2024.4

Release notes for GridGain Control Center 2024.4.

What's New in This Release

GridGain® Control Center is a comprehensive, customizable cluster management and developer tool for Apache® Ignite™ and GridGain applications. Use Control Center to query data across caches, monitor performance metrics, define and track production alerts, take snapshots for backup and recovery, and collect and analyze API traces. The latest Control Center release, 2024.4, includes a number of new features, as well as improvements and issue resolutions.

New Features

The main "news" in this release is the ability to use more Control Center capabilities when working with GridGain 9 clusters.

If you are not working with GridGain 9 clusters, you can disable the GridGain 9 connector, thus simplifying your environment configuration.

Viewing GridGain 9 Cluster Metrics

You can now view metrics from GridGain 9 clusters in the Control Center Dashboard screen, including the Default tab and any custom tabs you add. Alerts can also be configured and monitored now for GridGain 9 clusters.

Managing Snapshots for GridGain 9 Clusters

You can now create and manage snapshots, as well as view snapshot operation history, for GridGain 9 clusters in the Snapshots screen.

Managing Users and Adding Users in Bulk

As an admin Control Center user, you can now edit user details in the User management tab of the Admin screen. You can also create new users in bulk, by importing a CSV file into Control Center.

Improvements and Resolved Issues

Issue ID	Category	Description
CC-10122	Monitoring	Dashboards now refer to GridGain 8 and Apache Ignite nodes by their consistent ID, and to GridGain 9 nodes - by node name.
CC-10115	Alerting	Control Center now supports alerting for GridGain 9 clusters.
CC-9996	General	The TTL parameter defaults for queries, traces, and compute tasks are changed from 7 days to 1 day.
CC-9984	Queries	Query size warning is now visible in both light and dark themes.
CC-9940	Monitoring	You can now monitor metrics for GridGain 9 clusters via Control Center UI.
CC-9878	Monitoring	Fixed an issue with cursor losing position over a gap in the chart widget.
CC-9747	General	You can now manage snapshots and view snapshot operation history for GridGain 9 clusters.
CC-9744	General	When attaching GridGain 9 clusters, you can now specify client connection configuration.
CC-9737	Tables	Fixed the node filter to not reset in the Tables screen.A
CC-9691	General	You can now show client nodes in the "My cluster" screen.
CC-9600	Queries	The date that shows for failed SQL queries to GridGain 9 clusters is now correct.
CC-9592	Queries	It is now possible to see the database tree for GridGain 9 clusters.
CC-9585	General	Administrator users can now import new users from a CSV file.
CC-9579	Queries	Responses to the same SQL query against GridGain 9 cluster are now grouped in the same tab.
CC-9444	Monitoring	Added options to update data every 5 or 30 seconds in the SQL widget.
CC-9416	General	Upon triggering, alerts are no longer stuck in the Alerting status.
CC-9159	Metrics	Control Center can now properly handle metrics for caches with dots in name.
CC-9002	General	Control Center no longer requires a connection to GridGain website to get an up-to-date list of Apache Ignite agent versions.
CC-7430	General	Control Center no longer displays ambiguous error messages associated with network issues.
CC-1507	General	Administrator users can now can create and edit users in the UI.

Updating to 2024.4

You can update Control Center to 2024.4 from 2022.2 and more recent versions. To update from older versions, update to 2022.2 first.

1. If you haven't yet, update to Java 17 or 21.

2. Follow the update instructions.

The default values of the TTL parameters in Control Center 2024.4 are different from those in earlier versions (1 day instead of 7 days). To retain the required TTL values, define them explicitly in the Control Center configuration before version update.