay, Profile usage restrictions.

April 23, 2023

Guance Billing Update:

  • Guance self-developed time-series database officially launched, time-series data storage and billing will be adjusted as follows:

    • Infrastructure (DataKit) billing items discontinued, original "DataKit + Time Series", "Only Time Series" two billing models will use only the self-developed time-series database's time series as billing logic;
    • Self-developed time-series database Time Series: Bills based on the number of active time series counted per day, price as low as ¥0.6 per thousand time series.

  • User Access Monitoring "Session Replay" officially started charging, billed based on actual collected session replay data sessions, ¥10 per thousand Sessions.

More details can be referenced in the Billing Methodology documentation.

Guance Feature Update:

  • Self-developed Time-Series Database officially launched
  • Incident Tracking new features launched
  • Cross-Site Workspace Authorization feature launched
  • SLS added Third-Party Authorization opening
  • Bind index configuration page optimized, supports custom addition of mapping field configurations
  • Chart Optimization
    • Command Panel added local Func's custom function selection
    • Time Series Chart added Advanced Functions, supports local Func processing query results from DQL twice and then displaying them
  • Workspace added Time Zone Configuration, users can customize the time zone for current workspace queries
  • Integration > DataKit page guide optimized
  • Explorer column width preservation, log display multiline logic adjustment

Guance Deployment Edition Update

  • Added Account Login Mapping Rule Configuration, dynamically assigning workspaces and corresponding roles based on different mapping rules.

DataKit Update

New Features:

  • Added Pinpoint API access

Feature Optimization:

  • Optimized Windows installation script and upgrade script output method, making it easier to copy-paste in the terminal
  • Optimized Datakit's own documentation build process
  • Optimized OpenTelemetry field handling
  • Prom collector supports collecting info type labels and appending them to all associated metrics (default enabled)
  • In the system collector, added CPU and memory usage percentage metrics
  • Datakit sends data with point count markers (X-Points), facilitating related metric construction in the center
    • Also optimized Datakit HTTP's User-Agent marker, changing it to datakit-<os>-<arch>/<version> format
  • KafkaMQ:
    • Supports processing Jaeger data
    • Optimized SkyWalking data processing flow
    • Added third-party RUM access capability
  • SkyWalking added HTTP access capability
  • Added the following integration tests:
    • Apache
    • JVM
    • Memcached
    • MongoDB
    • RabbitMQ
    • Statsd
    • Tomcat
    • etcd

More DataKit updates can be found in the DataKit Version History.

April 13, 2023

Intelligent Inspection Update

  • Script Market Intelligent Inspection Script Collection:

    • Optimized activation steps, no need to create new scripts, no need to create new schedules, after clicking install from the official script market, creation and scheduling are automatically completed, configure parameters and activate;
    • Updated disk usage rate inspection: optimized algorithm for judging disk usage rate inspection trends, providing users with more precise problem localization.

  • Script Market Cloud Sync Script Collection:

    • Optimized activation steps, no need to create new scripts, no need to create new schedules, after clicking install from the official script market, creation and scheduling are automatically completed, configure parameters and activate;
    • Added multiple AWS authentication methods synchronization;
    • Added AWS Cloudwatch Logs synchronization.

More intelligent inspection updates can be found in the Intelligent Inspection Version History.

April 11, 2023

Guance Update

Added Huawei Cloud Marketplace Activation Process

  • Guance added the one-click activation process for the Huawei Cloud marketplace, after subscribing to Guance on the Huawei Cloud marketplace, you can directly activate and use Guance. More details can be found in the Activate Guance Commercial Edition on Huawei Cloud documentation.

April 6, 2023

Guance Update

  • Logs added 3-day data retention policy and pricing, refer to the Billing Methodology documentation for billing-related information.
  • Logs added Data Access permission control, supports granting viewing permissions for log data within a certain range to related roles
  • Role Permission List added data query permissions for each functional module, supports configuring corresponding module data query permissions entries for custom roles
  • Standard members added "Snapshot Management" permission, supports snapshot creation and deletion operations
  • Snapshot Sharing supports search functionality. (DQL query mode for logs does not support adjusting search scope)
  • Supports creating Custom Notification Targets via websocket protocol using local Func, enabling external notification channels to receive alert notifications
  • Explorer added Copy as cURL data query functionality
  • Dashboard chart configuration interaction optimized
    • Overview Chart added numerical unit option configuration, supports selecting Chinese scientific notation progression (default) and short scale system
    • Added whether View Variables apply to chart effect display
    • When charts have grouping conditions, supports applying the opposite value of a grouping condition to view variables for linked filtering
    • When charts have grouping conditions, selecting a grouping condition's corresponding timeline or data point supports highlighting the same grouping in other charts
    • Chart drag-and-drop effect optimized
  • Account Inactive Session Expiration Time default adjusted to 3 hours, this adjustment applies only to accounts that have not edited the inactive session expiration time configuration, does not affect accounts that have already edited the inactive session expiration time configuration.
  • Filter History added saved search conditions
  • User Access Monitoring Application SDK Access guidance optimized
  • Generate Metrics configuration optimized, supports configuring units and descriptions for newly generated metrics
  • Host Explorer supports multi-line display, label will display on a new line in multi-line mode
  • Time Series Chart, Pie Chart added return display quantity configuration

DataKit Update

New Features

  • Added servo service to manage Datakit upgrades
  • Added troubleshooting functionality

Feature Optimization

  • Optimized upgrade functionality, preventing datakit.conf file corruption
  • Optimized cgroup configuration, removed CPU minimum value restriction
  • Optimized self collector, allowing choice to enable this collector, while improving its collection performance
  • Prom collector allows adding instance tag to maintain consistency with native Prometheus system
  • DCA added Kubernetes deployment method
  • Optimized disk cache performance for log collection
  • Optimized Datakit's own metrics system, exposing more Prometheus metrics
  • Optimized /v1/write
  • Optimized token error prompt during installation
  • Monitor automatically retrieves connection address from datakit.conf
  • Removed mandatory kernel version check for eBPF, trying to support more kernel versions
  • Kafka subscription collection supports multi-line JSON function
  • Optimized IO module configuration, added upload worker number configuration field

Compatibility Adjustments

  • Most Sinker functions were removed in this update, only retaining the Sinker function on Dataway. Meanwhile, both host-installed and Kubernetes-installed Sinker configurations have been adjusted, with different configuration methods compared to before. Please pay attention to adjustments when upgrading.
  • The old version's failed disk caching due to performance issues was replaced with a new implementation method. The new implementation's binary cache format is no longer compatible. If upgrading, old data will not be recognized. It is recommended to manually delete old cache data first (old data might affect new version disk caching), then proceed with the upgrade. Nonetheless, the new version's disk cache remains an experimental feature, use with caution.
  • Datakit's own metrics system was updated, existing DCA-obtained metrics will have certain omissions, but this does not affect the running of DCA itself.

More DataKit updates can be referenced in the DataKit Version History.

March 23, 2023

Guance Update

  • Help document search function optimized

  • Backup Logs added extended field preservation logic, default backs up only message content to backup logs; if "Synchronize Backup Extended Fields" is checked, backups conforming to filter conditions will include entire log data

  • Explorer/Dashboard Time Widget added "Time Zone Selection" and "Global Lock" features

  • Monitors optimized

    • Support viewing previous historical configurations, support clicking to restore to Historical Configuration Versions
    • Lists and pages added creation/change information display
    • Mutation Detection added comparison dimensions, supports choosing to compare statistical metrics with "Yesterday" or "Last Hour"

  • Smart Inspection events added feedback entry

  • Snapshots sharing supports adding "Creator" watermark display
  • Registration activation process optimized, cloud market activation paths added site selection
  • Notes creation logic and content addition interaction adjusted
  • Chart Queries added label reverse selection logic
  • Trace detail page Span list display logic adjusted, sorted by "Duration" in descending order
  • Member Management role modification logic adjusted after triggering review process
  • Explorer column width preservation, log display multiline logic adjustment

March 9, 2023

Guance Update

Data Storage Strategy Change Optimization

Removed the logic that data storage strategies can only be modified once per day, supporting multiple adjustments to data storage strategies within the same day.

Note: Except for the first modification on the same day taking immediate effect, other modifications will take effect the next day according to the last adjustment record. For how to change, refer to the Data Storage Strategy documentation.

Chart link configuration interaction upgraded, supports freely combining final chart association link URLs through parameter configuration on top of text box input. More details can be found in the Custom Links documentation.

Added Support for Creating Duplicate Dashboards, Notes, and Custom Explorers

Optimized import functions for dashboards, notes, and custom explorers, if duplicate file names are detected, supports custom choices of "Skip", "Still Create", "Cancel". Involved import modules:

  • Scenario: Dashboards, Notes, Explorers
  • Management: Settings - Configuration Migration

Note: If "Cancel" is selected for import, the selected files will not be imported this time. More details can be found in the Configuration Migration documentation.

DQL Parameter Priority Adjustment

If you use hand-written DQL mode to query data, the time parameter configuration in DQL will take precedence over the input range of the time widget. Involved functions:

  • Dashboard: Default value query for view variables, chart queries
  • Metric Analysis
  • DQL Query Tool

Log Message Data Display Optimization

Log view lists support choosing to display all message contents. Involved functions:

  • Log Explorer
  • Associated log pages in various explorer detail pages

Monitor Configuration Page Optimization

When configuring monitor event notifications:

  • Supports custom "Data Break" event notification templates
  • Event content supports adding jump links, in addition to the default provided links, you can also define custom jump links

More details can be found in the Monitor Configuration documentation.

  • SSO users support modifying account information and session duration strategies
  • SAML account mapping rule configuration optimized, compatible with "Email" in various case formats
  • Single sign-on link retrieval logic optimized, prioritizing listing login links for workspaces already joined by SSO users who have joined before

Other Functional Optimizations

  • Commercial edition activation process supports "Guance Direct Activation", "Alibaba Cloud Market Activation", and "Amazon Cloud Market Activation" three ways to choose from;
  • Explorer left * query function scope adjustment, newly activated workspaces no longer default support left * query, if needed, please contact the account manager;
  • SLIMIT limit adjustment, if group by exists in time series chart queries, defaults to returning up to 20 data points;
  • New workspace beginner guidance process optimized.

DataKit Update

New Features

  • Pipeline supports key deletion
  • Pipeline adds new KV operations
  • Pipeline adds time functions
  • netstat supports IPV6
  • diskio supports io wait metrics
  • Container collection allows coexistence of Docker and Containerd
  • Integrated Datakit Operator configuration documentation

Feature Optimization

  • Optimized Point Checker
  • Optimized Pipeline replace performance
  • Optimized Windows Datakit installation process
  • Optimized confd configuration handling process
  • Added Filebeat integration testing capability
  • Added Nginx integration testing capability
  • Restructured OTEL Agent
  • Restructured Datakit Monitor information

More DataKit updates can be found in the DataKit Version History.

February 28, 2023

Guance Update

Added Session Replay Feature

Session Replay is a reconstruction demonstration of the user experience website, capturing clicks, mouse movements, and page scrolling content to generate video records, gaining deep insights into the user's operational experience. More details can be found in the Session Replay documentation.

Optimized AWS Activation Process

Guance optimized the one-click activation process for Guance on the AWS cloud market, after subscribing to Guance on the AWS cloud market, you can directly activate and use Guance. More details can be found in the Activate Guance on AWS documentation.

February 23, 2023

Guance Update

User Access Monitoring Optimization

Added Automated Tracking for User Access Monitoring

User access monitoring added automated tracking, implemented via "browser plugins" to record user access behaviors, creating code-free end-to-end tests. More details can be found in the Automated Tracking documentation.

Overall Layout Adjustment for User Access Monitoring Application List, Explorer, and Analysis Dashboard
  • Adjusted layout of user access monitoring application lists, supports jumping to the "Analysis Dashboard" and "Explorer" content details for the current application from the application list.

  • User access monitoring "Explorer" supports viewing user access data for all applications, you can filter "Application IDs" to view and analyze data for different applications.

  • User access monitoring "Analysis Dashboard" supports switching views for Web, Mobile, Mini Programs scenarios.

Added CDN Quality Analysis

User access monitoring added CDN vendor information collection, analyzing charts to perform quality analysis on different vendors' CDNs. More configurations can be found in the User Access Monitoring Collector Configuration.

Added UniAPP Application Access

User access monitoring added UniAPP application access, currently supports Android and iOS platforms. More details can be found in the UniApp Application Access documentation.

Scenario Optimization

Added Custom Explorer Navigation Menu

In the scenario explorer list, added support for adding the current explorer to the navigation menu for Infrastructure, Metrics, Logs, APM, RUM, Synthetic Tests, Security Checks, CI Visualization. More details can be found in the Add Explorer Navigation Menu documentation.

Enhanced Scenario View Variable Cascading Functionality

When configuring cascading queries for scenario view variables, supports using = , != for exact variable value matching, supports using match(re) , not match(re) , wildcard , not wildcard for fuzzy variable value matching. More details can be found in the View Variables documentation.

Added Merge Configuration Options for Pie Charts

Pie charts added merge configuration options, supporting merging redundant data points into "Other" for display, improving pie chart readability. More details can be found in the Pie Chart documentation.

Adjusted Chart Query Operator Translation Logic

Adjusted translation logic for match / not match operators in chart queries, removed default right * matching logic for log class data in match, add manually in input box if needed.

Other Functional Optimizations

  • Guance Commercial Edition Registration process supports binding Guance Billing Center accounts;
  • Configuring Monitors, "Detection Dimensions" support non-mandatory.

DataKit Update

New Features

  • Command line added row protocol parsing function
  • Datakit yaml and helm support resource limit configuration
  • Datakit yaml and helm support CRD deployment
  • Added SQL-Server integration testing
  • RUM supports resource CDN tagging

Feature Optimization

  • Optimized synthetic test logic
  • Optimized Windows installation prompt
  • Optimized powershell installation script template
  • Optimized k8s Pod, ReplicaSet, Deployment association methods
  • Restructured point data structure and functionality
  • Datakit includes eBPF collector binary installation

More DataKit updates can be found in the DataKit Version History.

February 16, 2023

Guance Update

Optimized Workspace Permission Management

Added Member Role and Permission List Management

Guance added role management functionality, supporting setting different Guance function access permissions for employees within an enterprise, achieving permission isolation among different employees.

Guance default provides four member roles, namely "Owner", "Administrator", "Standard", and "Read-only". Besides the default roles, Guance supports creating new roles in role management and assigning permission scopes to roles, meeting different users' permission needs. More details can be found in the Role Management documentation.

Optimized Member Invitation, Added Member Permission Selection

In the current space, invited new members default to read-only members, added support for selecting one or more roles to set new member permissions. More details can be found in the Member Management documentation.

Added Batch Modification of Member Permissions

In member management, added batch modification of permissions functionality. Click "Batch Modify Permissions", select members requiring batch modification of permissions, click "Confirm", select permissions for members in the pop-up dialog box, and "Confirm" to complete. More details can be found in the Member Management documentation.

Optimized SSO Management, Added SAML Mapping Functionality

Guance added SAML mapping configuration, providing a more refined single sign-on solution for enterprises. After enabling SAML mapping, supports dynamically assigning access permissions to enterprise employees, allowing employees to access Guance based on assigned role permissions.

In Guance workspace "Management" - "Member Management" - "SSO Management" - "SSO Login", enable "SAML Mapping", and configure mapping relationships in "SAML Mapping". More details can be found in the SSO Management documentation.

Member Management Page Display Optimization

In member management, added custom role management functionality, adjusted search, quick filtering layouts. More details can be found in the Member Management documentation.

Permission Change Review Optimization

Based on the added role permission management, adjusted the triggering conditions for Billing Center reviews. When user roles are granted Token viewing and operation permissions, it triggers the Guance Billing Center review. More details can be found in the Permission Change Review documentation.

Added Login Session Duration Setting

Guance supports setting session duration for accounts logging into workspaces, including SSO single sign-on accounts and workspace-registered accounts, supporting setting "Inactive Login Session Duration" and "Maximum Login Session Duration", settings after which timeout login sessions will expire.

  • Inactive Login Session Duration: Supports setting ranges 30 ~ 1440 minutes, default is 30 minutes;
  • Maximum Login Session Duration: Supports setting ranges 0 ~ 7 days, where 0 means never expires, default is 7 days.

Added Ticket Management

For issues encountered in Guance, users can submit tickets for consultation and suggestions, which will be handled and responded to promptly by the official team. Examples include: difficult-to-resolve issues during use, purchasing and billing-related consultations, proposing requirement suggestions to Guance, etc.

The ticket system is based on personal account levels, users can view all tickets submitted by themselves in ticket management, regardless of workspace. Ticket management entry: bottom-left corner "Account" - "Ticket Management". More details can be found in the Ticket Management documentation.

Other Functional Optimizations

  • When creating a workspace, added language selection, language options affect event, alert, SMS, etc. templates within the workspace. If English is selected, the above corresponding templates will default to English templates;
  • Optimized workspace lock function, if Billing Center accounts are overdue or cloud market subscriptions are abnormal, it may lead to workspace locking. After workspace locking, new data will stop being reported, Guance provides a 14-day buffer period during which you can continue to view and analyze historical data and unlock the status to continue using Guance. More details can be found in the Workspace Lock documentation.

Intelligent Inspection Update

  • RUM Performance Inspection: Supports jumping to problematic Session IDs affecting users in inspection reports, providing more professional optimization methods in inspection event reports.
  • Cloud Account Instance Dimension Bill Inspection: Added support for AWS account instance dimension bill inspections.

More intelligent inspection updates can be found in the Intelligent Inspection Update Log.

Best Practices Update

  • Cloud Platform Access
    • Alibaba Cloud - Alibaba Cloud EventBridge Best Practices

More best practices updates can be found in the Best Practices Version History.

February 9, 2023

DataKit Update

New Features

  • Datakit host installation can customize default collectors to start
  • Provides OTEL error tracking
  • Provides RUM Session playback capability

Feature Optimization

  • Datakit pyroscope profiling multi-programming language recognition
  • Optimized CPU, Disk, EBPF, Net Chinese and English documentation
  • Optimized elasticsearch, postgresql, dialtesting English documentation
  • Optimized DCA, Profiling documentation
  • Optimized log collection process
  • iploc yaml configuration method documentation support

More DataKit updates can be found in the DataKit Version History.

Intelligent Inspection Update

Added Inspections

  • RUM Performance Inspection: Real User Monitoring (RUM) is an application performance monitoring technology aimed at assessing website performance by simulating real user behavior when browsing websites. The purpose of RUM is to understand website performance from the user's perspective, understanding website load times, webpage rendering effects, loading situations of page elements, and interaction responses. The use cases for RUM performance inspections mainly focus on client-type websites, such as e-commerce websites, financial websites, entertainment websites, etc., which all require presenting users with fast and smooth access experiences. By analyzing RUM performance results, developers can quickly understand actual user experiences to improve website performance promptly.
  • Kubernetes Health Inspection: Nowadays, Kubernetes has swept the entire container ecosystem, acting as the brain for distributed container deployments, managing service-oriented applications using containers distributed across host clusters. Kubernetes provides mechanisms for application deployment, scheduling, updates, service discovery, and scaling, but how do we ensure the health of Kubernetes nodes? Through intelligent inspections, current node resource states, application performance management, service fault logs, etc., can be retrieved and problems identified, thereby accelerating event investigations, reducing engineers' pressure, reducing mean time to repair, and improving end-user experience.

More intelligent inspection updates can be found in the Intelligent Inspection Update Log.

January 17, 2023

Guance English Version Launched

January 12, 2023

Guance Update

Added Guance Site Service Status Page

Guance provides a Status Page, helping you view the service status of different Guance sites in real-time. If you are already logged into Guance, you can click on the bottom-left Help > Status Page to view the service status of various Guance sites. More details can be found in the Status Page documentation.

Added Binding Self-Built Elasticsearch / OpenSearch Indexes

Guance added support for binding self-built Elasticsearch / OpenSearch indexes, helping you quickly view and analyze your log data uniformly. More details can be found in the Bind Index documentation.

Added Network Explorer List Mode

In "Infrastructure" - "Network", select "HOST / Pod / Deployment / Service", supports switching to the corresponding network list to view source IP/port and destination IP/port TCP retransmission counts, TCP connections, TCP closures, TCP delays, bytes sent, bytes received, status codes, etc. More details can be found in the Network documentation.

Added Frontend Application Span Request Duration Distribution Display

In the trace detail page, if the current trace belongs to a frontend application call-generated Span, you can view request duration distribution in the trace detail, including Queueing (queue), First Byte (first packet), Download (download) request duration percentages, helping you intuitively view the process consumption percentages of a particular Span.

Note: RUM SDK must be version 2.2.10 or higher to see this data display, cross-origin situations require adjusting header configurations. More details can be found in the Web Application Access documentation.

Optimized User Access Monitoring Session Interaction Logic

  • Removed all record lists from the Session Explorer;
  • Optimized Session detail page display: type display optimized, supports switching session occurrence absolute time, added service column, optimized detail page display, optimized error information
  • Optimized Session update logic: Session data updates changed from append logic to covering logic based on session_id -- If the trace includes a Span generated by a frontend application call, the corresponding service value for that Span will be filled based on the current user access data's service value; if there is no service information in the user access data, it defaults to filling "browser".

For more details, refer to the Session (Session) documentation.

Pod Metrics Data Collection Default Disabled

In the latest DataKit version, the Pod metrics data configuration for the container collector has been set to default disabled enable_pod_metric = false. For more details, refer to the Container Data Collection documentation.

Other Functional Optimizations

  • Binding MFA authentication changed to email verification
  • Registration adjusted mobile verification to email verification
  • Login security verification changed to slider verification
  • Creating workspaces added Guance exclusive edition guidance
  • Workspaces added note display functionality
  • Cloud account settlement users added viewing bill lists in Guance Commercial Plan and Billing Center
  • Table charts support setting aliases based on by grouping
  • Optimized time series charts in monitor configurations, only displayed after selecting dimensions
  • Optimized log data gap alert configuration
  • OpenAPI added create workspace interface

DataKit Update

  • confd Added Nacos Backend
  • Log collector added LocalCache feature
  • Supports C/C++ Profiling data
  • RUM Session Replay file upload

  • WEB DCA supports remote config updates

  • Optimized SQL data resource high usage issues

  • Optimized Datakit Monitor

For more DataKit updates, refer to the DataKit Version History.

Best Practices Update

  • Cloud Platform Access
    • AWS - EKS Deploy DataKit.
  • Monitoring Monitoring
    • Application Performance Monitoring (APM) - Trace - Use datakit-operator to inject dd-java-agent.

For more best practice updates, refer to the Best Practice Version History.

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