v0.27.0

This is release v0.27.0 of the Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the upgrade guide for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions.

Notable changes:

Features

• Integrations: (beta) Add vmware_exporter integration (@rlankfo)

• App agent receiver: add Event kind to payload (@domasx2)

Enhancements

• Tracing: Introduce a periodic appender to the remotewriteexporter to control sample rate. (@mapno)

• Tracing: Update OpenTelemetry dependency to v0.55.0. (@rfratto, @mapno)

• Add base agent-operator jsonnet library and generated manifests (@hjet)

• Add full (metrics, logs, K8s events) sample agent-operator jsonnet library and gen manifests (@hjet)

• Introduce new configuration fields for disabling Keep-Alives and setting the
  IdleConnectionTimeout when scraping. (@tpaschalis)

Bugfixes

• Tracing: Fixed issue with the PromSD processor using the connection method to discover the IP
  address. It was failing to match because the port number was included in the address string. (@jphx)

• Register prometheus discovery metrics. (@mattdurham)

• Fix seg fault when no instance parameter is provided for apache_http integration, using integrations-next feature flag. (@rgeyer)

• Fix grafanacloud-install.ps1 web request internal server error when fetching config. (@rlankfo)

• Fix snmp integration not passing module or walk_params parameters when scraping. (@rgeyer)

• Fix unmarshal errors (key "<walk_param name>" already set in map) for snmp integration config when walk_params is defined, and the config is reloaded. (@rgeyer)

Other changes

• Update several go dependencies to resolve warnings from certain security scanning tools. None of the resolved vulnerabilities were known to be exploitable through the agent. (@captncraig)

• It is now possible to compile Grafana Agent using Go 1.19. (@rfratto)

Installation:

Grafana Agent is currently distributed in plain binary form, Docker container images, a Windows installer, and a Kubernetes install script. Choose whichever fits your use-case best.

Kubernetes

Install directions here.

Docker container:

• https://hub.docker.com/r/grafana/agent

docker pull "grafana/agent:v0.27.0"

Windows installer

The Windows installer is provided as a release asset for x64 machines.

Binary

We provide precompiled binary executables for the most common operating systems. Choose from the assets below for your matching operating system.

Note: ppc64le builds are currently considered secondary release targets and do not have the same level of support and testing as other platforms.

Example for the linux operating system on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.27.0/agent-linux-amd64.zip"

# extract the binary
unzip "agent-linux-amd64.zip"

# make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "agent-linux-amd64"

agentctl

agentctl, a tool for helping you interact with the Agent, is available as a Docker image:

docker pull "grafana/agentctl:v0.27.0"

Or as a binary. Like before, choose the assets below that matches your operating system. For example, with linux on amd64:

# download the binary
curl -O -L "https://github.com/grafana/agent/releases/download/v0.27.0/agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

# extract the binary
unzip "agentctl-linux-amd64.zip"

# make sure it is executable
chmod a+x "agentctl-linux-amd64"

agent-operator

agent-operator, a Kubernetes Operator for the Grafana Agent, is available only as a Docker image:

docker pull "grafana/agent-operator:v0.27.0"