Altinity.Cloud Release Notes

Most recent releases organized by major release and release date:

2022-05-13 Altinity.Cloud 22.6.18

2022-04-25 Altinity.Cloud 22.5.15

2022-04-06 Altinity.Cloud 22.4.15

2022-03-17 Altinity.Cloud 22.3.14

2022-02-28 Altinity.Cloud 22.2.15

2022-01-31 Altinity.Cloud 22.1.28

2021-12-21 Altinity.Cloud 21.13.21

2021-12-01 Altinity.Cloud 21.12.26

Altinity.Cloud 22.6.18

Added

Explorer now requires user authorization using ClickHouse user/password
Altinity staff does not have an access to the data by default. Multiple levels of access can be granted by a customer – that enables ‘altinity’ user to work with the data.
New ‘Workload’ tab in Explorer to analyze typical queries
Copy to Clipboard buttons in Connection Details

Changed

DataDog metrics are labeled with environment and cluster
clickhouse-operator user is restricted to Altinity network only
Brute force protection is enabled for password recovery form

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Altinity.Cloud 22.5.15

Added

Cluster Uptime feature that allows stopping the cluster automatically when inactive or by schedule.
Reset to defaults is available on ClickHouse settings and profile settings pages.
Email notification is sent to the user when trial is extended.
Connection to Remote environment via Altinity Connector.

Changed

Display a warning when downgrading ClickHouse major version
Display a warning when non-replicated MergeTree table is created on replicated cluster
Cluster Dashboard now shows LB type and storage type

Fixed

Fixed UI slowness when a long query is being executed.
Fixed Schema tab that may be not displaying tables when databases contains hundreds of those.
Small UI fixes in different places.

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Altinity.Cloud 22.4.15

Added

Breakdown by clusters on a billing page.
Initial support for user managed environments.
Environment connection status.

Changed

Changed cluster wizard to make it easier to use.
Fractional disk sizes are not allowed anymore.
‘Pay by Invoice’ option is disabled.

Fixed

Fixed a bug with local backups not being deleted that might result in higher disk usage.
Fixed a possible backup failure on clusters with async_inserts=1.
Fixed a bug with ALTER TABLE did not work sometimes on clusters restored from a backup.
Fixed a bug with schema did not refresh sometimes.
Fixed a bug in incorrect retention of backups of sharded cluster.

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Altinity.Cloud 22.3.14

Added

Allow to select a node type when launching a cluster from backup (available for Altinity staff only).

Changed

DROP TABLE is executed now before restoring a table from the backup.
CPU is correctly displayed in cores on Environment page in this release.
clickhouse-operator has been upgraded to 0.18.3.
Fixed a bug that did not allow to enter ‘0’ in cluster settings.
Fixed a bug that might result in cluster not going online when using ClickHouse versions 22.2 and above.
Fixed a bug with incorrect display of billing data for GCP environments.
Fixed a bug with AWS NLB usage.
Fixed a bug with cluster metadata not being stored in backup sometimes.

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Altinity.Cloud 22.2.15

Added

Notifications for cluster related events can be configured
Datadog integration
Option to force Auth0 authentication for organization
Dark UI theme
Cmd/Ctrl+Enter in Explorer can be used to run a query

Changed

ZooKeeper is now stopped when cluster is stopped
Warning has been removed from volume rescale popup
Monitoring links have been moved to the top in order to make it easier to find
Max part size has been reduced to 50GB
Column compression tab is more compact now
When backup operation is in progress all operations that may incidentally restart the cluster are blocked now

Fixed

Fixed a bug with list of databases sometimes could not be parsed in user dialog
Fixed a bug with replica cluster creation
Fixed latest backup timestamp display for stopped clusters
Fixed a bug with table restore from a backup that could download full cluster backup instead of a single table

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Altinity.Cloud 22.1.28

Added

Restore cluster from an External backup (available for superadmins only)
Restore single table from a backup
New Grafana dashboard for logs

Changed

UI facelifting on Cluster and Nodes dashboards
System tables are now hidden by default on Schema dashboard
Stronger security for Grafana monitoring dashboard
Better performance of Billing dashboard
Use ‘pd-ssd’ fast storage for ZooKeeper nodes in GCP
Cluster dashboard now shows a warning if backup utility is outdated
Backup line item is now correctly displayed for GCP clusters
Support plan is now displayed on a billing page
Error Log section is removed from ClickHouse logs page

Fixed

Fixed ON CLUSTER switch behavior
Removed deprecated ClickHouse settings from default profile
Removed deprecated node annotations

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Altinity.Cloud 21.13.21

Added

Expiration date for trials can be adjusted from UI (previously it could only be done with an API call)
Expiration date for notifications can be configured
Units to the billing usage page
Legend to the Columns tab that clarifies key flags

Changed

UI has been refreshed with a new version of Clarity.Design library
When user VPC endpoint is configured Access Point URLs are switched to ‘internal’ now
AWS NLB is disabled by default. It can be enabled on Environment level if needed
Cron job logs are sent to centralized logging

Fixed

Processes view is fixed for ClickHouse versions 21.8
Estimated costs for GCP are corrected
Trial notifications are not longer created for blocked organizations

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Altinity.Cloud 21.12.26

Added

Post-trial workflow allows user to signup to the paid account
Column level compression tab in Schema popup
New billing user role in order to access billing only
Soft rolling restart of ClickHouse nodes is now available. The previous ‘hard’ restart can be used as well.
Background operation status is now displayed on the cluster dashboard
Billing integration for GCP
Backups for GCP

Changed

ZooKeeper is updated to 3.7.0. It only affects new clusters.
ClickHouse Backup is updated to 1.2.2
User will receive notification when subscribes or unsubscribes from Clickhouse alerts
Billing company name can now be different from the organization name