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You can now select stacked graphs even for query graphs with labeled metrics, and more

Hello, this is Toya (id:KGA), CRE of the Mackerel team. I would like to inform you of the contents of this update.

You can now select stacked graphs even for query graphs with labeled metrics.

Labeled metrics became public beta since March 2024, and you can now select stacked graphs as the display format when displaying query graphs on the custom dashboard.

You can select stacked graphs in the query graph settings.

Please see the article below regarding labeled metrics (compatible with OpenTelemetry), and take advantage of it.

The organization display name will now also be shown in alert notifications to Slack, etc., and in the browser title.

As shown in the screenshot below, the organization display name will now also be shown in alert notifications to Slack, Chatwork, or Microsoft Teams, etc., and in the browser title. This makes it easier to understand the organization when you receive an alert notification or have multiple tabs open, etc.

The display name is now shown in alert notifications to Slack.
The administrator name is now shown in the title.

Please see the announcement article below for information on the organization display name.

The deadline when inviting a user to an organization has been extended to 7 days.

Before this, the deadline when inviting a user to an organization was 3 days, and the deadline would often expire without the invited user noticing the invitation, etc. This deadline has been extended from 3 days to 7 days, allowing you to invite users to an organization with ample time to spare.

Please see the help article below for information on the other methods for inviting users to an organization.

More metrics can be obtained through linking with RDS or Aurora in AWS integration.

As shown in the chart below, more metrics can be obtained through linking with RDS or Aurora in AWS integration. Please note that this may cause the default number of metrics obtained on a single host to exceed the host metrics limit. Please see the page below for information about the calculation of charges when the metrics limit is exceeded.

Please see the help article below for the details on metrics obtainable with RDS or Aurora, including those that are newly obtainable with this update.

There is also a setting to choose to enable or disable automatically adding new AWS integration metrics, so please take advantage of that as well.

New metrics now obtainable with both RDS and Aurora

Graph name Metric Metric name in Mackerel
Checkpoint Lag CheckpointLag rds.checkpoint_lag.lag
Connection Attempts ConnectionAttempts rds.connection_attempts.count
CPU Surplus Credits CPUSurplusCreditBalance
CPUSurplusCreditsCharged
rds.cpu_surplus_credits.balance
rds.cpu_surplus_credits.charged
EBS Balance EBSByteBalance%
EBSIOBalance%
rds.ebs_balance.byte
rds.ebs_balance.io
Log Volume Disk Queue DiskQueueDepthLogVolume rds.log_volume_disk_queue.depth
Log Volume Free Storage Space FreeStorageSpaceLogVolume rds.log_volume_disk.free
Log Volume IOPS ReadIOPSLogVolume
WriteIOPSLogVolume
rds.log_volume_iops.read
rds.log_volume_iops.write
Log Volume Latency ReadLatencyLogVolume
WriteLatencyLogVolume
rds.log_volume_latency.read
rds.log_volume_latency.write
Log Volume Throughput ReadThroughputLogVolume
WriteThroughputLogVolume
rds.log_volume_throughput.read
rds.log_volume_throughput.write

New metrics now obtainable with RDS

The replication channel name goes in the metric named CHANNEL_NAME.

Graph name Metric Metric name in Mackerel
Replication Channel Lag ReplicationChannelLag rds.replication_channel_lag.CHANNEL_NAME

Metrics which were only obtainable with RDS that can now be obtained with Aurora as well

Graph name Metric Metric name in Mackerel
Disk IOPS ReadIOPS
WriteIOPS
rds.diskiops.read
rds.diskiops.write

Fixed an issue in which it was not possible to obtain any system data if loading file system data failed in the Windows version of mackerel-agent.

Before this, it was not possible to obtain any system data if loading even a single piece of file system data failed in the Windows version of mackerel-agent. However, we have improved this behavior, so that when obtaining data and metrics for a given file system fails, it will skip that file system, and obtain the data for another file system.

This feature is available in mackerel-agent v0.81.0 and later.

Updated mackerel-plugin-redis and mackerel-plugin snmp.

  • mackerel-plugin-redis
    • You can now designate the username parameter when connecting to Redis.
    • This update was contributed by users! Thank you very much!
  • mackerel-plugin-snmp
    • When SNMP metrics are received as text strings, they can now also be parsed as numeric values.

These features are available in mackerel-agent-plugins v0.82.0 and later.