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The v1.25.0 release of the Netdata Agent delivers on our commitment to make our metrics collection, visualization, and troubleshooting platform more stable and usable. We enhanced our recently-added Prometheus collector with user-configurable filtering and grouping, made dramatic improvements to the reliability of the Agent-Cloud link that streams metrics on-demand to your browser when you use Netdata Cloud, and more. Let’s jump in and look at each improvement.

When an incident strikes, and every minute spent on root cause analysis delays the time to resolution, the real-world consequences can be dire. Troubleshooting an event requires a certain data set: every metric, at the greatest granularity, in one place, available in real time. Limits on the number or type of metrics, collection frequency, or time to visualization can mean the difference between timely resolution and unacceptable losses in time, money, and productivity.

Today, we are excited to launch our first Netdata Cloud Insights feature, Metric Correlations, developed for discovering underlying issues more quickly and identifying the root cause more efficiently. Read on to learn more about our approach to developing this new feature, how it works, and the many benefits you’ll find incorporating this into your team’s troubleshooting workflow.

There are so many great things that can be said about Loki – I recently wrote about them here. But today, I want to talk about something technical that has been difficult for Loki users, and how we might make it easier: using Loki for short-lived services. Historically, one of Loki’s blind spots is ingesting logs from infrastructure you don’t control, because you can’t co-locate a forwarding agent like promtail with your application logs.

On September 14, CVE-2020-14386 was reported as a “high” severity threat. This CVE is a kernel security vulnerability that enables an unprivileged local process to gain root access to the system. CVE-2020-14386 is a result of a bug found in the packet socket facility in the Linux kernel. It allows a bad actor to trigger a memory corruption that can be exploited to hijack data and resources and in the most severe case, completely take over the system.

Your cloud application or service can look pristine from an IT perspective, while the end-user identifies it as “glitchy” and “unreliable”. Though the technical issues may not be your fault, it still impacts the user’s perception of your company and brand. Issues could spawn from the user’s device limitations, the browser version, or a regional public cloud outage that is causing the poor user experience.

The new quality release offers many bug fixes for increased stability, as well as Mattermost Omnibus — a new method for installing and maintaining Mattermost, and a one-click experience in Team Edition to access Mattermost Enterprise features.