Glances 3.1.4

Version 3.1.4

Enhancements and new features:

    FS filtering can be done on device name documentation enhancement #1606
    Feature request: Include hostname in all (e.g. kafka) exports #1594
    Threading.isAlive was removed in Python 3.9. Use is_alive. #1585
    log file under public/shared tmp/ folders must not have deterministic name #1575
    Install / Systemd Debian documentation #1560
    Display load as percentage when Irix mode is disable #1554
    [WebUI] Add a new TCP connections status plugin new feature #1547
    Make processes.sort_key configurable enhancement #1536
    NVIDIA GPU temperature #1523
    Feature request: HDD S.M.A.R.T. #1288

Bugs corrected:

    Glances 3.1.3: when no network interface with Public address #1615
    NameError: name 'logger' is not defined #1602
    Disk IO stats missing after upgrade to 5.5.x kernel #1601
    Glances don't want to run on Crostini (LXC Container, Debian 10, python 3.7.3) #1600
    Kafka key name needs to be bytes #1593
    Cant start glances with glances --export mqtt #1581
    [WEBUI] AMP plugins is not displayed correctly in the Web Interface #1574
    Unhandled AttributeError when no config files found #1569
    Glances writing lots of Docker Error message in logs file enhancement #1561
    GPU stats not showing on mobile web view bug needs test #1555
    KeyError: b'Rss:' in memory_maps #1551
    CPU usage is always 100% #1550
    IP plugin still exporting data when disabled #1544
    Quicklook plugin not working on Systemd #1537

Glances 3.1.0

Version 3.1

Enhancements and new features:

* Add a CSV output format to the STDOUT output mode #1363
* Feature request: HDD S.M.A.R.T. reports (thanks to @tnibert) #1288
* Sort docker stats #1276
* Prohibit some plug-in data from being exported to influxdb #1368
* Disable plugin from Glances configuration file #1378
* Curses-browser's server list paging added (thanks to @limfreee) #1385
* Client Browser's thread management added (thanks to @limfreee) #1391

Bugs corrected:

* TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'float' and 'str' #1315
* GPU plugin not exported to influxdb #1333
* Crash after running fine for several hours #1335
* Timezone listed doesn’t match system timezone, outputs wrong time #1337
* Compare issue with Process.cpu_times() #1339
* ERROR -- Can not grab extended stats (invalid attr name 'num_fds') #1351
* Action on port/web plugins is not working #1358
* Support for monochrome (serial) terminals e.g. vt220 #1362
* TypeError on opening (Wifi plugin) #1373
* Some field name are incorrect in CSV export #1372
* Standard output misbehaviour (need to flush) #1376
* Create an option to set the username to use in Web or RPC Server mode #1381
* Missing kernel task names when the webui is switched to long process names #1371
* Drive name with special characters causes crash #1383
* Cannot get stats in Cloud plugin (404) #1384

Others:

* Add Docker documentation (thanks to @rgarrigue)
* Refactor Glances logs (now called Glances events)
* "chart" extra dep replace by "graph" #1389

Glances 3.0.2

Version 3.0.2

Bug corrected:

* Glances IO Errorno 22 - Invalid argument #1326

Version 3.0.1

Bug corrected:

*  AMPs error if no output are provided by the system call #1314

Version 3.0

See the release note here: https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/Glances-3.0-Release-Note

Enhancements and new features:

* Make the left side bar width dynamic in the Curse UI #1177
* Add threads number in the process list #1259
* A way to have only REST API available and disable WEB GUI access #1149
* Refactor graph export plugin (& replace Matplolib by Pygal) #697
* Docker module doesn't export details about stopped containers #1152
* Add dynamic fields in all sections of the configuration file #1204
* Make plugins and export CLI option dynamical #1173
* Add a light mode for the console UI #1165
* Refactor InfluxDB (API is now stable) #1166
* Add deflate compression support to the RestAPI #1182
* Add a code of conduct for Glances project's participants #1211
* Context switches bottleneck identification #1212
* Take advantage of the psutil issue #1025 (Add process_iter(attrs, ad_value)) #1105
* Nice Process Priority Configuration #1218
* Display debug message if dep lib is not found #1224
* Add a new output mode to stdout #1168
* Huge refactor of the WebUI packaging thanks to @spike008t #1239
* Add time zone to the current time #1249
* Use HTTPs URLs to check public IP address #1253
* Add labels support to Promotheus exporter #1255
* Overlap in Web UI when monitoring a machine with 16 cpu threads #1265
* Support for exporting data to a MQTT server #1305

One more thing ! A new Grafana Dash is available with:
* Network interface variable
* Disk variable
* Container CPU

Bugs corrected:

* Crash in the Wifi plugin on my Laptop #1151
* Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory #1156
* glances_plugin.py has a problem with specific docker output #1160
* Key error 'address' in the IP plugin #1176
* NameError: name 'mode' is not defined in case of interrupt shortly after starting the server mode #1175
* Crash on startup: KeyError: 'hz_actual_raw' on Raspbian 9.1 #1170
* Add missing mount-observe and system-observe interfaces #1179
* OS specific arguments should be documented and reported #1180
* 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\U0001f4a9' in position 4: ordinal not in range(128) #1185
* KeyError: 'memory_info' on stats sum #1188
* Electron/Atom processes displayed wrong in process list #1192
* Another encoding issue... With both Python 2 and Python 3 #1197
* Glances do not exit when eating 'q' #1207
* FreeBSD blackhole bug #1202
* Glances crashes when mountpoint with non ASCII characters exists #1201
* [WEB UI] Minor issue on the Web UI #1240
* [Glances 3.0 RC1] Client/Server is broken #1244
* Fixing horizontal scrolling #1248
* Stats updated during export (thread issue) #1250
* Glances --browser crashed when more than 40 glances servers on screen 78x45 #1256
* OSX - Python 3 and empty percent and res #1251
* Crashes when influxdb option set #1260
* AMP for kernel process is not working #1261
* Arch linux package (2.11.1-2) psutil (v5.4.1): RuntimeWarning: ignoring OSError #1203
* Glances crash with extended process stats #1283
* Terminal window stuck at the last accessed *protected* server #1275
* Glances shows mdadm RAID0 as degraded when chunksize=128k and the array isn't degraded. #1299
* Never starts in a server on Google Cloud and FreeBSD #1292

Backward-incompatible changes:

* Support for Python 3.3 has been dropped (EOL 2017-09-29)
* Support for psutil < 5.3.0 has been dropped
* Minimum supported Docker API version is now 1.21 (Docker plugins)
* Support for InfluxDB < 0.9 is deprecated (InfluxDB exporter)
* Zeroconf lib should be pinned to 0.19.1 for Python 2.x
* --disable-<plugin> no longer available (use --disable-plugin <plugin>)
* --export-<exporter> no longer available (use --export <exporter>)

News command line options:

--disable-webui  Disable the WebUI (only RESTful API will respond)
--enable-light   Enable the light mode for the UI interface
--modules-list   Display plugins and exporters list
--disable-plugin plugin1,plugin2
                 Disable a list of comma separated plugins
--export exporter1,exporter2
                 Export stats to a comma separated exporters
--stdout plugin1,plugin2.attribute
                 Display stats to stdout

News configuration keys in the glances.conf file:

Graph:

[graph]
# Configuration for the --export graph option
# Set the path where the graph (.svg files) will be created
# Can be overwrite by the --graph-path command line option
path=/tmp
# It is possible to generate the graphs automatically by setting the
# generate_every to a non zero value corresponding to the seconds between
# two generation. Set it to 0 to disable graph auto generation.
generate_every=60
# See followings configuration keys definitions in the Pygal lib documentation
# http://pygal.org/en/stable/documentation/index.html
width=800
height=600
style=DarkStyle

Processes list Nice value:

[processlist]
# Nice priorities range from -20 to 19.
# Configure nice levels using a comma separated list.
#
# Nice: Example 1, non-zero is warning (default behavior)
nice_warning=-20,-19,-18,-17,-16,-15,-14,-13,-12,-11,-10,-9,-8,-7,-6,-5,-4,-3,-2,-1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
#
# Nice: Example 2, low priority processes escalate from careful to critical
#nice_careful=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
#nice_warning=10,11,12,13,14
#nice_critical=15,16,17,18,19

Docker plugin (related to #1152)

[docker]
# By default, Glances only display running containers
# Set the following key to True to display all containers
all=False

All configuration file values (related to #1204)

[influxdb]
# It is possible to use dynamic system command
prefix=`hostname`
tags=foo:bar,spam:eggs,system:`uname -a`

Glances 3.0

See Wiki page for release note.

https://github.com/nicolargo/glances/wiki/Glances-3.0-Release-Note

Glances 2.11

Enhancements and new features:

* New export plugin: standard and configurable Restfull exporter (issue #1129)
* Add a JSON export module (issue #1130)
* [WIP] Refactoring of the WebUI

Bugs corrected:

* Installing GPU plugin crashes entire Glances (issue #1102)
* Potential memory leak in Windows WebUI (issue #1056)
* glances_network `OSError: [Errno 19] No such device` (issue #1106)
* GPU plugin. <class 'TypeError'>: ... not JSON serializable"> (issue #1112)
* PermissionError on macOS (issue #1120)
* Cant move up or down in glances --browser (issue #1113)
* Unable to give aliases to or hide network interfaces and disks (issue #1126)
* `UnicodeDecodeError` on mountpoints with non-breaking spaces (issue #1128)

Installation:

* Create a Snap of Glances (issue #1101)

Glances 2.10

Enhancements and new features:

* New plugin to scan remote Web sites (URL) (issue #981)
* Add trends in the Curses interface (issue #1077)
* Add new repeat function to the action (issue #952)
* Use -> and <- arrows keys to switch between processing sort (issue #1075)
* Refactor __init__ and main scripts (issue #1050)
* [WebUI] Improve WebUI for Windows 10 (issue #1052)

Bugs corrected:

* StatsD export prefix option is ignored (issue #1074)
* Some FS and LAN metrics fail to export correctly to StatsD (issue #1068)
* Problem with non breaking space in file system name (issue #1065)
* TypeError: string indices must be integers (Network plugin) (issue #1054)
* No Offline status for timeouted ports? (issue #1084)
* When exporting, uptime values loop after 1 day (issue #1092)

Installation:

• Create a package.sh script to generate .DEB, .RPM and others... (issue #722)
  ==> https://github.com/nicolargo/glancesautopkg
• OSX: can't python setup.py install due to python 3.5 constraint (issue #1064)

Glances 2.9.1

Version 2.9.1

Bugs corrected:

* Glances PerCPU issues with Curses UI on Android (issue #1071)
* Remove extra } in format string (issue #1073)

Glances 2.9.0

Version 2.9.0

Enhancements and new features:

* Add a Prometheus export module (issue #930)
* Add a Kafka export module (issue #858)
* Port in the -c URI (-c hostname:port) (issue #996)

Bugs corrected:

* On Windows --export-statsd terminates immediately and does not export (issue #1067)
* Glances v2.8.7 issues with Curses UI on Android (issue #1053)
* Fails to start, OSError in sensors_temperatures (issue #1057)
* Crashs after long time running the glances --browser (issue #1059)
* Sensor values don't refresh since psutil backend (issue #1061)

• glances-version.db Permission denied (issue #1066)

Glances 2.8.1

Enhancements and new features:

* Enable docker plugin on Windows (issue #1009) - Thanks to @fraoustin

Bugs corrected:

* Glances export issue with CPU and SENSORS (issue #1024)
* Can't export data to a CSV file in Client/Server mode (issue #1023)
* Autodiscover error while binding on IPv6 addresses (issue #1002)
* GPU plugin is display when hitting '4' or '5' shortkeys (issue #1012)
* Interrupts and usb_fiq (issue #1007)
* Docker image does not work in web server mode! (issue #1017)
* IRQ plugin is not display anymore (issue #1013)
* Autodiscover error while binding on IPv6 addresses (issue #1002)

Glances 2.8

Changes:

* The curses interface on Windows is no more. The web-based interface is now
  the default. (issue #946)
* The name of the log file now contains the name of the current user logged in,
  i.e., 'glances-USERNAME.log'.
* IRQ plugin off by default. '--disable-irq' option replaced by '--enable-irq'.

Enhancements and new features:

* GPU monitoring (limited to NVidia) (issue #170)
* WebUI CPU consumption optimization (issue #836)
* Not compatible with the new Docker API 2.0 (Docker 1.13) (issue #1000)
* Add ZeroMQ exporter (issue #939)
* Add CouchDB exporter (issue #928)
* Add hotspot Wifi informations (issue #937)
* Add default interface speed and automatic rate thresolds (issue #718)
* Highlight max stats in the processes list (issue #878)
* Docker alerts and actions (issue #875)
* Glances API returns the processes PPID (issue #926)
* Configure server cached time from the command line --cached-time (issue #901)
* Make the log logger configurable (issue #900)
* System uptime in export (issue #890)
* Refactor the --disable-* options (issue #948)
* PID column too small if kernel.pid_max is > 99999 (issue #959)

Bugs corrected:

* Glances RAID plugin Traceback (issue #927)
* Default AMP crashes when 'command' given (issue #933)
* Default AMP ignores `enable` setting (issue #932)
* /proc/interrupts not found in an OpenVZ container (issue #947)