Release Notes

Disabled downloading of Loggly CA certificate during installation. Loggly does not require to download CA certificate for sending logs over TLS anymore. Refer to Loggly FAQ for more details.

• Updated plugins:

  • log plugin (version 15):

    • Updated plugin configuration file to use host certificate store for sending logs over TLS to loggly.

• Updated plugins:

  • bridge plugins (version 24):

    • Updated sqlserver plugin configuration file. This version of plugin adds new metric groups that can be collected.

• Updated plugins:

  • system plugin (version 57):

    • Fixed issue with random spikes for disk capacity metrics.

• Added downloading of Loggly CA certificate.

• snap (version 2.5.4):

  • Fixed issue with possible deadlock during snap shutdown.
  • Updated main configuration file.

• Updated plugins:

  • log plugin (version 14):

    • Updated plugin configuration to use TLS by default.
    • Added loggly_ca_certificate_path setting for specifying path to Loggly public CA certificate. Refer to plugin documentation for more details.

  • system plugin (version 56):

    • Improved performance.
    • Added system_query_timeout setting for configuring timeout used to fetch system statistics (like i.e. disk metrics). Refer to documentation for more details.
    • Updated list of metrics reported by default.

  • elasticsearch plugin (version 17):

    • Plugin supports additional formats for connection strings. See plugin documentation for more details.

• Added support for Windows Server 2019

• snap (version 2.5.3):

  • Improved errors logging

• Updated plugins

  • publisher plugin (version 47):

    • New configuration parameter host_check_timeout allows to configure timeout for querying host operating system for identification information.
    • Improvements in reading EC2 metadata.

• snap (version 2.5.1):

  • Fixed issue with not adding tags defined in the task file for some dynamic metrics
  • REST API now is listening only on the local interface by default
  • Fixed issue with expanding "${}" strings in configuration files to environment variables, preventing of using "${" in i.e. passwords.

• New plugins

  • oracledb plugin (version 2):

    • Collects metrics from oracle databases. Refer to plugin documentation for insructions.

• Updated plugins

  • system plugin (version 55):

    • Updated default task file.

• Moved appoptics publisher floor_seconds and period settings to global config.yaml and removed them from plugins tasks files

• Updated plugins

  • log plugin (version 12):

    • Updated example configuration and task file
    • Fixed issue with invalid calculation of message when max_line_length is configured
    • files section in logs.yaml is now optional on Windows platform
    • Fixed issue with locking files that are monitored
    • Fixed issue with not properly recongized end of line on Windows platforms

  • rabbitmq plugin (version 21):

    • Fixed issue with collecting metrics from older rabbitmq instances

  • mysql plugin (version 25):

    • Updated configuration file
    • Fixed memory leak when plugin cannot connect to database

  • elasticsearch plugin (version 16):

    • Fixed issue with spamming logs with warning that elasticsearch endpoint is not reachable

  • publisher plugin (version 46):

    • Added proxy support for processes publisher

• Fixed issue with possible crash of swisnapd when streaming plugin restarts due to its errors.

• Fixed issue with not setting token in log plugin example configuration file.

• Fixed issue with overwriting some configuration files during upgrade.

• Updated plugins

  • log plugin (version 10):

    • Added support to collect windows events. Refer to log plugin documentation for more details.

  • processes plugin (version 9):

    • updated configuration of a plugin. Now using only task file. Refer to processes plugin documentation for more details.

• Sorting output of swisnap plugins/tasks list command

• Fixes issue with increasing memory usage by swinsnapd when streaming type plugin restarts due to errors.

• Updated plugins

  • system plugin (version 53):

    • Improved performance

  • mysql plugin (version 22):

    • plugin accepts multiple mysql connection strings and can monitor multiple mysql instances. Refer to mysql plugin documentation for more details.

• Improvements in logging

• Some binaries did not have set version

• Updated plugins

  • system plugin (version 52):

    • New configuration parameter exclude_disks. Refer to documentation for more details.
    • Fixes issue with missing metrics for some disk mounts

  • bridge plugins (version 22):

    • Fixes memory leak in sqlserver bridge plugin

• Fixed issue with installer overwriting config files during upgrade

• Updated default timeouts for communication between snap and plugins. grpc_timeout and deadline options does not have to be specified in each plugin config now

• Updated plugins

  • mongodb plugin (version 12):

    • Added new per database statistic metrics

  • processes plugin (version 8):

    • Fixed invalid calucation of processes CPU usage
    • Fixed issues timeouts collecting some metrics that require WMI operations

  • publisher plugin (version 44):

    • Fixed issue when plugin was posting empty metrics

  • docker plugin (version 44):

    • Improved reconnect mechanism to docker event api

• Updated plugins
  • publisher plugin (version 43):
    • Fixed issue with not sending global tags
  • haproxy plugin (version 9):
    • Fixed issue with not handling special characters in password. Refer to haproxy plugin documentation for more details.
  • processes plugin (version 4):
    • Fixed default config (no more warnings about it being empty)

• Updated plugins
  • processes plugin (version 3):
    • added tagging processes with command line arguments

• Added option for enabling TLS for Agent REST API
• Added option for enabling TLS communication between Agent and plugins
• Implemented TLS communication for autoloaded plugins
• Improved error logging
• Added support for the new AO token format
• New plugins
  • processes plugin (collector and publisher):
    • collects metrics for processes running on the host. Refer to plugin processes documentation for more details.
• Updated plugins
  • system plugin (version 48):
    • added several new default metrics (processes, memory/paging, network). Refer to metrics documentation for more details.
  • publisher plugin (version 42):
    • fixed API errors handling (no longer retries sending metrics on HTTP 400)
    • skipping empty tags while publishing metrics
    • improved logging

• Changed agent log file permissions to only allow read/write for solarwinds user

• Agent package contains GPG signature of all binaries shipped with a package. Users are now able to run agent with only trusted (GPG signed) plugins.

• swisnapd -v command prints agent package version

• Updated plugins

  • haproxy plugin (version 8):

    • fixed issue with invalid default task file preventing plugin from start

• Fixed issue with logrotate on some operating systems.

• Updated plugins

  • publisher plugin (version 38):

    • fixed issue with sending invalid version of agent package

  • mysql plugin (version 20):

    • fixed issue preventing plugin start due to not found metric.
    • added default tags to mysql plugin metrics: address, database, database version

  • log plugin (version 5):

    • fixed issue with invalid default value for setting max_line_length

• New plugins

  • memcached plugin (version 3):

    • New plugin for monitoring Memcached. Refer to plugin memcached documentation for more details.

• Updated plugins

  • elasticsearch plugin (version 13):

    • Fixed issue with some metrics not updating properly.

• Renamed package name from appoptics-snaptel to solarwinds-snap-agent. Refer to installation, configuration and upgrade instructions for more details.
• Snap (version 2.2.0):
  • Fixes issue with not restarting streaming plugins when they stop on error.
  • Fixes issue with standard collectors reaching maximum grpc message size. Now standard collectors can send any number of metrics.
  • Removed Tribe beta feature support.
  • All config files are now installed to Program Data/SolarWinds/Snap folder. Configuration templates are stored in Program Files/SolarWinds/Snap/templates.
• New plugins
  • log plugin (version 4):
    • New plugin that enables integration of the SolarWinds Snap Agent with Loggly or PaperTrail.. It allows for monitoring and filtering of selected by the user log files and sending them to SolarWinds log management services. Refer to logs plugin documentation for more details.

• haproxy plugin (version 7):
  • New plugin that enables collecting metrics from haproxy instances. Refer to haproxy plugin documentation for more details.

• Updated plugins
  • docker plugin (version 43):
    • Limitted number of blkio metrics reported by default. Now only total blkio metrics are reported.
  • plugins with minor stability improvements:
    • apache plugin (version 20)
    • bridge plugins (version 18)
    • elasticsearch plugin (version 11)
    • iis plugin (version 4)
    • mongodb plugin (version 11)
    • mysql plugin (Version 19)
    • system plugin (version 42)
    • rabbitmq plugin (version 17)
    • publisher plugin (version 37)
    • publisher file plugin (version 14)

• Updated plugins

  • mongoDb plugin (version 10):

    • Renamed plugin config file template.

  • rabbitmq plugin (version 16):

    • Client management hosts discovery is now done based on /api/overview

• Plugins ported from Linux platform

  • bridge plugins (version 17):

    • sqlserver plugin
    • redis plugin

• This installer version contains additional plugins available now on Windows platform.

• New plugins

  • iis plugin (version 3):

    • New plugin for monitoring Microsoft IIS. Refer to plugin IIS documentation for more details.

• Integrated plugins ported from Linux platforms

  • rabbitmq plugin (version 15)
  • elasticsearch plugin (version 10)
  • mysql plugin (version 18)
  • kubernetes plugin (version 20)

• Updated plugins

  • publisher plugin (version 36):

    • Fixes memory leak.

• Fixes issue with watch_task API method not showing gathered metrics for streaming collectors.

• Improved logging.

• Fixes issues with collecting metrics when using streaming collectors. Metrics were send with delay.

• Updated plugins

  • mongodb plugin (version 8):
    • New refactored mongodb plugin. Refer to plugin documentation and example config/task files for more details.

• Fixes issue with not adding all tags to metrics for streaming collectors

• Installer package is signed with renewed certificate

• Updated plugins

  • system plugin (version 39):

    • Fixes issue with calculation of total CPU usage on Windows platform
    • Added disk bytes metrics to default task file
    • Fixes various issues causing duplication of hosts in AppOptics

• Improved plugin autoload functionality and related issues with upgrading.

• Improved last_failure_message shown with snaptel task list. Now it includes name of plugin that reported error.

• Updated plugins

  • publisher plugin (version 30):

    • Improved EC2 instance check logic.
    • Fixes issue with sending wrong version of agent in metadata
    • Global root tags from config.yml are now send in metadata

• Updated plugins:

  • publisher plugin (version 25):

    • AO-7276: moved x-host information to JSON body

• Update plugins:

  • publisher plugin (version 24):
    • Ignore PPP network interfaces.

• Added the grpc_timeout plugin configuration, which can be used along with a task’s deadline configuration to increase the time allowed for collection or publishing.

• Updated plugins:

  • system plugin (version 35):

    • Continue to collect disk usage metrics when some paths are not accessible.

  • publisher plugin (version 23):

    • Split large batches into smaller batches when number of metrics is greater than 1000 measurements.
    • Retry 3 times when getting errors from collector endpoint.

• Initial release for Windows.
• System metrics version 31