v8.0.0 (2024-04-26)

Software maintenance

• Tested with Grafana version 10.2.3
• Tested with RedHat community-powered Grafana operator v.5

Features / Enhancements

• The Grafana Bridge has been refactored to allow several APIs to be registered and run as standalone plugins. The OpenTSDB API now needs to be explicitly registered via port configuration in config.ini before it can be used with Grafana.
• Added the new Prometheus Exporter plugin which collects metrics and exposes them in a format that can be scraped by the Prometheus timeseries database. This plugin also needs to be enabled via port configuration.
• Added Prometheus server configuration file examples.
• Added a Client Basic Authentication over HTTP/S support.
• Added features to collect and report the internal performance statistics of grafana-bridge.

v7.1.3 (2024-03-08)

Software maintenance

• Changed the Dockerfile parent image to the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi:9.3-1610

v7.1.2 (2024-02-28)

Software maintenance

• Changed the Dockerfile parent image to the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi:9.3-1552
• Changed CircleCi remote-docker-image to default

v7.1.1 (2024-01-18)

Software maintenance

• Changed the Dockerfile parent image to the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi:9.3

v7.1.0 (2023-11-20)

Software maintenance

• Added methods to get metric attributes
• Added method logging query time execution
• Internal code restructuring

Features / Enhancements

• Added a watch function observing changes in zimon sensor configuration and initiating the metadata refresh. \

Full Changelog: v7.0.9...v7.1.0

v7.0.9 (2023-08-20)

Software maintenance

• Changed the Dockerfile parent image to the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi9/ubi:9.2
• Tested with Grafana version 9.5
• Tested with RedHat community-powered Grafana operator v.5

Features / Enhancements

• New deployment scripts :
  • Example yaml files for Deploying end-to-end Grafana environment on an Openshift cluster via Grafana-operator v5
  • Example yaml file for the grafana-bridge service route allowing an external Grafana instance query data from grafana-bridge running inside an Openshift cluster
• New example Dashboards :
  • Example Dashboards compatible with Grafana 9.5

Full Changelog: v7.0.8...v7.0.9

v7.0.8 (2022-12-06)

Software maintenance

• Changed the Dockerfile parent image to the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi:8.7
• Made Dockerfile compatibe with OpenShift style allowing to specify user/group settings at the image build time.
• Added Workaround for Disk Capacity sensors allowing to query and fetch data from the archived (on disk data).
• Tested with Grafana version 7.5.17 and 9.0.0
• Tested with RedHat community-powered Grafana operator v.4.8

Features / Enhancements

• New articles in the IBM Spectrum Scale bridge for Grafana Wiki :
  • Refresh the IBM Spectrum Scale meta data used by the IBM Spectrum Scale Performance Monitoring Bridge for Grafana
  • Deploying Grafana Operator from OperatorHub on k8s cluster

Full Changelog: v7.0.7...v7.0.8

v7.0.7 (2022-09-21)

Software maintenance

• Tested with Grafana version 7.5.16 and 9.0.0
• Tested with RedHat community-powered Grafana operator v.4.6

Features / Enhancements

• Some code changes done to the QueryHandler package to improve query performance
• Fixed issue in parsing zimon sensors config, having new filter format for Network sensor
• Updated dashboard examples for making them compatible with Grafana 9.0.0

v7.0.6 (2022-04-12)

Software maintenance

• Tested with Grafana version 8.0.3
• Tested with RedHat community-powered Grafana operator v.4.2

Features / Enhancements

• Provided workaround for the zimon query issue not returning all metrics results for the GPFSDiskCap sensor.
• Added non root user to the Dockerfile. This way the main process will be started with a non-root user when running in a container.
• Added labels to the Dockerfile.

v7.0.5 (2022-02-10)

Software maintenance

• Changed the Dockerfile parent image to the registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi:8.5
• Tested with Grafana version 7.5.1 and 8.0.3
• Tested with RedHat community-powered Grafana operator v.4.1

Features / Enhancements

• Added 'caCertPath' to the configurable parameters, which allows the user to enable or disable CA certificate verification for the REST API HTTPS connections to the pmcollector.
• Added 'retryDelay' to the configurable parameters. Using this parameter the user can control how long the bridge should sleep before re-attempting to query the MetaData, in case no data was returned by pmcollector through the initial bridge startup