Insight Release Notes¶

This page lists the Release Notes of Insight Observability, so that you can understand the evolution path and feature changes of each version.

2023.06.01¶

v0.17.0¶

Added¶

• Added support for viewing active alarm and history alarm details.
• Added support for quickly creating silent rules through alarms.
• Added support for SMS notifications in alarms.
• Added support for sending test messages in email notifications.
• Added support for customizing email subjects in message templates for email notifications.
• Added variable explanations to message templates.
• Added default high availability support for Insight Server component.

Improvements¶

• Improved display full TraceID in trace query.
• Improved added prompt when service is empty in trace query.
• Improved added no data prompt for JVM monitoring.
• Improved alarm policy details do not show other parameters if not notified.
• Improved added resource limits for OpenTelemetry Operator.
• Improved upgraded Grafana version to v9.3.14.
• Improved upgraded tailing sidecar version from v0.5.6 to v0.7.0.
• Improved upgraded kube-prometheus-stack version to v45.28.1.
• Improved upgraded prometheus version to v2.44.0.

Bug Fixes¶

• Fixed issue where service topology was effective when namespace was empty.
• Fixed issue with invalid documentation link in service topology status description.
• Fixed duplication of namespace and stateless workload in displayed namespace when creating alarm policies.
• Fixed missing trigger value data in alarm list and alarm policy in alarms.
• Fixed validation error in required fields for type, keyword, and value when adding silence conditions in alarm silencing.
• Fixed time zone not being effective in alarm silencing time range.
• Fixed issue where no alarm object was created for promQL rules for workload types.
• Fixed issue where modifications to built-in alarm rules could not be saved.
• Fixed issue with hardcoded time zone in components.

2023.04.28¶

v0.16.0¶

New¶

• Added JVM monitoring for Java applications.
• Added Set alert silent notification.
• Added alert policy function, which supports adding multiple alert rules in an alert policy for management.
• Added Nginx Ingress, Contour and other components monitoring dashboard.
• Added The service topology supports enabling or disabling virtual nodes.
• Added Added statistics on the number of currently active alerts.
• Added ServiceMonitor with built-in HwameiStor component.
• Added domain name supports access to sub path.
• Added [Dashboard] Add record information according to the global management configuration
• Added [Dashboard] domain name supports access to sub path.

Optimization¶

• Optimized the content of the built-in message template.
• Optimized Adjust the built-in alert rules to the corresponding policies.
• Optimized The filter display problem when the service namespace is empty.
• Optimized Add cache to service list.

Fixes¶

• Fixed The problem of Chinese invalid search.
• Fixed The problem that the service topology namespace permission cannot view the topology map.
• Fixed [Dashboard] Kylin icon style problem
• Fixed [dashboard] tooltip is too long

2023.04.04¶

v0.15.4¶

Optimization¶

• Optimized Update the default number of primary shards for ES index to match the default number of ES nodes in the middleware.
• Optimized Modify the JVM information API response body structure.

Fixes¶

• Fixed Fix multiple trigger alert logging
• Fixed Fluentbit CVE-2021-46848, upgrade from 2.0.5 to 2.0.8
• Fixed task to check license resources
• Fixed SQL statement to clear alert history
• Fixed the Chinese problem in the English dashboard

2023.03.30¶

v0.15.1¶

New¶

• Added JVM metric collection and integrated monitoring panel
• Added Link Access Guidance
• Added service topology supports error rate and request delay filtering
• Added link supports Trace ID search
• Added Prometheus component to enable automatic vertical expansion

Optimization¶

• Optimized the style of the topology map virtual node
• Optimized service topology virtual node increase switch

Fixes¶

• Fixed display style of pod running status
• Fixed When the link feature is not enabled, hide related configuration parameters
• Fixed Some front-end styles do not take effect
• Fixed collection pod metrics no data problem
• Fixed Unable to install insight-agent in OpenShift cluster

2023.02.27¶

v0.14.6¶

New¶

• Added Added a refresh button to the chart
• Added service topology supports selecting multiple clusters and supports searching by service name
• Added service topology details and metrics of traffic egress and ingress
• Added Click on the service name in the service topology details to jump to the details of the service
• Added list of service monitoring and metrics of traffic egress and ingress
• Added system component monitoring list
• Added CoreDNS monitoring panel
• Added When installing Insight Agent, add whether to enable kubeAudit collection settings

Optimization¶

• Optimized filter conditions in trace query and view traces with Error
• Optimized The scatter diagram of the trace query is updated to a bubble diagram
• Optimized reduce Prometheus's metrics retention time to 2 hours
• Optimized The default parameter of retentionPeriod of VMStorage is adjusted to 1 month
• Upgrade fluentbit helm chart version to 0.24.0
• Updated tailing-sidecar/operator mirror
• Updated Global collection rule interval is 60 seconds

Fixes¶

• Fixed built-in vmcluster dashboard
• Fixed When the link is not opened, the navigation bar cannot be loaded
• Fixed System component jump to view details link error
• Fixed The quick installation/uninstallation link of the acquisition management list is wrong
• Fixed After advanced index query query, the overlapping part of the index association and chart in the drop-down box cannot be selected
• Fixed Allow input of decimals when modifying the storage duration of historical alerts
• Fixed Send multiple notifications when an alert rule generates multiple alerts
• Fixed configmap-reload mirror error for vmalert and vmalertmanager
• Fixed fluentbit for Insight Agent on ARM architecture

2023.01.10¶

v0.13.2¶

Fixes¶

• Fixed the problem that kubernetes-event-exporter image address in insight-agent is wrong
• Fixed Filter alerts API by resource name

2023.12.30¶

v0.13.1¶

Fixes¶

• Fixed Build offline package to add .relok8s-images file
• Fixed Adjust the port name corresponding to the component otel-collector port in insight-agent

2022.12.29¶

v0.13.0¶

Features¶

• Added support for modifying the storage time of historical alerts
• Added Added status details of collection management components
• Added built-in message template
• Added Chart metric Calculation Instructions

Optimization¶

• Optimized log list field display
• Optimized the judgment logic of insight-agent
• Upgrade Jaeger Chart version upgraded from v0.62.1 to 0.65.1

fix¶

• Fixed Some built-in alert rules do not take effect
• Fixed Fix the error that the name can be duplicated when creating a rule
• Fixed DingTalk robot ending with '-'
• Fixed case-insensitive fuzzy search in alert rules
• Fixed service metric error delay calculation is not accurate
• Fixed Jaeger query has too many open files problem
• Fixed es index rollover alias and cleanup strategy not working

2022.11.28¶

v0.12¶

Features¶

• Added insight-agent Helm chart installation supports form

Optimization¶

• Optimized PromQL queries support raw metrics
• Optimized the style of the topology map
• Upgrade Built-in MySQL image version, upgraded from v5.7.34 to v8.0.29.
• Upgrade Fluentbit ARM architecture helm Chart version from
• Upgrade kube-prometheus-stack helm Chart version upgraded from v39.6.0 to v41.9.1
• Updated used Bitnami mirror, including grafana-operator, grafana, kubernetes-event-exporter
• Update prometheus-related API proxy address, change /prometheus to /apis/insight.io/prometheus

Fixes¶

• Fixed service list caching logic
• Fixed the problem that the built-in rules do not take effect
• Fixed request delay unit issue
• Fixed Insight internal link issue
• Disable PSP resource in vm-stack
• Fixed victoriaMetrics operator not available in Kubernetes 1.25.
• Fixed browser compatibility issues with front-end mirroring

2022-11-21¶

v0.11¶

Optimization¶

• Added link troubleshooting and monitoring dashboard for component Jaeger
• Optimized The alert list and message template list support sorting
• optimized to filter out clusters without insight-agent installed
• Optimized sort by span start time by default when trace query

Bugfixes¶

• Fixed no data dashboard, including OpenTelemetry related dashboards
• Fixed the problem that there is no content under some log paths
• Fixed delete wrong alert rule: KubeletPodStartUpLatencyHigh

Other¶

• victoria-metrics-k8s-stack helm chart updated to v0.12.6
• opentelemetry-collector helm chart upgraded from v0.23.0 to v0.37.2
• jaeger helm chart upgraded from v0.57.0 to v0.62.1
• fluentbit helm chart upgraded from v0.20.9 to v1.9.9
• kubernetes-event-exporter helm chart upgraded from v1.4.21 to v2.0.0

2022-10-20¶

v0.10¶

Features¶

• Support for container-managed Service names associated with OTel service names to discern if service linking is enabled
• Updated the default tracking sample strategy in the global OTel column
• Change sumo (for audit logs) exporter port 8080 to 80
• Use go-migrate to manage database migration versions
• Fix multicluster and multi-namespace filters not working properly in graph API
• Support for building ARM images

Install¶

• Fluentbit supports docker and containerd log parsers
• Fix var/log/UTC issues
• Fluentbit supports elasticsearch output to skip TLS verification
• K8s audit log filter supports getting rules from Helm values
• Fix the parsing problem of centos7/ubuntu20 host log time
• Upgrade the OTel Operator version and remove the cert-manager dependency deployed with the self-signed certificate in the Operator
• Designed jaeger collector metrics
• Upgrade tailing-sidecar version
• Jaeger supports elasticsearch output to skip TLS verification
• Disable jaeger components in A-mode

Other¶

• Added OTel collector grafana dashboard
• Add Insight overview Chinese page

2022-9-25¶

v0.9¶

Features¶

• Support kpanda service name associated with the otel service name, identify whether the service tracing enabled.
• Update default tracing sample policies in global otel col.
• Change sumologic(work for audit log) exporter port 8080 to 80.
• Use go-migrate to manage db migration version.
• Fix multi cluster and multi namespaces filter not work well in graph API.
• Support build arm image.

Install¶

• Fluentbit support parser both docker and containerd log.
• Fix /var/log/ UTC issue.
• Fluentbit support elasticsearch output skip verify TLS. -kube audit log filter support getting rule from helm values.
• Fix parse centos7/ubuntu20 host log time.
• Bump up otel operator version, remove cert-manager dependencies in operator deploy within self-signed cert.
• Scrape jaeger collector metrics.
• Bump up tailing-sidecar version.
• Jaeger support elasticsearch output skip verfify TLS.
• Disable jaeger components in Mode A.

Other¶

• Add otel collector grafana dashboard.
• Add Insight Overview Chinese version.

2022-8-21¶

v0.8¶

Features¶

• Migrate graph server into insight server.
• Add cluster_name param to graph query request.
• Add userinfo api.
• Add GetREDMetrics API in GraphQueryService.
• Add GetHelmInstallConfig api to get global cluster service addresses for agent to use.
• Complete auth module.
• Add init cmd/initcontainer for elasticsearch alias and ilm policy

Adjustment¶

• Bump up otel operator in agent chart.
• Add kibana as builtin tools.
• Reduce traces/logs chart's default values.
• Add Helm values parameters documentation.
• Polished Helm parameters.

Install¶

• Add audit log enable/disable feature.
• Move Fluentbit config to a ConfigMap.

2022-7-20¶

v0.7¶

Break changes¶

• Modify QueryOperations and GetServiceApdex's API definition in Tracing service.
• Remove resolve alert api.
• fix NFD master crash when CRDs missed.

Features¶

• Remove jaeger relate code in span-metric.
• Add index policy for skoala gateway logs.
• Add lua filter for Ghippo audit logs.
• Add global config api.
• Disable cache in vmselect component.
• Dock with ghippo roles.
• Expose metric insight_cluster_info in server.
• Add log.SearchLog API for SKoala, accept ES query DSL and return raw ES response.
• Bump up OTelcol helm chart version to 0.21.1 and update otelcol architecture.
• support mspider tracing.
• Bump up OTelcol helm chart version to 0.23.0.
• Add default tracing sample policies in global otel col.

Adjustment¶

• Use GrafanaOperator Stack to replace original Grafana Stack.
• Replace insight-overview dashboard.
• Add GrafanaDashboard, GrafanaDatasource CRDs.

2022-6-23¶

v0.6¶

Break changes¶

• Modify insight deployment and service name to insight-server.
• Modify trace relate metric query API response type.
• Using the unified paging mechanism

Features¶

• Add graph api through prometheus metrics of mesh layer.
• Add service graph api through prometheus metrics of general layer.
• Modify proto param, follow google style doc[https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/style].
• Modify list api pagination and add sort.
• Add GProductVersion cr.
• Add insight metric config api.
• Manager insight license resource cr.
• Add traces api through access jaeger grpc endpoint with otlp/v2 protocol.
• Add service-detail api to get all metrics and scalars for a given service name.
• Add operation-detail api to get all metrics and scalars group by operation for a given service name.
• Add traces api through access jaeger grpc endpoint with jaeger v1 protocol.
• Add span metric protobuf style check

Adjustment¶

• Add node-feature-discovery subchart for License module.
• Add opentelemetry-collector subcharts to insight chart.
• Delete audit log OUTPUT config in fluent-bit.
• Add groupbytrace processor to generate trace/span number metrics.
• Add built-in Elasticsearch chart and enabled by default.

Install¶

• Upgrade victoria-metrics-k8s-stack chart version from 0.6.5 to 0.9.3.
• Add servicemonitor for components in victoria-metrics-k8s-stack.
• Modify insight components resource.

2022-5-18¶

v0.5¶

Features¶

• Add notification template API
• Complete rules and alerts API
• Add service API
• Add, delete, modify and check for vmrules
• Removed get query log API
• Support collecting kube audit logs with fluentbit
• Provide the function-related API of Service Graph
• Enhanced span_metric API: latencies, calls, errors three APIs support instance dimension query
• Enhanced span_metric API: Query Latency(with GroupByOperation) can return P99 P95 P90
• Enhanced span_metric API: latencies, calls, errors three APIs support extension_filters dimension query
• Added aggregated API for query latency, calls and errors
• Added apdex API
• Rename span_metric API URL

Install¶

• Added built-in mysql
• Upgrade GO version to 1.17
• Changed insight server service port from 8000 to 80
• Changed insight server/metrics port from 2022 to 81

Documentation¶

• Added documentation station glossary
• Added 4 pages of basic concept tasks and examples, data model, query language, etc. of the document station
• Added user guides - documents such as scene monitoring, data query, alert center, etc.
• New additions to the document site: Product Benefits, Metric Query, trace query, dashboard, overview

2022-4-22¶

v0.4¶

Features¶

• Increase the main API of the alert notification module
• Upgrade and adapt kpanda 0.4.x API
• Add the path information of the file to which the log belongs to the system log
• Add query single log context API
• Add query Kubernetes Event API
• Enhance Insight's own observability capabilities, provide its own metric interface and query trace information
• The API of Jaeger Query is used by the front end through the reverse proxy
• Add Query Tracing Operations related API
• Add Span Metric related API

test¶

• Added E2E use case coverage badge
• Supplementary test case documents related to alert notification
• Increase the E2E test of the log-related interface

Documentation¶

• Add overall bilingual document station structure and main content
• Added plug-ins required for documents to optimize rendering
• Completion of ROADMAP content
• Merge document ROADMAP content into total ROADMAP file
• Update document structure

2022-3-18¶

v0.3¶

Features¶

• gRPC and http use the same port
• Modify api path from /api/insight/ to /api/insight.io/
• Add cluster resource api proxy from kpanda
• ginkgo upgrade from 1.x to 2.x
• Organize proto files under /api
• split insight service in insight.proto
• Update kpanda api to 0.3.41
• Complete cluster/namespace list and cluster summary
• Add bulk query immediate and range metrics api
• add node and all workload api
• Added Otel tracing to track insight
• Support for metrics queries with extraLabels
• Add metrics documentation.
• Realize basic scenario cases in monitor

Helm Charts¶

• Add Jaeger helm chart
• Add OpenTelemetry collector helm chart
• Add tailing-sidecar-operator as an accessory/solution/plugin for log collection
• Add /variables/log/message collection in fluentbit
• Add kube exporter to collecot kube cluster event log

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