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Releases

2.1.11 - 2020-12-13

Log aggregation

  • Support for and expressions in search
  • Event rules designer support for && and || for individual parameters
  • Performance and memory improvements

Data convergence

  • Support for Apache DRUID connector
  • Optionally deploy Grafana with the Apica Ascent stack

UI

  • Logs compare view to select 2 logs to be viewed side by side
  • Easy toggle for activating/deactivating periodic queries

2.1.9 - 2020-11-28

Added

Log aggregation

  • Support for full data/metadata recovery on service restarts

Log analytics

  • Support for application and process/pod context in log and search views

Deployment and Infrastructure

  • Support for node selectors. Both taints and node selectors are supported
  • Support for using spot instances on EKS/AWS
  • Support for using S3 compatible buckets directly without a caching gateway to optimize for region optimized deployments

UI

  • Multi cluster support
  • License management UI
  • Ingest configuration settings exposed in the UI
  • Logs page and search now have application and process/pod level contexts

2.1 - 2020-09-28

Added

Log aggregation

  • Parquet with Snappy compression for data at REST

Log analytics

  • Log view supports full JSON view for ingested log data like Search view
  • Performance improvements for faster search, logs, and tailing

Monitoring

  • Event deduplication that can reduce event data by up to 1000x at peak data rates
  • Deduplication of monitoring events at Namespace granularity

Deployment and Infrastructure

  • Separation of Apica Ascent server into microservices for data ingestion, ML/UI and S3/Metadata management
  • Support for taints in HELM chart for more control over large-scale deployments e.g. schedule ingest pods on dedicated nodes etc.
  • Log tailing infrastructure using Redis switches to diskless replication/no persistence

2.0 - 2020-08-12

Added

Log aggregation

  • Support for AWS Fargate, Firelens, Fluent forward Protocol
  • Apica Ascent Fluent-bit daemon-set for K8S clusters
  • Data extraction via Grok patterns, compatible with Logstash Grok patterns using the Grokky library

Log analytics

  • Redesigned - Elastic/Kibana like search UI that scales to infinite data from S3 compatible object store
  • Real-time alertable events and alerts from log data
  • Real-time extraction of log data facets using Grok expressions
  • 1-Click conversion of log data events to time series visualization

Apicactl

  • Apicactl command-line toolkit
  • Works with SAML users via API Key

Monitoring

  • Prometheus alert manager integration into Apica Ascent alerts for unified alerting across logs and metrics
  • Built-in Apica Ascent dashboard for Apica Ascent cluster performance and health monitoring

Apica Ascent Data platform

  • Connect numerous popular data sources into the Apica Ascent platforms such as Postgres, MySql, Elasticsearch, Athena, MongoDB, Prometheus, and more.
  • JSON Data source for easily converting arbitrary JSON data into tables, widgets, and alerts

Role-based access control

  • Namespace RBAC for log data from K8S namespaces
  • SAML Integration for RBAC allowing SAML Attributes to map to RBAC groups

Security and Compliance

  • Fully secured HELM deployment using Role, RoleBindings, ServiceAccounts and Pod Security policies for all service
  • Cryptographically verified JWT token for API communication
  • Built-in audit logging for the entire product and infrastructure

1.2.1 - 2020-05-11

Added

K8S

  • Add support for ingress with http and optionally have https
  • ServiceMonitor for ingest server if prometheus is installed

UI

  • Logs modal ordering to match how developers view logs from a file
  • Highlight log line from search

Misc

  • Bug fixes for performance, graceful failure handling/recovery

1.2.0 - 2020-04-28

Official GA of Apica Ascent's complete Observability platform with support for metrics and log analytics

Added

K8S

UI

  • Monitoring of time series metrics
  • New Log viewer
  • Log viewer integration with faceted search
  • Log time machine to go back in time to log state

CLI

  • apicactl is now GA with support for log tailing, historical queries and search

1.1.0 - 2020-02-27

Fixed

  • Fluentd sends error logs as info - fixed with grok patterns to extract proper severity strings from incoming messages

Added

  • Anomaly detection via Eventing with built-in and custom rules
  • Built-in UI Help with Intercomm chat
  • Expand and collapse search facets

Changed

  • New AMI's for AWS marketplace

1.0.0 - 2020-01-21

Official GA of Apica Ascent's Log Insights platform

Added

  • AWS Marketplace AMI for all regions including Gov cloud regions
  • AWS CloudFormation 1-click deployment
  • Rsyslog, Syslog protocol support for data ingest via Rsyslogd, syslogd, syslog-ng, logstash, fluentd, fluentbit, docker logging syslog driver.
  • Built-in UI with SQL Queries, Faceted search, Alerts, Dashboards