Release notes¶

July 26, 2021 (v2021.07)¶

Features

User and Role management with API ( See our Blog Post )
The platform is now available on Debian Buster and Debian Stretch distributions (see On-premises platform installation)
The agent is available as a container image (See Docker Hub)

Fixes

Live360 module:

When switching to a new PostgreSQL cluster, Datasentinel now selects automatically All databases when the keeped database selection does not exist, avoiding an error.

Minimum Agent version : 2.6.0

May 01, 2021 (v2021.05)¶

Features

High Availability Architecture

You can now monitor your entire architecture (master + read only replicas) See our Blog Post

Minimum Agent version : 2.6.0

Apr 01, 2021 (v2021.04)¶

Features

Directly view the activity of your instances or groups of instances thanks to the Home page customisable charts
Customisable charts have also been added to the Sessions workload, top queries and top tables/indexes modules, in order to easily correlate activity metrics
The main queries execution statistics from pg_stat_statements are now displayed in the Sessions workload module when available
Query samples are now collected (Maximum 1 per hour). This feature can be disabled at the instance level via API.
A moonlight icon is available on the top right of the screen allowing to switch between dark or light mode

Fixes

Sql Text format option in query dashboard
Live360 Blocking sessions, maintenance operations when using PostgreSQL 9.6
Live360 layout in sessions dashboard when using a small screen resolution
Live360 cache usage

Home page customisable charts¶

Sessions workload¶

Customisable charts and queries statistics

Feb 01, 2021 (v2021.02)¶

Features

Datasentinel introduces its new Live360° feature:

Thanks to direct connections, this feature provides precision and additional information on the context, which will offer you a valuable and indispensable help during your performance analyzes

- Current and blocking sessions

- Relations Explorer to view statistics in detail (tables, indexes, columns, extended statistics, …)

- Disk and memory cache usage

- Generate execution plans from any query and analyze them thanks to our execution plan visualizer

- In progress reporting (Vacuum, analyze, create index, …)

See Live 360° Documentation

View our demo video

Dec 09, 2020 (v2020.12)¶

Features

Datasentinel can retrieve system metrics with the Agentless method if you install the system_stats extension
Easily display the most frequently used Tables or Indexes (By disk reads, Cache activity or any other metric)
New version name convention

May 11, 2020 (v1.6.0)¶

Features

New Agentless version allowing you to monitor all kinds of PostgreSQL instances

- AWS RDS, Aurora

- Microsoft Azure database, hyperscale,

- Google Cloud SQL and other cloud providers.

It can also be used in your own environment. (See which method to use Agent-based or Agentless?

Connections can be created either with the User interface connection management

or with the Connection Management API

User interface connection management¶

March 30, 2020 (v1.5.0)¶

Features

Added Reporting. (Here is an example pdf)

Export your workload in PDF format

You can also generate your report with Workload API
The Datasentinel extension is no longer required. (Required only when you choose the high level of collection). See Sessions workload

Fixes

Fix pagination on some dashboards in the UI.

Export your workload in PDF format¶

Select a PostgreSQL instance, a time window and the sections to export.

February 18, 2020 (v1.4.0)¶

Features

Added API to export metrics. See Workload API
The metrics can now be downloaded directly from the UI
Query statistics display the minum and maximum execution time
Session workload sampling can be low (every 10 seconds) or high (every second). Updatable with the Agent

Fixes

Fix layout in the top queries dashboard
Fix tab layout in the instance dashboard

The metrics can now be downloaded directly from the UI¶

JSON or CSV format

January 14, 2020 (v1.3.0)¶

Features

1. Execution plan viewer

2. Index usage statistics

Fixes

In the Top queries dashboard, labels display the sql text (truncated if needed) instead of the query md5 id.

1. Execution plan viewer¶

The execution plans can be easily analyzed thanks to the plan viewer feature.

You can copy/paste an existing plan (format text or json) or view it directly in the execution plans dashboard

2. Index usage statistics¶

Index usage statistics are now available. You can see what are the most used indexes.

Fixes

In the Top queries dashboard, labels display the sql text (truncated if needed) instead of the query md5 id.

December 19, 2019 (v1.2.0)¶

Features

1. Starred instances

2. Instance tags:

Fixes

When updating a user email, the user properties are lost
Home page reload does not work properly in some cases

1. Starred instances¶

The postgresql instances can be starred. You can choose to see your starred instances only

2. Instance tags:¶

The instance tags can be displayed in the home page and in the instances dashboard. You can then easily filter by tag

Fixes

November 12, 2019 (v1.1.0)¶

Features

Upgrade to grafana 6.4.4
Developer or data admin user profile. A developer profile has only access to sessions workload and queries

Fixes

Query id with unkonwn filters

October 2019 (v1.0.0)¶

Features

Sessions workload
Sqls statistics
Instances, databases statistics
Powerfull filters
Consolidated or detailed view of the activity
Real time or past view with zooming feature on the desired periods