Highlights for the week ending 2024-12-12

Observability

Grafana App v2.18.0
- Improved security by blocking default access to certain endpoints (/swagger, /metrics, and /api/health).
- Upgraded Grafana for a better user experience and new features (now at version 8.6.0).
Prometheus Rules v4.30.0
- New alert added to help identify issues with KubeadmConfig configurations.
- Reduced unnecessary alerts during tests by ignoring certain HelmReleases.
- Added new alerts to quickly detect and resolve karpenter issues.
- Expanded alert timing for PromtailRequestsErrors to reduce false positives (now 25 minutes).
Observability Operator v0.10.0
- Integrated Mimir, Alertmanager for enhanced alerting.
- Enhanced multi-tenant support within Grafana organizations.
- Fixed an issue that prevented Grafana from starting by ensuring config persistence.

Kube Downscaler App v0.4.0
- Introduced a new Cilium network policy template for improved network management.

Kyverno Policies v0.21.1
- Enhanced visibility with the addition of the application.giantswarm.io/team label.
Event Exporter App v2.0.0
- Transitioned to a new, supported image source for better stability and support.