Release Apache SkyWalking APM 9.7.0

Release Apache SkyWalking 9.7.0
By SkyWalking Team |

SkyWalking 9.7.0 is released. Go to downloads page to find release tars.

Dark Mode

The dafult style mode is changed to the dark mode, and light mode is still available.

New Design Log View

A new design for the log view is currently available. Easier to locate the logs, and more space for the raw text.

Project

  • Bump Java agent to 9.1-dev in the e2e tests.
  • Bump up netty to 4.1.100.
  • Update Groovy 3 to 4.0.15.
  • Support packaging the project in JDK21. Compiler source and target remain in JDK11.

OAP Server

  • ElasticSearchClient: Add deleteById API.
  • Fix Custom alarm rules are overwritten by ‘resource/alarm-settings.yml’
  • Support Kafka Monitoring.
  • Support Pulsar server and BookKeeper server Monitoring.
  • [Breaking Change] Elasticsearch storage merge all management data indices into one index management, including ui_template，ui_menu，continuous_profiling_policy.
  • Add a release mechanism for alarm windows when it is expired in case of OOM.
  • Fix Zipkin trace receiver response: make the HTTP status code from 200 to 202.
  • Update BanyanDB Java Client to 0.5.0.
  • Fix getInstances query in the BanyanDB Metadata DAO.
  • BanyanDBStorageClient: Add keepAliveProperty API.
  • Fix table exists check in the JDBC Storage Plugin.
  • Enhance extensibility of HTTP Server library.
  • Adjust AlarmRecord alarmMessage column length to 512.
  • Fix EventHookCallback build event: build the layer from Service's Layer.
  • Fix AlarmCore doAlarm: catch exception for each callback to avoid interruption.
  • Optimize queryBasicTraces in TraceQueryEsDAO.
  • Fix WebhookCallback send incorrect messages, add catch exception for each callback HTTP Post.
  • Fix AlarmRule expression validation: add labeled metrics mock data for check.
  • Support collect ZGC memory pool metrics.
  • Add a component ID for Netty-http (ID=151).
  • Add a component ID for Fiber (ID=5021).
  • BanyanDBStorageClient: Add define(Property property, PropertyStore.Strategy strategy) API.
  • Correct the file format and fix typos in the filenames for monitoring Kafka’s e2e tests.
  • Support extract timestamp from patterned datetime string in LAL.
  • Support output key parameters in the booting logs.
  • Fix cannot query zipkin traces with annotationQuery parameter in the JDBC related storage.
  • Fix limit doesn’t work for findEndpoint API in ES storage.
  • Isolate MAL CounterWindow cache by metric name.
  • Fix JDBC Log query order.
  • Change the DataCarrier IF_POSSIBLE strategy to use ArrayBlockingQueue implementation.
  • Change the policy of the queue(DataCarrier) in the L1 metric aggregate worker to IF_POSSIBLE mode.
  • Add self-observability metric metrics_aggregator_abandon to count the number of abandon metrics.
  • Support Nginx monitoring.
  • Fix BanyanDB Metadata Query: make query single instance/process return full tags to avoid NPE.
  • Repleace go2sky E2E to GO agent.
  • Replace Metrics v2 protocol with MQE in UI templates and E2E Test.
  • Fix incorrect apisix metrics otel rules.
  • Support Scratch The OAP Config Dump.
  • Support increase/rate function in the MQE query language.
  • Group service endpoints into _abandoned when endpoints have high cardinality.

UI

  • Add new menu for kafka monitoring.
  • Fix independent widget duration.
  • Fix the display height of the link tree structure.
  • Replace the name by shortName on service widget.
  • Refactor: update pagination style. No visualization style change.
  • Apply MQE on K8s layer UI-templates.
  • Fix icons display in trace tree diagram.
  • Fix: update tooltip style to support multiple metrics scrolling view in a metrics graph.
  • Add a new widget to show jvm memory pool detail.
  • Fix: avoid querying data with empty parameters.
  • Add a title and a description for trace segments.
  • Add Netty icon for Netty HTTP plugin.
  • Add Pulsar menu i18n files.
  • Refactor Logs view.
  • Implement the Dark Theme.
  • Change UI templates for Text widgets.
  • Add Nginx menu i18n.
  • Fix the height for trace widget.
  • Polish list style.
  • Fix Log associate with Trace.
  • Enhance layout for broken Topology widget.
  • Fix calls metric with call type for Topology widget.
  • Fix changing metrics config for Topology widget.
  • Fix routes for Tab widget.
  • Remove OpenFunction(FAAS layer) relative UI templates and menu item.
  • Fix: change colors to match dark theme for Network Profiling.
  • Remove the description of OpenFunction in the UI i18n.
  • Reduce component chunks to improve page loading resource time.

Documentation

  • Separate storage docs to different files, and add an estimated timeline for BanyanDB(end of 2023).
  • Add topology configuration in UI-Grafana doc.
  • Add missing metrics to the OpenTelemetry Metrics doc.
  • Polish docs of Concepts and Designs.
  • Fix incorrect notes of slowCacheReadThreshold.
  • Update OAP setup and cluster coordinator docs to explain new booting parameters table in the logs, and how to setup cluster mode.

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