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10. 01. 2025 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.39

We have resolved an issue that prevented Elastic Agents from successfully connecting to the Fleet Server when their requests were excessively large. Additionally, we addressed a bug in the neteye update and neteye upgrade processes, which was incorrectly initiating a rolling restart of Elasticsearch also in cases where this was not necessary. We updated the…

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31. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini Automation, Development, DevOps

Maintaining Forks of Upstream Projects without git

When adopting an open-source software project that you don’t own, you may find it necessary to modify it partially to meet your specific requirements. However, as you implement those changes, it’s important to recognize that the upstream project will eventually update itself, leading to potential conflicts in the files that both you and the upstream…

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30. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini APM, Development, NetEye

Supporting HTTP/2 and gRPC in nginx

Since its introduction the HTTP/2 protocol has been adopted more and more in servers and clients applications thanks to its improved performance compared to its ancestor HTTP/1.1. This poses an issue to services exposed via nginx, since some specific configurations are needed on nginx in order to allow clients and servers to fully use the…

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27. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini APM, Development, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Elastic Universal Profiling – Profiling native code

In a previous post we went through the configuration of Elastic Universal Profiling in NetEye, seeing how we can profile applications written in programming languages that do not compile to native code (for example Python, PHP, Perl, etc.) But what happens if the application is written for example in C, Go or Rust? Let’s take…

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23. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini APM, Development, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Continuous Profiling with NetEye – Elastic Universal Profiling

Elastic 8.16, which comes with NetEye 4.39, made Elastic Universal Profiling generally available for self-hosted installations. This means that NetEye SIEM installations will now be able to take advantage of the continuous profiling solution by Elastic. In this blog post we’ll explain what you can achieve with continuous profiling, and how you can configure it…

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20. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.39

We fixed a bug which was causing the Elasticsearch upgrade procedure to fail in a race condition. In particular, after the upgrade of the Elasticsearch RPM and before the restart of the service, the running Elasticsearch service could possibly fail loading some libraries, hence breaking the upgrade procedure. We updated the following packages:

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01. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini Downloads / Release Notes, NetEye, Unified Monitoring

NetEye 4.39 Release Notes

Welcome to version 4.39 of our NetEye v4 Unified Monitoring Platform. This stunning drone panoramic photo captures the frozen beauty of Lake Carezza, nestled in Northern Italy’s winter landscape. The snowcapped mountain pass frames the serene lake, while the dense green pine forest adds depth to the scene. Cars winding along the road hint at…

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22. 10. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.38

We resolved a bug in the Elastic Agent which was causing the Elastic Agent to temporarily losing its state (namely the state.enc file) during updates. We updated the following packages:

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03. 10. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.38

We updated the Elastic Stack to version 8.15.2, which fixes some known issues present with versions 8.15.1 (the version previously used in NetEye for Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash and APM) and 8.15.0 (the version previously used in NetEye by Elastic Agents and Beats). For more details please refer to the official Elastic release notes. We updated…

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03. 10. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.37

We fixed a bug in nginx that was causing NetEye upgrades from version 4.36 to version 4.37 to fail with an error. We updated the following packages:

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21. 08. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.37

We resolved an issue in the neteye update and neteye upgrade commands where the process would halt if the Elasticsearch cluster took longer than 30 seconds to respond to API requests. We updated the following packages:

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07. 08. 2024 Damiano Chini Development

How Feature Toggles Can Improve Agile Development

As the NetEye R&D team, we sometimes need to develop features in NetEye that require a lot of work to finish implementing. To handle the development of these features, we’re always trying to divide the work into smaller, more manageable pieces so that we can see any progress and avoid the typical pitfalls of the…

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18. 07. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.36

We fixed a bug that caused the neteye install command to not wait for resources to restart after the procedure completed. We updated the following packages:

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01. 07. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.36

We fixed a bug in the NetEye Alyvix module which caused some errors to be shown to administrators of Tenants which did not have access to some tenant-shared Alyvix Nodes. We updated the following packages:

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06. 05. 2024 Damiano Chini Bug Fixes, NetEye

Bug Fixes for NetEye 4.34

We fixed a bug in the neteye update and neteye upgrade commands that was causing the NetEye default Logstash plugins to be installed from the Internet on passive cluster nodes. In particular this was causing the commands to fail in case these nodes did not have access to rubygems.org. Updated packages We updated the following…

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