v1.11.0 - 18/07/2024

StackState Self-hosted

Last updated 9 months ago

StackState Self-hosted

Release Notes StackState version 6.0.0 Helm Chart version 1.11.0

Trace Explorer: Introduced a new Trace Explorer, accessible via the main menu, providing enhanced visibility into your trace data.
Microsoft Teams Notifications: Added support for Microsoft Teams notifications, enabling better communication and alerting within your team.
OpenTelemetry Integration: Added general support for OpenTelemetry Traces and Metrics. OpenTelemetry authentication now also supports .
ClickHouse Database Backups: Added support for full and incremental backups to the ClickHouse database. Backups are disabled by default; follow the documentation to enable and configure this feature.
Improved Trace Performance: Enhanced storage and query performance for traces. Important: This upgrade will remove all existing trace data.
OpenShift 4.14 Support: The latest agent now supports OpenShift 4.14.
Receiver API Key Management: The stackstate.apiKey is no longer a required value. You can now supply the receiver API key as a self-managed secret. For more details, refer to the .
Custom Labels and Annotations: Resources deployed by the stackstate-k8s-agent Helm chart resources can now be customized with additional labels and annotations via the global.extraLabels and global.extraAnnotations Helm values.
Right-Hand Side Panel Enhancements: The Right-Hand Side panel now includes:
- Three mini charts showing highlighted metrics.
- A mini health timeline for better visibility of system health.
- Similar mini charts have been added to the topology explorer component popover.

X-Forwarded-For Logs: Suppressed errors in logs when the x-forwarded-for header contains comma-separated list of IP addresses with port numbers.
Minio Helm Chart: The Minio Helm chart now correctly respects the globally defined imageRegistry.
Saved Queries (Splunk): Fixed a bug where retrieving the list of saved queries was incorrectly pulling data from the global namespace.
MonitorFunctions on Windows: MonitorFunctions created on Windows OS with \r are now converted to UNIX style (). Note: Functions created previously will not be migrated automatically; they must be manually updated by reopening and saving them.

Openshift Installations: For OpenShift installations, the elasticsearch.prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter.podSecurityContext must now be set to an empty string ("").
Propagated Health: Dropped support for propagated health. User can now use the AggregatedHealth monitor to get an aggregated health state on higher level components.

MetricBindings Management: Added permissions to manage MetricBindings, which are assigned to the stackstate-k8s-admin role.
Topological Relations: Fixed missing indirect relations for paths containing hierarchical relations.

Last updated 9 months ago

Trace Explorer: Introduced a new Trace Explorer, accessible via the main menu, providing enhanced visibility into your trace data.
Microsoft Teams Notifications: Added support for Microsoft Teams notifications, enabling better communication and alerting within your team.
OpenTelemetry Integration: Added general support for OpenTelemetry Traces and Metrics. OpenTelemetry authentication now also supports .
ClickHouse Database Backups: Added support for full and incremental backups to the ClickHouse database. Backups are disabled by default; follow the documentation to enable and configure this feature.
Improved Trace Performance: Enhanced storage and query performance for traces. Important: This upgrade will remove all existing trace data.
OpenShift 4.14 Support: The latest agent now supports OpenShift 4.14.
Receiver API Key Management: The stackstate.apiKey is no longer a required value. You can now supply the receiver API key as a self-managed secret. For more details, refer to the .
Custom Labels and Annotations: Resources deployed by the stackstate-k8s-agent Helm chart resources can now be customized with additional labels and annotations via the global.extraLabels and global.extraAnnotations Helm values.
Right-Hand Side Panel Enhancements: The Right-Hand Side panel now includes:
- Three mini charts showing highlighted metrics.
- A mini health timeline for better visibility of system health.
- Similar mini charts have been added to the topology explorer component popover.

X-Forwarded-For Logs: Suppressed errors in logs when the x-forwarded-for header contains comma-separated list of IP addresses with port numbers.
Minio Helm Chart: The Minio Helm chart now correctly respects the globally defined imageRegistry.
Saved Queries (Splunk): Fixed a bug where retrieving the list of saved queries was incorrectly pulling data from the global namespace.
MonitorFunctions on Windows: MonitorFunctions created on Windows OS with \r are now converted to UNIX style (). Note: Functions created previously will not be migrated automatically; they must be manually updated by reopening and saving them.

Openshift Installations: For OpenShift installations, the elasticsearch.prometheus-elasticsearch-exporter.podSecurityContext must now be set to an empty string ("").
Propagated Health: Dropped support for propagated health. User can now use the AggregatedHealth monitor to get an aggregated health state on higher level components.

MetricBindings Management: Added permissions to manage MetricBindings, which are assigned to the stackstate-k8s-admin role.
Topological Relations: Fixed missing indirect relations for paths containing hierarchical relations.