Jan 2024
Leverage better insights on your warning events and crashes
Release Date: January 24, 2024
Affected Sections: Workload
You can now access highly detailed information on all your warning events and crashes, right from the Timeline of any Workload's Infrastructure tab!
Clicking on the events data points on the timeline now opens an additional side panel, listing all of the warning events or crashes that occurred on the selected time and providing their kind, message and the involved K8s entity name. Selecting a specific event will dive even deeper and provide the full information, including the full message content and historical metadata.
We believe that this added granularity will enable you to better understand what goes on in your environment and provide you with even more data to quickly identify, troubleshoot and prevent issues.
These new capabilities are available are available with v1.6.69 or later. Learn how to update groundcover's agent to the most recent version.
Gain granular insights on all your Nodes
Release Date: January 18, 2024
Affected Sections: Infrastructure, Nodes
Visibility on all Nodes in your cluster is expanding much farther, allowing you to instantly view the most critical information about them!
Right from the Infrastructure section, the Nodes tab now shows the split of running, pending and failed pods for each node.
You can now also click on any Node from the Infrastructure section to open a panel, where the Details tab reveals plenty of additional insights on the resources used by that node, as well as all of its metadata, labels, annotations and taints.
The Pods tab is where you can view all of the pods running on that node, with details on each of these pods too! So you can now very easily view the most critical information including live status, memory consumption, CPU usage and container.
In addition, the Events tab will list all Kubernetes events related to that node and the YAML tab will show its full YAML file.
These new capabilities are available are available with v1.6.59 or later. Learn how to update groundcover's agent to the most recent version.
Search and Filter Traces by Tags
Release Date: January 18, 2024
Affected Sections: Traces
We're excited to announce yet another enhancement to groundcover's observability capabilities! Building on our recent updates that improved search and filtering functionalities by enabling the use of log and trace attributes, we've now introduced the ability to search and filter traces using Tags.
What are Tags?
Tags are powerful metadata components, structured as key-value pairs. They offer insightful information about the resource generating the span. Tags include metadata enriched by the our Alligator sensor and additional metadata if provided by manual instrumentations (such as OpenTelemetry traces) . Utilizing these Tags enhances understanding and context of your traces, allowing for more comprehensive analysis and more advanced filtering to find what you need more easily.
How Can You Use Tags in Searches?
Utilizing Tags in your searches is straightforward. You can now add them to your search queries in the search bar using the key:value syntax. This enhancement allows for more precise and refined searches, enabling you to quickly pinpoint the information you need.
These new capabilities are available are available with v1.6.59 or later. Learn how to update groundcover's agent to the most recent version.
Dive even deeper into your infrastructure and applications
Release Date: January 11, 2024
Affected Sections: Infrastructure, Traces
Today is a double-release day, with two new and exciting features that will improve two of the core capabilities of the groundcover platform - Infrastructure Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
Infrastructure Monitoring - New Nodes information tab
Get more granular than ever before in the exploration of your Kubernetes clusters with the addition of a Nodes information tab!
This addition to the Infrastructure section of our platform allows you to instantly see the status of specific Nodes, identify which ones are having issues, and get a quick understanding of what could cause them. This new tab displays information about each Node’s resource consumption, showing percentages of memory, CPU, and disk usage.
APM - Search and filter by span Query Parameters and Headers
Delve into your application's performance data with an unparalleled level of precision and simplicity, as you can quickly isolate performance issues by query parameters and headers.
This added capability brings you value on two fronts:
Root cause analysis: Streamline your application troubleshooting capabilities even further with additional parameters to slice and dice your searches.
User behavior analytics: Better understand user behaviors and request patterns to optimize their experiences.
These new filters can be added to your query in the same way as log and trace attributes, by clicking on them and selecting Filter by, Exclude, or Replace with, from the menu that opens (see image below), or by adding the query directly into the search bar (see examples below).
Practical use cases:
Filter spans of a specific user to track down their flow in your app: @http.url.query.param.user_id=12345678
Troubleshoot errors by response content type: @http.response.header.content-type:application/x-protobuf AND Status=500
These new capabilities are available are available with v1.6.52 or later. Learn how to update groundcover's agent to the most recent version.
Instantly monitor and analyze your workload's storage health
Release Date: January 8, 2024
Affected Sections: Workloads
We are happy to announce the release of a new PVC health visualization screen! Accessible from any workload information page, this new tab will now provide a much easier way to understand the status of the PVCs related to each individual workload.
New Storage tab for workloads
Accessible from any individual workload information page, it displays the following graphs:
PVC Usage - Relative / Absolute usage by the workload (percentage / bytes)
PVC Latency - Latency of Read and Write operations by the workload to the PVC
Total Operations - Rate of all Read and Write operations by the workload to the PVC
Take preventive action before performance is impacted, or shorten the time to identify the root cause of a workload storage-related issue, using valuable performance insights presented in these new dashboards!
These new capabilities are available are available with v1.6.45 or later. Learn how to update groundcover's agent to the most recent version.
Searchable Attributes for Traces
Release Date: January 4, 2024
Affected Sections: Traces
We are excited to announce that, following our recent releases that enabled searchable attributes for JSON and CLF logs, we now also support searchable attributes for traces! With this new feature, you can select specific attributes to include in your traces search query, making searching and filtering much easier and faster.
Similarly to the functions available in logs, searchable attributes for traces will allow you to right-click any trace attribute to open a menu that lets you choose between filtering by the selected attribute, removing or excluding that attribute from the search query, or replacing all active filters with the selected attribute.
You can also perform the same actions by using @key:value syntaxes in the search bar. See our full list of syntaxes here.
These new capabilities are available are available with v1.6.45 or later. Learn how to update groundcover's agent to the most recent version.
Last updated
