grafana-pcp v2.0.0-beta1

2.0.0-beta1 (2019-12-12)

• support Grafana 6.5+, drop support for Grafana < 6.5

grafana-pcp v1.0.4

1.0.4 (2019-12-11)

Enhancements

• flame graphs: clean flame graph stacks every 5s (reduces CPU load)
• general: implement PCP version checks

Bug Fixes

• build: remove weak dependency (doesn't work with Node.js 12)
• build: upgrade terser-webpack-plugin to mitigate XSS vulnerability in the serialize-javascript transitive dependency

grafana-pcp v1.0.3

1.0.3 (2019-11-22)

• fix flame graph dependency (flamegraph.destroy error in javascript console)

grafana-pcp v1.0.2

1.0.2 (2019-11-12)

• handle counter wraps (overflows)
• convert time based counters to time utilization

grafana-pcp v1.0.1

1.0.1 (2019-10-24)

Flame Graphs

• aggregate stack counts by selected time range in the Grafana UI
• add option to hide idle stacks

Vector

• fix container dropdown in query editor
• remove container setting from datasource settings page

Redis

• fix value transformations (e.g. rate conversation of counters)

All

• request more datapoints from the datasource to fill the borders of the graph panel

grafana-pcp v1.0.0

1.0.0 (2019-10-11)

bpftrace

• support for Flame Graphs
• context-sensitive auto completion for bpftrace probes, builtin variables and functions incl. help texts
• parse output of bpftrace scripts (e.g. using printf()) as CSV and display it in the Grafana table panel
• sample dashboards (BPFtrace System Analysis, BPFtrace Flame Graphs)

Vector

• table output: show instance name in left column
• table output: support non-matching instance names (cells of metrics which don't have the specific instance will be blank)

Vector & bpftrace

• if the metric/script gets changed in the query editor, immeditately stop polling the old metric/deregister the old script
• improve pmwebd compatibility

miscellaneous

• help texts for all datasources (visible with the [ ? ] button in the query editor)
• renamed PCP Live to PCP Vector
• logos for all datasources
• improved error handling

grafana-pcp v0.0.7

0.0.7 (2019-08-16)

• Initial release of grafana-pcp

Features

• retrieval of Performance Co-Pilot metrics from pmseries (PCP Redis), pmproxy and pmwebd (PCP Live)
• automatic rate conversation of counter metrics
• auto completion of metric names ^1,2, qualifier keys and values ²
• display of semantics, units and help texts of metrics ¹
• legend templating support with $metric, $metric0, $instance, $some_label
• container support
• support for repeating panels
• support for custom endpoint URL and container setting per query, with templating support ¹
• heatmap and table support ¹
• sample dashboards for PCP Redis and PCP Live

¹ PCP Live
² PCP Redis

Known Bugs

• the bpftrace datasource is work-in-progress and will be ready with the next release (approx. 1-2 weeks)

Thanks to Jason Koch for the initial pcp-live datasource implementation and the host overview dashboard.