Changes

5.9.0 / Not Released

All Platforms

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.8.5...5.9.0

Kafka-Python library update

Because we have bumped the library version for the kafka-python package, if you happen to run any custom checks that rely on the former version please make necessary amends. We apologize for any inconvenience. See #2709 for reference.

Updated integrations

Apache
Ceph
Disk Check
DNS
Docker
Elasticsearch
Gearman
HTTP Check
IIS
JMXFetch
Kafka Consumer
Kubernetes
Linux Check
Marathon
Mesos
Mongo
MySQL
Network Check
OpenStack
Php5_fpm
Postgres
Process
RabbitMQ
Redis
Spark
SSH
vSphere
Windows

Deprecated integrations

Jenkins

Changes

[ENHANCEMENT] Use JMXFetch 0.12.0 ( Changelog )
[FEATURE] Apache: add connection status metrics. See #2622 (Thanks @gzysk8)
[FEATURE] Core: dogstatsd: Added support for IP agnostic connections. See #2619
[FEATURE] Curl: support for HTTP2. See omnibus-software-65
[FEATURE] Dns_check: Allow querying a custom record type. See #2653
[FEATURE] Docker_daemon: resolve hierarchy by looking at procfs /cgroup. See #2537
[FEATURE] Forwarder: allow multiple endpoints/api_keys. See #2564
[FEATURE] Gearman: Add per-task gearman metrics. See #2672 (Thanks @nyanshak)
[FEATURE] Http_check: Add allow_redirects parameter. See #2586 (Thanks @n0ts)
[FEATURE] Http_check: Add ability to use post method. See #2544
[FEATURE] Http_check: SNI support for cert_expiration. See #2521
[FEATURE] Kubernetes: Improve service discovery to only reload checks that need it. See #2551
[FEATURE] Linux: make /proc configurable. See #2482
[FEATURE] Mongo: Apply yaml-configured tags to service checks. See #2575 (Thanks @avaughan89)
[FEATURE] Mysql: Allow connection_timeout to be set for MySQL checks. See #2729 (Thanks @scottgeary)
[FEATURE] Process: Option to search processes by PID. See #2119 (Thanks @handigarde)
[FEATURE] Spark: spark standalone support. See #2752 (Thanks @zachradtka), omnibus-software-73, dd-agent-omnibus
[IMPROVEMENT] Ceph: update to support 10.0.2.2. See #2805
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: avoid calls to service discovery from dogstatsd. See #2798
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: easier config for multiple endpoints. See #2774
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Add an HTTP timeout to many integrations. See #2673 (Thanks @gphat)
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: expiration should adjust to longer collection intervals (>300s). See #2541
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: remove events & resources api_key. See #2557
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: remove noisy logs. See #2715 (Thanks @ensonik)
[IMPROVEMENT] Disk: handle multilines df output. See #2733
[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Improve service discovery to only reload checks that need it. See #2702
[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Add CPU throttling stats to Docker metrics. See #2724 (Thanks @ejholmes)
[IMPROVEMENT] Dogstatsd: fix server address when non_local_traffic is passed. See #2691
[IMPROVEMENT] Elasticsearch: Add missing metrics. See #2758 (Thanks @mdelaney)
[IMPROVEMENT] Elasticsearch: Add elastic search cluster name to tags. See #2744
[IMPROVEMENT] Flare: Close the tar file cleanly once upload is done. See #2621
[IMPROVEMENT] Flare: hide multiple endpoints api_keys. See #2646
[IMPROVEMENT] Gohai: Processes - simplify payload. See #2600
[IMPROVEMENT] Gohai: CPU - take into account environments with multiple physical processors. See gohai-32
[IMPROVEMENT] Http_check: log exceptions 🔊. See #2704
[IMPROVEMENT] Kafka_consumer: bumping kafka-python package version to 1.2.5. See #2709, omnibus-software-70
[IMPROVEMENT] Kubernetes: disable use_histogram. See #2542
[IMPROVEMENT] Kubernetes: Log URL in kubelet check failures and service checks. See #2735 (Thanks @therc)
[IMPROVEMENT] Mesos: make SSL check optional. See #2809
[IMPROVEMENT] Mongo: Adds metrics for collections. See #2739
[IMPROVEMENT] Multiple integrations: Add an HTTP timeout to many integrations. See #2673 (Thanks @gphat)
[IMPROVEMENT] Network: implement check using psutil on Windows. See #2499
[IMPROVEMENT] Openstack: openstack should pick-up on proxy settings set on agent. See #2572
[IMPROVEMENT] Openstack: nova/neutron extend name search. See #2627
[IMPROVEMENT] Packaging: debian - only create dd-agent group if it doesn't already exist. See dd-agent-omnibus-89
[IMPROVEMENT] Packaging: linux - correctly silence configcheck. See dd-agent-omnibus-86
[IMPROVEMENT] Packaging: debian - remove configcheck output when upgrading. See dd-agent-omnibus-85
[IMPROVEMENT] Php5_fpm: Allow host header override. See #2779 (Thenks @allixsenos)
[IMPROVEMENT] Postgres: Allow to use psycopg2. See #2782
[IMPROVEMENT] Process: Add metrics for avg, max, and min run times for processes. See #2531 (Thenks @garnermccloud)
[IMPROVEMENT] Process: Add system.processes.mem.pct metric to process check. See #2801
[IMPROVEMENT] Python: Upgrade to 2.7.12. See omnibus-software-63
[IMPROVEMENT] RabbitMQ: Avoiding the extra double lookup for 'rabbitmq_api_url'. See #2543 (Thanks @ParthKolekar)
[IMPROVEMENT] RabbitMQ: new health check. See #2711
[IMPROVEMENT] SSH: Be more specific when logging ssh errors. See #2708
[IMPROVEMENT] Util: remove LaconicFilter. See #2605
[IMPROVEMENT] Vsphere: Add optional vm include parameter. See #2459
[BUGFIX] Disk: timeout on disk usage. See #2714
[BUGFIX] Docker_daemon: ECS introspection resilience. See #2745 and #2825
[BUGFIX] Flare: user flare-specific url. See #2813
[BUGFIX] Http_check: Bring back include_content option. See #2631
[BUGFIX] IIS: Fix metrics tagging when multiple sites are specified on instance. See #2677
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Do not scope MBeans queries on list_not_matching_attributes action. See jmxfetch-102
[BUGFIX] Marathon: Fix a small problem that prevented marathon full path from being properly built. See #2620
[BUGFIX] Mongo: Repairing of mongodb.can_connect check. See #2658 (Thanks @cryptspirit)
[BUGFIX] Mongo: Fixes a mistake in the mongo collections check. See #2783
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Check for null key_buffer_size before dividing by it. See #2784
[BUGFIX] Network Checks: Network check instance corrections. See #2736 (Thanks @tschellhorn)
[BUGFIX] Packaging [linux]: Kernel 4+ won't error out on status now. See #2640
[BUGFIX] Packaging [osx]: Support GNU-Friendly sed. See #2580 (Thanks @sha1sum)
[BUGFIX] Process: Use configured proc path when getting pagefault stats #2727 (Thanks @rdxiang)
[BUGFIX] Redisdb: Avoid exception when slowlog query returns empty command. See #2651
[BUGFIX] Win32_event_log: Fix small regression on msg_text selection. See #2591
[BUGFIX] Win32_event_log: reset filters between iterations. See #2796
[BUGFIX] Wmi: set provider architecture when necessary. See #2812
[DEPRECATED] Core: clean debug logs and kill Dogstream-based DdForwarder. See #2628
[DEPRECATED] Jenkins: Deprecate check. See #2688
[DEPRECATED] Nghttp2: remove python bindings. See omnibus-software-71

5.8.5 / 07-27-2016

Windows, Linux and Source Install

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.8.4...5.8.5

Future rotation of the APT signing key

In preparation for a future rotation of our package signing keys, the 5.8.5 DEB package will, on install, import a new trusted APT key:

pub   4096R/382E94DE 2016-06-29 [expires: 2022-06-28]
uid                  Datadog, Inc <package[@datadoghq][].com>

During the package install, the DEB package will output the following:

Prepare Datadog Agent keys rotation
  Add the new 'Datadog, Inc <package[@datadoghq][].com>' key to the list of APT trusted keys. ... OK

The signing key of the Agent hasn't changed yet but will be switched to this new key in a future release.

See dd-agent-omnibus-81

Changes

[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Upgrade embedded python to 2.7.12. See omnibus-software-63
[IMPROVEMENT] Elasticsearch: Take into account node name for cluster stats. See #2696
[IMPROVEMENT] RPM package: Add runtime dependency on the initscripts package. See dd-agent-omnibus-82
[IMPROVEMENT] RPM package: Don't delete dd-agent user and group on uninstall. See dd-agent-omnibus-84
[BUGFIX] Core: Use flag to signal config reload to avoid race conditions. See #2670
[BUGFIX] Core: Don't use Docker hostname if it's an EC2 one. See #2661
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix disk metrics rounding issue. See #2626
[BUGFIX] Haproxy: Fix KeyError when an unknown status is found. See #2681
[BUGFIX] IIS: Remove warnings on 'Name' property. See #2633
[BUGFIX] MongoDB: Fix case where optimeDate is not available. See #2625
[BUGFIX] Service Discovery: Introduce _get_image_ident and fix a bug that needed it. See #2684
[BUGFIX] Windows Event log: Support unicode messages. See #2660

5.8.4 / 07-08-2016

Windows, Linux and Source Install

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.8.3...5.8.4

Changes

[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Upgrades supervisord to 3.3.0 See #2667, #2669
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Fixes MySQL slave detection. See #2610
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Fixes MySQL replication service check. See #2603
[BUGFIX] Core: Fixes a bug that caused the thread pool to leak threads. See #2666

5.8.3 / 07-05-2016

Windows, Linux and Source Install

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.8.2...5.8.3

Changes

[FEATURE] Flare: Adds configcheck output to flare command. See #2588
[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Bump docker-py to 1.8.1 for network features support. See #2556
[BUGFIX] HAProxy: Add collate_status_tags_per_host flag See #2590
[BUGFIX] Core: A bug prevented ipv6 from being used in some circumstances. This fixes that, and defaults to ipv6 and falls back to ipv4. See #2592
[BUGFIX] Docker: Handles buggy responses from docker api better. See #2608
[BUGFIX] MongoDB: Only collect ReplicationInfo when it's possible to do so, rather than erroring out. See #2559
[BUGFIX] Postgres: Adds a hard limit on postgres.table.count metric, as this can be very expensive. See #2575
[BUGFIX] PowerDNS Recursor: The configuration file needed to be renamed from powerdns.conf to powerdns_recursor.conf. See #2538
[BUGFIX] Service Discovery: Improvements for testing, logging and service variable interpolation. See #2573
[BUGFIX] Service Discovery: Yse docker hostname rather than default route to query cadvisor and kublet. See #2609
[BUGFIX] Service Discovery: Use get_identifier instead of buggy image name extraction. See #2593
[BUGFIX] SQLServer: Send service checks after every run, rather than only at the beginning. See #2515
[BUGFIX] vSphere: Enhances topology support, skip unknown metrics. See #2560
[BUGFIX] vSphere: The whole check shouldn't fail just because the check failed on a certain instance. See #2548
[BUGFIX] Win32: When memory check collection times out, it causes an error in the collector. Instead, it should recover from this. See #2553
[BUGFIX] WMI: Allows user to set a profider in request data. See #2565, #2369

5.8.2 / 05-24-2016

Windows only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.8.1...5.8.2

Changes

[BUGFIX] Windows: Revert a change introduced in the 5.8.0 release, causing hostnames to change on EC2 hosts when no hostname is defined in datadog.conf, leading to potential backwards compatibility issues. See #2451, #2535

5.8.1 / 05-23-2016

Windows only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.8.0...5.8.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Windows: Fix an issue that was preventing checks from loading properly. See #2528

5.8.0 / 05-23-2016

All platforms

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.7.4...5.8.0

New integrations

Kong
PowerDNS Recursor
Spark

Updated integrations

ActiveMQ
Cassandra
Directory
Disk
Docker
Elasticsearch
Ganglia
Graphite
HAProxy
HTTP Check
JMX
Kubernetes
MapReduce
Marathon
Memcached
Mesos Master
MongoDB
MySQL
Process
RabbitMQ
Riak
TeamCity
TokuMX
Varnish
vSphere
Windows
Windows Service
WMI
YARN

Service Discovery

Starting with the 5.8 release, the Datadog Agent ships with service discovery. This feature works for Docker containers and can run on platforms such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Amazon ECS.

Service discovery makes it possible to define configuration templates for a given Docker image in a configuration store, and to dynamically apply them to new containers on the fly. The Agent will then use these configuration templates combined with container metadata to enable, disable and reconfigure checks dynamically in response to container start/stop events.

For more details on Datadog Agent's Service Discovery, check out the wiki page.

See #2008, #2424, #2426, #2514.

Kong integration

Kong is an open-source management layer for APIs.

The checks collects metrics using /status endpoint part of Kong RESTful API. It retrieves usage information about the node, with some basic information about the connections being processed by the underlying NGINX process, and the number of entities stored in the datastore collections. It also submits a service check to reflect the agent's ability to connect to the instance.

See #2241.

A big thank you @shashiranjan84 !

Spark integration

The Spark check runs from the Master Node and retrieves metrics from YARN's ResourceManager. The collected metrics cover statistics about:

Spark Jobs
Spark Stages
Spark Executors
Spark Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDD)

See #2407.

PowerDNS Recursor integration

The PowerDNS Recursor check retrieves metrics using the /servers/localhost/statistics endpoint part of PowerDNS API when the experimental web server is active. The collected metrics cover the Recursor statistics: (outgoing) queries, answers, cache and cache entries. A service check reflects the agent's ability to connect to the instance.

For more details about the metrics collected, check out the PowerDNS documentation about Recursor Statistics.

See #2108, #2490.

A big thank you @AntoCard, @janeczku !

MapReduce & YARN updates

Hadoop MapReduce and YARN integrations have been updated to reduce and consolidate the metrics' tags. In particular:

cluster_name tag replaces cluster_id
app_name tag replaces app_id

MapReduce metrics have received additional improvements and cleanups:

Metric type rate replaces gauge when applicable
The following metrics have been removed:
- mapreduce.job.map.task.progress
- mapreduce.job.reduce.task.progress

See #2473, #2474, #2487.

Source install: end of Python 2.6 compatibility support

For source installation, the Datadog Agent uses system's Python. Starting with the 5.8.0 release, the Datadog Agent does not enforce compatibility with Python 2.6 anymore and requires Python 2.7. Tests and code sections used to maintain compability have been removed.

Users running a different version of Python on their system are advised to install a packaged version of the Datadog Agent. If you have any questions, please contact our support team support(at)datadoghq(dot)com.

See #2377.

Changes

[FEATURE] ActiveMQ: Add monitoring for standby hosts. See #2023, #2430 (Thanks @joelvanvelden)
[FEATURE] Directory: Add Windows support. See #2410, #2508
[FEATURE] Disk: Add an option to exclude disks based on their mountpoints. See #2359, #2476 (Thanks @rhwlo)
[FEATURE] Docker: Add optional disk metrics. See #2405
[FEATURE] Docker: Add the possibility to tag by container ID. See #2353, #2507
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Add support for SSL and Elasticsearch Shield. See #2195 (Thanks @pabrahamsson)
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Collect additional Thread Pool metrics. See #2321
[FEATURE] HAProxy: Add option to disable SSL validation. See #2393.
[FEATURE] JMX: Add user tags to service checks. See #96
[FEATURE] JMX: Allow group name substitutions in attribute/alias parameters. See #94, #97 (Thanks @alz)
[FEATURE] Kong: New check. See #2241, Kong integration (Thanks @shashiranjan84)
[FEATURE] Kubernetes: Allow to blacklist labels. See #2512
[FEATURE] Kubernetes: Tag pods metrics with replica sets. See #2444, #2446, #2512
[FEATURE] Memcached: Add "items" and "slabs" statistic metrics as reported by the stats command. See #2491
[FEATURE] PowerDNS Recursor: New check. See #2108, #2490, PowerDNS Recursor integration (Thanks @AntoCard, @janeczku)
[FEATURE] Process: Add pagefault statistics to process metrics. See #2363, #2477 (Thanks @ovesh)
[FEATURE] RabbitMQ: Tag queue based metrics with the queue name as queue_family. See #2259, #2468 (Thanks @rhwlo)
[FEATURE] Riak: Collect Riak Search metrics. See #2243 (Thanks @gzysk8)
[FEATURE] Service Discovery: Define configuration templates for a given Docker image in a configuration store, and to dynamically apply them to new containers on the fly. See #2008, #2424, #2426, #2514, Service Discovery
[FEATURE] Spark: New check. See #2407, #2479, Spark integration
[FEATURE] TeamCity: Support basic HTTP authentication. See #2266 (Thanks @mderomph-coolblue)
[FEATURE] vSphere: Add the ability to set a custom field from the vSphere PowerCLI to mark the VMs to monitor. See #2459
[FEATURE] Windows Event Log: Add an optional event_format parameter to instruct the check to generate Datadog's event bodies with the specified list of event properties. See #2441
[FEATURE] Windows: Add opened handles statistics to system metrics. See #2403
[FEATURE] Windows: Add swap -pagefile- statistics to system metrics. See #2422
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Allow AgentCheckTest facilities to be used on SDK check modules. See #2341
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Gracefully handle responses with HTTP status code 413. See #2418
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Update the configuration logic to look for checks in a 3rd-party directory. See #2273, #2467
[IMPROVEMENT] Directory: Speed up the file count in a directory. See #2245 (Thanks @tebriel)
[IMPROVEMENT] Gohai: Collect process resources and deprecate the corresponding Python check. See #24, #2218
[IMPROVEMENT] Gohai: Improve logging. See #30
[IMPROVEMENT] Kubernetes: Enable kubelet check by default. See #2512
[IMPROVEMENT] Kubernetes: Improve support for Kubernetes >= 1.2. See #2388, #2494, #2512
[IMPROVEMENT] Kubernetes: Timeout on slow requests. See #2345
[IMPROVEMENT] MapReduce: Consolidate and reduce the number of tags produced. See #2474, MapReduce & YARN updates
[IMPROVEMENT] MapReduce: Switch metric types from gauge to rate when applicable. See #2487, MapReduce & YARN updates
[IMPROVEMENT] Marathon: Remove versions metric to decrease the check collection runtime. See #1861, #2443 (Thanks @Zarkantho)
[IMPROVEMENT] MongoDB: Add additional tag on status change to make searching more precise. See #2502 (Thanks @gphat)
[IMPROVEMENT] MongoDB: Improve metric tagging. See #2457
[IMPROVEMENT] MySQL: Improve accuracy for query run time averages. See #2406, #2463
[IMPROVEMENT] YARN: Consolidate and reduce the number of tags produced. See #2473, MapReduce & YARN updates
[BUGFIX] Core: Fix DogStatsd's service check parsing when a tag key ends with m. See #2373, #2472
[BUGFIX] Core: Restart the forwarder when a "pathological" activity is detected. See #2322
[BUGFIX] Core: Retrieve EC2 instance ID on Windows. See #2451
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix container ID extraction for RancherOS. See #2454, #2466 (Thanks @ricky26)
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix improper logging causing the check to raise an exception when excluding containers. See #2464 (Thanks @yenif)
[BUGFIX] Docker: Ignore mountpoints not accessible by Datadog Agent dd-agent user. See #2427 (Thanks @c960657)
[BUGFIX] Elasticsearch: Restrict the list of metrics to collect by version. See #2186, #2232 (Thanks @bdharrington7)
[BUGFIX] HTTP Check: Support no_proxy environment variable. See #2448
[BUGFIX] JMX: Report properly beans with ':' in the name. See #90, #91, #95 (Thanks @bluestix)
[BUGFIX] JMX: Sanitize metric names and tags, i.e. remove illegal characters. See #89
[BUGFIX] JMX: Support javax.management.Attribute attribute types. See #92 (Thanks @nwillems)
[BUGFIX] JMX: Use localhost interface when StatsD is bound to all interfaces. See #2516
[BUGFIX] Kubernetes: Handle case where no pods are running. See #2263, #2512
[BUGFIX] Mesos Master: Fix key error when a metric is missing. See #2500 (Thanks @gphat)
[BUGFIX] MongoDB: Attach the check's events with the integration in Datadog. See #2456
[BUGFIX] Packaging: Exclude an operating-system-specific .dll from the MSI installer that was causing installation and runtime failures on Windows Server 2008. See #2486
[BUGFIX] TokuMX: Fix AttributeError exceptions when collecting metrics from a replica. See #2390
[BUGFIX] TokuMX: Fix an issue among metrics collection causing rate metric values to be potentially wrong and ZeroDivisionError exceptions. See #2510
[BUGFIX] TokuMX: Support metric values with Int64 type. See #2390
[BUGFIX] Windows Service: Make Windows service names case-insensitive. See #2492
[OTHER] Cassandra: Remove deprecated options from the datadog.conf configuration file. See #2447
[OTHER] Core: Remove support of Python 2.6. See #2377, Source install: end of Python 2.6 compatibility support
[OTHER] Core: Upgrade boto dependency from 2.36.0 to 2.39.0. See #2402, #3399
[OTHER] Disk: Remove deprecated options from the datadog.conf configuration file. See #2447
[OTHER] Ganglia: Remove deprecated options from the datadog.conf configuration file. See #2447
[OTHER] Graphite: Remove deprecated options from the datadog.conf configuration file. See #2447
[OTHER] HTTP Check: Remove the deprecated threshold and window parameters from the configuration file. See #2400
[OTHER] Memcached: Document usage for listening to a Unix socket. See #2298, #2431 (Thanks @kzw)
[OTHER] TokuMX: Document usage for connecting to a MongoDB instance with a "full" URI. See #2390
[OTHER] Varnish: Document varnish group requirement. See #2384
[OTHER] WMI: Document wildcard usage in filters. See #2368, #2469 (Thanks @mausch)

5.7.4 / 04-21-2016

All platforms

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.7.3...5.7.4

Changes

[FEATURE] Core: Add Python architecture to the info command. See #2413
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Collect additional WiredTiger storage engine metrics. See #1825, #2423 (Thanks @benmccann)
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Collect replication set information metrics. See #2237, #2429 (Thanks @rhwlo)
[IMPROVEMENT] Cassandra: Exclude new system_schema keyspace in version 3.x. See #2339
[IMPROVEMENT] Kafka: Update the default configuration file to support collection of more metrics. See #2371, #2425
[IMPROVEMENT] MongoDB: Collect journaling, locks, WiredTiger storage engine metrics by default and deprecate the corresponding options. See #2423
[IMPROVEMENT] MongoDB: Improve messaging and tags on replication set member state events. See #2409, #2432 (Thanks @antifuchs)
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows WMI-based checks (wmi_check, System check, IIS, Windows Service, Windows Event Log): gracefully time out WMI queries. See #2185, #2228, #2278, #2366 and #2401.
[BUGFIX] Agent Metrics: Flush service metadata to avoid memory leaks. See #2414

5.7.3 / 03-31-2016

All platforms

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.7.2...5.7.3

Changes

[IMPROVEMENT] Linux install script: Ignore apt-get update failures and use https for apt repo. See #2378
[IMPROVEMENT] WMI check: Make configuration of the metric types case-insensitive. See #2392
[BUGFIX] Consul: Enforce that get_peers_in_cluster returns a list. See #2381
[BUGFIX] Core: Fix Japanese tzname encoding issue on Windows. See #2351
[BUGFIX] Core: On RHEL, make the stop init command kill all the Agent processes properly. See #2349
[BUGFIX] Core: Fix Watchdog timeout duration on the forwarder. See #2320
[BUGFIX] IIS: Fix CRITICAL service check on the _Total site (e.g. when no sites are specified). See #2387
[BUGFIX] IIS: Deal with BytesTransfered vs BytesTransferred 2008sp2 typo. See #2379
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Take into account bind_host. See #2372 and jmxfetch-85
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Handle IOException gracefully at the instance level. See jmxfetch-83
[BUGFIX] Packaging: Fix the version of requests shipped with the packaged Linux Agent. See omnibus-software-45
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Avoid check failure when InnoDB is not available or disabled. See #2385
[BUGFIX] SNMP: Fix errors in multiple-instance configurations caused by thread-safety issues with pysnmp cmd_generator. See #2357
[BUGFIX] SQLServer: Fix connection to DB when no username or password are specified. See #2311
[BUGFIX] vSphere: Fix SSL config options feature by upgrading the packaged version of pyvmomi. See omnibus-software-44
[BUGFIX] Windows Event Log: Fix check when tag_event_id:true #2397

5.7.2 / 03-17-2016

Windows only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.7.1...5.7.2

Changes

[BUGFIX] WMI: Disable query timeout, cache and re-use connections to avoid memory leaks. See #2366

5.7.1 / 03-09-2016

All platforms

NB: For Windows, please also refer to the 5.7.0 section. 5.7.0 was not released on Windows but the 5.7.1 Windows installer includes all the changes listed in the 5.7.0 section.

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.7.0...5.7.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Core: Avoid python segfault when the ctypes module is imported on SELinux-enabled environments. See omnibus-software-43
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Fix check failure when no tag is provided. See #2329
[BUGFIX] Packaging: Fix RPM package for Amazon Linux EMR. See omnibus-ruby-18

5.7.0 / 03-07-2016

Linux, Mac OS and Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.6.3...5.7.0

New integrations

Ceph
DNS
HDFS
MapReduce
StatsD
TCP RTT (go-metro)
YARN

Updated integrations

Apache
AWS
Cassandra
Consul
Directory
Docker
Elasticsearch
Go expvar
Gunicorn
HAProxy
HTTP
IIS
Kafka
Mesos
MongoDB
MySQL
PgBouncer
Postgres
Process
Redis
SNMP
SSH
TeamCity
Tomcat
vSphere
Windows Service
Windows Event Log
WMI
Zookeeper

Hadoop integrations (HDFS, MapReduce and YARN checks)

The Agent now includes 4 new checks to monitor Hadoop clusters:

2 HDFS checks (hdfs_namenode and hdfs_datanode) that collect metrics respectively from namenodes and datanodes using the JMX-HTTP API
a MapReduce check that collects metrics on the running Mapreduce jobs from the Application Master's REST API
a YARN check that collects metrics from YARN's ResourceManager REST API

The existing hdfs check is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the Agent. Its metric scope is entirely covered by the new hdfs_namenode check.

TCP RTT measurement with `go-metro`

This new feature is in beta

The Datadog Agent on 64-bit Linux is now bundled with a new component (go-metro) that passively calculates TCP RTT metrics between the agent's host and external hosts, and reports them as system.net.tcp.rtt.avg, system.net.tcp.rtt.jitter and system.net.tcp.rtt through StatsD.

go-metro follows TCP streams active within a certain period of time and estimates the RTT between any outgoing packet with data, and its corresponding TCP acknowledgement.

go-metro runs in its own process. It's disabled by default and can be enabled like a regular check by configuring an /etc/dd-agent/conf.d/go-metro.yaml file and restarting the agent.

For more details on go-metro, check out the project's GitHub page.

Ceph check

The Ceph check retrieves metrics from Ceph's Administration Tool command (ceph).

The check collects metrics from mon_status, status, df detail, osd pool stats and osd perf, and sends a service check reflecting the overall health of the cluster.

See #2264

MySQL

Multiple community-contributed additions to the MySQL check have been consolidated and merged, including:

metrics from the performance_schema table on MySQL >= 5.6 (thanks to @ovaistariq)
extra metrics on the InnoDB and MyISAM engines, from the Binlog, and from the SHOW STATUS query (thanks to @ovaistariq)
several schema-specific metrics, including schema size, schema average query runtime and 95th percentile query execution time (thanks again to @ovaistariq)
metrics on the Handler (thanks to @polynomial)
Galera-specific performance stats (thanks to @zdannar)
Query Cache metrics (thanks to @leucos)
a mysql.replication.slave_running service check reflecting the state of the slaves (thanks to @c960657)

Most of these additional metrics are not collected by default but can be enabled in the check's YAML file. See the YAML conf example file for details.

Various bug fixes and improvements have also been implemented:

the Agent's connections to MySQL are handled properly to prevent stale connections
the replication status is implemented on both the master and the slaves. On the master this status is determined by the Binlog status and the number of slaves.
the system metrics of MySQL are retrieved w/o errors on non-linux platforms by using the psutil library
the parsing of the MySQL server version is improved

Huge thanks to all our contributors for all these improvements!

See #2116 and #2242

Potential backward incompatibilities

Docker

The dockerized Agent now uses the docker hostname (provided by the Name param from docker info) as its own hostname when available. This means that for hosts running the dockerized Agent the reported hostname may change to this docker-provided hostname.

For reference, the rules followed by the Agent for its hostname resolution are described on this wiki page.

MongoDB

The collect_tcmalloc_metrics parameter in the YAML conf is replaced with the tcmalloc option under additional_metrics. Please refer to the example YAML conf file for more info on the usage of the additional_metrics option.

vSphere

Instead of sending all metrics as gauges, the vSphere integration now checks the types of the metrics as reported by the VMWare module, and sends metrics as rates when applicable.

If you haven't enabled the all_metrics option on the check, the only affected metrics are cpu.usage, cpu.usagemhz, network.received and network.transmitted. If the option is enabled, the additional affected metrics are listed here. The change will affect the values of these metrics.

WMI check

The wmi_check now only supports % as the wildcard character in the filters. The support of * as the wildcard character, which was undocumented, has been dropped.

Changes

[FEATURE] Ceph: New check collecting metrics from Ceph clusters. #2264
[FEATURE] Consul: Add SSL support. See #2034 (Thanks @diogokiss)
[FEATURE] DNS: New check that sends a service check reflecting the status of a hostname's resolution on a nameserver. See #2249 and #2289
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Report additional metrics related to fs, indices.segments and indices.translog. See #2143 (Thanks @bdharrington7)
[FEATURE] HDFS: 2 new checks (see description above). See #2235, #2260, #2274 and #2287
[FEATURE] Go-metro: New component that measures TCP RTT (in beta, see description above). See #2208
[FEATURE] Linux: Add memory metrics (slab, page tables and cached swap). See #2100 (Thanks @gphat)
[FEATURE] Linux: New linux_proc_extras check collecting system-wide metrics on interrupts, context switches and processes. See #2202 (Thanks @gphat)
[FEATURE] MapReduce: New check (see description above). See #2236
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Collect optional additional metrics, grouped by topic. These can be enabled with the new additional_metrics option in the check's YAML conf. Also, the underlying pymongo library has been upgraded from 2.8 to 3.2. See #2161, #2166, #2140 and #2160 (Thanks @scottbessler and @benmccann)
[FEATURE] MySQL: Add tag parameter for custom MySQL queries. See #2229
[FEATURE] MySQL: Enhance the catalog of metrics reported, and add a service check on the replication state. See #2116, #2242 and #2288 (Thanks @ovaistariq, @zdannar, @polynomial, @leucos, @Zenexer, @c960657, @nfo, @patricknelson and @scottgeary)
[FEATURE] Postgres: Measure user functions. See #2164
[FEATURE] Process: Allow configuring the path to procfs (useful when the agent is run in a container), with a newer version of psutil. See #2163 and #2134 (Thanks @sethp-jive)
[FEATURE] Redis: Optionally report metrics from INFO COMMANDSTATS as calls, usec and usec_per_call (prefixed with redis.command.). See #2109
[FEATURE] SNMP: Add support for forced SNMP data types to help w/ buggy devices. See #2165 (Thanks @chrissnell)
[FEATURE] SSH: Add Windows support. See #2072
[FEATURE] StatsD: New check collecting metrics and service checks using StatsD's admin interface. See #1978 and #2162 (Thanks @gphat)
[FEATURE] vSphere: Add SSL config options for certs. See #2180
[FEATURE] YARN: New check (see description above). See #2147 and #2207
[FEATURE] Zookeeper: Gather stats from mntr command and report zookeeper.instances.<mode> metrics as 0/1 gauge. See #2156 (Thanks @jpittis)
[IMPROVEMENT] Apache: Allow disabling ssl validation. See #2169
[IMPROVEMENT] AWS: Incorporate security-groups into tags collected from EC2. See #1951
[IMPROVEMENT] Cassandra: Add YAML conf for Cassandra version > 2.2. See #2142 and #2271
[IMPROVEMENT] Directory: Show check on Windows. See #2184 (Thanks @xkrt)
[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Pass tags to events as well. See #2182
[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Use the docker hostname as the agent's hostname when available. See #2145
[IMPROVEMENT] Elasticsearch: Apply custom tags to service checks too. See #2148
[IMPROVEMENT] Go expvar: Add configuration option for custom metric namespace. See #2022 (Thanks @theckman)
[IMPROVEMENT] Go expvar: Add counter support. See #2133 (Thanks @gphat)
[IMPROVEMENT] Gohai: Count number of logical processors. See gohai-22
[IMPROVEMENT] HAProxy: Add option to count statuses by service. See #2304 and #2314
[IMPROVEMENT] HTTP: Add a days_critical option to the SSL certificate expiration feature. See #2087
[IMPROVEMENT] HTTP: Support unicode in content-matching. See #2092
[IMPROVEMENT] Kafka: Compute instant rates and capture more metrics in example configuration. See #2079 (Thanks @dougbarth)
[IMPROVEMENT] Linux install script: Add custom provided hostname to datadog.conf. See #2225 (Thanks @lowl4tency)
[IMPROVEMENT] Mesos: Improve checks' performance by preventing requests from using chardet. See #2192 (Thanks @GregBowyer)
[IMPROVEMENT] MongoDB: Tag mongo instances by replset state. See #2244 (Thanks @rhwlo)
[IMPROVEMENT] SNMP: Improve performance by running instances of the check in parallel. See #2152
[IMPROVEMENT] SNMP: Make MIB constraint enforcement optional and improve resilience. See #2268
[IMPROVEMENT] TeamCity: Allow disabling ssl validation. See #2091 (Thanks @jslatts)
[IMPROVEMENT] Unix: Revamp source install script. See #2198 and #2199
[IMPROVEMENT] vSphere: Add network.received and network.transmitted to the basic metrics collected. See #1824
[IMPROVEMENT] vSphere: Check metric type to determine how to report (rate or gauge). See #2115
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows: Add uptime metric. See #2135, #2292 and #2299
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows WMI-based checks (wmi_check, System check, IIS, Windows Service, Windows Event Log): gracefully time out WMI queries. See #2185, #2228 and #2278
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows IIS, Service and Event Log checks: use the new WMI wrapper with increased performance. See #2136
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows packaging: Tighten permissions on datadog.conf. See #2210
[BUGFIX] AWS: Use proxy settings for EC2 tag collection. See #2201
[BUGFIX] AWS: During EC2 tags collection, log a warning when the instance is not associated with an IAM role. See #2285
[BUGFIX] Core: Do not log API keys. See #2146
[BUGFIX] Core: Fix cases of low/no disk space causing the Agent to crash when calling subprocesses. See #2223
[BUGFIX] Core: Make Dogstatsd recover gracefully from serialization errors. See #2176
[BUGFIX] Core: Set agent pid file and path from constants. See #2128 (Thanks @urosgruber)
[BUGFIX] Core: Log check starts with info level on first run only. See #2772
[BUGFIX] Development: Fix test of platform in etcd CI setup script. See #2205 (Thanks @ojongerius)
[BUGFIX] Docker: Avoid event collection failure if an event has no ID param. See #2308
[BUGFIX] Docker: Catch exception when getting k8s labels fails. See #2200
[BUGFIX] Docker: Don't warn if process finishes before measuring. See #2114 (Thanks @oeuftete)
[BUGFIX] Docker: Remove misleading warning on excluded containers. See #2179 (Thanks @EdRow)
[BUGFIX] Documentation: Update link to dogstatsd guide in datadog.conf. See #2181
[BUGFIX] Elasticsearch: Optionally collect pending task stats. See #2250
[BUGFIX] Flare: Use ssl and proxy settings from datadog.conf. See #2234 (Thanks @tebriel)
[BUGFIX] Flare: Mention path to tar file in Windows UI. See #2084
[BUGFIX] FreeBSD: Use correct log file for syslog. See #2171
[BUGFIX] Go expvar: Add timeout for requests to get go expvar metrics. See #2183 (Thanks @gphat)
[BUGFIX] Gohai: Log unexpected OSError exceptions instead of re-raising them. See #2309
[BUGFIX] Gunicorn: Mention in YAML conf that the setproctitle module is required. See #2215
[BUGFIX] HTTP: Add an option to disable warnings when ssl validation is disabled. See #2193
[BUGFIX] HTTP: Improve log message when http code is incorrect. See #2203
[BUGFIX] HTTP: Rename ssl_expire to check_certificate_expiration in YAML comment. See #2086 (Thanks @MiguelMoll)
[BUGFIX] HTTP: Use proxy settings from datadog.conf. See #2112
[BUGFIX] Kubernetes: Remove unused function. See #2157
[BUGFIX] OpenStack: Improve docs in YAML conf. See #2094
[BUGFIX] OpenStack: Remove recommendation for omitting trailing slashes in YAML conf. See #2081
[BUGFIX] Mac OS X: Fix gohai call by passing correct PATH to supervisor. See #2206
[BUGFIX] Mesos slave: Allow configuring mesos master port. See #2189
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Fix buggy tagging in service_checks on instances configured w/ unix socket. See #2216
[BUGFIX] PgBouncer: Avoid raising error when there are no results for a query. See #2280 (Thanks @hjkatz)
[BUGFIX] SNMP: Fix bug when the requested oid is prefixed by another requested oid. See #2246 (Thanks @xkrt)
[BUGFIX] Tomcat: Fix bad attribute in YAML conf file. See #2153
[BUGFIX] Unix: Fix URL of get-pip script in source install script. See #2220 (Thanks @mooney6023)
[BUGFIX] Windows: Fix cases of collector getting wrongfully restarted by watchdog after one correct watchdog restart. See #2175
[BUGFIX] WMI check: Remove unnecessary warnings on Name property. See #2291
[BUGFIX] WMI check: Always add the tag_by parameter to the collected properties. See #2296

5.6.3 / 12-10-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.6.2...5.6.3

Changes

[FEATURE] Consul: More accurate nodes_* and services_* gauges (NB: consul.check service checks are now tagged by consul_service_id rather than service-id) See #2130 (Thanks @mtougeron)
[FEATURE] Docker: Improve container name, image name and image tag extraction. See #2071
[BUGFIX] Core: Catch and log exceptions from the resources checks. See #2029
[BUGFIX] Core: Fix host tags sending when create_dd_check_tags is enabled. See #2088
[BUGFIX] Docker: Add one more cgroup location. See #2139 (Thanks @bakins)
[BUGFIX] Flare: Remove proxy credentials from collected datadog.conf. See #1942
[BUGFIX] Marathon: Fix disk typo in metric name. See #2126 (Thanks @pidah)
[BUGFIX] OS X: Fix memory metrics. See #2097
[BUGFIX] Postgres: Fix metrics not reporting with multiple relations. See #2111
[BUGFIX] Windows: Bundle default CA certs of requests. See #2098

5.6.2 / 11-16-2015

Linux, Mac OS and Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.6.1...5.6.2

Changes

[FEATURE] Docker/Kubernetes: Collect Kubernetes labels as tags. See #2075, #2082
[FEATURE] HTTPCheck: Option to support -RSA, RC4, MD5- weak SSL/TLS ciphers. See #1975, #2048
[BUGFIX] Core: Improve detection of agent process from PID to avoid false positives. See #2005

5.6.1 / 11-09-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.6.0...5.6.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Consul: Add the main tags to service checks. See #2015 (Thanks @mtougeron)
[BUGFIX] Docker: Remove spurious proc root container warnings. See #2055 (Thanks @oeuftete)
[BUGFIX] Flare: Restore missing JMXFetch information. See #2062
[BUGFIX] OpenStack: Fix false-critical on the network service check. See #2063
[BUGFIX] Windows: Restore missing JMXFetch service logs. See #1852, #2065
[OTHER] Upgrade pymongo dependency from 2.6.3 to 2.8 on Windows Datadog Agent 32-bit MSI Installer.
[OTHER] Allow supervisor.conf to select Supervisor user. See #2064

5.6.0 / 11-05-2015

Linux, Mac OS and Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.5.2...5.6.0

New integration(s)

Kubernetes
OpenStack

Updated integrations

ActiveMQ
Cassandra
Couchbase
Docker
Dogstream
HAProxy
HTTPCheck
JMXFetch
Memcached
MongoDB
Network
Nginx
Process
Riak
SNMP
SQL Server
Unix
Windows
Windows Event Viewer
WMI

Kubernetes check

The Kubernetes check retrieves metrics from cAdvisor running under Kubelet.

See #2031

OpenStack check

The OpenStack check is intended to run besides individual hypervisors. It can be scoped to any set of projects living on that host via instance-level config.

At the hypervisor-level it collects:

Hypervisor Uptime and Statistics

At the project-level it collects:

Diagnostics for guest servers within that project
Absolute limits for the project

Additionally it sends service checks to register the UP/DOWN state of networks discovered by the agent, the locally running hypervisor, and the outward-facing (public || internal) API services of Nova, Neutron and Keystone

Authentication

While the check will run without issues as an admin user, it is recommended to configure a read-only datadog user and configure the check with the corresponding user/password. Instructions on setting up the datadog user + role , as well as the changes required to the policy.json file can be found here

A note on compatibility

Authentication is performed via the password method, and requires Identity API v3 Nova API v2 and v2.1 are supported, with minor additional configuration necessary for v2.

A big thank you @mtougeron !

See #1864

New WMI module wrapper

Datadog Agent 5.6.0 ships a new built-in lightweight Python WMI module wrapper, built on top of pywin32 and win32com extensions.

Specifications

Based on top of the pywin32 and win32com third party extensions only
Compatible with Raw* and Formatted Performance Data classes
- Dynamically resolve properties' counter types
- Hold the previous/current Raw samples to compute/format new values*
Fast and lightweight
- Avoid queries overhead
- Cache connections and qualifiers
- Use wbemFlagForwardOnly flag to improve enumeration/memory performance

* Raw data formatting relies on the avaibility of the corresponding calculator. Please refer to checks.lib.wmi.counter_type for more information

Usage
The new WMI module wrapper is used among the following checks to improve speed performances:

System
WMI

Other checks relying on WMI collection will follow in future versions of Datadog Agent.

See #2011
Original discussion thread: #1952
Credits to @TheCloudlessSky (https://github.com/TheCloudlessSky)

[Warning] JMXFetch false-positive bean match & potential backward incompatibilities issues

JMXFetch was illegitimately matching some MBeans attributes when the associated MBean had one of its parameter defined in an instance configuration.

The issue is addressed. As a result, please note that metrics related to false positive bean matches are not reported anymore.

Potential affected checks: ActiveMQ, Cassandra, JMX, Solr, Tomcat.

For more information, please get in touch with support(at)datadoghq(dot)com

See #81

Changes

[FEATURE] Cassandra: Support Cassandra > 2.2 metric name structure (CASSANDRA-4009). See #79, #2035
[FEATURE] Core: Add service check count to the output of Dogstatsd 'info' section. See #1799
[FEATURE] Docker: Add container names as tags for events. See #2026
[FEATURE] HAProxy: Collect the number of available/unavailable backends. See #1915 (Thanks @a20012251)
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Option to add custom JARs to the classpath. See #1996
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Support float and java.lang.Float attribute types as simple JMX attributes. See #76
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Support Cassandra > 2.2 metric name structure (CASSANDRA-4009). See #79
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Support custom JMX Service URL to connect to, on a per-instance basis. See #80
[FEATURE] Kubernetes: New check. See #1919, #2031, #2038, #2039
[FEATURE] Memcached: Collect listen_disabled_num timeout counter. See #1995 (Thanks @alaz)
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Collect TCMalloc memory allocator metrics. See #1979 (Thanks @@benmccann)
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Report dbStats metrics for all databases. See #1855, #1961 (Thanks @asiebert)
[FEATURE] Network: Add UDP metrics from /proc/net/snmp in addition to the existing TCP metrics. See #1974, #1986 (Thanks @gphat)
[FEATURE] OpenStack: New check. See #1864, #2040
[FEATURE] Riak: Add custom tags to service checks' tags. See #1482, #1527, #1987
[FEATURE] SNMP: Option to set the OID batch size. See #1990
[FEATURE] Unix: Collect /proc/meminfo MemAvailable metric when available. See #1826, #1993 (Thanks @jraede)
[FEATURE] Windows Event Viewer: Option to tag events by event_id. See #2009
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Deprecate 'use_dd' flag. See #1856, #1860 (Thanks @ssbarnea)
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Fix hanging subprocess.Popen calls caused by buffer limits. See #1892
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Remove the uses of list comprehensions as looping constructs. See #1939 (Thanks @jamesandariese)
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Run Supervisor as dd-agent user. See #1348, #1620, #1895
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Use user-defined NTP settings in 'info' command's status page. See #1985
[IMPROVEMENT] Dogstream: Add DEBUG logging to event collection. See #1910
[IMPROVEMENT] JMXFetch: Assign generic alias if not defined. See #78
[IMPROVEMENT] Network: Use ss instead of netstat on Linux systems. See #1156, #1859 (Thanks @tliakos)
[IMPROVEMENT] Nginx: Add logging on check exceptions. See #1813, #1914 (Thanks @clokep)
[IMPROVEMENT] Process: Improve sampling of system.processes.cpu.pct metric. See #1660, #1928
[IMPROVEMENT] Unix: Filter SunOS memory_cap kstats by module. See #1959 (Thanks @pfmooney)
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows: New WMI module wrapper to improve speed performances. See #1952, #2011 (Thanks @TheCloudlessSky)
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows: Switch to the built-in WMI core to improve system metric collection performances. See #1952, #2011 (Thanks @TheCloudlessSky)
[IMPROVEMENT] WMI: Switch to the built-in WMI core to improve the check performances. See #1952, #2011 (Thanks @TheCloudlessSky)
[BUGFIX] ActiveMQ: Limit metric collection to the queues specified in the configuration file. See #1948 (Thanks @joelvanvelden)
[BUGFIX] Core: Normalize exit code of fallback status command. See #1976, #1988 (Thanks @wyaeld)
[BUGFIX] Couchbase: Only send selected bucket-level metrics. See #1936
[BUGFIX] Docker: Do not run on initialization failures. See #1984
[BUGFIX] Docker: Improve container name extraction to avoid duplicates. See #1965
[BUGFIX] Flare: Obfuscate passwords encoded in URIs. See #2010
[BUGFIX] HTTPCheck: Fix SSL Certificate check when specifying a port in the URL. See #1923, #1944 (Thanks @dmulter)
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Fix bean name matching logic: OR→AND. See #81
[BUGFIX] Process: Avoid refreshing AccessDenied PIDs cache at every run. See #1928
[BUGFIX] SQL Server: Close database connections so SQL Server Agent can stop. See #1997
[BUGFIX] Windows: Limit Datadog Agent Manager to a single instance. See #1924, #1933

5.5.2 / 10-26-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.5.1...5.5.2

[WARNING] Datadog Agent not reporting metrics after Daylight Saving Time (DST) ends

This release fixes a bug on servers that are configured in local time instead of UTC Time. If your server's clock is configured to use Daylight Saving Time (DST), the Datadog Agent might stop sending metrics for up to one hour when the Daylight Saving Time ends or until it is restarted after the Daylight Saving Time ends.

We highly recommend to upgrade to this version if your server is configured in local time.

Changes

[BUGFIX] Consul: Send the health state service checks of all nodes. See #1900 (Thanks @jgmchan)
[BUGFIX] Core: Use utcnow instead of now to avoid the forwarder to run into a locked state. See #2000
[BUGFIX] Fix pycurl dependency issue with Windows Datadog Agent 64-bit MSI Installer.

5.5.1 / 09-23-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.5.0...5.5.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Core: Fix dd-agent command-line interface on Linux. See #49, #51
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) tags collection. See #1932
[BUGFIX] Docker: Improve parsing of the cpuacct field and of the container ID. See #1940 (Thanks @joshk0)
[BUGFIX] HTTP Check: Fix SSL certificate check when specifying a non-default port in the URL. See #1923 (Thanks @dmulter)
[BUGFIX] Nginx: Fix 'application/json' content_type support. See #1943
[OTHER] Windows: Ship latest version of Gohai with Windows MSI Installer.

5.5.0 / 09-17-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.7...5.5.0

New integration(s)

Consul

Updated integrations

Agent Metrics
Amazon EC2
Btrfs
Couchbase
CouchDB
Disk
Docker
Elasticsearch
etcd
Google Compute Engine
HTTP Check
JMXFetch
Mesos
MongoDB
MySQL
Network
Nginx
PgBouncer
PostgreSQL
Process
RabbitMQ
Redis
Supervisor
System
Unix
Windows Event Viewer
WMI

Consul check

New Consul check.

Supported metrics:

Number of Consul Agents in the Cluster consul.peers: tagged by consul_datacenter and mode (leader | follower)
Consul Catalog Nodes Up by Service consul.catalog.nodes_up: tagged by consul_datacenter and consul_service_id
Consul Catalog Services Up by Node consul.catalog.services_up: tagged by consul_datacenter and consul_node_id

Supported events:

consul.new_leader events when a leader change is detected.

See #1628

New Docker check

Datadog agent 5.5.0 introduces a new Docker check: 'docker_daemon'.

In terms of features, it adds:

Support for TLS connections to the daemon
New metrics:
Network metrics
Memory limits
Container size (rootfs)
Image size
Support for labels (convert them into tags). Off by default, uses a list of labels that should be converted.
Support for ECS tags: task name and task version

Backward incompatible changes:

docker.disk.size metric is renamed to docker.container.size_rw
Old optional metrics: https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/blob/5.4.x/checks.d/docker.py#L29-L38 Are not collected anymore
Old tags are not supported anymore (e.g. name instead of container_name)

As a consequence, the previous check 'Docker' is now deprecated and will not receive further support.

See #1908

Windows 64bit - Datadog Agent

The Datadog Agent is now available in a 64bit version on Windows. For more information, please visit our Integrations/Agent page.

Flare on Windows

Datadog Agent flare feature makes easy to ship a tarball with logs and configurations to ease agent troubleshooting. Previously exclusive to Linux, it's now available on Windows. For more information, please visit our wiki page.

[Warning] JMX `host` tag issues & potential backward incompatibilities issues with service check monitors

JMX related checks -c.f. list below- were illegitimately submitting service checks tagged with the host value defined in the YAML configuration file. As it was overriding the agent hostname, with a value often equals to localhost, it was difficult to define and scope monitors based on these service checks.

The issue is addressed. JMX service checks have a new jmx_server tag which contains the YAML configuration host value so it does not replace the actual agent hostname in the host tag anymore.

Warning: these changes affect your JMX-service-checks related existing monitors scoped with the host tag. For more information, please get in touch with support@datadoghq.com

JMX related checks: ActiveMQ, Cassandra, JMX, Solr, Tomcat.

See #66

Deprecation notice

`datadog.conf` disk options

Disk options in datadog.conf file are being deprecated to promote the new Disk check introduced in the 5.4.0 release. It will be removed in a future version of the Datadog Agent. Please consider conf.d/disk.yaml instead to configure it.

See #1758

Generic Mesosphere check

The previous generic Mesosphere check is deprecated, in favor of the Mesosphere master and slave specific checks introduced in the 5.4.0 release. It will be removed in a future version of the Datadog Agent.

See #1535

Previous Docker check

The previous Docker check is deprecated, in favor of the new one introduced in the 5.5.0 release. It will be removed in a future version of the Datadog Agent.

See #1908

Changes

[FEATURE] Consul: New check reporting cluster, service and node wide metrics and events for leader election. See #1628
[FEATURE] CouchDB: Allow blacklisting of specific databases. See #1760
[FEATURE] Docker: New Docker check. See #1908
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Collect common JVM metrics. See #1865
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Collect primary shard statistic metrics. See #1875
[FEATURE] etcd: SSL support. See #1745 (Thanks @KnownSubset)
[FEATURE] Flare: Add JMXFetch-specific information. See #1726
[FEATURE] Flare: Log permissions on collected files. See #1767
[FEATURE] Flare: Windows support. See #1773
[FEATURE] HTTP Check: Add SSL certificate configuration and validation options. See #1720
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Memory saving by limiting MBeans queries to certain scopes. See #63
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Wildcard support on domains and bean names. See #57
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Collect active client connections metrics. Enhance connections, dbStats, mem and rpl metric coverage. See #1798
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Make timeout configurable and increase the default. See #1823 (Thanks @benmccann)
[FEATURE] MySQL: Custom query metrics. See #1793 (Thanks @obi11235)
[FEATURE] Nginx: Option to disable SSL validation. See #1626 #1782
[FEATURE] PostgreSQL: SSL support. See #1696 (Thanks @bdotdub)
[FEATURE] PostgreSQL: Support for relation schemas. See #1771
[FEATURE] RabbitMQ: Collect the number of RabbitMQ partitions per node. See #1715 (Thanks @ulich)
[FEATURE] Supervisor: Option to select processes to monitor by regex name match. See #1747 (Thanks @ckrough)
[FEATURE] System: Collect %guest CPU time. See #1845
[IMPROVEMENT] Agent Metrics: Move stats log's level to DEBUG. See #1885
[IMPROVEMENT] Core: Log collector runs's exceptions. See #1888
[IMPROVEMENT] CouchDB: Fail gracefully when one or more individual databases are not readable by the configured user. See #1760
[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Add an image_repository tag to the docker check. See #1691
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows Event Viewer: Better configuration YAML example file. See #1734
[IMPROVEMENT] Windows: Add Datadog agent version to MSI description. See #1878
[BUGFIX] Agent Metrics: Fix the configuration YAML example file rights. See #1725
[BUGFIX] Amazon EC2: Update metadata endpoint list to avoid redirections. See #1750 (Thanks @dspangen)
[BUGFIX] Btrfs: Track usage based on used bytes instead of free bytes. See #1839 (Thanks @pbitty)
[BUGFIX] Couchbase: Send service check tags on OK status. See #1722 #1776
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fallback when Docker Remote API /events returns an invalid JSON. See #1757
[BUGFIX] Docker: Kubernetes support -new cgroups path-. See #1759
[BUGFIX] Docker: Strip newlines from API responses to avoid parsing issues. See #1727
[BUGFIX] Google Compute Engine: Update hostname to be unique. See #1736, #1737
[BUGFIX] HTTP Check: Handle requests timeout exceptions to send the appropriate service check. See #1761
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Do not override service checks's host tag with JMX host. See #66
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Do not send service check warnings on metric limit violation. See #73
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Fix collector logs being duplicated to JMXFetch ones. See #1852
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Fix indentation in the configuration YAML example file. See #1774
[BUGFIX] Mesos: Do not fail if no cluster name is found. See #1843
[BUGFIX] Mesos: Fix AttributeError on non leader nodes. See #1844
[BUGFIX] MongoDB: Clean password from state changed events. See #1789
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Close connection when complete. See #1777 (Thanks @nambrosch)
[BUGFIX] Network: Normalize instance_name tags to avoid mismatch and backward incompatiblity. See #1811
[BUGFIX] PgBouncer: Collected metrics were wrong. See #1902.
[BUGFIX] Process: Restore Windows support. See #1595, #1883
[BUGFIX] RabbitMQ: Fix ValueError error when an absolute queue name is used. See #1820
[BUGFIX] Redis: Handle the exception when CONFIG command is disabled. See #1755
[BUGFIX] Redis: Switch redis.stats.keyspace_* metrics from gauge to rate type. See #1891
[BUGFIX] Unix: Fix incorrect conversion of system.io.bytes_per_s metric. See #1718, #1912
[BUGFIX] Windows Event Viewer: Fix indentation in the configuration YAML example file. See #1725
[BUGFIX] Windows: Fix developer mode configuration on Windows. See #1717
[BUGFIX] WMI: Fix errors when a property does not exist or has a non digit value. See #1800, #1846, #1889
[OTHER] Mesos: Deprecate previous generic check in favor of the Mesosphere master and slave specific checks introduced in the 5.4.0 release. See #1822
[OTHER] Mac OS X: Fix upgrade of the agent with DMG package. See #48

5.4.7 / 09-11-2015

Windows Only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.6...5.4.7

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix adodbapi dependency issue with Windows MSI Installer. See #1907

5.4.6 / 09-08-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.5...5.4.6

Changes

[BUGFIX] Disk: Force CDROM (iso9660) exclusion. See #1786
[BUGFIX] Disk: Recalculate disk.in_use to make consistent with df's 'Use% metric'. See #1785
[BUGFIX] Gohai: Improve signal handling for df timeout. See #16
[BUGFIX] Process: Correctly handle disappearing PID. See #1721 #1772

5.4.5 / 08-20-2015

Datadog Agent container only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.4...5.4.5

Changes

[IMPROVEMENT] Docker: Support for Docker 1.8 version. See #1831

5.4.4 / 08-05-2015

Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.3...5.4.4

Changes

[BUGFIX] Update ntplib to 0.3.3 to fix source install requirements. See #1792

5.4.3 / 07-13-2015

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.2...5.4.3

Changes

[SECURITY] The deb and rpm packages now bundle OpenSSL 1.0.1p. For more details, see the security advisory.
[BUGFIX] Docker: Do not fail when the event API returns a bad JSON response. See #1757

5.4.2 / 06-18-2015

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.1...5.4.2

Changes

[BUGFIX] Disk: Strict backward compatibility with old disk check. See #1710
[BUGFIX] Etcd: Do not query leader endpoint on followers (was causing check failure). See #1709

5.4.1 / 06-16-2015

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.4.0...5.4.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Disk: Get metrics only from physical disk by default. See #1700
[BUGFIX] Kafka: Fix indentation issue in the configuration YAML example file. See #1701

5.4.0 / 06-16-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.3.2...5.4.0

New integration(s)

Mesosphere master
Mesosphere slave

Updated integrations

Disk
Docker
Elasticsearch
etcd
Fluentd
HAProxy
HTTP Check
JMXFetch
Kafka consumer
Mesosphere
MySQL
NTP
PHP-FPM
PostgreSQL
Process
SQL Server
System
TCP Check
Varnish
WMI

Agent Developer mode

The Agent Developer Mode allows the user to collect a wide array of metrics concerning the performance of the agent itself. It provides visibility into bottlenecks when writing an AgentCheck and when making changes to the collector core. For more information, see our wiki page.

Deprecation notice

Old agent commands

Old command line tools dd-agent, dd-forwarder and dogstatsd are deprecated as for 5.4.0. dd-forwarder & dogstatsd will be removed in a future version, and dd-agent functions will be limited to check, jmx and flare. For more information, see our wiki page See #1457, #1569

Ganglia integration

The Ganglia integration is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the Datadog Agent. See #1621

Changes

[FEATURE] Agent developer mode. See #1577
[FEATURE] Application names to tags ("dd_check:appname") support. See #1570
[FEATURE] Service metadata support. See #1611
[FEATURE] Dogstream: Add filename globing support. See #1550 (Thanks @gtaylor)
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Add pending tasks metrics. See #1507
[FEATURE] Elasticsearch: Add tags to events. See #1444
[FEATURE] etcd: Add etcd latency metrics. See #1429
[FEATURE] Flare: Add commands standard error stream to content. See #1586
[FEATURE] Fluentd: Add type tag support. See #1623 (Thanks @yyamano)
[FEATURE] HAProxy: Add new time metrics available in 1.5. See #1579 (Thanks @warnerpr-cyan)
[FEATURE] HTTP/TCP Check: Add support for custom tags. See #1642
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Add service check count to JMX checks statuses. See #1559
[FEATURE] Mesosphere: New checks for masters -reporting metrics from leaders- and slaves -reporting metrics from the selected tasks-. See #1535
[FEATURE] MySQL: Add threads running metrics. See #1613 (Thanks @polynomial)
[FEATURE] PHP-FPM: Add custom ping reply support. See #1582 (Thanks @squaresurf)
[FEATURE] System: Add system swap metrics. See #1549
[IMPROVEMENT] Limit process restart attempts on Windows on a specific time frame. See #1664
[IMPROVEMENT] Only start the Collector and Dogstatsd when needed. See #1569
[IMPROVEMENT] Use internal /run for temporary pid, pickle and JMXFetch files. See #1569, #1679
[IMPROVEMENT] Disk: New check based on psutil replaces the old system check. See #1596
[IMPROVEMENT] JMXFetch: Run JMXFetch as dd-agent user. See #1619
[IMPROVEMENT] NTP: Use Datadog NTP pool. See #1618
[IMPROVEMENT] Process: Cache AccessDenied failures and PID list. See #1595
[IMPROVEMENT] SQL Server: Set a timeout for each SQL command, default to 30s. See #1446
[BUGFIX] Cast service checks messages to strings. See #1617
[BUGFIX] Fix incorrect EC2 metadata resulting from the no proxy environment settings. See #1650 #1594
[BUGFIX] Uses NTP check settings to avoid failures in status checks. See #1651 #1558
[BUGFIX] Disk: Fix a bug where all devices were ignored if the device blacklist regex was empty. See #1666
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix intermittent failures (bad support) when a container has no name. See #1565
[BUGFIX] Elasticsearch: Fix data being illegitimately filtered out when the local node reports under a different hostname. See #1657
[BUGFIX] HTTP Check: Fix status type errors in service check. See #1644
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Clean previous JMX status python file at start. See #1655
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Fix jmx agent commands false warning. See #1612.
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Format service check names prefix names to strip non alphabetic characters.
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Properly exit on Windows when a specified file is created. See #1643
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Rename 'host' bean parameter to 'bean_host' in tags to avoid conflicts.
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Support bean names that have an attribute with an empty value.
[BUGFIX] Kafka consumer: Add timeout for ZooKeeper and Kafka connections. See #1592 #1589
[BUGFIX] Mesosphere: Cast error messages to strings. See #1614 [TEST?]
[BUGFIX] PostgreSQL: Ignore rdsadmin database in PostgreSQL check to avoid permission error. See #1590 (Thanks @etrepum)
[BUGFIX] PostgreSQL: Properly log bugs for custom metrics. See #1633 (Thanks @orenmazor)
[BUGFIX] SQL Server: Fix collector freezes when connection is failing. See #1640
[BUGFIX] SQL Server: Properly close cursor, avoid leaks. See #1631
[BUGFIX] SQL Server: Send fractional metrics as floats. See #1616
[BUGFIX] Varnish: Allow tags in varnish 3 XML style parsing. See #1645
[BUGFIX] WMI: Cast tag values as strings. See #1630

5.3.2 / 04-29-2015

Debian only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.3.1...5.3.2

Changes

[BUGFIX/FEATURE] Native support of systemd with a new service file

5.3.1 / 04-22-2015

Windows only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.3.0...5.3.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Fix bootloop issue when no JMX integration is set. See #1561

5.3.0 / 04-16-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.2.2...5.3.0

New integration(s)

PGBouncer: See #1391
PHP-FPM: See #1441 (Thanks @arosenhagen)
Supervisor. See #1165, #1511 & #1512

Updated integrations

Cassandra
ElasticSearch
Gearman
HTTP Check
Jenkins
JMXFetch
Kafka
Marathon
Memcache
nginx
PostgreSQL
Redis
SNMP
Varnish
WMI
ZooKeeper

Changes

[FEATURE] Add a "flare" feature to contact our support team. See #1422 & #1509
[FEATURE] nginx: Add a metric to track dropped connections
[FEATURE] Redis: Add replication metrics and status. See #1350 and #1447 (Thanks @pbitty)
[FEATURE] Redis: Collect slow log metrics. See #1400
[FEATURE] WMI: Extend tagging options: tag metrics with a target class property, or a set of fixed values. See #1388
[FEATURE] PostgreSQL: Add support for custom queries, StatIO metrics, and database size metric. See #1395 and #1415 (Thanks @ipolishchuk and @adriandoolittle)
[FEATURE] Kafka: Add support of kafka >= 0.8.2. See #1438 (Thanks @patrickbcullen)
[FEATURE] Cassandra: Add more storage proxy metrics to default config. See #1393
[FEATURE] SNMP: Add support of SNMPv1. See #1408 (Thanks @slushpupie)
[FEATURE] Jenkins: Add support of version >= 1.598. See #1442
[FEATURE] JMX Checks: Add service checks
[FEATURE] JMX Checks: Add support of list of filters. See http://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/java/
[FEATURE] Varnish: Add support of Varnish 4.x. See #1459 and #1461
[FEATURE] HTTP Check: Add the possibility to test for the content of the response. See #1297, #1326 and #1390 (Thanks @chrissnel and @handigarde)
[IMPROVEMENT] JMXFetch: Move JMXFetch to its own entry in the supervisor
[IMPROVEMENT] Switch http library used in checks to requests. See #1399
[IMPROVEMENT] NTP Check: Enable by default
[IMPROVEMENT] EC2 tags: require only DescribeTags permission. See #1503 (Thanks @oremj)
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Add default min and max heap size
[BUGFIX] PostgreSQL: Fix "Metric has an interval of 0 bug". See #1211 and #1396
[BUGFIX] Marathon: Fix bad url construction. See #1278 and #1401
[BUGFIX] Zookeeper: Fix misleading metric name. See #1443 and #1383
[BUGFIX] Proxy settings: Cast proxy port to an integer. See #1414 and #1416
[BUGFIX] Support EC2 tag discovery in all regions. See #1332
[BUGFIX] Source installation: Fix "error: no such option: --use_simple_http_client". See #1454
[BUGFIX] Memcache: Fix bad support of multi instances. See #1490
[BUGFIX] Gearman: Fix bad support of multi instances. See #1476
[BUGFIX] HTTP Check: Fix for servers using SNI
[BUGFIX] ElasticSearch: Fix bad support of multi instances. See #1487
[BUGFIX] Core: Do not use proxy for local connection. See #1518

5.2.3 / 03-30-2015

Windows only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.2.2...5.2.3

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix vSphere service check

5.2.2 / 03-20-2015

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.2.1...5.2.2

Changes

[SECURITY] The deb and rpm packages now bundle OpenSSL 1.0.1m
[BUGFIX] Fix "pidfile /tmp/dd-agent.pid already exists" bug. See #1435
[BUGFIX] Fix bundling of rrdtool python binding

5.2.1 / 02-20-2015

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.2.0...5.2.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] varnish: fix regression, bad argument in _parse_varnishstat. See #1377 (Thanks @mms-gianni)
[BUGFIX] source install: move pysnmp and pysnmp-mibs to optional reqs. See #1380
[BUGFIX] etcd: service check OK is now returned. See #1379
[BUGFIX] varnish: fix varnishadm sudoed call with subprocess. See #1389

5.2.0 / 02-17-2015

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.1.1...5.2.0

New and updated integrations

CouchDB
Couchbase
Docker
ElasticSearch
etcd
fluentd
Gearman
GUnicorn
HTTPCheck
JMXFetch
KyotoTycoon
Marathon
Mesos
Network
Postgresql
Process
Riak
RiakCS
SNMP
Supervisor
TeamCity
TokuMX
Varnish
VSphere
Windows Event Viewer
Windows Services
Windows System metrics

Endpoints

Starting from this version of the agent, the default endpoint URL app.datadoghq.com is replaced by an ad-hoc by version endpoint: 5-2-0-app.agent.datadoghq.com. We might use other endpoints to better route the traffic on our end in the future. See more details at https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/wiki/Network-Traffic-and-Proxy-Configuration#new-agent-endpoints

Changes

[FEATURE] Dogstatsd: Add an option to namespace all metrics. See #1210 (Thanks @igor47)
[FEATURE] Couchdb: Add a service check. See #1201
[FEATURE] Couchbase: Add a service check. See #1200
[FEATURE] Gearman: Add a service check. See #1203
[FEATURE] GUnicorn: Add a service check. See #1163
[FEATURE] KyotoTycoon: Add a service check. See #1202
[FEATURE] Marathon: Add a service check. See #1205
[FEATURE] Mesos: Add a service check. See #1205
[FEATURE] Riak: Add a service check. See #1187
[FEATURE] SNMP: Add a service check. See #1236
[FEATURE] TokuMX: Add a service check. See #1173
[FEATURE] Varnish: Add a service check. See #1213
[FEATURE] VSphere: Add a service check. See #1238
[FEATURE] VSphere: Allow host filtering. See #1226
[FEATURE] HTTPCheck: Check for SSL certificate expiration. See #1152
[FEATURE] etcd: Add new etcd integration. See #1235 (Thanks @gphat)
[FEATURE] Process: Better SmartOS support. See #1073 (Thanks @djensen47)
[FEATURE] Windows Event Viewer: Allow filtering by id. See #1255
[FEATURE] Windows Services: Monitor state of Windows Services. See #1225
[FEATURE] Windows: Get more system metrics regarding memory and disk usage.
[FEATURE] Windows: Better GUI
[FEATURE] Adding “min” metric to histograms. See #1219
[FEATURE] Activemq: New ActiveMQ XML check that collect more metrics. See #1227 (Thanks @brettlangdon)
[FEATURE] TeamCity: New TeamCity integration. See #1171 (Thanks @AirbornePorcine)
[FEATURE] RiakCS: Add a RiakCS Integration. See #1101 (Thanks @glickbot)
[FEATURE] FluentD: Add a FluentD integration. See #1080 (Thanks @takus)
[FEATURE] Docker: Configurable image count collection. See #1345
[FEATURE] SNMP: Integer and Integer32 metric types support. See #1318
[FEATURE] JMXFetch: Fetch more JVM (Non)Heap variables by default. See #42
[BUGFIX] Docker: Filter events too. See #1285
[BUGFIX] ElasticSearch: Handle Timeout. See #1267
[BUGFIX] ElasticSearch: Only query the local node. See #1181 (Thanks @jonaf)
[BUGFIX] Marathon: Fix check on Marathon >= 0.7. See #1240
[BUGFIX] Network: Fix interface skipping. See #1260 (Thanks @sirlantis)
[BUGFIX] Postgreql: Fix service check. See #1273
[BUGFIX] Postgresql: Fix BGW metrics. See #1272 (Thanks @ipolishchuk)
[BUGFIX] Postgresql: Fix buffers_backend_fsync. See #1275
[BUGFIX] SNMP: Fix "tooBig" SNMP error. See #1155 (Thanks @bpuzon)
[BUGFIX] Zookeeper: Fix bad command sending.
[BUGFIX] ElasticSearch: Fix host tagging. See #1282
[BUGFIX] SNMP: Fix non-increasing OID issue. See #1281
[BUGFIX] Dogstatsd: Properly handle UTF-8 packets. See #1279
[BUGFIX] SQLServer: Fix for Latin1_General_BIN Collection Servers. See #1214 (Thanks @PedroMiguelFigueiredo)
[BUGFIX] FreeBSD: Get full interface name. See #1141 (Thanks @mutemule)
[BUGFIX] SNMP: Fix a 'Missing OID' issue. See #1318
[BUGFIX] JMXFetch: Fix a memory leak issue. See #30
[BUGFIX] Windows Event Log: Fix a timezone issue. See #1370

5.1.1 / 12-09-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.1.0...5.1.1

Updated integrations

BTRFS
MongoDB

Changes

[BUGFIX] MongoDB: Fix TypeError that was happening in some cases. See #1222
[BUGFIX] BTRFS: Handle "unknown" usage type. See #1221
[BUGFIX] Windows: When uninstalling the Agent, the uninstaller was mistakenly telling the user that the machine would reboot. This is fixed.

5.1.0 / 11-24-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.0.5...5.1.0

Notes

Pup is now removed from the Datadog Agent
The "ALL" parameter in the process check is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the agent.
The Windows installer does not require the .NET framework anymore.

New and updated integrations

PostgreSQL
Directory
Jenkins
MongoDB
Process
ElasticSearch
IIS
ZooKeeper
Memcached
SSH
System Core
BTRFS

Changes

[FEATURE] Add Service Checks for the following integration:
- Apache
- HAProxy
- Lighttpd
- NginX
- NTP
- HTTP
- TCP
- Process
- ElasticSearch
- IIS
- ZooKeeper
- Memcached
- MongoDB
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgeSQL
[FEATURE] PostgreSQL: Pick up per-table size stats. See #1105
[FEATURE] PostgreSQL: Collect locks per mode and bgwriter metrics. See #1019
[FEATURE] Directory Check: Let the possibilty to tag metrics at the file level. See #1041 (Thanks @Osterjour)
[FEATURE] Jenkins: Add result and build number to events tags. See #1068 (Thanks @jzoldak)
[FEATURE] Add a SSH Check. See #1117
[FEATURE] Add a check to collect metrics from BTRFS. See #1123
[FEATURE] Add a check to collect system core metrics. See #1124
[FEATURE] DogStatsD recognizes and uses host and device tags as metric attributes. See #1164.
[FEATURE] Docker: Revamp events and add more options. See #1162.
[FEATURE] Docker: Collect relevant Docker metrics by default, make the others optional. See #1207.
[FEATURE] Docker: Improve Docker metrics tagging. See #1208 and #1218.
[BUGFIX] Jenkins: Fix when build does not yet have results. See #1060 (Thanks @jzoldak)
[BUGFIX] PostgreSQL: If connection drops, re-establish at next run. See #1105
[BUGFIX] MongoDB: Add logging of serverStatus errors. See #1065 (Thanks @igroenewold)
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix various time-outs and errors. See #1162.

5.0.5 (Every platform) / 10-31-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.0.4...5.0.5

This release fixes a bug on servers that are configured in local time instead of UTC Time. If your server's clock is configured to use daylight saving time, your server might stop sending metrics for up to one hour when the Daylight Saving Time ends or until the Agent is restarted after the Daylight Saving Time ends.

We highly recommend to upgrade to this version if your server is configured in local time.

5.0.4 (deb package, rpm package) / 10-17-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.0.3...5.0.4

This is a security update regarding POODLE (CVE-2014-3566).

The Omnibus package will now bundle OpenSSL 1.0.1j without support of SSLv3 (no-ssl3 flag) and Python 2.7.8 with a patch that disables SSLv3 unless explicity asked http://bugs.python.org/issue22638.

This Omnibus package also adds support of the sqlite3 library for Python.

5.0.3 (Windows only)

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.0.2...5.0.3

vSphere check:

[FEATURE] Batching jobs to cache the infrastructure of vCenter when autodiscovering Hosts/VMs is configurable
[BUGFIX] Fix ESXi host tags not being correctly set
[BUGFIX] Fix metadata reset so that metrics processing is not stopped when refreshing metadata
[BUGFIX] Fix thread pool crash when one thread would not terminate gracefully

5.0.2 (Windows only)

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.0.1...5.0.2

vSphere check:

[FEATURE] Changed the event filter to remove login events by default
[BUGFIX] Duplicate tags on VMs and host
[BUGFIX] Ignore duplicate events about VM migrations

5.0.1 (Windows only)

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/5.0.0...5.0.1

[FEATURE] Releasing the vSphere check. This is a new integration able to fetch metrics and events from vCenter.

5.0.0 / 08-22-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.4.0...5.0.0

Notes

This is a major version of the Datadog-Agent.

On Linux: Packaging of the Agent has changed for RPM and DEB packages.
On Windows: This release has multiple fixes, see the list below. Warning: The way CPU metrics are collected has changed and will be more accurate, you might see some changes in the graphs.

What will break ?

MySQL integration: If you see this error: OperationalError(2003, 'Can\'t connect to MySQL server on \'localhost\' ((1045, u"Access denied for user \'datadog\'@\'127.0.0.1\'...) the Datadog user will need to be modified from 'datadog'@'localhost' to 'datadog'@'127.0.0.1' (your host IP). You can do this by running:
```
 ```
     $ mysql -p mysql
     # UPDATE user SET Host = '127.0.0.1' WHERE User = 'datadog';
     # FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
 ```
```
If you were using a custom check that needed python dependencies you will have to reinstall them using the bundled pip:
```
 ```
```

sudo /opt/datadog-agent/embedded/bin/pip install YOUR_DEPENDENCY ```

Configuring checks in datadog.conf for checks.d is deprecated and won't work anymore. Please configure your checks by editing the yaml files in the conf.d directory.

How to upgrade?

See this Wiki page https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/wiki/Upgrade-to-Agent-5.x

New and updated integrations

Docker
ElasticSearch
Kafka
Kafka consumer
NTP
HDFS
Postgres
Process
Redis
SNMP
SQL Server

Changes

[FEATURE] Add support of Centos 7 and Fedora Core 19-20
[FEATURE] Add a NTP check. See #971
[FEATURE] Add an option to instrument check runs time. See #1013
[FEATURE] Add derived Redis metrics. See #1015
[FEATURE] Add an SNMP Check. See #299
[FEATURE] Redis: Adds support for checking length of more types. See #996
[FEATURE] Let the possibility to exclude some disks for Windows disks check. See #1008
[FEATURE] Collect more Docker metrics. See #1027
[FEATURE] Docker check: work inside a Docker container. CoreOS support. See #1001
[FEATURE] HDFS: Add support for HA mode. See #1018. Warning: It requires snakebite >= 2.2.0
[BUGFIX] Support Windows EOL \r character. See #1023
[BUGFIX] Fix the collection of cpu metrics (>100%) on Windows. See #653
[BUGFIX] Fix connection error on Windows 2008 SP2. See #1014
[BUGFIX] Dogstreams on windows: Allow to specify custom parser. See #887
[BUGFIX] ElasticSearch: Fix elasticsearch metrics according to different ES versions: See #1024
[BUGFIX] Process check: Fix check on some version of psutil. See #958
[BUGFIX] Fix init script on Centos/RHEL when dogstatsd is disabled. See #1002
[BUGFIX] Fix kafka metrics by sending them as gauges instead of rate. See #1029
[BUGFIX] Kafka consumer: Support version 0.9 of python-kafka. See #1028
[BUGFIX] Postgres: fix columns to retrieve when two different postgres version on the same host. See #1035
[BUGFIX] Fix multiple Docker check bugs. See #1017 #1031
[BUGFIX] Lets the possibility to override curl behavior when using a proxy that returns a 302. See #1036
[BUGFIX] SQL Server: Detect automatically counter types to report them correctly. See #1069
[BUGFIX] Report Docker memory page metrics as rates.

4.4.0 / 06-24-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.3.1...4.4.0

Integrations affected

Docker
Redis
Memcached
MySQL
PostgreSQL

Changes

[BUGFIX] Docker: Don't raise Exception if we fail to get some Docker croup info. See #981
[BUGFIX] Docker: Don't raise Exception if no Docker containers are running. See #980
[BUGFIX] Docker: Fix integration timeout issue. See #963
[ENHANCEMENT] Let the possibility to disable metadata collection from 169.254.169.254. See #975
[FEATURE] Redis: Add a metric to track key length. See #962
[FEATURE] MySQL: Collect more metrics. See #972
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Only collect metrics from /proc on linux machines. See #984
[BUGFIX] PostgreSQL: Handle negative replication delay. See #977
[ENHANCEMENT] Collect more Memcached stats. See #982
[BUGFIX] Remove Content-Length header in CONNECT HTTP Requests (when using a proxy), as CONNECT Requests shouldn't have that header and some proxies don't support it.

4.3.1 / 06-03-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.3.0...4.3.1

Linux or Source Install only

Integrations affected

Docker
HAProxy

Changes

[IMPROVEMENT] Don't collect Docker total_ metrics by default. See #964
[BUGFIX] Report Docker CPU metrics as rate. See #964
[BUGFIX] Add HAProxy reporter name in HAProxy event's titles. See #960

4.3.0 / 05-22-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.2.2...4.3.0

Integrations affected

MongoDB
Process
CouchDB
Docker
HAProxy
Marathon
Memcached
Mesos
MySQL
TokuMX
ElasticSearch
Network

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix incorrect open file descriptors metric name in process check: See #904. Warning: As the metric name will be changed. Your dashboards will have to be updated.
[FEATURE] Add some mongo2.2+ metrics to check: See #951 (Thanks to @ckrough)
[FEATURE] Collect checks statuses: See #922
[FEATURE] CouchDB: Support basic authentication: See #930
[FEATURE] Docker: Support Docker 0.11
[FEATURE] Docker: Collect events from the events api
[FEATURE] HAProxy: Allow collection of metrics per host with the option collect_status_metrics_by_host: See #935
[BUGFIX] HAProxy: Fix inaccuracy of count_per_status metric: See #940
[BUGFIX] HAProxy: Update event's titles: See #935
[FEATURE] Add Marathon integration: See #921 (Thanks to @graemej)
[FEATURE] Add Mesos integration: See #919 (Thanks to @graemej)
[FEATURE] Memcached: Add delete_misses/delete_hits: See #928 (Thanks to @arthurnn)
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Only collect MySQL metrics from /proc on unix machines: See #947
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Fix duplicate metric bug: See #899
[BUGFIX] Varnish: Fix a bug that was causing tags to be continuously added in some cases.
[FEATURE] Add an option to disable Dogstastsd: See #927
[FEATURE] Memcached: Add support for local unix socket connections: See #891 (Thanks to @mike-lerch)
[FEATURE] Add TokuMX integration: See #933 (Thanks to @leifwalsh)
[BUGFIX] ElasticSearch: Added correct GC metrics for ES 1.x: See #900 (Thanks to @joningle)
[FEATURE] Network: Add additional metrics for TCP: See #949

4.2.2 / 04-25-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.2.1...4.2.2

Windows Only

Integrations affected

Redis

Changes

[FEATURE] Support Redis check on Windows: See #917

4.2.1 / 04-09-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.2.0...4.2.1

Integrations affected

ElasticSearch
Nginx
Process
Postgres

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix bug in Dogstatsd in the bucketing change: See #894
[BUGFIX] Revert to the Simple HTTP Client by default in the forwarder as it's causing 599 in some cases. It's now configurable in datadog.conf
[FEATURE] Support for OpenShift cartridges: See #875
[PERFORMANCE] Compress Dogstatsd payloads: See #893
[BUGFIX] Fix process check compatibility with psutil 2.0: See #863
[FEATURE] Support additional NGINX Plus metrics: See #876
[PERFORMANCE] Better handling of external clusters in Elasticsearch check: See #883
[BUGFIX] Fix an issue that is causing a high number of tags for postgresql metrics when custom tags are enabled.

4.2.0 / 03-25-2014

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.1.0...4.2.0

Integrations affected

Couchbase
Docker
ElasticSearch
HAProxy
Kafka consumer
Kafka server
MongoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Process
Google Compute Engine
JMX Checks: Cassandra, Tomcat, Solr, ActiveMq, JMX, Kafka

Changes

[PERFORMANCE] Disable pup by default
[ENHANCEMENT] Use JMXFetch 0.3.0 ( Changelog )
[ENHANCEMENT] Metric limit for JMX Checks is raised to 350 metrics per instance
[FEATURE] Add a "configtest" command alias of "configcheck": See #838
[FEATURE] Add a Docker integration: See #844 (Thanks to @steeve)
[FEATURE] ElasticSearch: Support for newer versions (>= 0.90.10)
[FEATURE] ElasticSearch: Add a metric to monitor cluster status: See #827 (Thanks to @igor47)
[FEATURE] HAProxy: Add availability metrics: See #834 (Thanks to @igor47)
[FEATURE] Add a Kafka consumer check (Requires python 2.6 or python 2.7): See #810
[FEATURE] Add a Kafka server check: See #810
[FEATURE] MongoDB: Support SSL connections to server: See #848
[FEATURE] Collect tags and hostname for Google Compute Engine hosts
[FEATURE] PostgreSQL: Support check on Windows
[ENHANCEMENT] Align the reporting of StatsD metrics to fixed time intervals for consistency in aggregation
[PERFORMANCE] StatsD events are now batched: See #852
[PERFORMANCE] Add an optional timeout parameter to Couchbase integration: See #826
[PERFORMANCE] Use Tornado CurlAsyncHTTPClient by default over the SimpleHTTPClient
[BUGFIX] MySQL: Fixed warning on SHOW SLAVE STATUS: See #809 (Thanks to @ive)
[BUGFIX] PostgreSQL: Reset the connection if it seems broken: See #784
[BUGFIX] Process: Do not fail on older Linux Kernels: See #849
[BUGFIX] Windows: Do not restart pup on windows if it's not enabled: See #815
[BUGFIX] JMX Checks: Properly ensure that only one instance of JMXFetch is running

4.1.0 / 2014-02-04

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.0.2...4.1.0

Integrations affected

PostgreSQL
ElasticSearch
Lighttpd
Nginx
HAProxy
MongoDB
Redis
Varnish
Couchbase

Changes

[FEATURE] Support for older versions of psycopg2
[FEATURE] New tool to help configuring JMX Checks: See http://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/java/
[FEATURE] Add basic authentication to Couchbase check #787
[FEATURE] Add basic authentication to ElasticSearch check #806
[FEATURE] Add basic authentication to Lighttpd check
[FEATURE] Add basic authentication to Nginx check
[FEATURE] Calculate used session percentage in HAProxy check #752 (Thanks to @walkeran)
[FEATURE] Add an HAProxy metric that counts the number of active backends #729
[FEATURE] Turn SSL validation in http check into an option #770
[FEATURE] Include tags in http service check #780
[FEATURE] Add more metrics to MongoDB check for newer versions of MongoDB #735
[FEATURE] Support multiple mongo instances in MongoDB check 08be06f4c
[FEATURE] Add more metrics to MySQL check #72 (Thanks to @skingry and @ronaldbradford)
[FEATURE] Add per-table metrics to Postgresql check #760
[FEATURE] Add more metrics in process check with newer version of psutil
[FEATURE] Allow configuration of the Redis check using a unix socket path #730
[FEATURE] Allow multiple instances of Varnish check #490
[FEATURE] Add the ability to add tags to an elasticsearch instance #790 (Thanks to @clly)
[BUGFIX] Fix automatic start of the Agent on Windows acf368c
[BUGFIX] Fix Gunicorn check issue where it was failing to identify the process in some cases #706
[BUGFIX] Don’t fail on archived builds in Jenkins check #766 (Thanks @imlucas)

4.0.2 / 2014-01-08

Windows Only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.0.0...4.0.2

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix WMI Check

4.0.1 / 2013-12-17

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/4.0.0...4.0.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix Postgresql check that was sending bad values in some cases.
[BUGFIX] Fix replication lag calculation in MySql check.

4.0.0 / 2013-12-16

This is a major version. See platform-specific pages for detailed changes.

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.10.1...4.0.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Linux/Mac OS/Source install: Visit https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/wiki/Agent-4.0.0-for-Linux-,-Mac-OS-and-FreeBSD
[FEATURE] Windows: Visit https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/wiki/Agent-4.0.0-for-Windows

3.10.1 / 2013-11-06

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.10.0...3.10.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix Mongo Integration for newer versions of MongoDB #677
[BUGFIX] Fix memory metrics for Mac Os X Mavericks
[BUGFIX] Fix tagging issues for HTTP Check 8ab75
[BUGFIX] Fix local issues 4230

3.11.0 / 2013-10-08

Windows Only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.9.3...3.11.0

Integrations Affected

Cassandra
Tomcat
ActiveMQ
SolR
Java
MySQL
Riak

Changes

[FEATURE] Make Cassandra, Tomcat, ActiveMQ, SolR, Java and MySQL integrations work on Windows
[FEATURE] Make pup work on Windows
[FEATURE] Add an additional metric to the Nginx integration #665 (Thanks to @dcrosta)
[FEATURE] Add additional metrics to Riak metrics #643 (Thanks to @stefan-mees)
[BUGFIX] Fix Service checks on Windows #632

3.9.3 / 2013-09-11

Windows Only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.9.2...3.9.3

Integrations Affected

SQL Server

Changes

[FEATURE] Allow optional custom tags in SQL Server check (#654)
[BUGFIX] Fix log file location on Windows XP

3.10.0 / 2013-09-06

Linux or Source Install only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.9.0...3.10.0

Integrations Affected

HTTP Check
Mongo
MySQL
Network
Process

Changes

[FEATURE] GUnicorn check #619
[FEATURE] Dogstatsd Autorestart #624
[FEATURE] Add tags to metrics collected by the HTTP Check #647 (Thanks to @ordenull)
[FEATURE] Allow MySQL check configuration via a MySQL config file #590 (Thanks to @micktwomey)
[FEATURE] Filter disk, io & network metrics by device #615
[FEATURE] Collect metrics from the MongoDB database selected in the connection string #657
[FEATURE] Add CPU and thread utilisation metrics to the Process check #646 (Thanks to @morskoyzmey)
[BUGFIX] Add a timeout to the Mongo connection #627

3.9.2 / 2013-08-29

Windows Only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.9.1...3.9.2

Integrations Affected

SQL Server

Changes

[FEATURE] Default SQL Server to integrated security if no username/password is provided (#622)(Thanks to @jamescrowley)
[FEATURE] Allow skipping ssl certificate validation (useful when the agent runs behind haproxy) (#641)
[BUGFIX] Fix proxy support on Windows
[BUGFIX] Better management of config files with the GUI

3.9.1 / 2013-08-19

Windows Only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.9.0...3.9.1

Integrations Affected

SQL Server
IIS

Changes

[FEATURE] Add a Management GUI to the Windows Agent for service and check management
[FEATURE] Log to a log file (located in C:\ProgramData\Datadog\logs )
[FEATURE] Create shortcuts in the Start Menu
[BUGFIX] Fix status page
[BUGFIX] Fix logging in the event viewer and only logs errors (#496)
[BUGFIX] Add debug info in the sql server check (#608)
[BUGFIX]IIS: By default use _Total, but allow a configurable list of sites (6885a97bc)

3.9.0 / 2013-08-05

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.8.0...3.9.0

Integrations Affected

HDFS
Postgres
MySQL
Jenkins
Nginx
RedisDB

Changes

[FEATURE] New HDFS check added (#551) (thanks to @dcrosta)
[FEATURE] New Directory check added (#581) (thanks to @brettlangdon)
[FEATURE] Events can now be sent to the Agent DogStatsD server from supported client libraries (#532)
[FEATURE] HTTP check now supports custom headers (#541) (thanks to @tomduckering)
[FEATURE] Optional response_time metric has been added to TCP and HTTP checks
[FEATURE] info command will exit with a non-zero value when errors were displayed by the command
[FEATURE] Basic Jenkins metrics are now collected by Jenkins check (#567)
[FEATURE] A non-default port can now be specified in the MySQL check (#575)
[FEATURE] Logs now follow The BSD syslog Protocol (#577)
[BUGFIX] Expat XML Parser dependency is now installed by SmartOS Agent installation script (#450)
[BUGFIX] Fix collection of Postgres rollbacks metric
[BUGFIX] Fix Postgres integration crashing when tags are None
[BUGFIX] Fix version detection in MySQL check (#558)
[BUGFIX] MySQL InnoDB metrics are now only collected with InnoDB is enabled (#566)
[BUGFIX] The source status and info commands will no longer attempt to start the Agent (#512)
[BUGFIX] Upon a failed EC2 metadata lookup, the last successfully collected metadata will now be report (#554)
[BUGFIX] Nginx check no longer asserts number of connections (#569)
[BUGFIX] Deb and RPM start command will now poll the Agent status when starting instead of waiting a fixed amount of time (#582)
[BUGFIX] RedisDB check will now cast a parsed port to an integer (#600)
[BUGFIX] supervisord location is no longer hardcoded on Debian (#580) (Thanks to @mastrolinux)

3.8.0 / 2013-06-19

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.7.2...3.8.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Add status command to Debian
[FEATURE] Debian version now uses its own supervisor config instead of using the system config
[FEATURE] Add -v option to info command, which currently gives stack traces for errors that occurred during checks
[FEATURE] Add I/O metrics to OS X (#131)
[BUGFIX] Log exception when dogstatsd server fails to start (#480)
[BUGFIX] Fix Error: Invalid user name dd-agent appearing during source install (#521)
[BUGFIX] Debian and Red Hat init.d scripts now verify that /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf is present before launching supervisor(#544)
[BUGFIX] Fix AttributeErrors for timeout_event and status_code_event in Riak check (#546)

3.7.2 / 2013-05-22

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.7.1...3.7.2

Changes

[FEATURE] Fix redis check when used with additional tags (#515)

3.7.1 / 2013-05-21

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.7.0...3.7.1

Changes

[FEATURE] Add basic auth support for apache check (#410)
[FEATURE] Support any redis parameter during the connection (#276)
[FEATURE] Better launching script for source install
[BUGFIX] Fix process check (Missing import and support version 0.4 of psutil) (#502)
[BUGFIX] Fix JVM Heap issue when launching java process ( Disable memory consumption watcher by default) (#507)
[BUGFIX] Info page shows errors when failing to initialize a check.d (#427)
[BUGFIX] Added file option to supervisorctl stop arg too (#498) (Thanks to @mastrolinux)
[BUGFIX] Fix mysql version detection (#501)

3.7.0 / 2013-05-08

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.6.4...3.7.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Restart the agent if it uses too much memory (#426) (Thanks to @echohead)
[FEATURE] Port Memcache to checks.d (#390)
[FEATURE] Add a process memory check (#434) (Thanks to @mastrolinux)
[FEATURE] Add a gearman check (#435) (Thanks to @CaptTofu)
[FEATURE] Add a Web Info Page to check the status of the agent (http://localhost:17125/status) (#483)
[FEATURE] Create an info page for the source install (#481)
[FEATURE] Add a “warning” method to the AgentCheck class that will display warnings in the info page
[BUGFIX] Customizable Java directory for JMX Checks (#472)
[BUGFIX] Do not try to write logs in /var/log when using the source install (#478)
[BUGFIX] Use a Unix socket in supervisor for the source installation
[BUGFIX] Display more information when the agent stops because there is no valid hostname (#475)

3.6.4 / 2013-04-25

Windows only

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.6.3...3.6.4

Bug fixes

IIS: Use Total metrics and calculate rates in the Agent instead of using PerSec metrics. (#465)
IIS: Optionally give a list of sites to pull metrics from, defaulting to all.

3.6.3 / 2013-04-14

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.6.2...3.6.3

Changes

[BUGFIX} Customizable field names for cacti check (#404)
[BUGFIX} Enable replication monitoring by default for old style check configuration for mysql
[BUGFIX} Always collect metrics for config specified queues/nodes for rabbitmq

3.6.2 / 2013-04-05

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.6.1...3.6.2

Changes

[FEATURE] Port MySQL to checks.d (#408) (Thanks to @CaptTofu)
[FEATURE] Add KyotoTycoon Check (#426) (Thanks to @dcrosta)
[FEATURE] Add command line option to run a particular agent check (#408)
[BUGFIX} Force include elementtree.ElementTree in Windows install (#423)
[BUGFIX} Fix elasticsearch check for version < 0.19 (#419)
[BUGFIX} Disable HAProxy events by default
[BUGFIX} Aggregate RabbitMq Metrics over queues and nodes
[BUGFIX} Better hostname detection
[BUGFIX} Fix broken json serialization in centos5 (#422)

3.6.1 / 2013-03-21

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.6.0...3.6.1

Changes

[FEATURE] Port Jenkins to checks.d
[FEATURE] Lighttpd check now supports Lighttpd 2.0 (#412) (Thanks to @brettlangdon)
[FEATURE]Additional configurable checks.d directory (#413) (Thanks to @brettlangdon)
[BUGFIX] Better Jenkins check performance (reduce CPU consumption) (#402)
[BUGFIX] Fix Graphite listener (#415)
[BUGFIX] Less logging for pup (#414)

3.6.0 / 2013-03-13

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.5.1...3.6.0

Changes

[FEATURE] The agent can now run behind a web proxy (#377)
[FEATURE] MongoDB now supports multiple instances running on the same host (#397)
[FEATURE] Additional network metrics (#396)
[FEATURE] lighttpd check (#385)
[FEATURE] Allow pup to bind to a specific interface (#394). Thanks to @shamada-kuuluu
[FEATURE] Add a partial response in HTTP Check (#375). Thanks to @dcrosta
[FEATURE] WMI checks support advanced configuration (#359)
[FEATURE] More reliable and consistent hostname detection (84e715c)
[BUGFIX] Better retry handling for JMX checks (#369)
[BUGFIX] Fix JMX Python 2.4 support (#401)

3.5.1

This is a RedHat-only release.

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.5.0...3.5.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix dogstatsd crash on RedHat 5.x and its derivatives (#381)

3.5.0

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.4.4...3.5.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Logging overhaul: Consistent locations in /var/log/datadog/, defaults to INFO level (#297)
[FEATURE] Add more memcached metrics (#283). Thanks to @jkoppe
[FEATURE] RabbitMQ integration (#330). Thanks to @brettlangdon
[FEATURE] Riak integration (#332). Thanks to @stefan-mees
[FEATURE] Allow source file and line in Cassandra system.log. (#307)
[FEATURE] Port CouchDB and ElasticSearch to checks.d (#311)
[FEATURE] New System Metrics: system.mem.pct_usable and system.swap.pct_free (#334)
[FEATURE] SmartOS support (see the agent setup page)
[FEATURE] Invoke custom emitters from the forwarder, instead of the agent, to capture statsd output (#271. Thanks to @charles-dyfis-net)
[FEATURE] Allow strings to be elements in dogstatsd sets (#300)
[BUGFIX] Limit the number of threads used by service checks (#351)
[PERFORMANCE] Better JMX performance (#313, #348)
[BUGFIX] Fix names of some Apache metrics (#326)

3.4.4

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.4.3...3.4.4

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix memory leaks in redis check, and potentially in custom checks.d checks that supply duplicate tags (#325)
[BUGFIX] Fix mongo auth issue (#318)
[BUGFIX] Add configurable socket timeout to zookeeper check (#310)

3.4.3

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.4.2...3.4.3

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fix memory leaks in memcache check (#278)
[BUGFIX] Fix umask issue (#293)
[BUGFIX] Fix bad error message in CentOS 5 installation (#320)

3.4.2

If you're having issues upgrading, please read the upgrade notes

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.4.1...3.4.2

Changes

[FEATURE] Check multiple Cassandra, Tomcat and Solr instances per host
[FEATURE] Added a JMXCheck base class which can be used to easily track metrics from services that support JMX.
[BUGFIX] Create /etc/dd-agent/conf.d on install
[BUGFIX] Reduce verbosity of the logs

3.4.1

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.4.0...3.4.1

Changes

[FEATURE] Added an info command (sudo /etc/init.d/datadog-agent info) which prints status info about the agent processes.
[FEATURE] Added a check for Zookeeper.
[BUGFIX] Fixes packaging bugs introduced in 3.4.0.
[BUGFIX] Agents installed with RPM will restart on upgrade (starting with the next version).
[BUGFIX] Fixed normalized counter rounding error.
[BUGFIX] By default, don't open ports other than localhost.

3.4.0 / 2012-11-28

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.3.0...3.4.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Added FreeBSD support, thanks to @loris.
[FEATURE] Removed datadog-agent and datadog-agent-base dependencies. Now you only install one package per machine (instructions are the same).
[FEATURE] The agent now compresses payloads sent over the wire.
[FEATURE] Allow custom PYTHONPATH in checks.d config (#227)
[FEATURE] Added new Redis metrics.
[FEATURE] Added normalized load, that is load per cpu.
[FEATURE] Port Apache, NginX and Varnish checks to checks.d.
[BUGFIX] #290, #291 - disable non-local traffic by default, suppress stack traces in 404s
[BUGFIX] #257 - More useful Apache rates not averaged from the beginning of time.
[BUGFIX] #277 - Run dogstatsd on older debian boxes.
[BUGFIX] #245 - Expire counter values.
[BUGFIX] #261 - Fix Windows checks.d location lookup.
[BUGFIX] #253 - Sum Dogstream counters.
[PERFORMANCE] Improved dogstatsd performance.
[ENHANCEMENT] Stylistic code improvements.

3.3.0 / 2012-10-25

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.2.3...3.3.0

New Features

Changes

[FEATURE] Added HTTP and TCP Service Checks (read the docs)
[FEATURE] Added the Windows Event Log Integration
[PERFORMANCE] Use the much faster simplejson library, if it's available, otherwise use the standard json library.
[BUGFIX] Fixed disk space metrics bug
[BUGFIX] Run dogstatsd on older OS's as well.
[BUGFIX] Fixed host aliasing issue.
[BUGFIX] Use a better query to get the Cacti device name.
[BUGFIX] Ensure pup uses the same JSON parsing library as the rest of the application.

3.2.3 / 2012-10-15

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.2.2...3.2.3

Changes

[FEATURE] Windows support is officially added.
[FEATURE] Added a SQL Server check.
[FEATURE] Added an IIS check.
[FEATURE] Track request_rate in HAProxy.
[FEATURE] Move DogstatsD to the datadog-agent-base package.

3.2.2 / 2012-10-05

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.2.1...3.2.2

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes an issue with events in checks.d where only events from the last instance would be sent.

3.2.1 / 2012-10-05

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.2.0...3.2.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes an issue with duplicate events being created in checks.d checks.

3.2.0 / 2012-10-05

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.7...3.2.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Add new AgentCheck interface for all future checks.
[FEATURE] Split checks and configuration with checks.d/conf.d.

3.1.7 / 2012-09-28

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.6...3.1.7

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes the case where you have the python-redis module and the check will run with default host/port even if you don't have any redis configuration. Fixes case #200.

3.1.6 / 2012-09-27

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.5...3.1.6

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes memcached integration bug running under Python 2.4 #201
[BUGFIX] Removes token from the Cassandra Stats, because it is not always a number. Fixes case #202

3.1.5 / 2012-09-21

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.4...3.1.5

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes network traffic reporting bug introduced in 3.1.4. If you're running 3.1.4 we recommended that you upgrade.

3.1.4 / 2012-09-21

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.3...3.1.4

Changes

[FEATURE] memcached and nginx checks now support multiple instances per host.
[FEATURE] Statsd: Added sets metric type. Read the docs.
[FEATURE] Statsd: Now supports multiple metrics per packet.
[FEATURE] Some under the hood work to support more platforms.
[FEATURE] Bug fixes
[BUGFIX] Fixes invalid configuration parsing in the case of pure JVM metrics.

3.1.3

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.2...3.1.3

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes invalid configuration parsing in the case of pure JVM metrics.

3.1.2

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.1...3.1.2

Changes

[FEATURE] Dogstream (parsing logs with dd-agent) supports parsing classes in addition to parsing functions.

3.1.1

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.1.0...3.1.1

Changes

[FEATURE] Multi-instance JMX check
[FEATURE] dogstatsd counters now send 0 for up to 10 minutes after the last increment(). They work with alerts.
[BUGFIX] [part 1 of #165](DataDog#165) dogstatsd's average is fixed
[BUGFIX] HAProxy logging level was logging debug messages by default.

3.1.0

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.0.5...3.1.0

Changes

[FEATURE] Deploy Pup along with the Agent (though Pup doesn't run on CentOS 5)
[FEATURE] Added a one line install script
[FEATURE] HAProxy integration
[BUGFIX] Run the Agent on Redhat reboots
[BUGFIX] #150 - Fix Pexpect dependency
[BUGFIX] Small fixes to the HAProxy and Elastic Search integrations.
[BUGFIX] Fixed a couple of host aliasing issues.

Notes

This version depends on Supervisor version 3 instead of version 2.3.
changeset

3.0.5

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.0.4...3.0.5

Changes

[BUGFIX] Incorrect version dependencies between datadog-agent and datadog-agent-base.
[BUGFIX] #130 Fixes a crash when changing the listening port of the forwarder.

How to upgrade from 3.0.4 on Debian and Ubuntu

When we released datadog-agent 3.0.4 we made a mistake and messed up the version dependency between packages. As a result, whenever you run apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade and 3.0.4 is installed you may get the following error:

E: Couldn't configure pre-depend datadog-agent-base for datadog-agent, probably a dependency cycle.

If that's the case, don't panic: there is a simple fix. Simply run:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove datadog-agent
sudo apt-get install datadog-agent

to get the new versions up-and-running.

3.0.4

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.0.3...3.0.4

Changes

[FEATURE] #112 Thanks to @charles-dyfis-net, the agent supports extra emitters. An emitter is an output for events and metrics.
[FEATURE] #117 Thanks to @rl-0x0, the agent can now parse supervisord logs and turn them into events and metrics.
[FEATURE] #121 Thanks to @charles-dyfis-net, the agent supports custom checks. Check out our README for more details.

3.0.3

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.0.2...3.0.3

Changes

[BUGFIX] #82 Now proudly runs on Amazon Web Services Linux.
[FEATURE] #110 More ElasticSearch metrics

3.0.2

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/3.0.1...3.0.2

Changes

[BUGFIX] #105 Fix for ElasticSearch 0.18

3.0.1

Changes

[BUGFIX] Support for ElasticSearch 0.18
[BUGFIX] #95 Fix for incorrect supervisord configuration on debian. More details here to test whether you are affected.

3.0.0

This is a major version

Changes

[FEATURE] dogstatsd, a drop-in replacement of statsd with tagging magic, bundled with the agent. Compatible with all statsd clients.
[FEATURE] #21 Support for ElasticSearch 0.19

2.2.28

Changes

[FEATURE] #83 Support authenticated connections to redis. Simply use the following stanza in /etc/dd-agent/datadog.conf to support multiple servers

redis_urls: host:port, password@host:port

2.2.27

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.26...2.2.27

Changes

[BUGFIX] #80 Agent now runs happily in locales with different radix separator
[FEATURE] #73 Allow checks to record tag metrics

2.2.26

Changes

BUGFIX(DataDog#76) Fixes nagios perfdata parsing (if templates contained brackets)

2.2.25

Changes

[BUGFIX] #68 Fixes off-by-one dog parsing error
[BUGFIX] #65 More robust uninstall script on Debian & Ubuntu
[FEATURE] #71 Supports for network metrics on Mac OS X
[FEATURE] #62 Sends instance-related EC2 metadata to Datadog to enable host aliases

2.2.24

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.22...2.2.24

Changes

[BUGFIX] fixes used memory metric
[BUGFIX] fixes mongo support on Ubuntu 11.10 (with pymongo 1.11)
[BUGFIX] fixes IO metrics on Ubuntu 12.04 (thanks @dcrosta)

2.2.22

Changes

[FEATURE] Supports Varnish 2.x

2.2.21

If you use ganglia, you want this version.

Changes

[PERFORMANCE] major ganglia speedup, getting telnetlib out of the equation

2.2.20

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.19...2.2.20

Changes

[BUGFIX] fixes MongoDB support, broken in 2.2.19.

2.2.19

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.18...2.2.19

Changes

[BUGFIX] varnish support is now xml-based, to not break when reading bitmap values (#42)
[BUGFIX] less verbose errors in dogstream (#55)
[FEATURE] Now capturing master/slave changes in Mongo

2.2.18

Changes

[BUGFIX] When using use_ec2_instance_id: yes on a non-ec2 box, don't hang! (introduced with 2.2.17)
[FEATURE] Initial Varnish support

2.2.17

Changes

[BUGFIX] On CentOS, pid was always saved in /tmp/dd-agent.pid (#51)
CONFIGURATION CHANGE: When running on EC2, the instance id will be used in lieu of the hostname, unless use_ec2_instance_id is set no no.

2.2.16

Changes

[FEATURE] Agent auto-detects the fact that it is running on Amazon EC2
[FEATURE] Agent supports custom event parsers

2.2.15

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.14...2.2.15

Changes

[BUGFIX] Fixes MongoDB configuration parsing.

2.2.14

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.12...2.2.14

Changes

[BUGFIX] Used memory was not reported on 2.2.12 when running the agent on Debian Lenny.
[BUGFIX] Cacti memory is reported in MB, not in bytes.

2.2.12

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.11...2.2.12

Changes

[BUGFIX] Cacti check should fail gracefully if it cannot find RRD files.

2.2.11

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.10...2.2.11

Changes

[BUGFIX] Prevent counters from wrapping (#23)
[BUGFIX] Collect shared memory metric, accessible in Datadog via system.mem.shared.

2.2.10

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/compare/2.2.9...2.2.10

Changes

[BUGFIX] On CentOS5, when both datadog-agent and datadog-agent-base are installed, datadog-agent-base runs with the stock 2.4 python, which allows python modules that support integrations (e.g. mysql) to be installed with yum.

2.2.9 (minor)

Details

https://github.com/DataDog/dd-agent/issues?milestone=1&state=closed

Changes

[FEATURE] Added support for cacti
[FEATURE] Added support for new memory metrics: system.mem.buffers, system.mem.cached, system.mem.buffers, system.mem.usable, system.mem.total

Files

CHANGELOG.md

Latest commit

History

CHANGELOG.md

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Changes

5.9.0 / Not Released

Details

Kafka-Python library update

Updated integrations

Deprecated integrations

Changes

5.8.5 / 07-27-2016

Details

Future rotation of the APT signing key

Changes

5.8.4 / 07-08-2016

Details

Changes

5.8.3 / 07-05-2016

Details

Changes

5.8.2 / 05-24-2016

Details

Changes

5.8.1 / 05-23-2016

Details

Changes

5.8.0 / 05-23-2016

Details

New integrations

Updated integrations

Service Discovery

Kong integration

Spark integration

PowerDNS Recursor integration

MapReduce & YARN updates

Source install: end of Python 2.6 compatibility support

Changes

5.7.4 / 04-21-2016

Details

Changes

5.7.3 / 03-31-2016

Details

Changes

5.7.2 / 03-17-2016

Details

Changes

5.7.1 / 03-09-2016

Details

Changes

5.7.0 / 03-07-2016

Details

New integrations

Updated integrations

Hadoop integrations (HDFS, MapReduce and YARN checks)

TCP RTT measurement with go-metro

Ceph check

MySQL

Potential backward incompatibilities

Docker

MongoDB

vSphere

WMI check

Changes

5.6.3 / 12-10-2015

Details

Changes

5.6.2 / 11-16-2015

Details

Changes

5.6.1 / 11-09-2015

Details

Changes

5.6.0 / 11-05-2015

Details

New integration(s)

Updated integrations

Kubernetes check

TCP RTT measurement with `go-metro`

[Warning] JMX `host` tag issues & potential backward incompatibilities issues with service check monitors

`datadog.conf` disk options