Highlights for the week ending 2025-01-30

Observability

  • Observability Platform API version 0.1.0

    • Introduced an initial setup with ingress and application templates to enhance platform observability.
  • Observability Operator version 0.10.2

    • Enhanced alert management with a new Alertmanager controller.
    • Simplified SSO settings by switching to the Grafana admin API.
    • Improved data source management and dashboard loading options.
  • Prometheus Meta Operator version 4.83.0

    • Improved alert notifications and link management for better usability.
    • Enhanced security by updating dependencies and configurations.
  • Dashboards version 3.29.1

    • Added and improved various dashboards including Cluster Overview and Promtail Overview for better monitoring insights.
    • Enhanced DNS dashboard for more accurate memory usage reporting.
  • Prometheus Rules version 4.34.0

    • Added new alerts and annotations to enhance monitoring capabilities.
    • Streamlined alert management by removing deprecated entries.
  • Logging Operator version 0.20.0

    • Introduced support for customer-specific log tenancy and enhanced default configurations.
  • Cluster API Monitoring App version 1.16.1

    • Improved security and compliance with updated RBAC permissions.
  • Prometheus Blackbox Exporter App version 0.5.0

    • Enhanced security settings to meet compliance standards.

Security

Connectivity

Others

Docs

- [We have unified header and footer of our website](https://github.com/giantswarm/docs/pull/2445).
- [New guide on adding your application logs to the managed Loki installation](https://github.com/giantswarm/docs/pull/2447).
- [We added the annotations you can tune in the Cluster AWS resources](https://github.com/giantswarm/docs/pull/2454).