v2.6.2 - 03/Nov/2025

Release Notes: SUSE® Observability Helm Chart v2.6.2

New Features & Enhancements

  • Monitor Timeline History: The monitor timeline now displays all historic health statuses within the time range.

    • Health statuses created before the upgrade will appear as individual entries.

    • All statuses produced after the upgrade will be intelligently merged into a single status line for improved readability.

  • Monitors: Function Reference by ID: Monitor functions can now be referenced by their unique identifier during import and export operations.

  • Open Telemetry Collector Upgrade: The Open Telemetry collector has been upgraded.

  • OpenJDK and Dependency Upgrades: OpenJDK and various library dependencies have been updated.

  • Helm Chart Warnings Removed: Warnings that previously appeared when installing or upgrading the SUSE Observability Helm chart have been removed.

  • Agent: Splunk Integration Enhancements:

    • Added support for varying JWT authentication mechanisms for Splunk integration.

    • Added options to specify an extra header for Splunk authentication (SPLUNK_AUTH_EXTRA_HEADER_NAME/VALUE).

    • Added an option to specify the default namespace user (default_ns_user) for Splunk saved searches.

  • Agent: Dynatrace API Migration: The Dynatrace integration’s data ingestion has been migrated from API v1 to API v2.

  • Time Series Alias Auto-completion: The time series alias feature now provides auto-completion for metric labels, improving query efficiency.

  • Views: Enhanced "Save" Button: The "Save" button for views now has a distinct color to clearly draw attention to unsaved changes.

  • Manual Data Refresh: Added a manual "Refresh" option (located next to the time-based refresh) for traces, metrics, logs, and other data displays.

  • Automatic Common StackPack Management: The Common StackPack is now automatically installed and upgraded. This simplifies custom StackPack creation, as the settings provided by the Common StackPack are available by default without requiring an explicit dependency configuration.

Bug Fixes

  • Platform: Ephemeral Storage Limits: Increased the ephemeral storage limits to 1Gi per pod to prevent pod evictions on clusters that retain a large volume of logs.

  • Job and CronJob Configuration Consistency: Ensured that podAnnotations, podLabels, nodeSelectors, affinity, and tolerations now correctly apply to all Jobs and CronJobs.

  • Job and CronJob Image Pull Secrets: Ensured that all Jobs and CronJobs support the global.imagePullSecrets configuration.

  • Rancher Extension Session Fix: The Rancher extension no longer reuses the existing browser session to fetch Observability state.

  • Platform: Kubernetes RBAC Agent Image Registry: Fixed an issue where the kubernetes-rbac-agent was not picking up the global.imageRegistry Helm override value.

  • Platform: AMQP Exchange Support: Fixed support for AMQP exchanges.

  • Open Telemetry Component Access: Resolved an issue where Open Telemetry components were unavailable for users who had permissions to view the cluster data.

  • Missing Topology Permissions Spinner: Fixed an issue where a user missing topology permissions would encounter a perpetual loading spinner.

  • Rancher Cluster Owner Access: Corrected a bug that prevented users with the Rancher Cluster Owner role from accessing the cluster data.

Agent Bug Fixes

  • Agent: AMQP Protocol Detection: Fixed a misaligned read issue in the AMQP protocol detection logic.