Altinity.Cloud Release Notes

Most recent releases organized by major release and release date:

Altinity.Cloud 22.8.15

Released: 2022-07-07


Added

• New tool to review and remove detached parts
• New tool to test connectivity to Kafka broker
• New tool to import test datasets – available for 22.3 ClickHouse version and above

Changed

• Default log level for new clusters is set to ‘information’. Users can edit log level using ’logger/level’ cluster setting
• Storage size is displayed as ‘Pending’ if rescale has not been complete
• Improved version upgrade recommendations
• Improved Schema and Workload tabs

Fixed

• Fixed a bug with uptime schedule that could unexpectidly stop clusters sometimes
• Fixed a bug with memory configuration settings if cluster is resumed to the different node size

 

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Altinity.Cloud 22.7.13

Released: 2022-06-03


Added

• User role is now displayed on Account page
• A warning is displayed on ClickHouse version upgrade is available
• Sorting has been added to the Schema tab
• A tool to convert a table from MergeTree to ReplicatedMergeTree (available for superadmins only)
• VPC Endpoint status is displayed on Connections popup
• Custom tolerations can be specified for node types

Changed

• User is automatically authenticated as ClickHouse admin when starting a new cluster
• Schedule icon opens a Schedule popup now
• When rescaling a volume, minimum rescale ratio is 20% of the volume size
• Org admin can access Environment details now (previously it was only possible with Env admin)

Fixed

• ClickHouse use authentication fixes
• List of backups was sometimes not properly sorted
• Fixed a possible race condition in backup and restore of replicated clusters

 

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Altinity.Cloud 22.6.18

Released: 2022-05-13


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

Released: 2022-04-25


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

Released: 2022-04-06


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 22.9.21

Released: 2022-04-06


Added

• Added a feature to convert from non-replicated to replicated MergeTree (available for Altinity staff only)
• Data Migration Tool to copy data between clusters (available for Altinity staff only)
• New ‘Launch from Backup’ wizard that allows to pick any backup source, including outside of Altinity.Cloud
• Replication status in Workload
  Alert cluster owners when Altinity access level is changed
• Backlink button to the Environment page
• Proxy connection mode for Anywhere clusters

Changed

• Workload tab was refactored to show 3 panels: Queries, Replication and Processes
• Workload is sorted in descending order by default
• Table creation hints were updated in Explorer
• Improved loading test datasets feature
• User is automatically redirected to the last visited page on re-login

Fixed

• Fixed restoring a backup in sharded and replicated cluster with tables replicated to every shard
• Fixed sorting order in dashboard
• Last insert timestamp now displays timestamp for Kafka inserts correctly now
• Fixed SELECT ALL IGNORED for detached parts

 

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Altinity.Cloud 22.3.14

Released: 2022-03-17


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

Released: 2022-02-28


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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The GitHub repository for this project is located at:

https://github.com/Altinity/acm