Release Date: 31 July 2023
Patch Details (1.7.2)
- Fix issue where instance status events for unknown instances lead to duplicate EventSpecs resulting in errors in the persistence DBMS
- Fix issue where alert ‘Failed to get neo4j config for max heap size’ was being shown when metrics namespaces are enabled
- Handle the fact that composite databases return a null value for role in `SHOW DATABASES`
- Fix issue where NOM server being unavailable resulted in a monitored Neo4j instance becoming unavailable. (Due to the custom query log appender in log4j blocking on writing to the socket)
- Stop sending query parameters from Neo4j instance to NOM agent
- Helm Chart no longer requires secret in values.yaml – can now be referenced
Highlights (1.7.1)
Overview
This is a minor release with a selection of bug fixes and small improvements.Highlights
- Query optimization
- Use Neo4j client instead of driver for persistence queries
- Reduce number of queries run on persistence DBMS when an instance status message is received from an agent
- Decrease the number `CALL db.info` queries run by agent against monitored instances
- Agent config for NOM operational queries
- Uptime/Downtime and NOM summary
- Show uptime for NOM, DBMSs, instances and Database instances
- Show summary for NOM installation including:
- Version information
- Information about the persistence being used
- Information about monitored topology components
- Information about NOM users
- Metrics dashboard improvements
- Added ‘Expand’ option for charts which opens a single chart in a modal allowing for a more focussed analysis of a single metric series.
- Improved release testing
- Upgrade smoke test
- Full end to end testing with playwright
- Read available Neo4j versions from a file instead of requiring a migration
- Place a red border around charts for metrics that have an active alert
- Clean up obsolete alert conditions as part of topology clean-up job
- Provide warnings in the server logs when provided configuration contains invalid characters or is in the wrong format
Fixes
- Generate jwt token if none is provided (instead of using a default)
- Remove orphan query log nodes
- Fix an issue where query logs fail to stream after an upgrade
- Provide a script to enable Ops Manager persistence DBMS to be upgraded from 4.4.x to 5.x
- Fix issue with alert banner so that it now disappears as expected when all alerts listed are cleared
- Fix issue with sorting in the Conditions table
- Fix auto-refresh on Agents view
- Fix issue where space usage is incorrectly reported when directories are sub-directories of home directory
- Add exec permissions to agent in Agent docker image
- Provide better messaging about offline database instances when creating an upgrade plan
- Fix date formatting error which was causing certain times to be incorrectly displayed as ‘24:xx:xx’
- Show log summary instead of log detail view when coming from Metrics dashboard with a time period that does not contain any log details
- Fix issue where lines between data points were not being correctly drawn for metrics charts at certain zoom levels
- Make DBMS switcher menu scrollable so that it is usable with a large number of DBMSs
- Fixed issue where threshold for page cache percentage was displayed incorrectly
Recent Neo4j Operations Manager Releases
- Neo4j Ops Manager 1.11.1
- Neo4j Ops Manager 1.11.0
- Neo4j Ops Manager 1.10.4
- Neo4j Ops Manager 1.10.3
- Neo4j Ops Manager 1.10.2