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Release Notes - KX Insights Platform 1.0.0

Release for KX Insights Platform.

Release Date

2022-03-14

Features

[NEW] UI allows storage and reload of data assemblies.

[NEW] Schemas can be created and deleted in the KX Insights Platform user interface.

[NEW] Assemblies can be created, saved and deployed in the KX Insights platform user interface.

[NEW] Ability to Export Assembly Definitions.

[NEW] Integration with the new License Management system. Due to these changes, existing licenses will need to be re-issued. Please contact your KX representative for more information.

Artifacts

type location
Infrastructure kxi-terraform-1.0.0.tgz
Platform insights-1.0.0.tgz
CLI pip install --extra-index-url https://nexus.dl.kx.com/repository/kxi/simple kxicli==0.4.0
Operator kxi-operator-1.0.0.tgz
ODBC Driver kodbc 1.0.0
Java SDK java-sdk 1.0.0

Known Issues

  • The Service Gateway may repeatably print a NullPointerException under certain conditions. If this should occur the Kubernetes pod that the service gateway process is running on should be bounced.

  • An OOM event may be triggered when repeatedly bombarded with requests that return a large result set. In the event where an OOM occurs the client will not receive a response and the request may be retried and service by other gateways.

  • When choosing an assembly in the Explore Window a ‘500 Internal Server Error’ can be returned if no labels are included in the labels section of the assembly definition.

  • In the prospective menu (the customizable navigation toolbar) not all options available in the menu selector are currently supported, we recommend keeping the default menu options. However, all options are included in the Entity Tree shown when the Home menu is selected.

  • When exporting an Assembly definition from the KX Insights Platform UI the file requires some cleaning before it can be imported into another environment.

    • Remove id entry from tables.
    • Remove apiVersion entry from pipelines and sequencers.
    • Remove line breaks from pipeline specs.
  • When saving a pipeline in the UI on AWS or Azure you need to change the Storage Class from “standard” (which is the default for GCP) to a storage class which exists on AWS or Azure. For example, to “gp2" for AWS, or "default" for Azure. This is done in the Persistence tab when saving. Note, the Storage Class is set separately for the controller and worker. Both must be set correctly. Scroll down to set the worker Storage Class too. Otherwise, the pipeline pod and pvc deployment will get stuck in the “pending” state as no “standard” storage class can be found. Alternatively, create a “standard” storage class per the link storage class resource.

  • Assemblies applied directly through kubectl cannot be edited in the User Interface. However, they can be queried via the Explore tab.

  • Not all stream log files written by the Reliable Transport mechanism (RT) are deleted once the stream has been replicated to the subscriber as the RT stream log archival rules are not being applied to all processes. This will cause the disk space of certain volumes associated with the KX Insights Platform cluster to fill up over time. The more data that is sent through the system the faster this will occur. This may result in out of disk space issues at the producer/subscriber and in the raft cluster. We recommend that you monitor the disk usage and manually delete old stream logs regularly to prevent the disks from filling up. A tool that monitors the disk space could be used to alert you when this intervention is required (for example: Google's Cloud Watch on GCP, or Prometheus). See the section RT Logs for locations of the stream log files and how to delete old stream logs that are not longer required.

  • If a publisher is running and either the out directory on any of your 3 nodes in the RT cluster stops growing, or your Stream Processor is not receiving data, you should restart your publisher. To investigate the progress of messages in the RT cluster stream logs and look at the RT application logs see the section RT Logs.

  • If a user leaves trailing spaces after CLI fields, such as secrets, then the trailing spaces are preserved in the values.yaml file leading to errors on deployment. For example, kxi-certificate in below yaml:
global:
caIssuer:
name: 'kxi-certificate '
secretName: 'kxi-certificate '
  • The CLI error handling is currently limited. If necessary use the underlying kubectl command to see the issue more clearly. For example, to see a yaml syntax error returned by a modified sdk_sample_assembly.yaml file, run: kubectl apply -f sdk_sample_assembly.yaml.
  • The KX ODBC driver is not currently available for use on Windows, therefore as the Java SDK requires the ODBC driver to be installed, neither SDKs are currently available on Windows.

  • When using the Sample Java program, provided as part of the Java SDK, replace valFloat:float with valFloat:double in the first line of the sample.csv file before running the program.

  • The Controller expects you to call your idb, myidb, under instances if you set mounts to use different keynames than your instances an error occurs.
dap:
  instances:
    idb:
      size: 1
      mountName: myidb
      gwAssembly: insights
  • Enabling .z handler metrics will accumulate memory over time and may cause containers to restart if they hit their memory resource limit.

Backward Compatibility

  • If you're upgrading from a previous version or the CRD is already installed, helm will not update the definition automatically. See Operator Overview Helm Warning for details on how to rectify this.