Release Notesedit

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.4.6.

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.4.5.

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.4.4.

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.4.3.

Enhancements

• Compatibility with Elasticsearch 2.4.2.

Enhancements

• No longer automatically creating an Index Pattern for Kibana.
• Node transport addresses are now consistently reported using only their IP address and port, rather than a subset reporting their resolved hostname, IP address, and port.
• Added a tooltip to Shard Activity table, to show that the shard was copied from Primary for relocation activity.
• If Marvel 2.4.x is not supported by the given version of Kibana, we show which version of Kibana is required.

Bug Fixes

• Using the time picker to select clusters now honors the full time range, rather than only clusters that sent updates within the last 10 minutes.
• Using 0 as the minimum value for calculation in Indexing Latency and Query Latency.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed sorting by number of unassigned shards in the indices table.
• Fixed the shard allocation tables to render when shards are relocating.
• Fixed the tooltips that are supposed to show for relocating shards in the allocation table, and also added tooltips for shards of all states.
• Removed Google Analytics beacon, and fix the optional phone-home call to not block page rendering.

Bug Fixes

• Using the time picker to select clusters now honors the full time range, rather than only clusters that sent updates within the last 10 minutes.
• Phone home data omits source_node information that was being erroneously picked up from the cluster_info field.
• Shards in the Relocating state are no longer counted as Unassigned Shards.
• Removed Google Analytics Tag from UI.
• The UI rendering no longer blocks waiting for the phone home call to return.
• Fixed the "no data" page to run an automatic refresh cycle to look for data.

Bug Fixes

• Prevents exceptions from being logged if the node stats are temporarily empty.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where non-elected master nodes all appeared as Offline in the node list.

  • You can workaround this in 2.3.0 and 2.3.1 by setting marvel.node_resolver: name in kibana.yml.
• Introduce the timepicker controls in the clusters page so you can view snapshots Marvel data.
• Add a link to go back to the previous page from the License page.

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.3.1

New Features

• Automatic deletion of Marvel indices. By default, indices older than 7 days are deleted.

Enhancements

• Support for tribe nodes.
• UI improvements in charts.
• The number of unassigned shards is now shown in the indices listing.
• Marvel’s timestamped indices have now the format .marvel-es-N-YYYY.MM.dd where N is the current Marvel template version (first version is 1).

Bug Fixes

• Adds the permission required for the Marvel plugin to work when HTTPExporter is configured for SSL.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a bug when Marvel is configured to export data over HTTP on a monitoring cluster protected by Shield (with SSL).

Enhancements

• Enable access to the License page from the cluster status bar.
• Allow configuration of a monthly interval for Marvel indices instead of limiting it to daily.
• Provide a sha1 hash for the Marvel app download.

Bug Fixes

• Minor UI improvements.

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.1.2

Bug Fixes

• Check the Kibana version to ensure compatibility.
• Respect opt-out for statistics reporting in all cases.
• Fixed transport address not showing on the node detail page.
• Fixed the table filtering on the node listing page.

Enhancements

• Display a node type indicator on the Node Listing and Node Detail pages.
• Show the online/offline status of nodes.
• Remove the Time Picker from the Cluster Listing page.

Bug Fixes

• Multiple fixes for showing historical data.
• Filter out derivative calculations where the start and end times are incomplete time buckets.
• Cluster table sorting.
• Use the new Elasticsearch _field_stats API to determine which Marvel indices are needed to generate the stats.

Enhancements

• Adds support for Elasticsearch 2.0.1.

• Note that the Marvel agent plugin only needs to be installed on the Elasticsearch nodes you are monitoring.
• If you need to stop collecting data from a node, remove the plugin or set the marvel.enabled configuration parameter to false. The marvel.agent.enabled parameter is no longer supported.
• The Marvel exporter settings have changed. If you are using a separate monitoring cluster, you will need to update your configuration. For more information, see Setting up a Separate Monitoring Cluster.

New Features

• Fully-integrated with Kibana 4.2 as a Kibana plugin.
• Supports Multiple clusters for Paid Subscriptions
• Reduced data footprint for Marvel indices
• Simplified dashboards for Indices and Nodes
• Better support for large clusters