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StackState 5.0 released!

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We are proud to present the latest release of StackState!

The StackState v5.0 release delivers brand new features and enhancements that help your team troubleshoot faster. Here are some highlights:
  • New 4T® Monitors – adds a new, first-in-the-industry dimension to observability monitoring – the ability to now monitor topology and to set validation rules that span topology and multiple other parameters
  • Improved Topology Visualizer and Right Panel – substantially enhances user experience and increases productivity with a more modern, focused, easy-to-learn UI and more in-depth troubleshooting capabilities.
  • New StackState CLI – lets you instantly configure StackState, run queries, create monitors and more, directly from your command line, while sending output directly to other systems for GitOps integration.
  • Accuracy Feedback for Anomalies – gives users the ability to provide feedback about the usefulness of the anomalies reported by StackState, so we can continuously improve the accuracy of our algorithms.
 
Details of the included features, improvements, bug fixes and security updates can be found below. o learn more about the new features included in this release, checkout the webinar introducing StackState v5.0.0 (youtube.com).
 

Features

  • Introduced a new monitoring feature - 4T Monitors. STAC-14693
  • Part of the API of StackState 5.0.0 has been released with an OpenAPI specification to allow for easier consumption by API clients of StackState. The OpenAPI specification can be browsed at https://dl.stackstate.com/stackstate-openapi/v5.0/openapi-v5.0.0.html STAC-16693
  • The topology visualizer has been revamped. It now features much cleaner user experience and multiple helpful navigation improvements including a legend that describes the components and relations displayed. STAC-16191
  • First release of a completely new, easier to install CLI, supporting the new features of StackState such as 4T Monitors and Service Tokens. STAC-15281
  • Anomalies can now be marked with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. This feedback can be exported via the CLI and sent to StackState to help further develop test sets and algorithms for the AAD. STAC-15270
  • The right panel in the StackState UI has been revamped. It now supports multiple tabs and chaining of selected elements. STAC-14808

Improvements

  • Introduced service tokens as a means of authenticating to StackState. Service tokens are not tied to a principal, but instead to a set of roles, allowing for service authentication. More information on creating and managing these can be found in the StackState documentation. STAC-15016
  • Introduced optional View access logging. When enabled, a new access log for StackState views is created under logs/access/. This log allows you to track how often specific views are accessed and by which user. To enable this feature, you need to enable the feature flag featureSwitches.viewAccessLogs in the StackState Api config. STAC-16369
  • The OIDC refresh_token is now cached to prevent re-authenticating the user if the OIDC server does not return a new refresh_token when the old one hasn't expired yet. STAC-16158
  • Updated the telemetry script API] to stream results. More information can be found in the StackState documentation. STAC-16801
  • Improved indexing speed for messages coming in on Kafka topics. STAC-15998
  • kafkaup-operator Helm chart: Added a configurable SecurityContext so that the container no longer requires privileged mode. STAC-16664
  • StackState Helm chart: Added configurable resource requests and limits for all containers. STAC-16443

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issue that incorrectly showed an error message when displaying a log stream. STAC-16222
  • Added more error context when JSON deserialization fails. STAC-16733
    Fixed issue that prevented relation details being displayed in the right panel when a link was clicked in the full event details. STAC-16264
  • Fixed DNS lookup errors by explicitly setting a short DNS lookup cache timeout on the internal JDK DNS cache. This ensures that service lookups don't fail in containerized environments. STAC-15983
  • Fixed issue that caused groups with big names to be displayed outside of the visualizer canvas. STAC-16844
  • StackState Helm Chart: The backup-scripts ConfigMap now has a label so that it can be easily retrieved in the backup/restore scripts STAC-16447
  • Fixed scroll position after changing group. STAC-16284
  • Fixed error handling of expired sessions for OIDC and Keycloak authentication methods, especially in combination with API token. STAC-15781
  • Fixed suggestions in telemetry inspector for values with multiple dots (domains, IPs). STAC-15764
  • Fixed STQL query generation for relation based problems. STAC-13333
  • If the OIDC configuration is wrongly configured to obtain a username, the logging will now show all fields that can be selected to obtain the username from. STAC-16027

Security

  • Upgraded ssl_client to 1.33.1-r7, patching the CVE-2022-28391 vulnerability. STAC-16426
  • Upgraded Log4j-over-slf4j to version 2.12.1, patching the CVE-2020-9493 vulnerability. STAC-16233
  • Upgraded libcrypto1.1 to 1.1.1n-r0, patching the CVE-2022-0778 vulnerability. STAC-16135
  • Upgraded libssl1.1 to 1.1.1l-r0 (Alpine) and 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.12 (Ubuntu), patching the CVE-2022-0778 vulnerability. STAC-16134
  • Upgraded zlib to 1.2.12-r0, patching the CVE-2018-25032 vulnerability. STAC-16214
  • Upgraded libretls to 3.3.3p1-r3, patching the CVE-2022-0778 vulnerability. STAC-16153
  • Upgraded ElasticSearch to 7.17.2. STAC-16418

Support

StackState offers technical support for the three most recent major releases. The release of StackState v5.0 marks the End of Life (EOL) of the StackState 4.4 version range. Consequently, this version of the product will no longer be supported and we encourage customers still running the 4.4 version range to upgrade to a more recent release.

 

Upgrading to v5.0.0

Before upgrading to StackState v5.0.0, please review the upgrade instructions provided in the documentation.

Download

You can download the release at the StackState Software Distribution site.

Helm charts

The StackState v5.0.0 helm charts are available via our helm repository, helm.stackstate.io

 

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