Geneos 6.x Release Notes
Overview
Geneos release notes contain the list of enhancements of features, and a set of issues fixed in the current release.
This page contains release notes for all Geneos 6.x releases.
For the latest highlights, see What's New in Geneos.
Note: Upgrading between Geneos versions can introduce different changes. For more information, see the Geneos Upgrade Notes.
Important
End of life for Geneos 4.x.x is 31 May 2023. If you are using Geneos 4.x.x, we advise you to upgrade to Geneos 5.x.x or newer.
Upcoming Geneos release
Geneos follows a two-month release cycle. The next planned release for Geneos 6.3.x is March 2023.
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues. The known issues that are resolved will be added on this page.
Geneos compatibility and lifecycle
The notice of change in the Geneos compatibility identifies the components, plugins, or features that will no longer be supported by ITRS in any future releases.
To view all the changes to Geneos compatibility and lifecycle, refer to Geneos 6.x Compatibility Matrix.
End of support
The end of support means that the affected component, plugin, or feature is no longer supported and this ends the release of binaries. The table below lists the affected components, plugins, and features:
Notice of change | Affected components | Effective date | Alternative or Upgrade path |
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End of support for Geneos 4.x.x | All Geneos components version 4.x.x | 31 May 2023 | If you are using Geneos 4.x.x, we advise you to upgrade to Geneos 5.x.x or newer. |
End of support for Solaris operating system | All Geneos components and versions | 31 May 2023 | Upgrade to a supported operating system. |
Geneos 6.2.0
Released: 31 January 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Active Console
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AWS plugin
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Azure Monitor plugin
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Collection Agent
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Fluentd Forward plugin
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Gateway
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License Auditor
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Netprobe
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OpenTelemetry plugin
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Prometheus plugin
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SSO Agent
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Webslinger
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AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
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Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
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Gateway docker image
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Netprobe docker image
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Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
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Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
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Active Console now supports Follow Selection mode for State Tree. This means the State Tree will automatically expand to select and identify items selected elsewhere in the Active Console. This makes it easier to find items in your State Tree without needing to search through a large number of items.
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Support integration with HashiCorp Password Vault that allows you to manage passwords in the Gateway configuration.
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Netprobe Helm Chart now supports additional configuration options.
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-5460 | Gateway | Added _ALERT_CLEARED that shows the date and time when the alert is cleared. |
AA-6610 | Gateway | HashiCorp Vault is now supported as an external password manager. |
COL-9484 | Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger | Webslinger plugin now has the option to choose TLS versions. |
COL-11312 | Netprobe | You can now enable or disable the MultiSubnetFailover option in the SQL Toolkit plugin for the Microsoft SQL Server database. This setting is disabled by default. |
COL-11340 | Netprobe | The Gateway name is now included in the FKM outbound stream log data published to both Elasticsearch and Splunk. |
COL-11519 | Gateway | Netprobe logging is improved so that unnecessary setup changes are no longer logged. |
COL-11568 | Netprobe Helm Chart | The Fluentd Forward configuration has been added to the Netprobe Helm chart. |
COL-11569 | Netprobe Helm Chart | Managed Entities can now be configured for Netprobes deployed in Kubernetes environments using the Netprobe Helm chart. |
COL-11574 | Netprobe |
The Netty libraries in Netprobe have been upgraded to 4.1.86-Final to address the following security vulnerabilities:
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COL-11577 | Netprobe |
The following binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.2.0, and are now available for download from the ITRS Downloads:
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VI-7912 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | When a notification pop-up, List View, or Event Ticker item is clicked, the corresponding node in the State Tree where that item belongs is also selected. |
VI-9555 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor |
You can now enable or disable state tree follow selection by using the Enable follow selection option. Additionally, these modifications brought about adjustments to the Active Console settings:
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AZUREMON-357 | Azure |
The Azure-core library has been updated to 1.35.0 to update the Netty project transitive dependency to version 4.1.79-FINAL. This addresses the following security vulnerabilities for Netty:
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AZUREMON-476 | Azure |
The Azure-core library has been updated to 1.35.0 to update the Woodstox-core project transitive dependency to version 6.4.0. This addresses the following security vulnerabilities for Woodstox-core:
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Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-6456 | Netprobe | Fixed an issue where Snoozes and User Assignments were removed when multiple dynamic samplers were inserted into a Self-Announcing Netprobe. |
AA-6531 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Gateway | An HTTP response code 401 error no longer occurs when loading disabled remote include files in the GSE . |
AA-6644 | Gateway | Gateway now correctly returns Dynamic Entity licenses after a Netprobe is removed. |
AA-6645 | Gateway | Added omitBlankArguments option that allows users to omit blank arguments on script commands run on Gateway or Netprobe. |
AA-6653 | Gateway | When a Managed Entity attribute is removed, the attributes cell of the Managed Entity Data Gateway plugin is now updated accordingly. |
AA-6663 | Netprobe Helm Chart | Geneos Workflow plugin is now added to the Netprobe Helm Deployment. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.1.2
Released: 18 January 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Active Console
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Gateway
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License Auditor
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Netprobe
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Gateway docker image
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Netprobe docker image
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Gateway Helm chart
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Netprobe Helm chart
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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VI-9657 | Active Console, Gateway, Netprobe |
Fixed the incorrect display in Geneos 6.1.x of the following Dynamic Entities settings:
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Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.1.1
Released: 4 January 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Active Console
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Gateway
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Geneos Workflow plugin
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License Auditor
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Netprobe
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OpenTelemetry plugin
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Web Server
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Gateway docker image
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Netprobe docker image
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Gateway Helm chart
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Netprobe Helm chart
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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C2-362 | Collection Agent | Derived metrics from the OpenTelemetry plugin are now aggregated and exported similar to metrics received over the network. |
C2-367 | Collection Agent |
Resource and scope attributes that are not selected for inclusion as dimensions are now retained as properties. This behavior may be disabled via configuration to drop the excluded dimension mappings. Individual metric, log, and trace attributes are now always mapped to properties and not to dimensions. |
COL-11534 | Netprobe | The Geneos Workflow plugin now correctly maps empty histogram data to empty cells in the dataview. |
VI-9558 | Active Console, Web Dashboard | The PostgreSQL library in the Active Console and Web Dashboard has been upgraded to version 42.5.1 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-41946. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-6646 | Gateway | Gateway publishing no longer crashes when Gateway-SQL clears dataview. |
AA-6650 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes when a command list is sent to the Gateway during Netprobe setup changes. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.1.0
Released: 1 December 2022
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Active Console
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AWS plugin
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Azure Monitor plugin
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Collection Agent
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Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
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Fluentd Forward plugin
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Gateway
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Kubernetes plugin
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License Auditor
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Licence Daemon
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Netprobe
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OpenTelemetry plugin
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Prometheus plugin
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SSO Agent
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StatsD plugin
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Web Server
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Webslinger
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AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
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Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
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Gateway docker image
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Netprobe docker image
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Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
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Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
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New Fluentd plugin to aggregate log data.
Fluentd is an open-source highly scalable log event data collector. Similar to Prometheus for metrics, Fluentd has become a popular choice of tool for log collection and aggregation in container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and OpenShift.
The new Fluentd plugin allows you to receive logs directly from Fluentd so you don’t have to deploy additional toolsets to aggregate log data for monitoring. The plugin supports inbound Fluentd protocol messages over secure TCP connection. The inbound messages are dynamically organised into streams of log data for monitoring using popular plugins like File Keyword Monitor and State Tracker. Geneos can also publish that data onwards to ITRSObcerv platform, Splunk or Elasticsearch for log search and analysis.
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Monitoring Kubernetes control plane components with Prometheus plugin.
The Prometheus plugin is now enhanced to support collecting metrics from Kubernetes endpoints such as the control plane components. The key to providing a scalable, fault-tolerant, highly available Kubernetes service are the control plane components of Kubernetes such as the scheduler, etcd, api-server, and control-manager. In order to maintain a healthy Kubernetes cluster, monitoring these components is crucial. These components can expose internal performance metrics using Prometheus format. The Prometheus plugin can scrape the metric endpoints exposed by these components directly, without the need to install Prometheus server to aggregate this data.
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Other improvements:
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AWS plugin now supports monitoring custom namespaces (custom metrics), EC2 network interfaces and security groups. The plugin configuration is also updated to allow a single collector (plugin) to monitor multiple regions to minimise configuration.
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Gateway publishing now supports exclude filter when publishing data to other systems like ITRSITRS Obcerv, Kafka and generic Http endpoints. This gives more control over the data published to other systems, helping to minimise downstream data requirements.
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Market Data Monitoring (MDM) plugin now includes a new feed adapter for connecting to Refinitiv's Real Time Optimized data feed accessible via the cloud. This is available as pilot feature in this release.
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SQL-Toolkit plugin for SAP ASE (Sybase) now support Kerberos authentication.
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New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-6522 | Gateway | Collectors now come with built-in mappings that are automatically added to the mappings used by the Netprobe. |
AA-6532 | Gateway | Gateway publishing now supports filtering based on exclude filters. |
AA-6549 | Gateway | Gateway can now connect to a Standalone SSO Agent using Basic Authentication to get a list of users for the User Assignment drop-down menu. |
AA-6556 | Gateway, Netprobe | Updated Protocol Buffers version to 3.19.4 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2021-22570. |
AA-6557 | Gateway, Netprobe |
Updated CAres version to 1.17.2 to address the security vulnerabilities:
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AA-6577 | Gateway, Netprobe | Dynamic Entity metrics that are not updated within the configured stale data timeout are no longer published to Obcerv and are displayed as blank cells in Active Console. |
AA-6592 | Gateway | When Gateway publishes severity events to Obcerv, the message text now uses severity names instead of numeric values. |
AA-6623 | Gateway | Gateway name is now included as a datapoint property to all datapoints sent by Gateway to Obcerv. |
AA-6627 | Gateway | You can now configure the default GRPC connection parameters for Obcerv. |
AA-6632 | Gateway | TLS verification can now be disabled when connecting to Obcerv to publish data. |
AA-6634 | Gateway | Gateway now creates the dataview-dynamic-schemas cache only when publishing to Gateway Hub2.x.x . |
COL-8662 | Netprobe | MQ plugins now look up passwords from external password vault at the time of use. |
COL-11302 | Netprobe | Variables and external passwords are now supported in MQ plugins. |
COL-11303 | Netprobe | [Pilot Feature]: Add Refinitiv RTO Feed Adapter, a new MDM Feed Adapter which connects to Refinitiv's Real Time Optimized environment. |
COL-11414 | Gateway, Netprobe, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe | SQL Toolkit plugin now supports Kerberos Authentication when connecting to Sybase. |
COL-11427 | Netprobe | The output of the ShowDynamicMappings now includes the last update time for the selected metric. |
COL-11452 | Netprobe |
The Jackson databind library in the Netprobe package has been upgraded to 2.13.4.2 to address the security vulnerabilities:
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COL-11459 | Gateway, Netprobe | Fluentd Forward plugin is now added to the list of Collection Agent plugins that can be configured and used in Geneos. |
COL-11460 | Netprobe | The Fluentd Foward plugin 3.0.0 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads. |
COL-11490 | Netprobe |
For Obcerv destinations in the Publisher plugin, the default batch size is now 1000 and the default batch timeout is now 1 second. Also, the Publisher plugin now sends gRPC messages to Obcerv using GZIP compression. |
COL-11501 | Netprobe |
The Prometheus plugin 3.1.0 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads. |
COL-11502 | Netprobe |
The Azure plugin 3.1.0 and AWS plugin 3.2.0 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads. |
COL-11505 | Netprobe |
The Collection Agent 3.2.1, Kubernetes Plugin 3.2.1, and OpenTelemetry Plugin 3.0.1 binaries are packaged with Netprobe 6.1.0, and are now available to download from the ITRS Downloads. |
UTL-1225 | SSO Agent | Updated Undertow Core version to 2.2.20 to resolve CVE-2022-1672. |
UTL-1231 | SSO Agent | SSO Agent is now allowed to use a Kerberos keytab instead of a password. |
UTL-1242 | SSO Agent | The default logback.xml in SSO Agent now includes the date in the log timestamp. |
UTL-1244 | Gateway, Netprobe | The base Docker container of Gateway and Netprobe is now updated to 8.7.929. |
VI-9497,
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Active Console | The Java version packaged with Active Console for , , and is now updated to OpenJDK 11.x. |
VI-9500 | Web Dashboard | The Java version packaged with Web Dashboard is now updated to OpenJDK 11.x. |
VI-7821 | Active Console | The command dialog box now resizes automatically when an error message is displayed in it. |
VI-9485 | Active Console | GSE now validates and colourises YAML in the relevant Dynamic Entities sections. |
VI-9528 | Gateway |
After configuring and adding the Azure collector to the mapping type, the built-in mappings for Azure Monitor V3 are now automatically added. When self monitoring is enabled in the Collection Agent parameters, the built-in mappings for Collection Agent V3 are also automatically included. |
VI-9534 | Active Console | The Jackson Databind library in the Active Console has been upgraded to 2.13.4 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-42004. |
VI-9536 | Active Console | The SnakeYAML library in the Gateway Setup Editor has been upgraded to 1.33 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-38752. |
VI-9539 | Active Console | The Jackson Databind library in the Active Console has been upgraded to 2.13.4.2 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-42003. |
VI-9542 | Web Server |
The Spring Security libraries in the Web Dashboard have been upgraded to 5.7.5 to address the security vulnerabilities:
Upgrading Spring Security also upgrades the Spring Framework libraries to 5.3.23. |
HAAW-264 | AWS | You can now monitor custom namespaces and gather custom metrics using the AWS plugin. |
HAAW-338 | AWS | You can now monitor non-active but non-terminated instances using the AWS plugin. |
HAAW-364 | AWS | You can now monitor network interfaces associated with each monitored EC2 instance. |
HAAW-365 | AWS | You can now specify a list of regions when using the AWS plugin so a single Collector (plugin) can monitor multiple regions. |
HAAW-366 | AWS | Users can now monitor the AWS/Usage namespace to track service quotas. |
OACM-28 | Prometheus | The Prometheus plugin now uses Netty v4.1.79-Final. |
OACM-31 | Prometheus | Prometheus plugin now supports the ability to scrape Kubernetes endpoints to collect metrics about control plane components and other services exposing metrics in Prometheus format. |
C2-353 | Collection Agent | Percent metric is now used when collecting Kubernetes node, pod, and container file systems. |
AZUREMON-474 | Azure | Addressed security vulnerability: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Jackson-databind. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-5770 | Gateway | If Dynamic Entities are not supported, the severity in log messages is now displayed as INFO. |
AA-6326 | Netprobe | Gateway rules on the Win-Services plugin now only trigger actions after startup. |
AA-6402 | Gateway, Netprobe | Geneos components no longer hang when a file-related system call fails while logging messages. |
AA-6527 | Gateway | The HTTP publishing adapter now supports the specification of a destination URL with an empty path. |
AA-6595 | Netprobe | Collection Agent Health monitoring is now started if a mapping is sent to the Netprobe. |
AA-6636 | Gateway | The memory leak in Gateway that happens when Netprobes publish commands has been fixed. |
COL-6084 | Netprobe | Fixed an issue in the Processes and Top plugins where the parentID of the terminated parent process is not updated correctly. |
COL-8667 | Netprobe | The REST Extractor plugin now supports external passwords in password fields. You may now also use password variables in HTTP POST and PUT bodies. |
COL-10930 | Netprobe | Fixed serialization issues when publishing FKM logs to Publisher. |
COL-11443 | Netprobe | The Dynamic Entities Health plugin now updates the sampling status headline of its Invalid Streams view correctly when the status changes. |
COL-11450 | Netprobe, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe | Self-Announcing Netprobe now recovers correctly from a race condition that occurs when the connection to Gateway is interrupted repeatedly. |
OACM-30 | Prometheus | Fixed polling timeout encountered in PrometheusTargetScrapeCollector when configured with TLS. |
UTL-1226 | Gateway, Netprobe, License Daemon | Fixed an issue where a Geneos component hangs when a file-related system call fails while logging messages. |
VI-9523 | Active Console | Requery now works on Obcerv historical datasets regardless of whether the initial dataset inserted in a chart is active or non-historical. |
VI-9524 | Active Console | Requery now works when the scrollbar is moved for the first time on a workspace or after importing an ADB file. |
VI-9525 | Active Console | Active chart requery is now triggered when the scrollbar is moved. |
VI-9526 | Active Console | When charts trigger an Obcerv requery of datapoints, a null pointer exception no longer occurs. |
VI-9546 | Active Console | Live or non-historical datasets from an Obcerv source no longer triggers chart requeries. Datapoints are no longer updated when moving the scrollbar or resizing the chart. |
VI-9547 | Active Console | Requery now works on dashboards imported into Active Console with charts containing historical charts and with an Obcerv datasource. |
VI-9548 | Active Console | The horizontal scrollbar of line charts no longer locks when an Obcerv requery occurs. |
VI-9520 | Active Console | Switching workspaces in the Active Console no longer causes a BadInstanceIdError. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.0.2
Released: 8 November 2022
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Netprobe
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Kubernetes
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Collection Agent
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Netprobe docker image
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Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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C2-355 | Collection Agent | When upgrading from version 2.x, any persistent stores are now automatically migrated to version 3.x. |
COL-11469 | Collection Agent, Kubernetes, Netprobe | Collection Agent 3.2.0 and Kubernetes Plugin 3.2.0 are now packaged with the Netprobe 6.0.2. |
COL-11480 | Netprobe | Cached Collection Agent datapoints that are migrated when a Collection Agent is upgraded from 2.x to 3.x can now be rendered in Geneos. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.0.1
Released: 5 October 2022
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Netprobe
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AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
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Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
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Netprobe docker image
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Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.0.0
Released: 20 September 2022
Geneos new features and fixes are released on a regular two-monthly release cadence. Over the last two and a half years, we introduced many new features on the Geneos 5.x. We generally bump up the major version every two years, so it is time to move up to Geneos 6.x.
ITRS will continue to support Geneos 5.x at least until the end of 2024 because we recognise that not everyone will be able to upgrade to Geneos 6.x for some months. Currently, there is not yet a fixed end-of-life date for Geneos 5.x.
End of life for Geneos 4.x.x is 31 May 2023. If you are running Geneos 4.x, we advise you to upgrade to Geneos 5.x or newer. Please see Geneos 6.x Compatibility Matrix for more details.
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
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Active Console
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AWS plugin
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Azure Monitor plugin
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Collection Agent
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File Agent
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Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
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Gateway
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Geneos Workflow plugin
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Kubernetes plugin
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License Auditor
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Licence Daemon
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Netprobe
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OpenTelemetry plugin
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Prometheus plugin
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SSO Agent
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StatsD plugin
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Web Server
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Webslinger
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AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
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Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
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Gateway docker image
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Netprobe docker image
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Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
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Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
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Ingest OpenTelemetry data for complete observability
OpenTelemetry is an open, vendor-neutral toolset and standard for instrumenting your applications and services. With the increased use of highly distributed microservice architectures, OpenTelemetry has become a popular standard for collecting observability data. We are excited to introduce the new OpenTelemetry plugin supporting the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for collecting metrics, logs, and traces (partially supported). This gives you full-stack monitoring of your systems and applications alongside your other monitoring using the extensive range of plugins in Geneos.
While metrics and logs are fully supported, we currently extract important metrics from the trace data. We intend to fully support trace data in future releases. Geneos can be configured to dynamically create the monitoring entities and data structures so your monitoring can automatically scale with your application deployment.
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Improved visibility and management of Collection Agents
Collection Agent and its plugins, first introduced in Geneos 5.x, gather data points (metrics, logs, and events) and report them to Geneos Netprobe. Collection Agent can be deployed alongside Netprobes and managed by Netprobes or installed and managed independently from Netprobe. For most host-based monitoring, it is useful to deploy Collection Agent managed by Netprobe. For containerised environments like Kubernetes, Netprobe and Collection Agent are typically managed using Kubernetes objects.
This release introduces improvements to the Collection Agent and its plugins (or Collectors) managed by a Netprobe.
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Collection Agent configuration (
collection-agent.yml
) can now be managed centrally in Gateway via the Gateway Setup Editor alongside your other Geneos configuration. This removes the need to manage YAML files on the host where Collection Agent is running. Support for variables and validation reduces complexity and improves the user experience.Note: This feature requires Gateway and Netprobe version 6.x. It is also recommended you upgrade Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor to version 6.x.
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The lifecycle of the Collection Agent can be managed by the Netprobe, giving you more visibility and control of the Collection Agent and its plugins. Self-monitoring views and easy access to logs, errors, and configuration files from within Active Console mean you can easily diagnose any issues without needing access to host machines.
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Easily migrate AES keys for more secure password management
Gateway supports private AES keys for encrypting sensitive data in configuration. When AES keys are changed, all encrypted data must be updated to use the new key. Gateway Setup Editor now supports a migration option to easily update the configuration to use the new key.
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Geneos, please read Geneos Upgrade Notes for compatibility changes you should be aware of before upgrading.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-5742 | Gateway | Gateway no longer includes a plaintext version of the database logging password in the metadata provided to Active Console. |
AA-6514 | Gateway, Netprobe |
Gateway can now manage the Collection Agent configuration and is able to:
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AA-6377 | Netprobe | Publishing Collection Agent 3.0.0 datapoints to the Netprobe is now supported. |
AA-6378 | Gateway, Netprobe | Geneos 6.0. | 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS are now supported in
AA-6417 | Gateway |
When Gateway validates its setup, it now reports an error for each AES password that cannot be decrypted and a warning for each AES password that can only be decrypted with a key loaded via the Where Gateway uses AES passwords directly, for example, in Obcerv and database logging credentials, it will not attempt to connect if the password cannot be decrypted. |
AA-6442 | Gateway |
In addition to the Gateway Setup Editor allows you to migrate passwords encrypted using |
AA-6444 | Active Console, Gateway | Gateway Setup Editor now supports the migration of passwords that are encrypted using previous-key-file and their re-encryption using the new key-file . This makes it easier to change the Gateway AES key more often to improve security. |
AA-6445 | Gateway, Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe | When a sampler setup contains an AES-encrypted password that cannot be decrypted by the Gateway, a parameter is set by the Gateway for the Netprobe to replace that sampler with another one. This new sampler has a dataview containing no rows and a sampling status stating the problem. This prevents the plugin from attempting to use the invalid password, which may cause the Netprobe to be locked out. |
AA-6449 | Gateway | Gateway Setup Editor now displays a warning message when the Data Access field for connecting to Obcerv is not set. |
AA-6478 | Gateway | Collection Agent 3 plugin licensing model now uses the itrsgroup namespace when publishing datapoints. This change will not affect any existing plugin licences in use. |
AA-6487 | Gateway | Gateway now adds a self-monitoring entity with a Dynamic Entity Health plugin to any Netprobe configured with a Dynamic Entity mapping type. This is the default behavior, but it can be disabled in the Operating Environment section in GSE. |
AA-6494 | Gateway | Collection Agent 3.0.0 is now packaged with Netprobe 6.0.0. |
AA-6503 | Gateway | The aesKeyType row describing the keys used by Gateway has been added to the GatewayData dataview. |
AA-6506 | Gateway | Validation of passwords is now skipped when the -hub-validation-rules command line option is set. |
AA-6535 | Netprobe | The Entities view of the Dynamic Entities Health plugin has been updated to publish metrics with names and meanings similar to the metrics published by the Collection Agents view of the Gateway-probeData plugin. |
AA-6544 | Gateway |
The Netprobe view log command (
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AA-6585 | Gateway | Collection Agent V3 built-in Dynamic Entity mapping has been added to support the Collection Agent 3.x. |
AA-6588 | Docker Image | The base UBI image for Geneos docker images has been updated. |
AZUREMON-387 | Azure | Azure Monitor plugin has been updated to support compatibility with Collection Agent 3.x. |
AZUREMON-391 | Azure | The Google Gson library in the Azure Monitor plugin has been upgraded to 2.9.0 to address the security vulnerability: BDSA-2021-4363. |
AZUREMON-458 | Azure | The Azure Marketplace VM has been updated to support Geneos 6.0.0 binaries. |
AZUREMON-459 | Azure | Azure Monitor V3 builtin mapping has been added to support the Azure Monitor plugin 3.x. |
C2-184 | Collection Agent | Individual components can now be enabled or disabled. |
C2-187 | Collection Agent | The delay between daemon start-up and the healthy state has been reduced. |
C2-188 | Collection Agent | A warning message about an undefined variable will no longer be logged when an environment variable substitution is commented out in the Collection Agent configuration file. |
C2-195 | Collection Agent | An option to publish derived timer histogram metrics (min/max/count/Nth) has been added. |
C2-197 | Collection Agent | The TimerHistogram has been replaced with a general purpose Histogram. |
C2-223 | Collection Agent | The attributes workflow pipeline has been separated from the Metrics workflow pipeline to apply different delivery guarantees. |
C2-226 | Collection Agent | The hostname dimension has been removed from the Kubernetes metrics. |
C2-299 | Collection Agent | The log verbosity of the plugin loader has been reduced. |
C2-345 | Collection Agent | A configuration test mode has been added to the Collection Agent. |
COL-7674 | Netprobe | SU plugin has been deprecated. |
COL-11093 | Netprobe |
Netprobe can now search and try and locate Java when
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COL-11189 | FIX Analyser 2 plugin, Netprobe |
The following Netprobe plugins, which are already deprecated and not supported, are now removed from Netprobe:
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COL-11281 | Netprobe | The following plugins have been deprecated: GL Greffon, GL Lost Orders, GL Order Book, GL Permissions, GL SLC, GL SLC Relay, GL SLE, GL SLE TCP, MISS-X, PATS Status, PATS Trading Breaches, PATS Users, SETS SLC, and Tradeview. |
COL-11327 | Gateway | The Collection Agent and plugins included in the Netprobe package have been upgraded to version 3.x. |
COL-11328 | Netprobe Helm Chart | The Netprobe helm charts have been updated to use Collection Agent v3 docker image. |
COL-11329 | Gateway | Kubernetes V3 builtin mapping has been added to support the Kubernetes plugin 3.x. |
COL-11361 | Gateway | Prometheus V3 builtin mapping has been added to support the Prometheus plugin 3.x. |
COL-11363 | Netprobe | When Dynamic Entities are configured for Self-Announcing Netprobes, the Managed Entities are now optional. |
COL-11399 | Netprobe |
The Kubernetes specific Netprobe package ( |
COL-11401 | Netprobe | MDM plugin no longer requires the Application Key file, mdm_appkey.txt . |
HAAW-64, HAAW-333, HAAW-345 | AWS |
AWS plugin now displays the following attributes of the monitored EBS volumes:
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HAAW-329 | AWS | Metric names produced by the AWS plugin have been changed to be consistent with AWS convention. This may break existing x-paths that reference the old name. Please check the Gateway configuration to make sure AWS plugins related x-paths are valid. |
HAAW-344 | AWS | AWS plugin now displays the LaunchTime attribute of the monitored EC2 instances. |
HAAW-350 | AWS | The AWS Marketplace AMI has been updated to support Geneos 6.0.0 binaries. |
UTL-1194 | Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, Licence Daemon, FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe | Gateway, Netprobe, Webslinger, and License Daemon now allow the use of -minTLSversion option to specify 1.3 as the minimum TLS protocol version. |
UTL-1221 | SSO Agent | SSO Agent no longer supports platforms. |
VI-8743 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Web Server | The date and time logging format for the Active Console and Web Dashboard is now yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS . |
VI-9368 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The Paths dockable now shows an orange or warning highlight for paths that use non-identifying predicates. Highlighted paths now show tooltips that gives a hint that the path may be inefficient. |
VI-9514 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Web Server | The PostgreSQL library in the Active Console and Web Dashboard has been upgraded to 42.4.1 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-31197. |
VI-9517 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Active Console history charts using data from ITRS Obcerv now use buckets to improve performance. Adjusting the chart's horizontal scrollbar to select a date range or resizing the chart's width will trigger a chart update and select more or less bucketed data points depending on the chart's width and selected data range. |
VI-9522 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Web Server |
The OpenJDK library in the Active Console and Web Dashboard has been upgraded to 8u345-b01 to address the security vulnerabilities:
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Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
Issue key | Component | Release description |
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AA-6495 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes when a Self-Announcing Netprobe loads a dataview whose group name includes a variable reference. |
AA-6496 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes if publishing is disabled when scheduled strategies exist. |
AA-6499 | Gateway, Netprobe | When Gateway or other Geneos processes running on need to test a directory for write access, a temporary file is now attempted to be created. This prevents issues due to the incorrect results returned by the access system function. |
AA-6517 | Gateway | The typo in the built-in schema for the Gateway-obcervConnection plugin has been fixed. |
AA-6579 | Gateway | Fixed an issue where the builtin Dynamic Entity mappings for the Prometheus plugin did not apply the correct filters, which causes mappings to match to incorrect datapoints. |
AZUREMON-435, AZUREMON-436 | Azure | The Per-Second(/s) unit has been added to Azure metrics that use the CountPerSecond unit in Microsoft/Compute.VirtualMachines and Microsoft/Compute.VirtualMachineScaleSets . |
AZUREMON-441, AZUREMON-442, AZUREMON-446, AZUREMON-447, AZUREMON-449, AZUREMON-455, AZUREMON-457 | Azure |
Azure Monitor plugin now properly monitors the following:
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AZUREMON-450 | Azure | Azure Monitor plugin now distinguishes web and function apps as well as displays dataviews properly with no flickering. |
C2-166 | Collection Agent | A large LogEvent cannot be serialized. |
C2-346 | Collection Agent | Fixed an issue where DataPointLogPlayer does not add the correct header when replaying over TCP. |
C2-348 | Collection Agent |
The Netty library of the Collection Agent has been upgraded to 4.1.79-Final to address the security vulnerabilities:
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COL-415 | CPU plugin |
The CPU plugin has been updated to show correct and more meaningful data.
Additionally, the CPU plugin settings, which were only supported on , have been deprecated. |
HAAW-323 | AWS | AWS plugin now monitors consumed LCUs of the monitored Network ELBs. |
HAAW-347 | AWS | The Gateway configuration template (aws_mapping.xml) , which is packaged in the gateway/templates directory, for AWS monitoring has been updated and is now compatible with AWS plugin 3.0. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all Geneos 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Other Geneos releases
Geneos 6.x Release Notes |
Released: September 2022 Last updated: September 2022 |
Geneos 5.x Release Notes |
Released: December 2019 Last updated: September 2022 |
Geneos 4.x Release Notes |
Released: February 2017 Last updated: December 2019 |
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