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diff --git a/HISTORICAL_CHANGELOG.md b/HISTORICAL_CHANGELOG.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..60f18a158 --- /dev/null +++ b/HISTORICAL_CHANGELOG.md @@ -0,0 +1,650 @@ +netdata (1.10.0) - 2018-03-27 + + Please check full changelog at github. + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases> + +netdata (1.9.0) - 2017-12-17 + + Please check full changelog at github. + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/releases> + +netdata (1.8.0) - 2017-09-17 + + This is mainly a bugfix release. + Please check full changelog at github. + +netdata (1.7.0) - 2017-07-16 + +- netdata is still spreading fast + + we are at 320.000 users and 132.000 servers + + Almost 100k new users, 52k new installations and 800k docker pulls + since the previous release, 4 and a half months ago. + + netdata user base grows at about 1000 new users and 600 new servers + per day. Thank you. You are awesome. + +- The next release (v1.8) will be focused on providing a global health + monitoring service, for all netdata users, for free. + +- netdata is now a (very fast) fully featured statsd server and the + only one with automatic visualization: push a statsd metric and hit + F5 on the netdata dashboard: your metric visualized. It also supports + synthetic charts, defined by you, so that you can correlate and + visualize your application the way you like it. + +- netdata got new installation options + It is now easier than ever to install netdata - we also distribute a + statically linked netdata x86_64 binary, including key dependencies + (like bash, curl, etc) that can run everywhere a Linux kernel runs + (CoreOS, CirrOS, etc). + +- metrics streaming and replication has been improved significantly. + All known issues have been solved and key enhancements have been added. + Headless collectors and proxies can now send metrics to backends when + data source = as collected. + +- backends have got quite a few enhancements, including host tags and + metrics filtering at the netdata side; + prometheus support has been re-written to utilize more prometheus + features and provide more flexibility and integration options. + +- netdata now monitors ZFS (on Linux and FreeBSD), ElasticSearch, + RabbitMQ, Go applications (via expvar), ipfw (on FreeBSD 11), samba, + squid logs (with web_log plugin). + +- netdata dashboard loading times have been improved significantly + (hit F5 a few times on a netdata dashboard - it is now amazingly fast), + to support dashboards with thousands of charts. + +- netdata alarms now support custom hooks, so you can run whatever you + like in parallel with netdata alarms. + +- As usual, this release brings dozens of more improvements, enhancements + and compatibility fixes. + +netdata (1.6.0) - 2017-03-20 + +- birthday release: 1 year netdata + + netdata was first published on March 30th, 2016. + It has been a crazy year since then: + + 225.000 unique netdata users + currently, at 1.000 new unique users per day + + 80.000 unique netdata installations + currently, at 500 new installation per day + + 610.000 docker pulls on docker hub + + 4.000.000 netdata sessions served + currently, at 15.000 sessions served per day + + 20.000 github stars + + ``` + Thank you! + You are awesome! + ``` + +- central netdata is here + + This is the first release that supports real-time streaming of + metrics between netdata servers. + + netdata can now be: + + - autonomous host monitoring + (like it always has been) + + - headless data collector + (collect and stream metrics in real-time to another netdata) + + - headless proxy + (collect metrics from multiple netdata and stream them to another netdata) + + - store and forward proxy + (like headless proxy, but with a local database) + + - central database + (metrics from multiple hosts are aggregated) + + metrics databases can be configured on all nodes and each node maintaining + a database may have a different retention policy and possibly run + (even different) alarms on them. + +- monitoring ephemeral nodes + + netdata now supports monitoring autoscaled ephemeral nodes, + that are started and stopped on demand (their IP is not known). + + When the ephemeral nodes start streaming metrics to the central + netdata, the central netdata will show register them at "my-netdata" + menu on the dashboard. + + For more information check: + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/streaming#monitoring-ephemeral-nodes> + +- monitoring ephemeral containers and VM guests + + netdata now cleans up container, guest VM, network interfaces and mounted + disk metrics, disabling automatically their alarms too. + + For more information check: + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/collectors/cgroups.plugin#monitoring-ephemeral-containers> + +- apps.plugin ported for FreeBSD + + @vlvkobal has ported "apps.plugin" to FreeBSD. netdata can now provide + "Applications", "Users" and "User Groups" on FreeBSD. + +- web_log plugin + + @l2isbad has done a wonderful job creating a unified web log parsing plugin + for all kinds of web server logs. With it, netdata provides real-time + performance information and health monitoring alarms for web applications + and web sites! + + For more information check: + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/collectors/python.d.plugin/web_log#web_log> + +- backends + + netdata can now archive metrics to `JSON` backends + (both push, by @lfdominguez, and pull modes). + +- IPMI monitoring + + netdata now has an IPMI plugin (based on freeipmi) + for monitoring server hardware. + + The plugin creates (up to) 8 charts: + + 1. number of sensors by state + 2. number of events in SEL + 3. Temperatures CELCIUS + 4. Temperatures FAHRENHEIT + 5. Voltages + 6. Currents + 7. Power + 8. Fans + + It also supports alarms (including the number of sensors in critical state). + + For more information, check: + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/collectors/freeipmi.plugin> + +- new plugins + + @l2isbad builds python data collection plugins for netdata at an wonderfull + rate! He rocks! + + - **web_log** for monitoring in real-time all kinds of web server log files @l2isbad + - **freeipmi** for monitoring IPMI (server hardware) + - **nsd** (the [name server daemon](https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/nsd/)) @383c57 + - **mongodb** @l2isbad + - **smartd_log** (monitoring disk S.M.A.R.T. values) @l2isbad + +- improved plugins + + - **nfacct** reworked and now collects connection tracker information using netlink. + - **ElasticSearch** re-worked @l2isbad + - **mysql** re-worked to allow faster development of custom mysql based plugins (MySQLService) @l2isbad + - **SNMP** + - **tomcat** @NMcCloud + - **ap** (monitoring hostapd access points) + - **php_fpm** @l2isbad + - **postgres** @l2isbad + - **isc_dhcpd** @l2isbad + - **bind_rndc** @l2isbad + - **numa** + - **apps.plugin** improvements and freebsd support @vlvkobal + - **fail2ban** @l2isbad + - **freeradius** @l2isbad + - **nut** (monitoring UPSes) + - **tc** (Linux QoS) now works on qdiscs instead of classes for the same result (a lot faster) @t-h-e + - **varnish** @l2isbad + +- new and improved alarms + - **web_log**, many alarms to detect common web site/API issues + - **fping**, alarms to detect packet loss, disconnects and unusually high latency + - **cpu**, cpu utilization alarm now ignores `nice` + +- new and improved alarm notification methods + - **HipChat** to allow hosted HipChat @frei-style + - **discordapp** @lowfive + +- dashboard improvements + - dashboard now works on HiDPi screens + - dashboard now shows version of netdata + - dashboard now resets charts properly + - dashboard updated to use latest gauge.js release + +- other improvements + - thanks to @rlefevre netdata now uses a lot of different high resolution system clocks. + + netdata has received a lot more improvements from many more contributors! + + Thank you all! + +netdata (1.5.0) - 2017-01-22 + +- yet another release that makes netdata the fastest + netdata ever! + +- netdata runs on FreeBSD, FreeNAS and MacOS ! + + Vladimir Kobal (@vlvkobal) has done a magnificent work + porting netdata to FreeBSD and MacOS. + + Everyhing works: cpu, memory, disks performance, disks space, + network interfaces, interrupts, IPv4 metrics, IPv6 metrics + processes, context switches, softnet, IPC queues, + IPC semaphores, IPC shared memory, uptime, etc. Wow! + +- netdata supports data archiving to backend databases: + + - Graphite + - OpenTSDB + - Prometheus + + and of course all the compatible ones + (KairosDB, InfluxDB, Blueflood, etc) + +- new plugins: + + Ilya Mashchenko (@l2isbad) has created most of the python + data collection plugins in this release ! + + - systemd Services (using cgroups!) + - FPing (yes, network latency in netdata!) + - postgres databases @facetoe, @moumoul + - Vanish disk cache (v3 and v4) @l2isbad + - ElasticSearch @l2isbad + - HAproxy @l2isbad + - FreeRadius @l2isbad, @lgz + - mdstat (RAID) @l2isbad + - ISC bind (via rndc) @l2isbad + - ISC dhcpd @l2isbad, @lgz + - Fail2Ban @l2isbad + - OpenVPN status log @l2isbad, @lgz + - NUMA memory @tycho + - CPU Idle @tycho + - gunicorn log @deltaskelta + - ECC memory hardware errors + - IPC semaphores + - uptime plugin (with a nice badge too) + +- improved plugins: + + - netfilter conntrack + - mysql (replication) @l2isbad + - ipfs @pjz + - cpufreq @tycho + - hddtemp @l2isbad + - sensors @l2isbad + - nginx @leolovenet + - nginx_log @paulfantom + - phpfpm @leolovenet + - redis @leolovenet + - dovecot @justohall + - cgroups + - disk space + - apps.plugin + - /proc/interrupts @rlefevre + - /proc/softirqs @rlefevre + - /proc/vmstat (system memory charts) + - /proc/net/snmp6 (IPv6 charts) + - /proc/self/meminfo (system memory charts) + - /proc/net/dev (network interfaces) + - tc (linux QoS) + +- new/improved alarms: + + - MySQL / MariaDB alarms (incl. replication) + - IPFS alarms + - HAproxy alarms + - UDP buffer alarms + - TCP AttemptFails + - ECC memory alarms + - netfilter connections alarms + - SNMP + +- new alarm notifications: + + - messagebird.com @tech-no-logical + - pagerduty.com @jimcooley + - pushbullet.com @tperalta82 + - twilio.com @shadycuz + - HipChat + - kafka + +- shell integration + + - shell scripts can now query netdata easily! + +- dashboard improvements: + - dashboard is now faster on firefox, safari, opera, edge + (edge is still the slowest) + - dashboard now has a little bigger fonts + - SHIFT + mouse wheel to zoom charts, works on all browsers + - perfect-scrollbar on the dashboard + - dashboard 4K resolution fixes + - dashboard compatibility fixes for embedding charts in + third party web sites + - charts on custom dashboards can have common min/max + even if they come from different netdata servers + - alarm log is now saved and loaded back so that + the alarm history is available at the dashboard + +- other improvements: + - python.d.plugin has received way to many improvements + from many contributors! + - charts.d.plugin can now be forked to support + multiple independent instances + - registry has been re-factored to lower its memory + requirements (required for the public registry) + - simple patterns in cgroups, disks and alarms + - netdata-installer.sh can now correctly install + netdata in containers + - supplied logrotate script compatibility fixes + - spec cleanup @breed808 + - clocks and timers reworked @rlefevre + + netdata has received a lot more improvements from many more + contributors! + + Thank you all guys! + +netdata (1.4.0) - 2016-10-04 + + At a glance: + +- the fastest netdata ever (with a better look too)! + +- improved IoT and containers support! + +- alarms improved in almost every way! + +- new plugins: + softnet netdev, + extended TCP metrics, + UDPLite + NFS v2, v3 client (server was there already), + NFS v4 server & client, + APCUPSd, + RetroShare + +- improved plugins: + mysql, + cgroups, + hddtemp, + sensors, + phpfm, + tc (QoS) + + In detail: + +- improved alarms + + Many new alarms have been added to detect common kernel + configuration errors and old alarms have been re-worked + to avoid notification floods. + + Alarms now support notification hysteresis (both static + and dynamic), notification self-cancellation, dynamic + thresholds based on current alarm status + +- improved alarm notifications + + netdata now supports: + + - email notifications + - slack.com notifications on slack channels + - pushover.net notifications (mobile push notifications) + - telegram.org notifications + + For all the above methods, netdata supports role-based + notifications, with multiple recipients for each role + and severity filtering per recipient! + + Also, netdata support HTML5 notifications, while the + dashboard is open in a browser window (no need to be + the active one). + + All notifications are now clickable to get to the chart + that raised the alarm. + +- improved IoT support! + + netdata builds and runs with musl libc and runs on systems + based on busybox. + +- improved containers support! + + netdata runs on alpine linux (a low profile linux distribution + used in containers). + +- Dozens of other improvements and bugfixes + +netdata (1.3.0) - 2016-08-28 + + At a glance: + +- netdata has health monitoring / alarms! +- netdata has badges that can be embeded anywhere! +- netdata plugins are now written in Python! +- new plugins: redis, memcached, nginx_log, ipfs, apache_cache + + IMPORTANT: + Since netdata now uses Python plugins, new packages are + required to be installed on a system to allow it work. + For more information, please check the installation page: + + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/installer#installation> + + In detail: + +- netdata has alarms! + + Based on the POLL we made on github + (<https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/436>), + health monitoring was the winner. So here it is! + + netdata now has a poweful health monitoring system embedded. + Please check the wiki page: + + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/health> + +- netdata has badges! + + netdata can generate badges with live information from the + collected metrics. + Please check the wiki page: + + <https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/web/api/badges> + +- netdata plugins are now written in Python! + + Thanks to the great work of Paweł Krupa (@paulfantom), most BASH + plugins have been ported to Python. + + The new python.d.plugin supports both python2 and python3 and + data collection from multiple sources for all modules. + + The following pre-existing modules have been ported to Python: + + - apache + - cpufreq + - example + - exim + - hddtemp + - mysql + - nginx + - phpfm + - postfix + - sensors + - squid + - tomcat + + The following new modules have been added: + + - apache_cache + - dovecot + - ipfs + - memcached + - nginx_log + - redis + +- other data collectors: + + - Thanks to @simonnagl netdata now reports disk space usage. + +- dashboards now transfer a certain settings from server to server + when changing servers via the my-netdata menu. + + The settings transferred are the dashboard theme, the online + help status and current pan and zoom timeframe of the dashboard. + +- API improvements: + + - reduction functions now support 'min', 'sum' and 'incremental-sum'. + + - netdata now offers a multi-threaded and a single threaded + web server (single threaded is better for IoT). + +- apps.plugin improvements: + + - can now run with command line argument 'without-files' + to prevent it from enumating all the open files/sockets/pipes + of all running processes. + + - apps.plugin now scales the collected values to match the + the total system usage. + + - apps.plugin can now report guest CPU usage per process. + + - repeating errors are now logged once per process. + +- netdata now runs with IDLE process priority (lower than nice 19) + +- netdata now instructs the kernel to kill it first when it starves + for memory. + +- netdata listens for signals: + + - SIGHUP to netdata instructs it to re-open its log files + (new logrotate files added too). + + - SIGUSR1 to netdata saves the database + + - SIGUSR2 to netdata reloads health / alarms configuration + +- netdata can now bind to multiple IPs and ports. + +- netdata now has new systemd service file (it starts as user + netdata and does not fork). + +- Dozens of other improvements and bugfixes + +netdata (1.2.0) - 2016-05-16 + + At a glance: + +- netdata is now 30% faster +- netdata now has a registry (my-netdata dashboard menu) +- netdata now monitors Linux Containers (docker, lxc, etc) + + IMPORTANT: + This version requires libuuid. The package you need is: + +- uuid-dev (debian/ubuntu), or +- libuuid-devel (centos/fedora/redhat) + + In detail: + +- netdata is now 30% faster ! + + - Patches submitted by @fredericopissarra improved overall + netdata performance by 10%. + + - A new improved search function in the internal indexes + made all searches faster by 50%, resulting in about + 20% better performance for the core of netdata. + + - More efficient threads locking in key components + contributed to the overal efficiency. + +- netdata now has a CENTRAL REGISTRY ! + + The central registry tracks all your netdata servers + and bookmarks them for you at the 'my-netdata' menu + on all dashboards. + + Every netdata can act as a registry, but there is also + a global registry provided for free for all netdata users! + +- netdata now monitors CONTAINERS ! + + docker, lxc, or anything else. For each container it monitors + CPU, RAM, DISK I/O (network interfaces were already monitored) + +- apps.plugin: now uses linux capabilities by default + without setuid to root + +- netdata has now an improved signal handler + thanks to @simonnagl + +- API: new improved CORS support + +- SNMP: counter64 support fixed + +- MYSQL: more charts, about QCache, MyISAM key cache, + InnoDB buffer pools, open files + +- DISK charts now show mount point when available + +- Dashboard: improved support for older web browsers + and mobile web browsers (thanks to @simonnagl) + +- Multi-server dashboards now allow de-coupled refreshes for + each chart, so that if one netdata has a network latency + the other charts are not affected + +- Several other minor improvements and bugfixes + +netdata (1.1.0) - 2016-04-20 + + Dozens of commits that improve netdata in several ways: + +- Data collection: added IPv6 monitoring +- Data collection: added SYNPROXY DDoS protection monitoring +- Data collection: apps.plugin: added charts for users and user groups +- Data collection: apps.plugin: grouping of processes now support patterns +- Data collection: apps.plugin: now it is faster, after the new features added +- Data collection: better auto-detection of partitions for disk monitoring +- Data collection: better fireqos intergation for QoS monitoring +- Data collection: squid monitoring now uses squidclient +- Data collection: SNMP monitoring now supports 64bit counters +- API: fixed issues in CSV output generation +- API: netdata can now be restricted to listen on a specific IP +- Core and apps.plugin: error log flood protection +- Dashboard: better error handling when the netdata server is unreachable +- Dashboard: each chart now has a toolbox +- Dashboard: on-line help support +- Dashboard: check for netdata updates button +- Dashboard: added example /tv.html dashboard +- Packaging: now compiles with musl libc (alpine linux) +- Packaging: added debian packaging +- Packaging: support non-root installations +- Packaging: the installer generates uninstall script + +netdata (1.0.0) - 2016-03-22 + +- first public release + +netdata (1.0.0-rc.1) - 2015-11-28 + +- initial packaging |