Changelog

0.10.10 (30 October 2018)

Beta-release of pending 1.0 version

  • Basically a complete rewrite. This version is not yet ready for mass consumption. Still pending are: - Zabbix 3.x template for 5.x ES versions. - Installation scripts/config files - Init scripts for the backend (SysV, Upstart) - More documentation - Make different templates for different Zabbix versions, if necessary.
  • Testing this pre-release version requires a git clone and python setup.py install or pip install . from the source directory.

New

  • Flask-based backend listener that enables cached reads of the cluster stats. This prevents repeated calls from completely hammering the cluster with repeated stats calls. Currently intended to listen on localhost port 7600, so that the Zabbix UserParameter script can simply read localhost. Cache timeout defaults to 60 seconds, and is configurable.
  • Use YAML based configuration. - Elasticsearch configuration block - Logging configuration block - Backend configuration block - do_not_discover block
  • Uses update es_stats and new es_client modules. - es_client allows monitoring of X-Pack secured Elasticsearch clusters
  • Discovery based on value (bool for true/false, unsigned for Zabbix’s unsigned integer values, float, and character). This allows Zabbix to automatically discover items for the correct item type.
  • Block individual endpoints from LLD by enumerating them in the do_not_discover block in the configuration file.

Other

  • Fixed issues with the config_override function not behaving as expected.
  • Pruned unnecessary code.
  • Added unit and integration tests.
  • Added endpoints
  • Switched to using setup.cfg instead of everything in setup.py
  • Add some backward compatibility.
  • Compatibility testing with different versions of Elasticsearch (all 5.x and 6.x minor releases) and Python client versions (2.7, 3.5, 3.6)
  • Add esz_nodes_discovery for node related macros for discovery.
  • Add systemd service file.
  • Full test of prototype template with discovery of cluster and nodes.
  • Added esz_cluster_discovery for cluster related macros for LLD.
  • Added run_display_endpoints.py to show all endpoints for a given node. This works better with --apidebug enabled in the backend, as it pretty prints the results.
  • Reworked the launch scripts to use similar code as much as possible.
  • Moved a lot of classes and modules around.
  • Template for ES 6.3 (may work for any 6.x).
  • Default config.yml for Elasticsearch 6.x
  • Initial documentation created
  • Absence of protobix corrected (jameskirsop) #8
  • Removed superfluous api prefixes in config.yml (untergeek) #10
  • Pinned click version to be less than 7.0 for now

0.1.4 (22 June 2016)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix es_stats dependency to be 0.2.1, which fixes some reported bugs.

General

  • Fix docs in their as yet incomplete state to at least not have incorrect information

0.1.1 (7 October 2015)

New

  • Batch now reports count of items which failed on command-line. This enables you to call batch as a Zabbix agent item, and report a result.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent empty lists in batches from generating an error.

0.1.0 (7 October 2015)

New

  • Refactor all Zabbix key parsing. Much simpler now.
  • Improved logging.

0.0.2 (6 October 2015)

Bug fixes

  • Put kaptan dependency in place

0.0.1 (6 October 2015)

Announcement

  • Initial release