2024 Archive

2024 Archive of Sysdig Monitor (SaaS) release notes.

November 27, 2024

Service Account Expiry Notifications

We have expanded the Sysdig Monitor UI to support configuring notifications for expiring Team Based Service Accounts. This builds on existing API capabilities, making token management more accessible for all users.

By enabling these notifications, you can ensure your service account tokens are renewed on time.

For more details, see Expiry Notifications.

November 18, 2024

Alert Terminology

  • The Over the Last parameter in Threshold Alerts, defining the time window for metric aggregation, is now called Time Aggregation.
  • The For the Last parameter in Event Alerts, defining the time window that events are counted, is now called Count Over Last.

Embedded Images in Alert Notifications now supported for Microsoft Teams

  • Threshold Alerts forwarding to Microsoft Teams now include an image of the time series data that triggered the alert rule. This feature was previously available only for Slack, Email, and Pagerduty.

October 14, 2024

The second set of usability enhancements for Dashboards is now available:

  • Dashboard Popularity: Dashboard Manager now surfaces the popularity of a dashboard across your Sysdig team. Dashboard popularity is calculated based on several factors, including the number of visits, how recently it was visited, and number of unique users who visit.
  • Fuzzy Search for Dashboards: Dashboard search now supports partial matches, misspellings, and approximate terms. You can also search by metrics, dashboard descriptions, as well as dashboard panels.
  • The shared by my team section of the Dashboards navigation menu has been replaced by Most popular with my team.

October 7, 2024

Terraform Support for AWS Cloud Accounts

You can now integrate between AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams and Sysdig Monitor with the AWS CloudWatch Metrics Terraform Module. To forward CloudWatch metrics to Sysdig Monitor, see CloudWatch Monitoring.

October 4, 2024

Dashboard Quality of Life Enhancements

The first set of usability enhancements for Dashboards is now available:

  • Recently Selected Values: Dashboard label values previously chosen will now be saved and displayed as “Recently Selected”, streamlining troubleshooting and allowing quicker access to recently used values.
  • Dashboard Visibility: We’ve improved the distinction between private dashboards, shared dashboards, and those from the Library, making it easier to identify and manage different types of dashboards.

These updates are designed to enhance the overall dashboard experience and improve efficiency.

August 8, 2024

Alert Terminology

  • Metric Alerts are now called Threshold Alerts.
  • Threshold Alerts now include a Duration setting, specifying how long an alert condition must be continuously satisfied before triggering the alert rule.
  • PromQL Alerts are now called Prometheus Alerts.
  • Standardized terminology:
    • Range refers to the time period over which a metric is aggregated. The Alert Editor still refers to this field with “over the last”.
    • Duration refers to how long an alert condition must be continuously met to trigger an alert rule.
  • Standardized API fields to duration_seconds and range_seconds for consistency.

August 2, 2024

Microsoft Deprecates Office 365 Connectors

Microsoft is deprecating Office 365 Connectors for Microsoft Teams notifications. According to the official deprecation notice, new connectors cannot be created after August 15, 2024, and existing ones will require a URL update to function after December 31, 2024. To avoid any interruption in notifications, see migrate from Office 365 Connects to Power Automate.

July 30, 2024

Alert Inhibition

You can now set up Alert Inhibition rules for Prometheus alerts. This feature stops secondary alert notifications from being forwarded if an upstream alert occurrence is already active. This helps reduce alert noise by preventing notifications from known downstream effects. To learn more, see Alert inhibition.

Alert Inhibition can only be configured via the API and is only available for Prometheus Alert Rules.

Improved Alert Preview Accuracy

The Alert preview for Metric Alerts and PromQL Alerts now more accurately reflects alert rule checks. The data points in the alert preview aligns with the actual alert evaluation intervals, ensuring a realistic representation of alert behavior, since each point in the alert preview corresponds to an actual alert rule check.

The Event feed now integrates scope-based search and free-text search in the same search bar, allowing you to filter events by both criteria from one convenient location.

Disable Metric Collection for a Prometheus Job

You can now exclude metrics from being collected by the Sysdig Agent via Metrics Usage or the Metrics Collection API. This feature is useful for managing integrations or Prometheus jobs that collect a large number of metrics, helping to reduce time series consumption.See Disable Collection of a Single Metric for a specific Prometheus job.

Metrics consumed with Prometheus Remote Write and Sysdig Agent metrics such as sysdig_container_cpu_used_percent are not eligible for filtering.

July 26, 2024

Metric And Events Retention Increase

Sysdig has increased the data retention default for Monitor Metrics and Events.

Metrics Retention Increases Details

Metric Retention changes currently only applies to AWS regions: US East (Virginia), US West AWS (Oregon), AP Australia (Sydney), European Union (Frankfurt).

  • 10s samples from 4 hours to 7 days.
  • 1m samples from 2 days to 14 days.
  • 10m samples from 14 days to 30 days.

Events Retention Increases Details

  • Total Limit from 1 Million to 2 Million events.
  • Custom Events Retention from 14 days to 30 days.

For more details, see Data Retention Limits.

June 20, 2024

New Costs Metrics with Custom Labels Support

Cost Explorer, part of the Costs module has been upgraded with new cost metrics, bringing support for Custom Kubernetes Labels from workloads and namespaces. For teams tagging their workloads, this enables more detailed cost breakdown.

Additionally, you can easily query cost metrics, thanks to the new simplified metrics. Dashboards and Alerts (Sysdig Cost Advisor section) have been added to the Library to showcase these new capabilities.

June 10, 2024

New UI Themes

Sysdig introduces new themes for the Sysdig Monitor UI, featuring new colors, shapes, typefaces, and artwork in both Light and Dark modes.

With the introduction of the new themes, you can experience a cleaner and more contemporary user interface, enhancing the data narrative. The refined lines of the new font and the minimalist color palette aim to provide additional space for the story Sysdig wants to convey with your data.

The older Light and Dark themes are automatically updated to the new ones, so no action is required on your part. The previous themes will remain accessible as Light - Legacy and Dark - Legacy for the next few months.

April 12, 2024

Alert Editor

When creating alerts, the Alert Editor displays the optimal time window for your alert rule, and every data point in the alert preview corresponds to an evaluation of an alert rule. You can also Explore Historical Data for Threshold Alerts.

March 15, 2024

Cost Advisor Adds Custom Pricing Support

You can now refine the pricing of your on-prem clusters for more control and precision. See Billing Profiles.

Global Service Accounts

Sysdig has extended the functionality of team-based service accounts with global service accounts. Unlike team-based service accounts, global service accounts can perform actions that require system level permissions. Admins can create a global service account through the API. See Global Service Accounts

March 5, 2024

Deactivate User Option

Sysdig has added the ability to configure a period of inactivity for a user, after which the user is deactivated. This helps large enterprises manage users automatically rather than manually deleting users from Sysdig.

This feature is deactivated by default. Currently, it can be enabled via API only.

For details, access the API documentation under User-Deactivation.

February 22, 2024

Label Enrichment in Alert Notifications

Sysdig has enriched labels for Metric and PromQL Alerts. This feature enhances alert notifications by automatically appending contextual labels upon triggering an alert rule. Beyond user-defined segmentation labels, it enriches notifications with useful contextual labels such as host_hostname, cloud_provider_region, and kube_cluster_name. This additional context aids in faster issue identification, troubleshooting, and resolution.

January 29, 2024

Metrics Usage Improvements

Metrics Usage has been improved to help you navigate and understand your metrics more intuitively. Now, labels are automatically sorted by their cardinality for any given metric. This refinement streamlines analyzing Custom Metrics, making it simpler to pinpoint labels responsible for high cardinality.

January 17, 2024

Sysdig Default Pricing for Cost Advisor

Cost Advisor will now use Sysdig Default prices in instances where pricing information is unavailable, such as when viewing on-premises Kubernetes clusters. Additionally, Cost Advisor has been enhanced to help you identify the billing profile associated with a specific Kubernetes cluster.