From 04f06dd41ab8c377441dfe43a61b805b05cc75ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaarel Moppel Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:17:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Release notes for v1.8.4 --- CHANGELOG.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md index 8b421f60..4efaafb3 100644 --- a/CHANGELOG.md +++ b/CHANGELOG.md @@ -18,6 +18,25 @@ ther pre-built packages) folder. Also it is highly recommended to refresh all th For that there's also a refresh_metrics_from_github.sh script provided. YAML based setups don't need any extra actions besides refreshing from Git or installing the new RPM / DEB / Tar packages. +## v1.8.4 [2021-02-12] + +Main changes: + +* TimescaleDB metric storage - cope with v2.0 breaking API changes and improve indexing. +* New gatherer feature - ability to extract "psutil_*" metrics (CPU, disk usage etc) directly from OS. Use "--direct-os-stats" parameter to enable. +* Gatherer improvement - make Graphite storage connections more resilient. @eshkinkot +* Gatherer improvement - add number of total monitored and currently unreachable databases to the stats port output. +* Metrics - introduce a new 'instance_up' metric with values \[0|1\] to help with SLA type "uptime percentage" calculations. +* Metrics - correct wal_receiver.replay_lag_b datatype to int8. @eshkinkot +* Metrics - 'replication' now supports also cascaded setups as pg_stat_replication has actually data on "cascading primaries". +* Dashboards - on PG "Alert template" dash replace DB based "Available connections" with "Instance connections used %". +* Docker - give Grafana some more time to roll out its DB schema migrations. +* Docker - introduce an explicit supervisord startup script to better time the startup sequence (5s pauses between components). +* Docker - component update to InfluxDB 1.8.4, Grafana 6.7.5, Go 1.5.8. +* Docker - limit Python PIP to pre v21 versions as it was breaking the build. +* K8s / Openshift - more and better Helm chart templates. + + ## v1.8.3 [2020-12-23] Main changes: