Highlights for the week ending 2024-11-28

Observability

• logging-operator version 0.16.0

  • Introducing enhanced visibility with Kubernetes events logging in Alloy, allowing for better monitoring of your environments.
  • Improved security by adding support for Private Certificate Authorities (CAs) in Alloy logs.
  • More control with the new events-logger option, enabling tailored logging settings through the observability-bundle ConfigMap.
  • Simplified management with the Grafana-Agent configuration now templated, and user privacy respected by disabling usage data reporting.
  • Enhanced reliability with improved logging configuration tests.

• prometheus-rules version 4.27.0

  • Get precise alerts with new rules distinguishing between production and non-production clusters, ensuring focused monitoring.
  • Expanded monitoring capabilities with new alerts for critical components like cloud-provider-controller, cilium, coredns, and vertical-pod-autoscaler-crd.
  • Improved alerting for system reliability, including Shield pod restarts and Mimir ruler failures.
  • Enhanced usability with fixes to dashboard links and more robust template testing.

Continuous deployment

• app-exporter version 1.0.0
  • Gain deeper insights with a new cluster_id field in app metrics, enhancing traceability by linking metrics to specific clusters.
  • Aligned with the latest standards by removing outdated Kubernetes support, simplifying your configuration for modern environments.
  • Streamline your deployment processes with updated pipeline tools and simplified Helm values.
  • Ensure consistency and reliability in your deployments with updated label values and the removal of unnecessary dependencies.

Docs

We’re excited to announce the launch of our new Docs Hub, featuring up-to-date documentation for the Giant Swarm platform, now fully ready for Cluster API. While we’ve preserved our vintage documentation in a dedicated folder for reference, all content in the general documentation section is now accurate and current. We are committed to expanding and enhancing our documentation further in the coming weeks, and we warmly welcome all customer feedback to help us improve and complete our resources.