I'm here today to brighten up your Thursday with a double helping of new
Heka releases. Heka v0.6.1 and v0.7.0 are available for your immediate
consumption:
https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/releases/tag/v0.6.1
https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/releases/tag/v0.7.0
Heka v0.6.1 is a bug fix release, resolving a couple of issues that have
reared their ugly heads since the 0.6.0 release.
Heka v0.7.0 includes the same bugfixes as 0.6.1, along with a number of
additional features and new plugins. Some highlights:
* Greatly improved protocol buffers encoding and decoding, achieved by
replacing the standard goprotobuf library with gogoprotobuf and
activating the marshal and unmarshal extensions.
* Support for new `can_exit` setting on all filter and output plugins,
allowing you to mark specific plugins as non-crucial, so Heka won't shut
down entirely if they exit due to unrecoverable errors.
* IrcOutput for sending notifications to your IRC channels.
* UdpOutput for general purpose communication over UDP.
* A FilePolling input that re-reads the entire contents of a file with
each ticker, useful for /proc files and other filesystem snarfing.
* Decoder and filter plugins for parsing and graphing Linux system CPU,
disk, and memory statistics, read from aforementioned /proc files.
* Filter plugin for much easier generation of real time graphs of statsd
data, with built in anomaly detection support.
* Extensive "Getting Started" documentation to help new users get
oriented in setting up a functional Heka installation.
* And more, the full story is in the changelog, as always:
https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka/blob/v0.7.0/CHANGES.txt
I'd also like to give a special shout out to Chance Zibolski, who's been
working on Heka all summer with us as an intern here at Mozilla, and who
has contributed a number of significant features to this release. Thanks
Chance, it's been a pleasure working with you!
As always, questions, concerns, praise, and blame can be directed to us
here on this mailing list, or via IRC in the #heka channel on
irc.mozilla.org.
Thanks for reading, and happy Heka-ing!
-r
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