Release Notes
The chronological history of updates to the OtterTune service and agent.
- Multiple database agent support
- Documentation coming soon!
- We now support Aurora Serverless
- PostgreSQL v13 & v14
- MySQL v8.0
- We now support Aurora MySQL v8.0
- New agent version 0.3.17
- The agent now supports Aurora MySQL v8.0
- We published feature request site where customer can request or vote for new features to OtterTune
- Add a feature request or vote on features requested by other users. Access this by selecting 'Suggest a Feature' from your OtterTune settings menu
- For users who have not yet connected OtterTune to their AWS Account, we've released a new 'Add IAM Role' flow
- Fixed an issue where User Invites were not connecting accounts successfully
- New agent version 0.3.16
- The agent now collects some of the schema information. This will further support our efforts in index tuning and query tuning.
- If you’d prefer not to have us collect this data, please disable it when creating the agent or reach out to [email protected] / on Slack to let us know
- Improve troubleshooting and user-facing error handling
- We now support Aurora Postgres 14🎉
- Vacuum Health for Postgres and Aurora Postgres databases
- Vacuum Health provides real-time analysis of your database's vacuum worker health and suggests actions to fix the issues it identifies
- Event Log v0
- This feature collects and analyzes database events (e.g. Aurora cluster failovers, hardware change, etc.) to facilitate database optimization in depth
- The OtterTune Agent was upgraded to Version 0.3.15
- The agent now collects query digests. This will further support our efforts in query tuning
- Note this is anonymized information--none of your user data will be collected. You can also disable query collection if needed
- If you'd prefer not to have us collect this data, please reach out to [email protected] or connect with us on Slack to let us know
- The OtterTune Agent was upgraded to Version 0.3.10
- The agent now collects anonymized query statistics
- This will support automatic, machine learning-driven query tuning
- Added an Account Settings page where you can:
- Invite others from your team to join your OtterTune account
- The OtterTune Agent was upgraded to Version 0.3.8
- The agent now collects index statistics
- Table-level statistics and health checks
- MySQL: Fragmentation checks
- PostgreSQL: Dead tuples, stale statistics, and excessive reads checks
- Fixed issue where Tuning Interval was changing on its own.
- More database health checks including a memory utilization check and a resource under-utilization check.
- Fixed issue where we were unable to support a subset of RDS instance types.
- Fixed issue where users would not be able to switch back to monitoring mode when tuning for p99 query latency where p99 query latency data was missing.
- Other minor bug fixes.
- Amazon Aurora Support - auto-tuning for Amazon Aurora databases is now available with our free Starter tier plan.
- PostgreSQL v14 Support - auto-tuning for PostgreSQL v14 is now available.
- Database Health Checks - OtterTune informs you of potentially problematic database performance problems and suggests actions to remedy them.
- Database Insights - OtterTune provides deeper visibility into the performance and workload characteristics of your database.
- Best Configuration Baseline - see which of OtterTune's configurations has performed the best so far over your database's baseline (first) configuration.
- Kubernetes Manifest - deploy the OtterTune Agent to a Kubernetes cluster.
- Terraform Template - automatically provision your OtterTune IAM role via Terraform.
- Fixed issue in the Review tab where values for the latest recommendation would display for a few seconds then disappear.
- Fixed issue that prevented users from switching between instance- and cluster-level tuning for Amazon Aurora databases.
- Human-in-the-Loop - approve knob changes before they are applied to your database.
- New Target Objectives - support for p99 query latency and CPU utilization as target objectives options for tuning.
- Fixed issue in the Configurations tab where the list of knobs displayed would not reset when selecting a different configuration.
- Containerized OtterTune Agent - we support an open-source agent running on your hosts that can collect database metrics without our service needing direct network access to your database.
- CloudFormation templates - it is now much easier to provision your OtterTune IAM role and the agent
- Okta Self-Service Registration - create your own OtterTune account to automatically receive free-tier access to our service.
- Customizable Tuning Schedules - control when OtterTune is able to optimize your database
- "Apply Now" for Configurations - you can now manually apply previously seen configurations by OtterTune
- Configuration Versioning - see how your Database parameter group changes overtime
- Fixed issue where we were always treating changes to the MySQL parameter
innodb_thread_sleep_delayas new configuration changes. This parameter is updated by InnoDB automatically wheninnodb_adaptive_max_sleep_delayis set. Now, we no longer treat automatic changes toinnodb_thread_sleep_delayas a new configuration. - Fixed y-axis issue on charts where we were not appropriately subdividing for small ranges
- Fixed issue where we would incorrectly display an error message suggesting that users' agents have been disconnected if they stayed on the database overview page for too long.
- Fixed issue where we lost track of a user's parameter group ARN when they switched from Tuning mode to Monitoring mode.
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