2023 Archive

2023 Archive of Sysdig On-Premises release notes.

6.7.0 Release, December 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the On-Premises Install Documentation. This repository also includes the on-premises Installation documentation.

Breaking Changes During Upgrade from On-Prem v6.5.X or v6.6.X to v6.7.0 or Higher

In v6.7.0, the nats.js PVC requirements have been increased. As a result, it is necessary to resize the PVCs before initiating the installer upgrade.

Open a support case for guidance and assistance with the upgrade process.

Sysdig Secure

Transitioned Vulnerability Management Services to Use NATS-JS

All the Vulnerability Management services have been migrated to NATS-JS from the legacy NATS.

  • Collector API

  • ScanResults

  • RiskManager

  • Reporting

  • Registry Scanner

  • Scan Engine

  • Vulnerability API

  • RuntimeView

  • ScanRequestor

  • Sbom API

Sysdig Platform

Improved Administration Settings

The Settings page in Sysdig Secure and Monitor has been enhanced to provide you with a superior user experience.

  • Reorganized the Settings menu
  • Added unified page headers
  • Moved the buttons to the top of the pages

Support for Sysdig Terraform Provider v1.18.1

The Sysdig Terraform Provider v1.18.1 is compatible with Sysdig on-prem version 6.7.0.

Defect Fixes

  • Removed the Events & Logs option from Data Sources in Sysdig Secure.
  • Made the Risk Acceptance page under Vulnerabilities accessible as expected in Sysdig Secure.
  • Made NFS file mount points visible post upgrade to Sysdig Agent v12.17 and Sydig backend v6.7.0. sysdig_host_device_file_in_bytes will report the NFS mount points.

6.6.0 Release, November 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the On-Premises Install Documentation. This repository also includes the on-premises Installation documentation.

Sysdig Secure

Nexus and Google Support for Container Registry Scanning

The Image Registry Scanning functionality in the Sysdig Vulnerability Management engine has been updated to support scanning for the Nexus Repository and the Google Artifact Registry (GAR).

For more information on running the scanner, see the Registry Scanner documentation.

Reporting for Image Pipeline Vulnerability Scanning

The Vulnerability Management engine now supports Reporting for Image Pipeline scanning. This enables the easy collection and reporting of Pipeline scans over a given time.

With this addition, the engine can now report on every type of scan (Runtime, Registry, Host, and Pipeline). Pipeline reports mirror the Runtime and Registry reports, with just a change in the scoping context.

Exception UI Improvements for Threat Detection Rules

Sysdig is introducing a new user-friendly exception builder. The new exception UI, built into the Rules Editor, helps you create, update, modify, and delete exceptions for threat detection rules.

For more information, see Rule Exceptions.

Advanced Users Can Apply Tuning Suggestions

To make it easier to identify and apply exceptions, we have added the option to give Advanced Users and Team Managers permission to see and apply Tuning suggestions from the Insights and Event detail pages.

To enable this:

  1. Log in to Sysdig Secure as Admin and go to Settings.
  2. Toggle Advanced User Tuner Enablement on.

Sysdig Monitor

Metrics Usage Enhanced with Dashboards and Alerts Usage Metadata

Metrics Usage now displays which Dashboards and Alerts use a given metric. This gives you better understanding of the value provided by a given metric.

UX Improvements for PromQL Query Explorer

Updated the PromQL Query Explorer with quality of life improvements while running queries:

  • Now, only labels relevant to the query metrics are displayed in the autocomplete prompt.
  • Labels are automatically selected and displayed in the query results table.

Notification Snapshot for Metric Alert Notifications

Threshold Alert notifications forwarded to Slack or Email now include a snapshot of the triggering time series data. For Slack Notification channels, you can toggle the snapshot within the notification channel settings. When the channel is configured to Notify when Resolved, a snapshot of the time series data that resolves the alert is also provided in the notification.

Sysdig Platform

Settings Page Refresh

The Settings page in Sysdig Secure and Monitor has been enhanced to provide you with a superior user experience:

  • Improved color scheme for the dark mode.
  • Unified layout and components to establish consistency between Sysdig products.
  • Better navigation through the new header component.

Defect Fixes

  • Fixed an issue in the Explore module where promlegacy_* metrics could prevent metric counts from loading.

6.5.1 Hotfix Release, October 2023

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the On-Premises Install Documentation. This repository also includes the on-premises installation documentation.

Defect Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where PostgreSQL stopped responding on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environments with High Availability (HA) configuration.

  • Fixed the secure-diff installer command to correctly redact the secrets in the log.

6.5.0 Release, September 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem installation instructions.

Use of MinIO

Starting from release v6.5.0, MinIO has been added to the on-prem stack, specifically importing the MinIO binary from the upstream, for use in conjunction with Sysdig services.

You can download the MinIO source code in this repository. It is licensed under the AGPL 3.0.

This product includes software developed at MinIO, Inc. Copyright: MinIO Project, (C) 2015-2023 MinIO, Inc.

Sysdig Secure

Vulnerability Management Landing Page

The new Vulnerability Management landing page offers a place to identify, track, and initiate vulnerability management workflows. Here, you can see trends, priorities, and top action items among the vulnerability risks in your environment. The landing page covers all the scanning capabilities for images, workloads, and hosts, as collected by the installed scanners: vulnerability command-line interface (CLI), registry, host, and runtime. Widgets on the page enable you to take action or export data to your native information security tool ecosystem.

This feature enables:

  • Vulnerability Managers to easily identify changes in Risk Posture (trends), the most pervasive vulnerabilities, the latest vulnerabilities, and infrastructure segments with the most exposure to risk.
  • Program Managers to get easy insight into Policy posture.
  • Architects to easily access the data regarding scan counts and adoption rates.
  • The Vulnerability Management team to prioritize and manage vulnerabilities at a program level.

Container Registry Scanning

Image Registry Scanning functionality is available as part of the Sysdig Vulnerability Management suite in on-prem deployments.

This feature provides an added layer of security between the pipeline and runtime stages, allowing you to gain complete visibility into potential vulnerabilities before deployment.

The supported vendors are:

  • AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) - Single Registry and Organizational
  • JFrog Artifactory - SaaS and On-Premises
  • Azure Container Registry (ACR) - Single Registry
  • IBM Container Registry (ICR)
  • Quay.io - SaaS
  • Harbor

Once the container registry is instrumented and analyzed, you can generate registry reports to extract, forward, and post-process the vulnerability information.

Added Vulnerability Management APIs

The following API endpoints have been released in Technical Preview to list and filter vulnerability scan results for Pipeline, Registry, and Runtime as well as to fetch detailed scan results in JSON format:

  • Get a list of pipeline scan results: GET /secure/vulnerability/v1beta1/pipeline-results
  • Get a list of registry scan results: GET /secure/vulnerability/v1beta1/registry-results
  • Get a list of runtime scan results: GET /secure/vulnerability/v1beta1/runtime-results
  • Get full scan results: GET /secure/vulnerability/v1beta1/results

These API endpoints are applicable only to the current Vulnerability scanning engine.

For more information on accessing the API, see developer tools.

New Vulnerability Management Engine for Airgap Environments

The New Vulnerability Management engine, a major upgrade to the vulnerability and image scanning functionality for the Sysdig Secure product, is available in airgapped on-prem deployments. Contact your Sysdig representative for technical support.

Major Highlights

  • Reduced scanning time. It is now eight times faster on average.

  • Added more data for vulnerabilities and remediation.

    • CVSS scores and metrics: Network Attack Vector, Privileges required, and so on
    • Flagging of publicly available code exploits
    • Suggested package fix version

  • Added Risk spotlight, a new filter that only shows CVEs with active packages, to save time browsing infrastructure and focus on high-impact CVEs.

  • The New Vulnerability Reporting module now offers:

    • Up to 14 days retention of individual reports.
    • Immediate scheduling is directly available from the UI; just click Generate now.

  • Flexible policies can now be attached to the different runtime and security contexts

Migrate to the New Scanning Engine

The new vulnerability management engine uses a different data storage, API, host components, and user interfaces than the legacy scanning.

Contact your Sysdig representative to be guided through the process of migrating your subscription and vulnerability management configuration to the new engine. For more information, see Vulnerabilities.

Defect Fixes

  • Addressed several critical and high vulnerabilities.
  • Fixed the issue where Compliance v2 reports return 204 status.
  • Fixed the issue where you are forced to use the email address format for login when Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is enabled. You can now log in with your username.
  • Post GKE Nodepool upgrade elastic search pods no longer fail to start.
  • Added support for Linux cgroup v2 to the Sysdig PostgreSQL implementation for memory optimization.

5.1.11 Hotfix Release, September 2023

This hotfix release fixes the errors reported in Rule Library and Runtime Policies post-upgrade.

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Post successful upgrade, the Rule library pages, and Runtime Policies no longer report errors while enabling and disabling certain policies.

5.1.10 Hotfix Release, September 2023

This hotfix release certifies the support for Kubernetes versions 1.25, 1.26, and 1.27 on Sysdig Platform v5.1.10 and above.

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Events are detected as expected after an agent upgrade to v12.15.0.

6.4.1 Release, August 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

For the v6.4.1 release, the Vulnerabilities module (built on the ScanningV2 engine) is not supported in airgapped environments.

Defect Fixes

Remove Email Enforcement in LDAP Login

When LDAP authentication is enabled, the username field in the login screen is of input type text instead of email.

6.4.0 Release, July 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Platform Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with fresh installations and upgrades with FIPS(Federal Information Processing Standards) mode enabled on backend hosts.
  • Fixed an intermittent issue accessing the Sysdig UI when using a newly created Team.
  • Fixed an init container issue for the sysdigcloud-feeds-db deployment that would use the wrong mount point.

6.3.0 Release, July 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Sysdig Secure

Risk Spotlight

The Risk Spotlight feature is now available for on-premises deployments. For more information, see Risk Spotlight Integrations.

Process Tree Visualization in Events Feed (Preview)

The Process Tree feature in the Sysdig Secure events feed is now available in Technical Preview for on-premises deployments. This feature visually unveils the context in which a process was launched. It displays process lineage for security practitioners in a familiar EDR(Electronic Document Review) format to help users easily understand the relationships and dependencies between processes to accelerate incident response.

This feature requires Sysdig agent v12.15 and must be manually enabled.

6.2.1 Release, June 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Note: Use Unifed Compliance on v6.2.1. To enable Unified Compliance, ensure that you set sysdig.secure.cloudsec.enabled to true in the values.yaml while upgrading.

Sysdig Secure

Vulnerability Management Scanning Engine

Sysdig now provides the Vulnerability Management Scanning engine for all on-premises users. This scanning engine was released in April 2022 and brings the latest vulnerability features and improvements.

For 6.2.1 fresh installations, the Vulnerability Management engine will be the only scanning engine provided. For customers upgrading from 5.0.x, 5.1.x, or 6.x versions, both the Legacy Scanning engine and the newer Vulnerability Management engine are available.

Expanded Support for OpenShift 4 in Unified Compliance

Sysdig Secure support for CIS RedHat OpenShift Container Platform v4 Benchmark has been expanded in Unified Complience. This includes 13 new controls in Sections 1-4 for 92% coverage, and 11 new controls in Section 5 for overall coverage of 74%.

Infrastructure Resource Changes

With version 6.2.1, the number of components the Sysdig Platform requires to run both Sysdig Secure and Sysdig Monitor is nearly doubled. This release introduces new product features in both products, as well as upgrades and enhancements of the datastores from the last major release in September 2021.

Sysdig has provided general testing with Platform configurations on 5.1.x and 6.0.x branches. The table below compares the CPU and memory requirements for a Sysdig backend with 600 agents connected to each.

VersionCPU RequirementsMemory Requirements
v5167 Cores286 GB
v6134 Cores372 GB

The usage for each on-premises installation is different, so your load and sizing requirements may differ from the table above. To prepare for your upgrade from 5.x to 6.x, reach out to your account team for assistance to ensure your infrastructure meets requirements.

Secure-Only Backend Enablement Optimized

For users who enable a backend deployment with the Secure-Only configuration set to true, the footprint of Monitor components has been further reduced and minimized. However, for those upgrading from 5.x+, the addition of features and components in 6.2.1 has a complex effect on the overall resource usage.

  • In general, 6.0.0 requires less CPU and slightly more memory than 5.+.
  • As version 6.2.1 has more components than 5.1.x, this means that the shared components (the ones used in both versions) require fewer resources in version 6.2.1.
  • If you are upgrading from an existing branch with the legacy scanning engine, running both scanning engine components will require the most resources.

For users with limited infrastructure resources who only use Sysdig Secure, please contact customer support or your Sysdig account team with your infrastructure node count and node size to ensure that the Secure-Only mode is the right deployment type for your needs.

Internal Agent Dashboards Added (On-Prem Only)

An Internal Agents Dashboard has been added under Integrations > Data Sources in Sysdig Secure for viewing granular information about the agents deployed in your environment.

Known Defects

  • For 6.2.1 fresh installs, a few compliance checks that used the legacy scanner will not be available until a later release. Reach out to your account team for the full list of which checks are unavailable.
  • The Get Started page doesn’t work in a 6.2.1 fresh install as it relies on a legacy scanning endpoint that is not longer available. This will be patched in a future release.
  • If your agents are installed in Secure mode, some of the panels in the new Internal Agents Dashboard are missing data. This will be corrected in a future agent release. The affected panels are: Kubernetes Metadata Up to Date, CPU Usage, Memory Usage, and Total Agents without Cluster.
  • The new Internal Agents Dashboard will not load properly if the Cloudsec service is not enabled. This service can be enabled through a flag in the Installer: sysdig.secure.cloudsec.enabled = true.

6.1.2 Release, May 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 5.0.x, 5.1.x, 6.0

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Refined the upgrade process for users upgrading from 6.0 or 5.1.X branches.

  • Fixed an issue where some values.yaml configurations were not kept during an upgrade.

6.1.1 Release, May 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Sysdig Secure

Daily Updates of Managed Policies and Rules

In Sysdig Secure Threat Detection, managed policies and rule definitions are now updated from Sysdig daily at midnight UTC via a new cronjob service, sysdigcloud-falco-rules-deployer. See Manage Daily Updates (On-Prem Only) if you need to change the schedule or disable the feature.

Sysdig Monitor

Cloud Metrics

  • Supports the following features:

  • For users upgrading from 5.x.x to 6.x.x on-prem versions, the AWS CloudWatch API metrics will be converted from Sysdig notation to Prometheus. All the dashboards and alerts will be converted automatically.

  • AWS CloudWatch API metrics will still be available in the Sysdig notation (aws.*)if the metrics are queried directly via the API. However, aws.*.latency metrics will be reported in seconds instead of nanoseconds, which was required for consistency between the AWS CloudWatch API metrics and AWS CloudWatch Metric Streams metrics. Users querying the aws.*.latency metrics directly via API from Grafana should change the time unit to seconds.

Defect Fixes

  • Fixed the Integrations without workload type.
  • Fixed the list alerts API for summary information
  • Changed icons in Event feed for policy type.
  • Fixed an issue in which an appended rule could result in empty tags.
  • Fixed a wrong label value order to report retention as label value.
  • Fixed an issue on user provisioning.
  • Fixed a problem with metrics that have new categories.

5.1.9 Hotfix Release, April 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Added Alert group name to the Webhook notification channel payload.
  • Retention manager now removes spurious images.
  • Images with the tag SHA256 are now re-evaluated.
  • Consolidated scan results between API and UI.

6.0.2 Hotfix Release, April 2023

Upgrade Process

This release only supports fresh installations of the Sysdig platform into your cloud or environment.

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Enabled Internal Agents Dashboard.

  • Added CPU Usage and Memory Usage panels to Internal Agents Dashboard.

6.0.0 Release, April 2023

Upgrade Process

This release only supports fresh installations of the Sysdig platform into your cloud or on-premises environment.

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Monitor

Sysdig has migrated to a Prometheus-native data store and is now available for on-premises deployments. This release adds several product offerings that are available on the Sysdig SaaS platform for the Monitor product. The following features are now available in the fresh installation of the 6.0.0 on-premises release:

Advisor

Dashboards

Explore

Alerts

Integrations

AWS Cloudwatch Metrics

Notification Channels

Two new notification channels have been added:

Secure

Insights

Introduced Insights, a powerful visualization tool for threat detection, investigation, and risk prioritization. All findings generated by Sysdig across workloads and cloud environments are aggregated into a visual platform that streamlines threat detection and forensic analysis. Insights helps you identify compliance anomalies and ongoing threats to your environment

Compliance

New report types have been added to Unified Compliance:

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Azure
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Linux

Threat Detection Policies and Rules

Threat detection policies now have three “flavors”, following the same model as our SaaS platform.

  • Default/Managed Policies
  • Managed Ruleset Policies
  • Custom Policies

For a full description of policy types, see Threat Detection Policies.

Integrations

Platform

Custom Roles

A custom role is an admin-defined role which allows Sysdig administrators to bundle a set of permissions and allocate it to one or more users or teams. This features has been available in SaaS and is now released for our on-premises users. Fore more information, see Custom Roles.

Group Mappings

Group mappings allow you to connect groups from your identity provider (IdP) to the roles and teams associated with your Sysdig account.

Login Message

You can now configure a custom login message to help maintain security standards based on your organization.

Platform Audit

Sysdig provides both a UI and a set of APIs for auditing and reporting on the use of the Sysdig platform itself. By default, the UI is disabled to minimize resource usage. The API is enabled by default. For more information, see Sysdig Platform Audit.

Privacy Settings

You can choose to opt in or out of sharing usage data with Sysdig.

5.1.8 Hotfix Release, February 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes. This repository also includes the on-prem Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Fixed a time unit issue for Elasticsearch resolvers.

  • Fixed an issue where container metadata labels missing for Java virtual machine (JVM) metrics.

  • Fixed an issue where sysdig_fs_* metrics were not being discovered.

5.1.7 Hotfix Release, January 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes on GitHub. There you will also find important Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where images would not be scanned or re-evaluated with an alert configured with four or more scopes.

  • Fixed an issue where Captures from a runtime policy would not display in the Inspect UI.

Sysdig Platform

  • Updated several containers that were mistakenly running as root. All containers now run using an unprivileged user.
  • Updated the apiVersion of all Cronjobs from batch/v1beta1 to batch/v1.
  • Fixed an issue that would sometimes result in a 413 Payload Too Large HTTP response to the Sysdig API.
  • Fixed an issue with some Sysdig templates missing nodeSelectorTerms although nodeaffinityLabel is specified.

5.1.6 Hotfix Release, January 2023

Upgrade Process

Supported Upgrades From: 4.0.x, 5.0.x

For the full supportability matrix, see the Release Notes on GitHub. There you will also find important Installation instructions.

Defect Fixes

  • Fixed a privacy setting issue that would revert the admin setting after an update to the values.yaml file.
  • Fixed a sidepanel interface bug that would appear under Scan Results.
  • Fixed an issue with the metadata service sometimes returning an empty string as a value for some metrics, causing a banner to display saying A new version of Sysdig is available.
  • Fixed an Anchore issue that would show vulnerabilities in packages that should not have been present.
  • Updated the Anchore image with the latest code and security updates.