v1.11.0 - 18/07/2024

StackState Self-hosted

Release Notes StackState version 6.0.0 Helm Chart version 1.11.0

New Features & Enhancements:

• 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 Ingestion API Keys.

• 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 documentation.

• 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.

Bug Fixes:

• 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.

Security Updates:

• Vulnerabilities Addressed: Fixed several vulnerabilities in the StackState CLI, including:

  • CVE-2022-27664

  • CVE-2022-41721

  • CVE-2022-41723

  • CVE-2023-39325

  • CVE-2023-3978

  • CVE-2023-44487

  • CVE-2022-32149

  • CVE-2024-24786

  • CVE-2022-25645

Breaking Changes:

• 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.

Other Updates:

• 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.