Cortex 0.3.0

This release adds support for Redis as an alternative to Memcached, and also includes many optimisations which reduce CPU and memory usage.

• [CHANGE] Gauge metrics were renamed to drop the _total suffix. #1685
  • In Alertmanager, alertmanager_configs_total is now alertmanager_configs
  • In Ruler, scheduler_configs_total is now scheduler_configs
    • scheduler_groups_total is now scheduler_groups.
• [CHANGE] The "auto Slack root" feature was removed, including the --alertmanager.configs.auto-slack-root CLI flag. #1597
• [CHANGE] In table-manager, default DynamoDB capacity was reduced from 3,000 units to 1,000 units. We recommend you do not run with the defaults: find out what figures are needed for your environment and set that via -dynamodb.periodic-table.write-throughput and -dynamodb.chunk-table.write-throughput.
• [FEATURE] Add Redis support for caching #1612
• [FEATURE] Allow spreading chunk writes across multiple S3 buckets #1625
• [ENHANCEMENT] Upgraded Prometheus to 2.12.0 and Alertmanager to 0.19.0. #1597
• [ENHANCEMENT] Cortex is now built with Go 1.13 #1675, #1676, #1679
• [ENHANCEMENT] Many optimisations, mostly impacting ingester and querier: #1574, #1624, #1638, #1644, #1649, #1654, #1702

Full list of changes: v0.2.0...v0.3.0

Warning

• [BUG] The Alertmanager UI is non-functional in this release

Cortex 0.3.0-rc.0

See https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex/releases/tag/v0.3.0 for description

0.2.0 / 2019-09-05

This release has several exciting features, the most notable of them being setting -ingester.spread-flushes to potentially reduce your storage space by upto 50%.

• [CHANGE] Flags changed due to changes upstream in Prometheus Alertmanager #929:
  • alertmanager.mesh.listen-address is now cluster.listen-address
  • alertmanager.mesh.peer.host and alertmanager.mesh.peer.service can be replaced by cluster.peer
  • alertmanager.mesh.hardware-address, alertmanager.mesh.nickname, alertmanager.mesh.password, and alertmanager.mesh.peer.refresh-interval all disappear.
• [CHANGE] --claim-on-rollout flag deprecated; feature is now always on #1566
• [CHANGE] Retention period must now be a multiple of periodic table duration #1564
• [CHANGE] The value for the name label for the chunks memcache in all cortex_cache_ metrics is now chunksmemcache (before it was memcache) #1569
• [FEATURE] Makes the ingester flush each timeseries at a specific point in the max-chunk-age cycle with -ingester.spread-flushes. This means multiple replicas of a chunk are very likely to contain the same contents which cuts chunk storage space by up to 66%. #1578
• [FEATURE] Make minimum number of chunk samples configurable per user #1620
• [FEATURE] Honor HTTPS for custom S3 URLs #1603
• [FEATURE] You can now point the query-frontend at a normal Prometheus for parallelisation and caching #1441
• [FEATURE] You can now specify http_config on alert receivers #929
• [FEATURE] Add option to use jump hashing to load balance requests to memcached #1554
• [FEATURE] Add status page for HA tracker to distributors #1546
• [FEATURE] The distributor ring page is now easier to read with alternate rows grayed out #1621

0.2.0-rc.0 / 2019-08-30

This release has several exciting features, the most notable of them being setting -ingester.spread-flushes to potentially reduce your storage space by upto 50%.

• [CHANGE] Flags changed due to changes upstream in Prometheus Alertmanager #929:
  • alertmanager.mesh.listen-address is now cluster.listen-address
  • alertmanager.mesh.peer.host and alertmanager.mesh.peer.service can be replaced by cluster.peer
  • alertmanager.mesh.hardware-address, alertmanager.mesh.nickname, alertmanager.mesh.password, and alertmanager.mesh.peer.refresh-interval all disappear.
• [CHANGE] --claim-on-rollout flag deprecated; feature is now always on #1566
• [CHANGE] Retention period must now be a multiple of periodic table duration #1564
• [CHANGE] The value for the name label for the chunks memcache in all cortex_cache_ metrics is now chunksmemcache (before it was memcache) #1569
• [FEATURE] Makes the ingester flush each timeseries at a specific point in the max-chunk-age cycle with -ingester.spread-flushes. This means multiple replicas of a chunk are very likely to contain the same contents which cuts chunk storage space by up to 66%. #1578
• [FEATURE] Make minimum number of chunk samples configurable per user #1620
• [FEATURE] Honor HTTPS for custom S3 URLs #1603
• [FEATURE] You can now point the query-frontend at a normal Prometheus for parallelisation and caching #1441
• [FEATURE] You can now specify http_config on alert receivers #929
• [FEATURE] Add option to use jump hashing to load balance requests to memcached #1554
• [FEATURE] Add status page for HA tracker to distributors #1546
• [FEATURE] The distributor ring page is now easier to read with alternate rows grayed out #1621

0.1.0 / 2019-08-07

• [CHANGE] HA Tracker flags were renamed to provide more clarity #1465
  • distributor.accept-ha-labels is now distributor.ha-tracker.enable
  • distributor.accept-ha-samples is now distributor.ha-tracker.enable-for-all-users
  • ha-tracker.replica is now distributor.ha-tracker.replica
  • ha-tracker.cluster is now distributor.ha-tracker.cluster
• [FEATURE] You can specify "heap ballast" to reduce Go GC Churn #1489
• [BUGFIX] HA Tracker no longer always makes a request to Consul/Etcd when a request is not from the active replica #1516
• [BUGFIX] Queries are now correctly cancelled by the query-frontend #1508

0.1.0-rc.0 / 2019-08-01

• [CHANGE] HA Tracker flags were renamed to provide more clarity #1465
  • distributor.accept-ha-labels is now distributor.ha-tracker.enable
  • distributor.accept-ha-samples is now distributor.ha-tracker.enable-for-all-users
  • ha-tracker.replica is now distributor.ha-tracker.replica
  • ha-tracker.cluster is now distributor.ha-tracker.cluster
• [FEATURE] You can specify "heap ballast" to reduce Go GC Churn #1489
• [BUGFIX] HA Tracker no longer always makes a request to Consul/Etcd when a request is not from the active replica #1516
• [BUGFIX] Queries are now correctly cancelled by the query-frontend #1508