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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.
Upgrading between Geneos versions can introduce different changes. For more information, see the Geneos Upgrade Notes.
Active Console and Web Dashboard binaries
Active Console versions 6.4.0 and 6.5.0, as well as Web Dashboard 6.5.0 are temporarily unavailable for download from our website. This is due to a known issue that we are working to resolve as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that you download the latest available version 6.3.x. for Active Console, and version 6.4.x for Web Dashboard.
Note
End of life for 4.x.x is 31 May 2023. If you are using 4.x.x, we advise you to upgrade to the latest version.
Upcoming Geneos release
Geneos follows a two-month release cycle. The next planned release for 6.6.x is October 2023.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| End of support for 4.x.x | All components version 4.x.x | 31 May 2023 | If you are using 4.x.x, we advise you to upgrade to 5.x.x or newer. |
| End of support for Solaris operating system | All components and versions | 31 May 2023 | Upgrade to a supported operating system. |
Geneos 6.5.0
Active Console and Web Dashboard binaries
Active Console versions 6.4.0 and 6.5.0, as well as Web Dashboard 6.5.0 are temporarily unavailable for download from our website. This is due to a known issue that we are working to resolve as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that you download the latest available version 6.3.x. for Active Console, and version 6.4.x for Web Dashboard.
Released: 31 August 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Collection Agent
- File Agent
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway
- Google Cloud Platform plugin
- Lincense Auditor
- License Daemon
- MongoDB plugin
- Netprobe
- Webslinger
- Gateway Recorder
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- New Google Cloud Platform Collection Agent plugin
- In an increasingly multi-cloud deployment strategy across our users, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has become a popular choice for many users. Alongside AWS and Azure, we are pleased to introduce the new plugin that allows comprehensive monitoring for your Google Cloud platform. The GCP plugin can monitor over 15 services including compute, networking, databases and more. This is the first iteration of the GCP plugin with more enhancements planned to give you an end-to-end visibility into your hybrid and multi-cloud environments. For more information, see the Geneos Google Cloud Platform plugin documentation.
- New MongoDB plugin
- MongoDB is a database technology known for its scalability and ability to handle large amounts of data. The new MongoDB Collection Agent plugin allows you to monitor data in your MongoDB database environment, including concurrent transactions, server instance metrics, and database statistics. For more information, see the Geneos MongoDB plugin documentation.
- Other improvements:
- HashiCorp password vault now supports TLS certificate-based authentication for more secure retrieval of centrally managed passwords.
- Improved Gateway performance when managing large number of dynamic entities.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-5631 | Gateway | Correct user details are now retrieved when Gateway is configured to use case-insensitive username, and a User Assignment command is issued with a manually typed username. |
| AA-6657 | Docker Image | Updated the working directory of the Gateway container from /gateway to /gateway/persist/data. This allows the Gateway container to run using an OpenShift security context constraint (SCC) that restricts readOnlyRootFilesystem to true. |
| AA-6724 | Gateway | When publishing to Obcerv, Gateway now automatically recognizes ISO 8601 timestamps with explicit offsets from UTC, in addition to those with the no offset (Z) suffix. |
| AA-6777 | Gateway, Netprobe | The following modifications have been made in the Dynamic Entity and Dynamic sampler creation to reduce the load on the Gateway:
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| AA-6780 | Netprobe Helm Chart | Netprobe Helm Charts are now deployed as StatefulSets. |
| AA-6781 | Docker Image, Netprobe Helm Chart | For DaemonSet Netprobe, there is a new persistence.netprobeDirectory setting that specifies the directory in the node where persistence files for Netprobe are stored. |
| AA-6783 | Netprobe | Added the selfAnnounce > userAssignmentAndSnoozeFilenamePrefix setting in the Netprobe setup file that specifies the prefix for the snooze and user assignment files. When configured, Netprobe now overrides the probe name in the user assignment and snooze files with the value assigned in the userAssignmentAndSnoozeFilenamePrefix. |
| AA-6786 | Gateway | Gateway now adds the plugin name as a property to datapoints that are sent to Obcerv. |
| AA-6789 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer sends remove requests to a Gateway for rejected dynamic objects. |
| AA-6790 | Gateway | The flushRuleJobs method in Gateway now works correctly when called during a SAN timeout or Dynamic Object removal while a setup change is in progress. |
| AA-6792 | Gateway | Gateway now stores user assignments and snoozes solely from imported or non-Self-Announcing Netprobes. |
| AA-6797 | Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe, Gateway, Netprobe | Improved CPU efficiency of Managed Entity Data dataview sampling. |
| AA-6801 | Gateway | The connection is no longer dropped if Self-Announcing Netprobe has no Managed Entities. |
| AA-6805 | Netprobe Helm Chart | The default name for the Netprobe daemon set is now derived from the node name to ensure consistency across restarts. |
| AA-6807 | Gateway Schema | Gateway now supports TLS certificate-based authentication when connecting to HashiCorp Vault. The GSE schema for externalPasswords > hashiCorpVault has been updated to allow the selection of authentication mode. |
| AA-6810 | Gateway | Handling of large setups has been improved, reducing the time needed to update the Gateway Setup. |
| AA-6821 | Docker Image | The Gateway Docker image now includes a Self-Announcing Netprobe timeout by default. |
| CAGC-5 | Collection Agent, Netprobe | A new Google Cloud Platform that runs with the Collection Agent is now available for monitoring Google Services. |
| COL-11673 | Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe, Netprobe | FKM plugin can now publish source types, such as filename, stream, and ntEventLog directly to Obcerv. |
| COL-11691 | File Agent | Control Flow Guard is now enabled in the Netprobe and File Agent Windows binaries. |
| COL-11757 | Collection Agent | A new MongoDB plugin that runs with the Collection Agent is now available for monitoring the MongoDB database environment. |
| COL-11796 | Netprobe | Prometheus plugin 3.1.2 is now packaged with Netprobe 6.5.0. |
| UTL-1252 | SSO Agent | The net.minidev.json-smart library in the SSO Agent has been upgraded to 2.4.11 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-1370 (BDSA-2023-0616). |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6747 | Active Console, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe, Gateway Setup Editor, Gateway Recorder, License Auditor, License Daemon, Webslinger, Web Server | The validation of incoming EMF2 messages for Geneos components has been improved. This reduces the chances of malformed messages causing unpredictable issues such as crashes or sudden disconnections. |
| AA-6758 | Gateway | Fixed an issue where Gateway crashes when the connection to the MS SQL Server database was disrupted. |
| AA-6771 | Gateway | Self-Announcing Netprobe no longer ends up in an invalid state when there are no configured Managed Entities defined, and a setup modification has been made on the Gateway since the SAN connected. |
| AA-6798 | Netprobe | Gateway no longer resends hybrid sampler creation requests if the existing request is still in progress. |
| AA-6814 | Gateway | Gateway no longer crashes when an SSO user has a role with no data access permissions. |
| AA-6815 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer enters a deadlock when the Gateway is unresponsive and the Netprobe is communicating with a Collection Agent. |
| AA-6817 | Gateway | The list variables defined on samplers no longer force a re-evaluation of the Probe setup and rules associated with the samplers. This update improves setup time when changing the Gateway setup. |
| COL-11771 | Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe, Gateway, Netprobe | Netprobe now works properly when processing HTTP chunked transfer encoding payload. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.4.0
Active Console binaries
Active Console 6.4.0 is temporarily unavailable for download from our website. This is due to a known issue that we are working to resolve as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend that you download the latest available version 6.3.x.
Released: 3 July 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- Azure Monitor plugin
- Collection Agent
- File Agent
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway
- JDBC plugin
- Kubernetes plugin
- License Auditor
- Open Telemetry plugin
- Netprobe
- Web Server
- Gateway Recorder
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- New JDBC plugin
- JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) remains a popular technology for client connectivity to many relational databases. The new JDBC plugin can execute SQL queries via JDBC API to collect database data. While MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle are supported out of the box, other JDBC compatible databases are also supported via user provided JDBC drivers, allowing for wide range of database monitoring capabilities. See Geneos JDBC Plugin for more information.
- Pilot Feature: State Only Active Console
- A new streamlined version of the Active Console called State Only Active Console is now available as a pilot feature in the Active Console download package. This version of the Active Console is designed for high-level status views of large numbers of connected Gateways. It is a more lightweight alternative that does not require the retrieval of cell and headline data at all times, reducing overhead and allowing for more Gateway connections. However, it does not support some features, such as Active Dashboard. For more information, see the State Only Active Console documentation.
- Other improvements:
- Improved the performance of Azure plugin.
- Gateway helm chart now supports custom configuration management.
- Improved Gateway to Obcerv connectivity.
- Various updates to fix a number of security vulnerabilities.
- Netprobe now supports Red Hat 9.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6414 | Netprobe | The following changes were made in FKM samplers created under Dynamic Entity:
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| AA-6673 | Gateway | An improved error message is now displayed when a relative path alias uses a path variable to specify a headline or a column name. |
| AA-6689 | Gateway | Dataviews in the Gateway Load plugin are now limited to a configurable number of rows which is set to 200 by default. This avoids severe performance issues in applying rules to large dataviews. |
| AA-6707 | Webslinger | The Webslinger setup template now includes a better Obcerv URL example under the SSO Authentication Settings section. |
| AA-6708 | Gateway Helm Chart | You can now specify a list of persistentVolumeClaims in the Helm configuration. This requests persistent volumes that can be used across different Gateway releases. |
| AA-6709 | Gateway | A new setting has been added to the Gateway Helm configuration that allows users to make their Gateway setup read-only. |
| AA-6711 | Gateway Helm Chart | Gateway Helm deployment now supports Obcerv URL and API key file configuration options. |
| AA-6715 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Gateway, Webslinger, License Daemon, Web Server, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe, File Agent | Geneos components supported on Linux now report the correct build OS. |
| AA-6716 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor, Netprobe | Geneos components supported on Windows now report the correct build OS. |
| AA-6717 | Netprobe | Geneos components supported on AIX now report the correct build OS. |
| AA-6732 | Gateway | It is now possible to store the Obcerv Connection settings in a setup include file while enabling or disabling them in the main file. |
| AA-6733 | Gateway | Samplers, Neprobe Parameters, Runtime Parameters, and Managed Entity Attributes are now republished every hour to Obcerv as Entity Attributes. |
| AA-6737 | Netprobe | Netprobe can now display self-monitoring signals generated by collectors in the Collection Agent. |
| AA-6740 | Gateway, Netprobe, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe | Geneos components now limit the size of message batches to 4MB when sending datapoints to Obcerv to avoid triggering a gRPC error.
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| AA-6775 | Schema | Pilot Feature: The Fix Analyser 2 plugin has the ability to publish data to Obcerv by enabling the publishToObcerv option. |
| COL-11094 | Gateway, Netprobe | You can now configure the buffer size for dynamic streams. |
| COL-11520 | Netprobe | You can now set the minimum TLS version through the Windows Netprobe installer. |
| COL-11544 | Gateway, Netprobe | Microsoft ODBC 18 is now supported. |
| COL-11601 | Gateway, Netprobe, Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe | A TLS-enabled connection in the Microsoft SQL Server database is now supported in the SQL Toolkit plugin. |
| COL-11629 | Netprobe Helm Chart | The Alertmanager Webhook collector of the Prometheus plugin can now be configured in the Netprobe Helm chart. |
| COL-11643 | Netprobe | Third-party JAR files can now be specified as a classpath argument in the JVM arguments configuration of the Collection Agent. |
| COL-11644 | Collection Agent, Netprobe | A new JDBC Plugin that runs with the Collection Agent is now available for monitoring user-defined data from the database. |
| COL-11695 | Gateway, Netprobe | The gRPC C++ library in Gateway and Netprobe has been upgraded to 1.55.1, which was compiled using C-Ares 1.19.1, to address the following security vulnerabilities:
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| COL-11734 | Netprobe Helm Chart | The following Collection Agent and plugin versions are now packaged with Netprobe 6.4.0:
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| UTL-1137 | Gateway, Netprobe | The Apache Xerces C++ library in the Active Console, Gateway, Netprobe, and Web Server has been upgraded to 3.2.4 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-31124 (BDSA-2023-1270). |
| UTL-1139 | Gateway | Updated the libxml2 and libxslt libraries in Gateway to 2.11.4 and 1.1.38, respectively, to address the following security vulnerabilities:
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| VI-9581 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | In the State Only Active Console, you can now select items on the State Tree by clicking the corresponding items in list views and the event ticker table. |
| VI-9582 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | When using a State Only Active Console, clicking a gateway-severityData plugin cell now opens the corresponding dataview. |
| VI-9583 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The Notifier Manager has been disabled in the State Only Active Console. |
| VI-9584 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The following modifications have been made to the State Overview tab when using the State Only Active Console:
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| VI-9585 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The Active Console and the State Only Active Console can now be run concurrently, and saving workspaces in both should no longer cause errors. |
| VI-9587 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | When using the State Only Active Console, manually adding paths to list views is no longer allowed to include cells, descendants, or the asterisk (*) wildcard. Attempting to add these will result in a validation error. |
| VI-9602 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Event ticker updates are now throttled to prevent them from causing CPU usage issues. |
| VI-9603 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Active Console no longer throws an Invalid Instance ID exception when a Geneos item is dropped. |
| VI-9607 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The handling of the dataview timer has been improved so that the dataview is always up-to-date. |
| VI-9608 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Geneos components supported on Darwin now report the correct build OS. |
| VI-9610 | Web Server | The Spring Security libraries in the Web Dashboard have been upgraded to 5.8.3 to address the security vulnerability: BDSA-2023-0873. |
| VI-9611 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The JSON-smart library in the Active Console and Web Server has been upgraded to 2.4.10 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-1370. |
| VI-9618 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | In State Only Active Console mode, adding the asterisk (*) wildcard, cells, or descendants to list view XPaths will result in an error message that prompts the user to use a regular Active Console if they need to use paths with those items. |
| VI-9620 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The JSON-Java library in the Active Console and Web Server has been upgraded to 20230227 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-45688. |
| VI-9625 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The option to load remote list views and dashboards has been removed when the Active Console is running in state only mode. |
| VI-9626 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | When opening a workspace file with an incorrect type or extension, an error message is now displayed prompting you to select the workspace with the corresponding extension file. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6690 | Gateway | The Gateway Load plugin will now process a statistics file only once per sample interval, even if the file is updated more often. |
| AA-6730 | Gateway | Fixed the issue where the Gateway cannot connect to the Gateway Hub if the app-key file is missing the sso_provider setting. |
| AA-6731 | Gateway | Dataviews imported from other Gateways are now logged as dataviewsUnpublished instead of dataviewsInError in the Obcerv and Gateway Hub Summary views. |
| AA-6752 | Gateway | Gateway now sends signals to Obcerv when a cell is marked as Active or Inactive. |
| AA-6754 | Gateway | /groups/users request sent from Gateway to SSO Agent now correctly URL encodes group names that contain characters that are not valid in a URI. |
| C2-368 | Collection Agent | The SnakeYAML in the Collection Agent has been upgraded to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-1471 (BDSA-2022-3447). |
| C2-389 | Collection Agent | The issue with exporting logs from Open Telemetry plugin to the Collection Agent via OLTP has been resolved. |
| COL-6357 | Gateway, Netprobe | The SQL Toolkit memory leak that occurs when the plugin could not establish a connection to the SQL Server database has been fixed. |
| COL-6629 | Gateway, Netprobe | Network plugin in Linux now displays the correct values for Speed and Duplex when these data are Unknown on ethtool. |
| COL-11530 | Integrations | Fixed an issue where the thread and memory usage of the VMWare integration plugin increased when the properties file was touched or updated. |
| COL-11709 | Netprobe | Netprobe no longer crashes when dataviews are removed during the EntityGroupSnapshot processing. |
| VI-9592 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | When Active Console is configured with an incorrect SSO provider URL, more information is now provided in the error dialog box. |
| VI-9632 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Saving a workspace with boolean listview filters now generates a working workspace file that can be loaded properly. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.3.1
Released: 2 May 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- Gateway
- License Auditor
- Netprobe
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| COL-11628 | Netprobe Helm Chart | The remote write collector and target scrape collector of the Prometheus plugin can now be configured in the Netprobe Helm chart. |
| COL-11642 | Netprobe | Fixed an unhandled exception in the Uptrends plugin that causes samplers without configured Monitor Groups to have empty data. |
| COL-11654 | Netprobe, Netprobe Helm Chart, FIX Analyser 2 | You can now load stack-trace-data.so which allows you to debug uncaught exceptions in Gateway and Netprobe Helm charts. |
| COL-11664 | Netprobe | Collection Agent 3.3.1 and Kubernetes plugin 3.3.2 are now packaged with Netprobe 6.3.1. |
| VI-8983 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The Active Console MacOS binary is now notarized by the Apple notary service. |
| UTL-1249 | SSO Agent | SSO Agent now supports Oracle Unified Directory. |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6739 | Gateway | Gateway no longer attempts to resend a batch of datapoints to Obcerv if it receives a GRPC ERROR[2] (Unknown). |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.3.0
Released: 30 March 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- Collection Agent
- FIX Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway
- Kubernetes plugin
- License Auditor
- Netprobe
- Web Server
- Webslinger
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
- Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
- Geneos Clients Helm chart
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Gateway configuration files can now be stored centrally in Obcerv. This simplifies the process for configuring Geneos as it removes the need to deal with storing and governing externally hosted Gateway configuration files.
- Obcerv now supports Single Sign On functionality for Geneos components. Obcerv installation includes Keycloak for identity management and access control. Geneos components such as Gateway, Active Console, and Web Dashboard can now integrate with Obcerv Keycloak for authentication and authorization. This is an alternative to the stand alone SSO Agent used in typical Geneos installations.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6638 | Gateway | Gateway can now connect to Centralised Configuration App in Obcerv which will manage its configuration. |
| AA-6639 | Gateway | Gateway can now request setup changes and validation requests on behalf of an Active Console SSO user when using the Centralised Configuration App inside of Obcerv. |
| AA-6681 | Gateway | When the Administrator user uses GSE to load, validate, or change the Gateway setup stored in Centralised Config, the Gateway presents its own access token to Obcerv instead of any SSO token obtained by the user in the GSE. The author of any setup change will be shown as the Gateway user, not Administrator. |
| AA-6688 | Gateway | ActiveTime variables can now be defined within Self-announcing Netprobe setup. |
| AA-6692 | Docker Image | The base image for the Gateway and the Netprobe Docker containers has been updated to Red Hat UBI8. |
| AA-6695 | Gateway | The Protocol Buffers library has been updated to 3.21.6 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
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| COL-11445 | Netprobe | SQL Toolkit plugin connecting to the Postgresql database now supports TLS/SSL connections. |
| COL-11453 | Netprobe | The Protocol Buffers library in Netprobe has been upgraded to 3.21.7 to address the following security vulnerabilities:
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| COL-11619 | Netprobe | The value used as the baseline for Netprobe memory protection has been updated to handle the case where samplers were added or removed to indicate more accurate baseline memory usage. |
| COL-11645 | Netprobe | Collection Agent 3.3.0 and Kubernetes Plugin 3.3.1 are now packaged with Netprobe 6.3.0. |
| VI-9549 | Web Server | Web Dashboard now supports user authentication by Obcerv as an alternative to the ITRS SSO Agent. |
| VI-9550 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Active Console now supports user authentication by Obcerv as an alternative to the ITRS SSO Agent. |
| VI-9554 | Web Server | A secretKey file will now be created in the config folder during Web Dashboard startup. This key will be used to encrypt and decrypt the Gateway password. Password decryption using the hardcoded secret key file is no longer possible. |
| VI-9557 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The SnakeYAML library in the Active Console and Gateway Setup Editor has been upgraded to 2.0 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2022-1471. |
| VI-9578 | Web Server | The Apache Commons FileUpload library in the Web Dashboard has been upgraded to 1.5 to address the security vulnerability: CVE-2023-24998 (BDSA-2023-0357). |
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6684 | Gateway | Fixed an issue where Gateway crashes when a configured mapping type is deleted while there are hybrid samplers like FKM. |
| C2-370 | Collection Agent, Kubernetes | Fixed an exception when collecting filesystem usage percentage in the Kubernetes plugin. |
| COL-10545 | Gateway, Netprobe, FIX Analyser 2 | SQL Toolkit plugin connecting to the MySQL database now supports TLS/SSL connection. |
| COL-11508 | Netprobe | Fixed an issue where Netprobe with an RMC plugin hangs after restarting the ADH process. |
| COL-11627 | Netprobe | Netprobe now supports SIGNAL_EVENT data point types, which can be streamed through to be collected by an FKM sampler. |
| VI-9289 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | The default value for MaxHeartBeatInterval has been changed from 70s to 35s. |
| VI-9560 | Active Console, Gateway Setup Editor | Active Console no longer throws an exception when entity attribute names contain dots. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.2.1
Released: 16 February 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway
- Netprobe
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Issues fixed
These are the issues we have fixed in this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| C2-373 | Collection Agent | Namespace is now included in the default directory where the Collection Agent DaemonSet persistence files are stored.
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| COL-4269 | Netprobe | The SQL Toolkit plugin now allows timeout configuration that causes a query to be cancelled after the timeout period has passed. By default, this timeout is disabled. |
| COL-11567 | Gateway | You can now disable the TLS verification when using the Publisher plugin to publish data to Obcerv. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.2.0
Released: 31 January 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- AWS plugin
- Azure Monitor plugin
- Collection Agent
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Fluentd Forward plugin
- Gateway
- Kubernetes plugin
- License Auditor
- Licence Daemon
- Netprobe
- OpenTelemetry plugin
- Prometheus plugin
- SSO Agent
- StatsD plugin
- Web Server
- Webslinger
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
- Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- 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.
- Support integration with HashiCorp Password Vault that allows you to manage passwords in the Gateway configuration.
- Netprobe Helm Chart now supports additional configuration options.
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of, please read 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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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Geneos 6.1.2
Released: 19 January 2023
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- Gateway
- License Auditor
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of, please read 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 |
|---|---|---|
| VI-9567 | 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 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:
- Active Console
- Gateway
- Geneos Workflow plugin
- License Auditor
- Netprobe
- OpenTelemetry plugin
- Web Server
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of, please read 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Geneos 6.1.0
Released: 19 January 2038
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- AWS plugin
- Azure Monitor plugin
- Collection Agent
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Fluentd Forward plugin
- Gateway
- Kubernetes plugin
- License Auditor
- Licence Daemon
- Netprobe
- OpenTelemetry plugin
- Prometheus plugin
- SSO Agent
- StatsD plugin
- Web Server
- Webslinger
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- 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 ITRS Obcerv platform, Splunk, or Elasticsearch for log search and analysis.
- 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.
- Other improvements:
- 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.
- Gateway publishing now supports exclude filter when publishing data to other systems like ITRS Obcerv, Kafka and generic Http endpoints. This gives more control over the data published to other systems, helping to minimise downstream data requirements.
- 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.
- SQL-Toolkit plugin for SAP ASE (Sybase) now support Kerberos authentication.
New features and enhancements
These are the new features and enhancements of this release:
| Issue key | Component | Release description |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Hub 2.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, Fixed 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, VI-9498, VI-9499 | Active Console | The Java version packaged with Active Console for Windows , Linux, and macOS is now updated to OpenJDK 11.x. This update also addresses the following security vulnerabilities:
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| VI-9500 | Web Dashboard | The Java version packaged with Web Dashboard is now updated to OpenJDK 11.x. This update also addresses the following security vulnerabilities:
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| 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:
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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, Licence 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 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:
- Netprobe
- Kubernetes
- Collection Agent
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart
- Netprobe Helm chart
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of, please read 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Geneos 6.0.1
Released: 5 October 2022
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- AWS plugin
- Azure Monitor plugin
- Collection Agent
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Fluentd Forward plugin
- Gateway
- Kubernetes plugin
- License Auditor
- Licence Daemon
- Netprobe
- OpenTelemetry plugin
- Prometheus plugin
- SSO Agent
- StatsD plugin
- Web Server
- Webslinger
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
- Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Breaking changes
If you are upgrading from an earlier version of, please read 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 |
|---|---|---|
| AA-6599 | Netprobe | The wait time of Netprobe for Collection Agent to validate its configuration file has been increased from 10 seconds to 60 seconds. |
Known issues
To view the list of known issues for all 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.
Note
End of life for 4.x.x is 31 May 2023. If you are using 4.x.x, we advise you to upgrade to the latest version.
This release delivers the updates for the following Geneos components:
- Active Console
- AWS plugin
- Azure Monitor plugin
- Collection Agent
- File Agent
- Fix Analyser 2 Netprobe
- Gateway
- Geneos Workflow plugin
- Kubernetes plugin
- License Auditor
- Licence Daemon
- Netprobe
- Open Telemetry plugin
- Prometheus plugin
- SSO Agent
- StatsD plugin
- Web Server
- Webslinger
- AWS AMI (pre-configured for AWS monitoring)
- Azure Virtual machine image (pre-configured for Azure monitoring)
- Gateway docker image
- Netprobe docker image
- Gateway Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
- Netprobe Helm chart (pre-configured for Kubernetes monitoring)
Highlights
These are the highlights of this release:
- Ingest OpenTelemetry data for complete observability is an open, vendor-neutral toolset, and standard for instrumenting your applications and services. With the increased use of highly distributed microservice architectures, has become a popular standard for collecting observability data. We are excited to introduce the new plugin supporting the 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.
- Improved visibility and management of Geneos and its plugins, first introduced in 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.
- Collection Agent configuration (
collection-agent.yml) can now be managed centrally in Gateway via the Gateway Setup Editor alongside your other 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. 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. - 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 mean you can easily diagnose any issues without needing access to host machines.
- Collection Agent configuration (
- Easily migrate AES keys for more secure password management 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, please read 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS are now supported in Geneos 6.0. |
| 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 -previous-key-file option. 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 key-file command line option, a new command line option for Gateway -previous-key-file is now supported to facilitate the change of the Gateway AES key. When this option is used, the Gateway will decrypt passwords using the key-file or the previous-key-file, whichever succeeds first. Gateway Setup Editor allows you to migrate passwords encrypted using previous-key-file and re-encrypt them using the new key-file. This makes it easier to change AES key more often to improve security. |
| 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 (/PROBE:viewLog) can now be run from the following:
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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 JAVA_HOME is not set. The precedence for locating Java are the following:
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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 Enitities are now optional. |
| COL-11399 | Netprobe | The Kubernetes specific Netprobe package (geneos-netprobe-<version>-kubernetes.tar.gz) is no longer available to download from the ITRS Downloads website. We recommend that you set up Kubernetes monitoring using the Helm Charts available through ITRS Helm repository. See Installation using Helm for more information. |
| 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:* VolumeType * AttachedInstances * CreateTime |
| 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 Windows 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 following security vulnerabilities:
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| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Unix 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: CVE-2022-24823 (BDSA-2022-1283), BDSA-2021-0311 |
| COL-415 | CPU plugin | The Windows CPU plugin has been updated to show correct and more meaningful data.
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| 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 6.x releases, see Geneos 6.x Known Issues.
Other Geneos releases
| Release | Date | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 6.x Release Notes | Released: September 2022 | Last updated: September 2022 |
| 5.x Release Notes | Released: December 2019 | Last updated: September 2022 |
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