Release notes for version 5.0.0

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -5,6 +5,41 @@ pgMonitor Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v5.0.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+Crunchy Data is pleased to announce the availability of pgMonitor 5.0.0. This release brings support for a new Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL - sql_exporter. It also supports a new monitoring extension to make metric collection easier and more performant. This changelog contains all changes that have been added since the 4.11.0 release.
+
+Major Changes
+-------------
+
+- grafana - Add new dashboards for sql_exporter support. New PostgreSQL Overview and PgBouncer direct metrics dashboards
+- grafana - New Grafana minimum version is now 10.4. All dashboards have been updated to fix AngularJS deprecation warnings and re-exported from 10.4.
+- grafana - Organize packages to allow better choice of available Grafana dashboards
+- grafana - Remove top level general Overview dashboard
+- pgmonitor-extension - Add more extensive support for materialized views and refreshed tables for expensive or custom metric queries
+- pgmonitor-extension - Add support for using the PostgreSQL pgmonitor-extension to aid in metrics collection with sql_exporter
+- postgres_exporter - Note that postgres_exporter is still supported but will be deprecated in a future version
+- sql_exporter - Add support for directly connecting to PgBouncer to collect metrics
+- sql_exporter - Add support for new PostgreSQL metrics collecting exporter (sql_exporter)
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- prometheus - Added OOMKiller Alert using node_exporter metrics
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- docs - add reference links to upstream configuration docs
+- exporter - fix the pgbackrest-info.sh to force the necessary console output level that it expects
+- grafana - fix some queries that were searching on the wrong label (datname vs. dbname)
+- sql_exporter - add new metric for n_tup_newpage_upd
+- sql_exporter - use the new views from pgmonitor-extension instead of full queries
+
 v4.11.0
 =======
 

changelogs/changelog.yaml

@@ -109,3 +109,49 @@ releases:
     - 355.yml
     - release_summary.yml
     release_date: '2023-07-25'
+  5.0.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - docs - add reference links to upstream configuration docs
+      - exporter - fix the pgbackrest-info.sh to force the necessary console output
+        level that it expects
+      - grafana - fix some queries that were searching on the wrong label (datname
+        vs. dbname)
+      - sql_exporter - add new metric for n_tup_newpage_upd
+      - sql_exporter - use the new views from pgmonitor-extension instead of full
+        queries
+      major_changes:
+      - grafana - Add new dashboards for sql_exporter support. New PostgreSQL Overview
+        and PgBouncer direct metrics dashboards
+      - grafana - New Grafana minimum version is now 10.4. All dashboards have been
+        updated to fix AngularJS deprecation warnings and re-exported from 10.4.
+      - grafana - Organize packages to allow better choice of available Grafana dashboards
+      - grafana - Remove top level general Overview dashboard
+      - pgmonitor-extension - Add more extensive support for materialized views and
+        refreshed tables for expensive or custom metric queries
+      - pgmonitor-extension - Add support for using the PostgreSQL pgmonitor-extension
+        to aid in metrics collection with sql_exporter
+      - postgres_exporter - Note that postgres_exporter is still supported but will
+        be deprecated in a future version
+      - sql_exporter - Add support for directly connecting to PgBouncer to collect
+        metrics
+      - sql_exporter - Add support for new PostgreSQL metrics collecting exporter
+        (sql_exporter)
+      minor_changes:
+      - prometheus - Added OOMKiller Alert using node_exporter metrics
+      release_summary: Crunchy Data is pleased to announce the availability of pgMonitor
+        5.0.0. This release brings support for a new Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL
+        - sql_exporter. It also supports a new monitoring extension to make metric
+        collection easier and more performant. This changelog contains all changes
+        that have been added since the 4.11.0 release.
+    fragments:
+    - 361.yml
+    - 387.yml
+    - 397.yml
+    - 399.yml
+    - 401.yml
+    - 407.yml
+    - 411.yml
+    - 412.yml
+    - release_summary.yml
+    release_date: '2024-07-09'

hugo/content/changelog/_index.md

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+## 5.0.0
+
+### Release Summary
+
+Crunchy Data is pleased to announce the availability of pgMonitor 5.0.0. This release brings support for a new Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL - sql_exporter. It also supports a new monitoring extension to make metric collection easier and more performant. This changelog contains all changes that have been added since the 4.11.0 release.
+
+Please see the [5.0.0 upgrade documentation](v5_upgrade) for more information on converting to the new sql_exporter.
+
+### Major Changes
+
+- grafana - Add new dashboards for sql_exporter support. New PostgreSQL Overview and PgBouncer direct metrics dashboards
+- grafana - New Grafana minimum version is now 10.4. All dashboards have been updated to fix AngularJS deprecation warnings and re-exported from 10.4.
+- grafana - Organize packages to allow better choice of available Grafana dashboards
+- grafana - Remove top level general Overview dashboard
+- pgmonitor-extension - Add more extensive support for materialized views and refreshed tables for expensive or custom metric queries
+- pgmonitor-extension - Add support for using the PostgreSQL pgmonitor-extension to aid in metrics collection with sql_exporter
+- postgres_exporter - Note that postgres_exporter is still supported but will be deprecated in a future version
+- sql_exporter - Add support for directly connecting to PgBouncer to collect metrics
+- sql_exporter - Add support for new PostgreSQL metrics collecting exporter (sql_exporter)
+
+### Minor Changes
+
+- prometheus - Added OOMKiller Alert using node_exporter metrics
+
+### Bugfixes
+
+- docs - add reference links to upstream configuration docs
+- exporter - fix the pgbackrest-info.sh to force the necessary console output level that it expects
+- grafana - fix some queries that were searching on the wrong label (datname vs. dbname)
+- sql_exporter - add new metric for n_tup_newpage_upd
+- sql_exporter - use the new views from pgmonitor-extension instead of full queries
+
+
 ## 4.11.0
 
 ### Release Summary

hugo/content/changelog/v5_upgrade/_index.md

@@ -77,4 +77,4 @@ If you didn't use the Crunchy-provided packages, ensure the files in the followi
 
 ## Set up sql_exporter
 
-At this point, you should just be able to follow the [https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/pgmonitor/latest/](standard setup instructions) for the latest version of pgMonitor. This will setup the new exporter, Prometheus targets, and new Grafana dashboards.
+At this point, you should just be able to follow the [standard setup instructions](https://access.crunchydata.com/documentation/pgmonitor/latest/) for the latest version of pgMonitor. This will set up the new exporter, Prometheus targets, and new Grafana dashboards.