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Changes and Releases

Updates on Giant Swarm workload cluster releases, apps, UI improvements and documentation changes.

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.6

    Changed

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.180.5...v0.180.6

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.5

    Changed

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.180.4...v0.180.5

  • Security trivy-app v0.17.0

    Changed

    • Updated trivy to upstream version v0.72.0.
  • Security external-secrets v2.8.0

    Changed

    • Updating to the v2.8.0 version.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.4

    Fixed

    • (telemetry) Map Plans and Roadmap routes to named pages in #2028 by @marians

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.180.3...v0.180.4

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.3

    Changed

    • (deps) Update dependency @roadiehq/backstage-plugin-github-pull-requests to v3.7.1 in #2026 by @renovate[bot]

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.180.2...v0.180.3

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.2

    Changed

    • (skills) Add MUI v4 icon name + synonym reference to ui skill in #2027 by @marians

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.180.1...v0.180.2

  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.1

    Changed

    • (renovate) Hold @assistant-ui/react-ai-sdk below 1.3.41 in #2025 by @marians

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.180.0...v0.180.1

  • Observability dashboards v4.29.0

    Added

    • Add the Envoy Gateway | Overview dashboard: a lean single-pane health view (traffic, latency, error rate, saturation) that avoids duplicating the detail boards.
    • Add a downstream request-latency heatmap to Envoy Gateway | Clusters.
    • Add an Envoy Gateway controller logs panel to the Control Plane dashboard.
    • Publish the Flux Logs dashboard to Shared Org / GitOps. It covers the Flux controllers on the management cluster; workload-cluster Flux logs are not ingested yet, because the flux-system namespace there has no tenant assignment and Alloy drops untenanted pod logs.
    • Add scripts/update-flux-dashboards.sh (make update-flux-dashboards), which syncs the Flux dashboards from fluxcd/flux2-monitoring-example and re-applies our patches. It runs in the monthly dashboard-update workflow and fails loudly if a patch stops applying.
    • Add Organization and Cluster selectors to both Flux dashboards. They are deployed to the management cluster’s Grafana, whose Mimir holds metrics for every workload cluster, so until now every panel aggregated across a customer’s whole fleet.
    • Replace the Cilium dashboards with a set of four: Cilium | Overview for triage, Cilium | Agent, Cilium | Datapath & Policy and Cilium | Operator. Rows load collapsed and the per-agent panels use topk, so the entry point is no longer a 355 kB dashboard that fires 75 queries at once.
    • Add Cilium | Operator. The cilium-operator PodMonitor has always been enabled, but none of its metrics were graphed: identity garbage collection, workqueues, unmanaged pods and LB-IPAM.

    Changed

    • Consolidate the Envoy / Gateway API dashboards down to four: Overview, Clusters, Access Logs and Control Plane. The Control Plane board (formerly Global) absorbs the config push status panels, and Logs is renamed to Access Logs.
    • Synced Flux dashboards from fluxcd/flux2-monitoring-example@7ab65dc.
    • Anchor the etcd-health dashboard cluster selector to etcd_server_id instead of up, so clusters with a managed control plane (aks, eks) no longer appear as empty options.

    Removed

    • Remove the redundant Envoy Gateway | Proxy Global and Envoy Gateway | Configuration dashboards, folded into the boards above.

    Fixed

    • Fix the Flux Cluster Stats dashboard, which showed no data at all: every panel queried gotk_reconcile_condition, a metric the Flux controllers no longer expose. It now uses gotk_resource_info, the same metric our Flux alerting rules use, and gains upstream’s Suspended Objects panel.
    • De-duplicate gotk_resource_info on the Flux Cluster Stats dashboard. On management clusters both flux-ksm and kube-state-metrics export identical series, so the resource counts read exactly double.
    • Scope the Flux Control Plane dashboard to the Flux namespace. Its controller_runtime_* panels matched any operator exposing the same controller label values (for example controller="helmrelease" is also emitted by dex-operator and team-stamper).
    • Widen the Flux Control Plane range windows from [1m] to [$__rate_interval]. With our 60s scrape interval a one-minute window cannot hold two samples, so the reconciliation and API-request panels were empty. The ops/min panels use rate(...) * 60 so they stay per-minute rather than reporting the count over the whole (range-dependent) window.
    • Point the Flux Cluster Stats targets at the $datasource variable. Seven of them were pinned to a prometheus datasource uid that does not exist here, and the target-level datasource overrides the panel.
    • Restrict the Flux namespace selector on Flux Control Plane to the Flux controller pods. It was derived from a generic controller-runtime metric, so on a management cluster it also offered external-secrets, giantswarm and kube-system, and the dashboard could open on another operator’s data.
    • Fix the worker count expression on the Nodes Overview dashboard.
    • Fix the monthly dashboard-update workflow, which called a make update-mixin target that no longer exists (it was renamed to update-all-mixin), so the automation failed instead of opening a PR.

    Removed

    • Remove the Cilium Metrics and Cilium performance dashboards, replaced by the set above. 16 of their panels queried metrics Cilium no longer exposes (the kvstore and BPF syscall sections, the L7 proxy counters and the policy trigger panels), and Cilium performance duplicated the Overview.
  • Developer Portal backstage v0.180.0

    Added

    • (agent-platform) Delete an agent from the details page in #2024 by @marians

    Full Changelog: https://github.com/giantswarm/backstage/compare/v0.179.11...v0.180.0