1.0.12 - October 18, 2021

Version 1.0.12 (18OCT21)

• Overall

  • [CHANGE] The minimum supported version of OpenShift is now 4.7. OpenShift
    support itself is still experimental.
  • [FIX] There is now a check for the presence of the sha256sum utility
    in the PATH
  • [FIX] There is now a timeout (default 10 min) when deleting namespaces
    using LOG_DELETE_NAMESPACE_ON_REMOVE or MON_DELETE_NAMESPACE_ON_REMOVE.
    The timeout can be set via KUBE_NAMESPACE_DELETE_TIMEOUT.

• Monitoring

  • [FIX] Metrics will be properly collected from the SAS Deployment Operator
  • [CHANGE] Internal improvements, refactoring and preparations for future support
    of application multi-tenancy in SAS Viya
  • [FIX] The two SAS Jobs dashboards have been updated and slightly optimized

• Logging

  • [CHANGE] Fluent Bit has been upgraded to version 1.8.7
  • [CHANGE] Internal improvements, refactoring and preparations for future support
    of application multi-tenancy in SAS Viya

1.0.11 - September 13, 2021

Version 1.0.11 (13SEP21)

• Monitoring

  • [FEATURE] SAS Job dashboards now support a 'queue' filter for SAS Workload
    Orchestrator
  • [FEATURE] SAS Job dashboards 'Job' filter now displays user-provided
    job names if available
  • [DEPRECATION] In the next release, NodePorts will be disabled by default
    for Prometheus and AlertManager for security reasons. Set the environment
    variable PROM_NODEPORT_ENABLE=true to maintain current behavior as it will
    default to 'false' in the next release

• Logging

  • Internal improvements, refactoring and preparations for application multi-
    tenancy in SAS Viya

1.0.10 - August 16, 2021

Version 1.0.10 (16AUG21)

• Overall

  • [FEATURE] The version of viya4-monitoring-kubernetes deployed is now
    saved in-cluster for support purposes

• Monitoring

  • [FIX] Grafana update fails with PVC multi-attach error

• Logging

  • [FEATURE] SAS Update Checker Report added to Kibana
  • [FIX] Enabled NodePort for Elasticsearch causes update-in-place to fail
  • [FIX] Eventrouter references deprecated version of K8s authorization API

1.0.9 - July 19, 2021

Version 1.0.9 (19JUL21)

• Overall

  • [FEATURE] OpenShift version checking has been added
    • Version 4.6.x is supported
    • Version 4.5 or lower generates an error
    • Version 4.7 or higher generates a warning
  • [FEATURE] Integration with the SAS Viya workload node placement strategy
    can be enabled with NODE_PLACEMENT_ENABLE=true
  • [FEATURE] OpenShift: Path-based ingress can be enabled
    with OPENSHIFT_PATH_ROUTES=true

• Monitoring

  • [FIX] OpenShift: Some of the Perf dashboards displayed empty charts
  • [CHANGE] Prometheus version changed from 2.26.0 to 2.26.1
  • [FEATURE] OpenShift: A custom route hostname can be set with
    OPENSHIFT_ROUTE_HOST_GRAFANA
  • [FIX] The memory limit of the Prometheus Operator has been increased
    to 1 GiB

• Logging

  • [CHANGE] Fluent Bit has been updated to version 1.7.9
  • [FEATURE] Fluent Bit disk buffering is now enabled
  • [FIX] Fluent Bit pods were not restarted properly during an
    upgrade-in-place
  • [FIX] OpenShift: Upgrade-in-place now functions properly
  • [FEATURE] OpenShift: A custom route hostname can be set with
    OPENSHIFT_ROUTE_HOST_KIBANA and OPENSHIFT_ROUTE_HOST_ELASTICSEARCH

1.0.8 - June 14, 2021

Version 1.0.8 (14JUN21)

• Monitoring

  • [EXPERIMENTAL] OpenShift automation
    • Deployment to OpenShift clusters is now supported experimentally
    • OpenShift support is still under development. Usage and features may
      change until the feature set is finalized.
    • Documentation: Deploying Monitoring on OpenShift
  • [FEATURE] The new NGINX_DASH environment variable now controls whether
    the NGINX dashboard gets deployed when using deploy_monitoring_*.sh or
    deploy_dashboards.sh.

• Logging

  • [EXPERIMENTAL] OpenShift automation
    • Deployment to OpenShift clusters is now supported experimentally
    • OpenShift support is still under development. Usage and features may
      change until the feature set is finalized.
    • Documentation: Deploying Log Monitoring on OpenShift
  • [FEATURE] Container runtimes other than Docker are now supported.

1.0.7 - May 17, 2021

Version 1.0.7 (17MAY21)

• Overall

  • Research was completed that will enable OpenShift support in a future release

• Monitoring

  • [CHANGE] Severtal component versions have been updated
    • Grafana: 7.4.1 -> 7.5.4
    • Prometheus: 2.24.1 -> 2.26.0
    • Prometheus Operator: 0.45.0 -> 0.47.0
    • Prometheus Operator Helm Chart: 13.7.2 -> 15.0.0
    • kube-state-metrics: 1.9.7 -> 1.9.8
  • [FIX] Upgrade-in-place of the Prometheus Pushgateway fails
  • [FIX] CAS dashboard: Uptime widget format changed
  • [FIX] CAS dashboard: Dashboard errors with some CAS configurations
  • Instructions are now available
    for manual cleanup if the monitoring namespace is deleted instead of running
    the remove_* scripts

1.0.6 - April 19, 2021

Version 1.0.6 (19APR21)

• Overall

  • [FEATURE] Custom names for the NGINX controller service are now supported
    via the NGINX_SVCNAME environment variable (or user.env setting).
  • [CHANGE] Several updates to documentation have been made to improve clarity
    and organize the content in a more useful way.

• Monitoring

  • [FEATURE] There is a new sample that demonstrates
    how to enable Google Cloud's Operation Suite to collect metrics a Prometheus
    instance that is scraping metrics from SAS Viya components
  • [CHANGE] The Amazon CloudWatch sample has been
    updated to include many more metrics and mappings. Almost all metrics exposed
    by SAS Viya and third party components are now mapped properly to sets of
    dimensions. A new reference documents
    the metrics by dimention, by source, and by metric name.

• Logging

  • [FIX] Missing Kubernetes metadata on log messages from some pods (inc. CAS
    server pod) has been fixed. Prior to fix, the kube.namespace field was set
    to missing_ns and all other kube.* fields were not present.

1.0.5 - March 15, 2021

• Overall

  • There is a new document discussing support of various
    Cloud providers

• Monitoring

  • [FEATURE] The monitoring/bin/deploy_dashboards.sh script now accepts a
    file or directory argument to deploy user-provided dashboards
  • [FEATURE] A new $USER_DIR/monitoring/dashboards directory is now
    supported to supply user-provided dashboards at deployment time
  • [FEATURE] The new CloudWatch sample provides
    instructions on configuring the CloudWatch agent to scrape metrics
    from SAS Viya components
  • [FEATURE] The browser-accessible URL for Grafana is now included in
    the output of monitoring/bin/deploy_monitoring_cluster.sh (including
    if ingress is configured)
  • [CHANGE] Several component versions have been upgraded
    • Prometheus:
      v2.23.0 -> v2.24.0
    • Grafana:
      7.3.6 -> 7.4.1
    • Prometheus Operator:
      0.44.1 -> 0.45.0
    • kube-prometheus-stack:
      12.8.0 -> 13.7.2
  • [CHANGE] The following optional Grafana plugins are no longer installed by default:
    • grafana-piechart-panel
    • grafana-clock-panel
    • camptocamp-prometheus-alertmanager-datasource
    • flant-statusmap-panel
    • btplc-status-dot-panel
  • [CHANGE] cert-manager resources
    now use 'v1' to align with their use in SAS Viya 4.x

• Logging

  • [FEATURE] The browser-accessible URL for Kibana included in the output
    of logging/bin/deploy_logging_open.sh now takes into account ingress
    configuration
  • [EXPERIMENTAL] A new experimental script logging/bin/getlogs.sh
    allows exporting logs to CSV format Documentation
  • [FIX] The logging/bin/change_internal_password.sh script no longer
    outputs passwords as debug messages

1.0.4 - February 15, 2021

• Overall

  • Improved documentation for overall deployment process
  • Improved documentation related to use of TLS
  • Removed references to TLS in ingress sample (samples/ingress); TLS enabled ingress shown in TLS sample (samples/tls)

• Monitoring

  • [FIX] ENABLE_TLS should set proper port and targetport for v4m-prometheus service
  • [FIX] Remove memory limit on kube-state-metrics
  • [FIX] Kubernetes Cluster Dashboard disk usage not working on EKS

• Logging

  • Moved Helm chart from deprecated stable/fluent-bit to fluent/fluent-bit
  • Fluent Bit version upgraded from 1.5.4 to 1.6.10

1.0.3 - January 15, 2021

• Overall

  • Significantly improved documentation for deployment customization
  • KEEP_TMP_DIR option added to keep the temporary working directory
    around for troublshooting purposes
  • There is now an early check for kubectl cluster admin capabilities

• Monitoring

  • Component versions upgraded
    • Helm Chart: 11.1.3->12.8.0
    • Prometheus Operator: 0.43.2->0.44.1
    • Prometheus: v2.22.2-> v2.23.0
    • Grafana: 7.3.1->7.3.6
  • The application filter on the SAS Java Services dashboard is now sorted
  • The Perf/Node Utilization dashboard now uses node names instead of IP
    addresses to identify nodes

• Logging

  • Moved Helm chart from deprecated stable/elasticsearch-exporter to
    prometheus-community/elasticsearch-exporter
  • Improved handling of log message fragment created due to excessively long
    log messages (>16KB)
  • FIX: Eliminated hard-coded namespace in change_internal_password.sh script