Welcome back to the CopperEgg Product Change Blog. Customers have told us they miss the communication so we’re back! We usually release 1-2 times a month on the CopperEgg platform and will use this channel to let you know about the specifics of each release.
In this release:
New *NIX Collector (v3.3-92-g0814c8d): we are releasing a new version of our Linux, OSX, and FreeBSD server collectors. This version will be set as the new default across all accounts. Improvements include:
- Support of up to 128 processors on Linux
- Full process details on FreeBSD
- DiskIO reporting handles aggregated devices better on Linux
Collectors should automatically upgrade across all systems unless you have that option disabled in your collector config files, but in the event they do not (you will see a yellow “Collector status: out-of-date” banner on the server widget on your Servers Dashboard in this event) you may need to manually restart the collector to force the update. Contact CopperEgg Support with any issues or questions.
Known issues:
- Virtual Network Interfaces On All Collectors: Docker and some other virtualization technologies create randomly-named virtual network interfaces over time, which the CopperEgg collector happily picks up and monitors. Over time, however, this results in a server with tens of thousands of network interfaces on the Network Details tab, most of which have no recent data. This causes displaying that tab, as well as API and other back end calls that try to enumerate the interfaces on a server, to time out. We have performed maintenance to delete many of these old zombie interfaces but are still analyzing how to best handle this over time.
- FreeBSD Collector: The FreeBSD collector has a memory leak on some configurations and grows in size over time. We are working on a fix for this but it didn’t quite make the cutoff for this release.
- [Addition] Mac Collector: This new version of the Mac collector does not upgrade correctly on MacOSX versions previous to 10.8 (Darwin versions under 11). It has been rolled back from customer sites until a subsequent release.
