Butler SOS 5.4 is out: good looks and app details
Time for another update of Butler SOS, this time to version 5.4.
Github release : https://github.com/ptarmiganlabs/butler-sos/releases
Docker image : https://hub.docker.com/r/ptarmiganlabs/butler-sos
Documentation: https://butler-sos.ptarmiganlabs.com
This release both adds some nice new features as well as enhancing existing ones and fixing some bugs. Let’s take a look at the highlights.
- Track in detail what apps are loaded into each Sense server.
- Regular apps and session apps are handled separately, making app metrics easier to understand and more relevant
- Sample dashboards are now built using the brand new, shiny and all together awesome Grafana 7. Did I mention that Grafana 7 is awesome? Awesome.
- Ever wondered how long Butler SOS has been running or how much memory it uses? The new uptime messages have you covered.
- You are properly impressed with the uptime messages – good. Why not store them to Influxdb, so you can also visualise Butler SOS’ own memory use? It’s just a couple of changes in the config file away.
- Better control over what features are enabled. Don’t need Docker health checks? Now you can turn that (and other) feature off.
- Ah, you are a serious Sense user and have separate DEV and PROD environments? Good – now Butler SOS supports multiple instances running on a single server.
- Who will monitor the monitor? Butler SOS can now send heartbeats to customisable URLs at desired intervals. Perfect if you want to monitor Butler SOS using for example healthchecks.io. Very, very cool actually.
- Bugs, bugs and bugs. The known ones have been fixed. Keep reporting new ones!
- Update all dependencies to latest versions, to ensure security concerns are adressed.
Curious what it looks like in practice?
Seeing is believing: