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v0.39.1

19 Jan 13:04
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This is release v0.39.1 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Security fixes

Bugfixes

  • Fix issue where installing the Windows Agent Flow installer would hang then crash. (@mattdurham)

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.39.0

09 Jan 16:35
v0.39.0
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This is release v0.39.0 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

  • otelcol.receiver.prometheus will drop all otel_scope_info metrics when converting them to OTLP. (@wildum)

    • If the otel_scope_info metric has labels otel_scope_name and otel_scope_version,
      their values will be used to set OTLP Instrumentation Scope name and version respectively.
    • Labels of otel_scope_info metrics other than otel_scope_name and otel_scope_version
      are added as scope attributes with the matching name and version.
  • The target block in prometheus.exporter.blackbox requires a mandatory name
    argument instead of a block label. (@hainenber)

  • In the azure exporter, dimension options will no longer be validated by the Azure API. (@kgeckhart)

    • This change will not break any existing configurations and you can opt in to validation via the validate_dimensions configuration option.
    • Before this change, pulling metrics for azure resources with variable dimensions required one configuration per metric + dimension combination to avoid an error.
    • After this change, you can include all metrics and dimensions in a single configuration and the Azure APIs will only return dimensions which are valid for the various metrics.

Features

  • A new discovery.ovhcloud component for discovering scrape targets on OVHcloud. (@ptodev)
  • Allow specifying additional containers to run. (@juangom)

Enhancements

  • Flow Windows service: Support environment variables. (@jkroepke)

  • Allow disabling collection of root Cgroup stats in
    prometheus.exporter.cadvisor (flow mode) and the cadvisor integration
    (static mode). (@hainenber)

  • Grafana Agent on Windows now automatically restarts on failure. (@hainenber)

  • Added metrics, alerts and dashboard visualisations to help diagnose issues
    with unhealthy components and components that take too long to evaluate. (@thampiotr)

  • The http config block may now reference exports from any component.
    Previously, only remote.* and local.* components could be referenced
    without a circular dependency. (@rfratto)

  • Add support for Basic Auth-secured connection with Elasticsearch cluster using prometheus.exporter.elasticsearch. (@hainenber)

  • Add a resource_to_telemetry_conversion argument to otelcol.exporter.prometheus
    for converting resource attributes to Prometheus labels. (@hainenber)

  • pyroscope.ebpf support python on arm64 platforms. (@korniltsev)

  • otelcol.receiver.prometheus does not drop histograms without buckets anymore. (@wildum)

  • Added exemplars support to otelcol.receiver.prometheus. (@wildum)

  • mimir.rules.kubernetes may now retry its startup on failure. (@hainenber)

  • Added links between compatible components in the documentation to make it
    easier to discover them. (@thampiotr)

  • Allow defining HTTPClientConfig for discovery.ec2. (@cmbrad)

  • The remote.http component can optionally define a request body. (@tpaschalis)

  • Added support for loki.write to flush WAL on agent shutdown. (@thepalbi)

  • Add support for integrations-next static to flow config conversion. (@erikbaranowski)

  • Add support for passing extra arguments to the static converter such as -config.expand-env. (@erikbaranowski)

  • Added 'country' mmdb-type to log pipeline-stage geoip. (@superstes)

  • Azure exporter enhancements for flow and static mode, (@kgeckhart)

    • Allows for pulling metrics at the Azure subscription level instead of resource by resource
    • Disable dimension validation by default to reduce the number of exporter instances needed for full dimension coverage
  • Add max_cache_size to prometheus.relabel to allow configurability instead of hard coded 100,000. (@mattdurham)

  • Add support for http_sd_config within a scrape_config for prometheus to flow config conversion. (@erikbaranowski)

  • discovery.lightsail now supports additional parameters for configuring HTTP client settings. (@ptodev)

  • Add sample_age_limit to remote_write config to drop samples older than a specified duration. (@marctc)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.39.0-rc.0

05 Jan 16:24
v0.39.0-rc.0
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v0.39.0-rc.0 Pre-release
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This is release v0.39.0-rc.0 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

  • otelcol.receiver.prometheus will drop all otel_scope_info metrics when converting them to OTLP. (@wildum)

    • If the otel_scope_info metric has labels otel_scope_name and otel_scope_version,
      their values will be used to set OTLP Instrumentation Scope name and version respectively.
    • Labels of otel_scope_info metrics other than otel_scope_name and otel_scope_version
      are added as scope attributes with the matching name and version.
  • The target block in prometheus.exporter.blackbox requires a mandatory name
    argument instead of a block label. (@hainenber)

  • In the azure exporter, dimension options will no longer be validated by the Azure API. (@kgeckhart)

    • This change will not break any existing configurations and you can opt in to validation via the validate_dimensions configuration option.
    • Before this change, pulling metrics for azure resources with variable dimensions required one configuration per metric + dimension combination to avoid an error.
    • After this change, you can include all metrics and dimensions in a single configuration and the Azure APIs will only return dimensions which are valid for the various metrics.

Features

  • A new discovery.ovhcloud component for discovering scrape targets on OVHcloud. (@ptodev)

Enhancements

  • Flow Windows service: Support environment variables. (@jkroepke)

  • Allow disabling collection of root Cgroup stats in
    prometheus.exporter.cadvisor (flow mode) and the cadvisor integration
    (static mode). (@hainenber)

  • Grafana Agent on Windows now automatically restarts on failure. (@hainenber)

  • Added metrics, alerts and dashboard visualisations to help diagnose issues
    with unhealthy components and components that take too long to evaluate. (@thampiotr)

  • The http config block may now reference exports from any component.
    Previously, only remote.* and local.* components could be referenced
    without a circular dependency. (@rfratto)

  • Add support for Basic Auth-secured connection with Elasticsearch cluster using prometheus.exporter.elasticsearch. (@hainenber)

  • Add a resource_to_telemetry_conversion argument to otelcol.exporter.prometheus
    for converting resource attributes to Prometheus labels. (@hainenber)

  • pyroscope.ebpf support python on arm64 platforms. (@korniltsev)

  • otelcol.receiver.prometheus does not drop histograms without buckets anymore. (@wildum)

  • Added exemplars support to otelcol.receiver.prometheus. (@wildum)

  • mimir.rules.kubernetes may now retry its startup on failure. (@hainenber)

  • Added links between compatible components in the documentation to make it
    easier to discover them. (@thampiotr)

  • Allow defining HTTPClientConfig for discovery.ec2. (@cmbrad)

  • The remote.http component can optionally define a request body. (@tpaschalis)

  • Added support for loki.write to flush WAL on agent shutdown. (@thepalbi)

  • Add support for integrations-next static to flow config conversion. (@erikbaranowski)

  • Add support for passing extra arguments to the static converter such as -config.expand-env. (@erikbaranowski)

  • Added 'country' mmdb-type to log pipeline-stage geoip. (@superstes)

  • Azure exporter enhancements for flow and static mode, (@kgeckhart)

    • Allows for pulling metrics at the Azure subscription level instead of resource by resource
    • Disable dimension validation by default to reduce the number of exporter instances needed for full dimension coverage
  • Add max_cache_size to prometheus.relabel to allow configurability instead of hard coded 100,000. (@mattdurham)

  • Add support for http_sd_config within a scrape_config for prometheus to flow config conversion. (@erikbaranowski)

  • discovery.lightsail now supports additional parameters for configuring HTTP client settings. (@ptodev)

  • Add sample_age_limit to remote_write config to drop samples older than a specified duration. (@marctc)

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.38.1

30 Nov 15:09
v0.38.1
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This is release v0.38.1 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Security fixes

Features

  • Agent Management: Introduce support for templated configuration. (@jcreixell)

Bugfixes

  • Permit X-Faro-Session-ID header in CORS requests for the faro.receiver
    component (flow mode) and the app_agent_receiver integration (static mode).
    (@cedricziel)

  • Fix issue with windows_exporter defaults not being set correctly. (@mattdurham)

  • Fix agent crash when process null OTel's fan out consumers. (@hainenber)

  • Fix issue in prometheus.operator.* where targets would be dropped if two crds share a common prefix in their names. (@Paul424, @captncraig)

  • Fix issue where convert command would generate incorrect Flow Mode config
    when provided promtail configuration that uses docker_sd_configs (@thampiotr)

  • Fix converter issue with loki.relabel and max_cache_size being set to 0 instead of default (10_000). (@mattdurham)

Other changes

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.38.0

21 Nov 14:21
v0.38.0
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This is release v0.38.0 of Grafana Agent.

v0.38.0 is a huge release, with many new features, improvements, and bugfixes. This page only covers a very small portion of those changes. For a full list of changes, refer to our CHANGELOG.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

Breaking changes

  • The deprecated otelcol.exporter.jaeger component has been removed as scheduled in v0.36.
  • Some metrics for the mysqld exporter integration ahve been removed or renamed.

Features

  • New flow mode components:
    • otelcol.processor.filter filters OTLP telemetry data using OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL).
    • otelcol.receiver.vcenter receives metrics telemetry data from vCenter.
  • Changes to River:
    • River now supports "raw strings" to avoid needing to escape special characters.
    • River now permits using [] to access non-existent keys in an object, rather than generating an error.

Enhancements

  • Improvements to log collection in flow mode:
    • Improve detection of rolled log files in loki.source.kubernetes and loki.source.podlogs.
    • Clustering is now supported in loki.source.kubernetes and loki.source.podlogs.
    • Added support for replaying unsent data for loki.write when WAL is enabled.
  • Improvements to the flow controller:
    • Improved resilience of graph evaluation in presence of slow components.

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.38.0-rc.1

20 Nov 21:38
v0.38.0-rc.1
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This is release v0.38.0-rc.1 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

The following changes are included on top of v0.38.0-rc.0:

Enhancements

  • Allow agent to start with module.git config if cached before. (@hainenber)

Bugfixes

  • Fix default configuration file grafana-agent-flow.river used in downstream packages. (@bricewge)

  • Fix converter output for prometheus.exporter.windows to not unnecessarily add empty blocks. (@erikbaranowski)

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.38.0-rc.0

16 Nov 20:23
v0.38.0-rc.0
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v0.38.0-rc.0 Pre-release
Pre-release

This is release v0.38.0-rc.0 of Grafana Agent.

v0.38.0-rc.0 is a huge release, with many new features, improvements, and bugfixes. This page only covers a very small portion of those changes. For a full list of changes, refer to our CHANGELOG.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes

Breaking changes

  • The deprecated otelcol.exporter.jaeger component has been removed as scheduled in v0.36.
  • Some metrics for the mysqld exporter integration ahve been removed or renamed.

Features

  • New flow mode components:
    • otelcol.processor.filter filters OTLP telemetry data using OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL).
    • otelcol.receiver.vcenter receives metrics telemetry data from vCenter.
  • Changes to River:
    • River now supports "raw strings" to avoid needing to escape special characters.
    • River now permits using [] to access non-existent keys in an object, rather than generating an error.

Enhancements

  • Improvements to log collection in flow mode:
    • Improve detection of rolled log files in loki.source.kubernetes and loki.source.podlogs.
    • Clustering is now supported in loki.source.kubernetes and loki.source.podlogs.
    • Added support for replaying unsent data for loki.write when WAL is enabled.
  • Improvements to the flow controller:
    • Improved resilience of graph evaluation in presence of slow components.

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.37.4

06 Nov 18:33
v0.37.4
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This is release v0.37.4 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

This patch release has two small changes

  • Added an add_metric_suffixes option to otelcol.exporter.prometheus in flow mode, which configures whether to add type and unit suffixes to metrics names. (@mar4uk)

  • Fixes a bug where reloading the configuration of a loki.write component lead to a panic. (@tpaschalis)

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.37.3

26 Oct 10:23
v0.37.3
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This is release v0.37.3 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

This patch release fixes a couple of bugs with the Agent's handing of Prometheus Native Histograms, as well as improving small issues with the configuration converters.

It also fixes an issue with the remote.vault component ignoring the namespace argument, and performs routine updates to some of our dependencies.

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

v0.37.2

16 Oct 16:15
v0.37.2
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This is release v0.37.2 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

Notable changes:

v0.37.2 contains a few bugfixes and enhancements.

Bugfixes

  • Fix the handling of the --cluster.join-addresses flag causing an invalid
    comparison with the mutually-exclusive --cluster.discover-peers. (@tpaschalis)

  • Fix an issue with the static to flow converter for blackbox exporter modules
    config not being included in the river output. (@erikbaranowski)

Enhancements

  • Update Prometheus dependency to v2.47.2. (@tpaschalis)

  • Allow Out of Order writing to the WAL for metrics. (@mattdurham)

Other changes

For a full list of changes, please refer to the CHANGELOG!

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent: