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Release notes for Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring

Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring includes these elements, which all have their own releases:

Frontend GUI of app (also called plugin)
Backend mixin (also called integration), covering the alert and recording rules
Helm chart for the default and other configurations of Kubernetes Monitoring - For release notes on the Helm chart, refer to Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart release notes.

Frontend release notes

The following are release notes for the Kubernetes Monitoring GUI.

2.8.5

10/30/24

Type	Description
Fix	Updated link to the Application Observability GUI.
Fix	Properly align Cluster columns.

2.8.4

10/17/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	User experience: Created Cluster, namespace, and Pod columns for alerts on home page.
Enhancement	User experience: On the Metrics status tab, added the ability to select the status of all or many Clusters.
Fix	Instead of displaying no data on the home page should an outage occur, the home page will show historical data prior to the outage and current data post-outage.
Fix	GUI: Fixed various anomolies with the GUI, including the location of the navigation drop-down menu and the width of certain columns.

2.8.3

9/23/24

Type	Description
Fix	Alerts: Hide panel menu item for creating alerts if a user is not an administrator.

2.8.2

9/12/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	User experience: Restricted the namespace field for the quick configuration process to only valid characters.
Enhancement	User experience: Added the link to the Cluster below the title on detail pages.
Enhancement	Troubleshooting: Added the Helm chart to the Metrics status page.
Enhancement	User experience: Added waiting reasons and colors for Pods that are either waiting due to startup or due to a problem.
Enhancement	Troubleshooting: Added the waiting reason for Pods that are waiting instead of running.
Enhancement	Alerts: Added the ability to create an alert item from a panel.
Fixes	Fixed the container memory limit on Container detail pages to be accurate. Ensured logs and events are not listed when there are no Pods. Fixed ability to remove a ’no data’ filter when a time range is changed.

2.8.1

8/25/24

Type	Description
Feature	New platform: Added Azure AKS as a separate platform for configuration.
Enhancement	Metrics status: Added statuses for recording rules and KSM job label.
Enhancements	User experience: Moved up the required backend installations step to prevent misconfigurations. Restricted integrations view to administrators only and improved message to non-administrative user. Added links to documentation on Overview, Cost, Alerts, and Configuration pages. Adjusted the width of filters and moved copy button closer to item for ease of use. Refresh home page when data starts being sent.
Enhancement	Code snippets for integrations: Added configuration code snippets for Apache CouchDB, Apache Hadoop, Apache Tomcat, and IBM DB2.
Fix	CPU statistics: Fixed issue that was causing the memory legend to show in relation to CPU stats.

2.8.0

8/6/24

Type	Description
Feature	Energy use: Added energy metrics by using third-party Kepler open source software.
Fix	Duplicates: De-duplication of Pods and containers.

2.7.0

7/29/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	User experience: Added a tab for logs and events on every detail page, including the Cluster detail page.
Enhancement	Integrations: Added snippets for the Alloy and Varnish integrations.
Enhancement	Logs: Made log queries work with OTel-style labels.
Fixes	Correct time range format on home page. Ensured Kubernetes Monitoring opens in correct time range from Asserts.

2.6.1

7/16/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Alerts: Added the ability to click on the alert name from the Kubernetes Overview page.
Enhancement	Integrations: Added configuration snippets for Squid and Apache Mesos.
Fix	Prevented continuous rendering of data in the Safari browser.

2.6.0

7/10/24

Type	Description
Feature	Home page: Upgraded the home page to better show the status of healthy Kubernetes objects as well as any potential issues.
Feature	Asserts button: Added Assertions button to details pages.
Enhancement	User experience enhancements: Added quick ways to navigate within the app, including the drop-down menu for all main pages, the overview and network tabs, deep linking from the home page CPU and memory graphs to the Cluster, improved Helm chart configuration process, and visual tags to indicate the type of Kubernetes object for each view.

2.5.0

6/25/24

Type	Description
Feature	Network panels: Added Network Bandwidth and Network Saturation data.
Feature	Cost overview panels: Added a 90-day view of total compute cost, average cost per Pod, and average Pod count on the Cost Overview page.
Enhancement	OpenTelemetry: Added support for displaying events coming from the OpenTelemetry Kubernetes Events Receiver.
Fix	Workloads with same name: Corrected CPU and memory usage data for workloads with the same name but in different Clusters.

2.4.0

6/18/24

Type	Description
Feature	Deleted objects: Added the ability to find deleted Clusters, Nodes, Pods, containers, workloads, and namespaces.
Enhancement	User experience: Improved “no data” messages on home page.
Enhancement	Metrics: Host metrics generation.
Fix	Error messages: Fixed query to prevent an invalid error message.
Fix	Update host metrics switch language and disable CRDs on OpenShift.

2.3.5

6/12/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Integration: Added Apache Airflow configuration snippets for integration.
Fix	Duplicates: Removed duplicate data showing on home page.
Fix	Alerts: Improved alert count accuracy for certain kinds of Pod types.

2.3.4

6/7/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Added time range selector to home snapshot page.

2.3.3

6/3/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Integrations: Added configuration snippets for the integrations Wildfly and OpenSearch.
Enhancement	Performance: Improved load time for queries spanning longer time ranges.
Fix	Refresh and Cluster filters: Fixed so refresh does not cause filters to be removed.
Fix	Cardinality page: Ensured the Series per namespace column data link is accurate.
Fix	Documentation links: Updated and corrected documentation links on Kubernetes Monitoring main page (that is shown prior to configuring).
Fix	Workload type: Ensured different workloads that are similarly named accurately show the type of workload and the data for the workload.

2.3.2

5/21/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Performance: Improved loading performance of CPU and memory usage tables.
Fix	Added a null check for provider to avoid errors on Cluster list page.

2.3.1

5/16/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Integration: Added configuration snippets for the Apache Solr integration.
Fix	Fixed Helm chart integration snippets to be compatible with Alloy.
Fix	Fixed recording rule to include ReplicaSets, static Pods, and bare Pods so that missing workloads now show and incorrectly labeled workloads are now labeled correctly. This also fixes workload usage and cost data.

2.2.5

4/25/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Static Pod and Pod type: Added the static Pod label to all static Pods and the Pod label to bare/unmanaged Pods .
Enhancement	Integrations: Added flow configuration snippets for Velero and MS SQL Server integrations.
Fix	Fixed link to alert rule after automatic refresh.

2.2.4

4/22/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Data source persistence in URL: Persisted the Loki data source in the URL so that accurate links can be shared.
Fix	Added check to prevent query errors.

2.2.3

4/18/24

Type	Description
Feature	Refresh control: Added refresh and auto-refresh choices to all pages.

2.2.2

4/17/24

Type	Description
Feature	Alerts: Added the Alerts column to the Nodes and Cluster list pages.
Enhancement	URL data source persistence: Persisted Prometheus data source in the URL so that accurate links can be shared.
Enhancement	Integration: Added configuration snippets for OracleDB integration.

2.2.1

4/15/24

Type	Description
Feature	Alloy update: Replace Grafana Agent with Grafana Alloy.
Feature	Cardinality: Added the Cardinality page to replace the Kubernetes Cardinality dashboard.
Feature	Alerts: Added the Alerts column to these pages: Pod detail, Pod list, and Workloads list.
Enhancement	Integration: Added configuration snippets for TensorFlow Serving integration.
Enhancement	User experience: Added the ability to select multiple clusters for filtering.
Fix	Removed logs panel from Node detail page for future refactoring.
Fix	Corrected improper indent in configuration snippet of IBM MQ integration.
Fix	Added `kube_deployment` as well as `kube_replicaset` to ensure all workload types are collected.

2.2.0

4/8/24

Type	Description
Fix	Refactored workloads to use more efficient queries.

2.1.3

4/4/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Added the workload type when available to filter the list of Pods to improve search performance.
Fix	Enhanced the multi-line regular expression to support a broader collection of logs.

2.1.2

4/2/24

Type	Description
Fix	Reverted from support for OTel log labels.

2.1.1

4/2/24

Type	Description
Feature	Added interactivity with Sift automated machine learning investigation tool.
Enhancement	Added configuration snippets for the Couchbase and IBM MQ integrations.
Enhancement	Added support for OTel log labels.
Fix	Combined `target_info` with `traces_target_info` metrics to ensure all applications are found.

2.1.0

3/25/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Configuration: Added configuration snippets for the PgBouncer integration. Added link to `extraConfig` information in the Helm documents from the code snippet areas of an integration.
Enhancement	Dashboards: Removed dashboards due to Angular deprecation.
Enhancement	Messaging: Improve wording of default messages when a data source is updated for a view.
Fix	Persist Cluster URL values to correct broken links.

2.0.4

3/13/24

Type	Description
Feature	Asserts workbench: Added RCA Workbench button to allow navigating to Asserts.
Enhancement	Explore: Expanded the explore feature to the list of all Pods. Improved the user experience for exploring data.
Fix	Removed inaccurate timestamp for namespace creation on Namespace details page.
Fix	Corrected the query for phase state, which is shown by expanding a list item on the Namespaces page.
Fix	Add the `http` prefix to OTLP endpoints on the Cluster configuration tab when OTel receivers are selected.
Fix	Persisted the data source between views.

2.0.3

3/6/24

Type	Description
Feature	Added the capability to navigate to Application Observability.
Feature	On the Cluster list page, you can click the Explore button to view the queries used in each column of the usage and cost data. This enables you not only to understand the data, but debug any issues or create your own queries or dashboards
Feature	Added support for the Istio integration.
Feature	Added a warning icon and tooltip on column headers of lists to indicate error detection and query failure.
Feature	With the easy configuration using the Helm chart, added the capability to enable OTel and Zipkin receivers.
Enhancement	Added the filter toolbar to list tables for better user experience.
Enhancement	Added duplicate metrics detection to Node Exporter, Windows Exporter, OpenCost, cAdvisor, and kubelet. When there is an error, a yellow warning icon appears next to the item on the Metrics status page.
Enhancement	Refined queries for “OOMKilled” containers to prevent counting of duplicate containers, specifically when a container is being killed and another is being created in its place.
Enhancement	The link to examine an alert opens in a new tab so that context within Kubernetes Monitoring is not lost.
Enhancement	Updated URL so that any shared URL includes any variables and the time range selected.
Enhancement	Release note text in the app links to the release notes in documentation.
Enhancement	Breadcrumbs now include page tab names.
Enhancement	Corrected the query for unallocated resources (PV) panel.
Fix	Created an additional check for deep links related to breadcrumbs display.
Fix	Refined queries to ensure de-duplication of metrics, including removing reliance of `uid` label and having node/instance joins also use the Cluster label.
Fix	Corrected queries for the Explore button on the Workloads page.
Fix	Fixed CPU usage prediction graph to display correctly within window.

2.0.2

2/15/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Refined de-duplication of KSM `kube_node_status_capacity`, and added support for node with or without trailing port numbers.
Fix	Created more accurate cost calculations in the case of mixed `node` and `instance` labels.

2.0.1

2/15/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	Added the workloads column to the list of namespaces.
Fix	Corrected the calculation for CPU average queries.

2.0.0

2/6/24

Type	Description
Feature	The Alerts page provides a centralized location to view all alerts related to your infrastructure and the applications running within it. Graphs show alerts firing by Cluster and namespace, as well as by alert severity. The alert name and severity also display on the home page in the list of Pods in trouble. On the Namespaces and Workloads tabs, a column for each item shows the amount of firing alerts.
Feature	The ClickHouse integration is available for use with Kubernetes Monitoring.
Enhancement	On the home page, you can click the Cluster count to navigate directly to the list of Clusters on the Clusters tab, and click the Node count to navigate directly to the list of Nodes on the Nodes tab.
Enhancement	On usage cost/efficiency tables, the tables are sorted by default alphabetically by the name of the item (Cluster, namespace, and so on).
Enhancement	To improve loading performance, the namespaces, workloads, and Nodes lists are filtered by default by the first Cluster in the filter list.
Enhancement	You can click the Explore button on any item on the Metrics status tab to troubleshoot configuration issues and customize queries for status.
Enhancement	To prevent deployment failure due to timeout, increased the timeout for the Helm chart to five minutes.
Enhancement	An informational banner displays on the Dashboards page to indicate the prebuilt dashboards are being deprecated and removed, with the exception of the Cardinality dashboard.
Fix	Resolved a duplicate series error on the container details page.
Fix	Improved the status panel failure detection for kube-state-metrics.
Fix	When you click Start Sending Data, the Configuration page displays.

1.7.0

1/22/24

Type	Description
Feature	You can view usage and cost graphs and data on the Pod details page.
Feature	When using EKS on Fargate, Pod logs are made available by using the Kubernetes API to gather them.
Feature	Added or updated support for these integrations: Aerospike, ActiveMQ, Cassandra, Apache HTTP Server Project, cert-manager, ClickHouse, CoreDNS, GitLab, Kafka, MongoDB, NGINX, and PrestoDB .
Enhancement	On the Configuration page, you can add an expiration date to the token and view the scope of the token.
Fix	Corrected the following broken links: workload links on the Pod list of the Node details page, Cluster status link on the Configuration page, and links when Cluster name contains a slash character.

1.6.2

1/10/24

Type	Description
Enhancement	User experience enhancements: The home page displays the home page name on the breadcrumbs, and filter options display alphabetically.
Enhancement	You can copy any object in the table lists by clicking the copy button within the row.

1.6.1

12/19/23

Type	Description
Feature	IBM Cloud is available as a platform that you can select when using the configuration wizard.
Enhancement	You can choose Loki from the data source selector in all detailed views.
Enhancement	A link to documentation for understanding CPU limits is available on detail pages showing CPU limits set.
Enhancement	All IEC units show in standard form.
Enhancement	Throughout Kubernetes Monitoring, you have the copy icon available to copy any text so that you can use it in your own query, use it in the command line, send it to others, and so on.
Fix	Fixed empty Cost panels for customers who use forward slashes in Cluster names by changing to pipe formatter.
Fix	Corrected inconsistencies in the number of Nodes displayed by using an instant query for any single value result instead of using a range query. This improves app performance and data accuracy.
Fix	Fixed accuracy of CPU usage data on the Node details page.
Fix	Improved accuracy of machine learning prediction by using query variables to dynamically set parameters for calculation.

1.6.0

12/10/23

Type	Description
Feature	Cluster detail page: Added optimization panel showing CPU and memory utilization, and cost information for the time range selected.
Feature	Node detail page: Added optimization panel showing CPU and memory utilization, and cost information for the time range selected.
Enhancement	Cost page: All panels on the Cost page provide the Explore button so you can view the query, debug issues, or create your own dashboard.
Fix	Storage savings: Fixed storage results, which displayed multiple series errors in cases where a PersistentVolumeClaim was present on more than one node within the selected time range.
Fix	Container details page: Fixed events, which weren’t displaying.

1.5.0

11/29/23

Type	Description
Feature	Container detail page: Added page. This page includes CPU and memory utilization, and cost information. The restart and termination panels are adjacent to each other to allow quicker correlation of restart and termination events.
Feature	Namespace detail page: Added optimization panel showing CPU and memory utilization, and cost information.
Enhancement	Workloads detail page: Added optimization panel showing CPU and memory utilization, and cost information. Updated the feature for detecting outlier CPU usage in the Pods to uses the time range selected in the time selector instead the latest/current time.
Fix	Pod detail page: Updated the CPU and memory queries for accuracy. Removed duplicate containers that were sometimes listing.
Fix	Home page: Decreased load time for the Pods in trouble panel, and filtered only for issues that are currently active.
Fix	Added Zipkin port configuration to ensure traces work properly.
Fix	Updated internal release process and documents.

1.4.1

11/10/23

Type	Description
Feature	Configuration wizard: Added a selector for the platform.
Feature	Pod detail page: Added an optimization panel containing CPU and memory utilization and cost.
Fix	Time range selector: Changed to use the time zone of the user, to ensure accuracy of time range data.
Fix	Use new metrics receiver flow component in the integration code snippets.
Fix	Fixed missing data source for k3d environment.

1.4.0

11/3/23

Type	Description
Enhancement	Time range selector: Added to all appropriate pages to allow a specific time range for data to be displayed.
Enhancement	Metrics status page: Improved for better user experience.
Enhancement	Configuration wizard: Improved visibility of OpenCost configuration information.
Enhancement	Pod details page: Used Scenes to build panels on this page.
Fix	Default instructions in Github for integration: Fixed the appropriate name for Prometheus component.
Fix	Error message for testing integration: Revised for validity and comprehension.
Fix	Workload key and data list fixes: Revised to use correct key on workloads list.
Fix	Kafka integration: Revised job name to kafka for integration to work properly.
Fix	Status queries: Adjusted to show consistent results.

Backend release notes

The following are release notes for the Kubernetes Monitoring backend.

2.1.0

September 2024

Type	Description
Enhancement	Added alert groups: - `kubernetes-storage` (five `KubePersistent.*` alert rules) - `kube-apiserver-slos` (four `KubeAPIErrorBudgetBurn` alert rules) - `kubernetes-system-apiserver` (six system API Server alert rules, including `KubeAggregatedAPIDown`).
Enhancement	Added recording rule groups: - `kube-apiserver-..rules` (32 `apiserver.` recording rules) -`kubelet.rules` (including `node_quantile:kubelet_pleg_relist_duration_seconds:histogram_quantile`) - `kube-scheduler.rules` (nine `cluster_quantile:scheduler_.:histogram_quantile` recording rules).
Enhancement	Updated upstream Kubernetes mixin: Split `k8s.rules.container_resource` group into four groups to improve performance.

2.0.0

March 2024

Type	Description
Enhancement	Removed dashboards from Kubernetes Monitoring now that all views are available in the application.

1.1.2

January 2023

Type	Description
Fix	Removed duplicate recording rule group.
Fix	Corrected broken links on Home dashboard.

1.1.1

November 2023

Type	Description
Fix	Disabled “all” and multi-select on Events Data Source variable.
Enhancement	Split `k8s.rules` group into seven groups to improve evaluation performance.

1.1.0

October 2023

Type	Description
Feature	You can focus on cardinality exclusively related to Kubernetes by using the prebuilt Kubernetes Monitoring Cardinality dashboard.

1.0.0

October 2023

Type	Description
Enhancement	Added `job` label to `KubePodNotReady` alert to be compatible with new Grafana Alerting structure.

0.0.14

July 2023

Type	Description
Feature	Added recording rules for Windows Exporter, for compatibility with node-exporter queries.
Enhancement	Restored events selector to prevent logs from being returned as events.
Enhancement	Updated upstream Kubernetes mixin.

0.0.13

May 2023

Type	Description
Enhancement	Added ability to use any (non-empty) job label on dashboards panels and rules.
Enhancement	Added Node Exporter to configuration status panel.
Enhancement	Added duplicate installation detection to configuration status panel.
Enhancement	Added informational tooltip to configuration status panel.

0.0.12

April 2023

Type	Description
Fix	Updated upstream agent-operator jsonnet-libs to inherit a fix for relabeling related to hitting a labeling limit with Loki.

0.0.11

March 2023

Type	Description
Fix	Corrected template variables on Efficiency dashboard.

0.0.10

February 2023

Type	Description
Fix	Removed the beta tag from the Events panel on the homepage dashboard.

0.0.9

February 2023

Type	Description
Fix	Corrected Cluster aggregation for some recording rules.

Helm chart release notes

For release notes on the Helm chart, refer to Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart release notes.

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Release notes for Grafana Kubernetes Monitoring

Frontend release notes

2.8.5

2.8.4

2.8.3

2.8.2

2.8.1

2.8.0

2.7.0

2.6.1

2.6.0

2.5.0

2.4.0

2.3.5

2.3.4

2.3.3

2.3.2

2.3.1

2.2.5

2.2.4

2.2.3

2.2.2

2.2.1

2.2.0

2.1.3

2.1.2

2.1.1

2.1.0

2.0.4

2.0.3

2.0.2

2.0.1

2.0.0

1.7.0

1.6.2

1.6.1

1.6.0

1.5.0

1.4.1

1.4.0

Backend release notes

2.1.0

2.0.0

1.1.2

1.1.1

1.1.0

1.0.0

0.0.14

0.0.13

0.0.12

0.0.11

0.0.10

0.0.9

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