Skedler Reports v5.5.0 - Release Notes

Build/Version Number: 5.5.0

Release date: 26 Nov, 2021

System Requirements

• Operating System
  • Linux 7 (debian7/ubuntu12.04 to 20.04, RedHat 7/CentOS 7)
  • Windows 64 bit
  • MacOs 64 bit
  • Please note that Linux 6 is not supported.
• Elastic Stack
  • Elasticsearch & Kibana 6.x to 7.15.2
  • Open Distro for Elasticsearch from 0.8.0 to 1.13.0 is supported.
  • Security plugins: Xpack and Search Guard Version from 6.x.x to 7.15.2 and Security Onion from 2.3.60 to 2.3.80 are supported.
  • Grafana version from 6.x to 8.2.4

Features

• Added  auto-scaling support for Grafana dashboard layout reports
• Added a privilege to super admin users to change their email id
• You can now generate reports using Grafana dashboard timezone by  selecting "use dashboard time" in Skedler
• Support for using the fiscal year time window in Grafana dashboards.
• Support added to use MySQL version 8 as datastore
• Support added for ELK 7.15.2 and Grafana 8.2.4
• Added support for Outlook SMTP

Bug fixes

• Fixed  the issue regarding deleting filter which is already applied to reports
• Fixed the error while generating report with absolute time filter
• Fixed the issue of quick time window which is always in last 15 Minutes
• Fixed the report rendering issue when table doesn't have a header
• Fixed AWS OpenSearch connectivity issue
• Fixed font parsing error while report generation
• Fixed the issue with report rescheduling when restarting the server
• Handled error cases for unsupported datasource versions while generating report
• Fixed the issues with number of queries during filter listing
• Fixed undefined issue in adding ${Filtername} param in distribution
• Fixed report generation failure when a report has error charts
• Fixed the duplicate chart issue
• Fixed the issue when sending warning messages in slack
• Fixed the AWS OpenSearch connection issue without authentication
• Fixed the migration issue for monthly and yearly scheduled report
• Fixed the issue of missing tabular column header missing in Kibana reports

Minor Changes

• Improved logs in report distribution
• Added zero to first ten number in dropdown while time scheduling
• Moved download logs function from settings to help.
• Added the ability to preview the report based on filter query

Known Issues

• Auto scaling support for visualizations is not supported for Grafana 6
• API key will not be supported for Grafana 8 dashboards having live stream charts
• Kibana theme based report generation is supported only for ELK 7.0 to 7.10
• HTML inline report has the rendering issues
• Kibana logs stream is not supported yet
• Grafana excel reports will support only raw queries for all data sources except elasticsearch