Wavefront Proxy 12.0 [GA Release]

• Added new configuration property proxyname, and deprecated property hostname. Changed the internal metrics source to proxyname with the name of the proxy as the property value.
• Added new internal metrics tag hostname, with default tag value the FQDN of the proxy host.
• Added new configuration property otlpAppTagsOnMetricsIncluded. By default, otlpAppTagsOnMetricsIncluded is set to true and includes the OpenTelemetry resource attributes (application, service.name, shard, and cluster) that your application sends for metrics data.
• Added config file parsing for the Tanzu Observability logging solution (Beta).
• Added support for forward slash ("/") in log tags (converts to underscore).
• Added support for custom error_name and exception log tags.
• Changed default fields for hyperlogs to no longer include application, service, log level, and exception by default.
• Updated Proxy logs to not push to proxy queue if response is 429.
• Fixed bug where queue size did not decrease when logs were pulled off the queue.
• Fixed bug that prevented log tags with leading underscores from being accepted.
• Updated the dependency versions.

Visit our documentation to view deprecation status and end of life dates for previous releases.

Wavefront Proxy 11.4 [GA Release]

• Added the following internal metrics for proxy logs:
  • ~proxy.logs.*.received.messageLength: Size of log message fields before validation
  • ~proxy.logs.*.received.tagLength: Size of label per log message
  • ~proxy.logs.*.received.batches: Number of incoming batches of logs
• For preprocessor rules extractTag and extractTagIfNotExists, applied rule to tag key values when source is pointLine.
• Improved accuracy of exponential delta histograms at the lowest percentiles.
• Completed fix to block points with EOT characters.
• Fixed an issue where the span log sampling policy was not synced with the Wavefront server.
• Updated the dependency versions.

Wavefront Proxy 11.3 [GA Release]

• Fix to an issue with Proxy v11.2 orphaned proxies.
• OpenTelemetry metrics ingestion: The proxy can now receive OpenTelemetry metric protobuffs over the existing gRPC and HTTP listeners (introduced in #656).

Features introduced in v11.2:

• New metricsFilter preprocessor rule: New rule reads a file with a list of metrics. Only metrics in the list are passed to the server, all other metrics are dropped.
• Fix to an issue with incorrect AWS SQS queue names: A queue name can have up to 80 characters. Accepted characters: alphanumeric characters, hyphens (-), and underscores (_).
• Fix to an issue where extractTag and extractTagIfNotExists preprocessor rules are not applied when source is set to pointLine.
• Updated dependencies versions.
• Updated *-spring-boot.jar as main jar file to execute proxy. e.g. $java -jar proxy-11.3-spring-boot.jar.
  Please note *-jar-with-dependencies.jar is reserved for internal uses.

Wavefront Proxy 11.2 [GA Release]

Wavefront Proxy: Proxy version 11.3 is now available. Do not install Proxy version 11.2. If you already installed version 11.2, upgrade to version 11.3.

Wavefront Proxy 11.1 [GA Release]

• Set span future fill limit to 24 hours: Spans sent with a timestamp that's more than 24 hours ahead of the current timestamp will be blocked.
• Improved visibility for chained proxies: Client proxies chained to relay proxies now have visible status.
• Added new metric_length metric related to memory buffer. To view: ts(~proxy.*.metric_length.*)
• Updated dependencies versions.

Wavefront Proxy 11.0 [GA Release]

• OpenTelemetry HTTP & gRPC Listeners for Distributed Tracing.
• Drop queued items, such as metrics, traces, and histograms, for features that are disabled on your Tanzu Observability by Wavefront service.
• Update the dependency versions.

Wavefront Proxy 11.x has been deprecated on Oct 19, 2022. Visit our documentation to view deprecation status and end of life dates for releases.

Wavefront Proxy 10.14 [GA Release]

Updated Apache log4j to version 2.17.1 to resolve CVE-2021-44832.

Wavefront Proxy 10.13 [GA Release]

Updated Apache log4j to version 2.17.0 to resolve CVE-2021-45105.

Wavefront Proxy 10.12 [GA Release]

Updated Apache log4j to version 2.16 to resolve CVE-2021-44228 and CVE-2021-45046. For more information on these vulnerabilities and their impact on VMware products please see VMSA-2021-0028.

Wavefront Proxy 10.11 [GA Release]

• Address multiple vulnerabilities, including Log4J CVE-2021-44228