Release 9.0.12.1¶

Improved Ranger Metrics Dashboard for Better Performance Monitoring¶

The Ranger Metrics Dashboard has been enhanced with new insights and expanded performance tracking capabilities.

The updated dashboard now includes detailed metrics such as tags metrics , policies and userstore. It also provides visibility into cache statistics for ServiceTag, Policy, and User objects, along with system-wide statistics on users, groups, and role mappings.

Additionally, we have included monitoring for plugin interactions, memory, and CPU usage to help optimize Ranger performance. These enhancements enable better observability, troubleshooting, and performance tuning, providing deeper insights into system health and efficiency.

Apache Atlas Dependency Now on Stable 2.4.0 Release¶

Upgraded Apache Atlas dependancy from 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT version to the stable 2.4.0 version, enhancing compatibility, improving stability, and eliminating reliance on snapshot builds.

Dremio Connector for Discovery Scanning¶

Privacera Discovery now supports Dremio as a connector for sensitive data detection. This addition enhances data discovery capabilities by enabling scanning of Dremio environments.

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) for Discovery Consumer Service¶

The Discovery Consumer Service now supports Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA). HPA dynamically adjusts the number of pods based on CPU and memory usage. This ensures improved performance, efficient scaling, and optimal resource utilization in response to varying workloads.

Improved Performance for Managing Metadata in Apache Solr¶

We have optimized the metadata indexing and retrieval process within Apache Solr. As a result, indexing operations now complete more quickly and efficiently, leading to faster indexing times and improved query performance when working with metadata. This enhancement requires no additional configuration and is enabled by default.

Enhanced File Format Support for Discovery Scans¶

Discovery scans now support a higher number of delimiters, allowing more text files with delimited data to be classified as structured files rather than unstructured files.

Tagged Resources Page Refresh Fix¶

Fixed an issue where the Tagged Resources page did not refresh automatically after adding a new resource mapping. The page now updates correctly without requiring a manual browser refresh.

Improved Visibility for Service-Based Permissions in Tag-Based Policies¶

Improved UI visibility by displaying service-based permissions within the tag-based policy view popup, enhancing clarity and user experience.

Ranger Users Now Inherit Email from Portal User¶

Newly created Ranger users automatically receive the email address associated with the corresponding portal user. This ensures consistency across systems.

Privacera Manager Upgrades¶

When you upgrade Privacera Manager, make sure to get the full updated values for new versions and not only tags. See Upgrades section for more details.

Privacera Air Gap Installation¶

The Airgap Setup process is now revamped to make it more simpler and efficient from this version. For more details, See Prerequisites for Air Gap.

Observability Stack Upgrade¶

Privacera has upgraded its observability stack to enhance monitoring, alerting, and performance insights. The stack now includes Grafana, Prometheus, Tempo, Loki, OpenTelemetry, and Pyroscope, providing comprehensive visibility into system health and performance.
This is enabled by default when Privacera is installed in AWS env. For more details on customization and best practices check Privacera Monitoring section.

Grafana Dashboard Structure Revamp¶

The Grafana Dashboard structure has been revamped to make it more organized and intuitive. In the new structure we have:

• Application-Dashboards → Contains dashboards for all Privacera applications.
• Common-Dashboards → Contains dashboards related to common information across applications.
• Infra-Dashboards → Focuses on Kubernetes cluster-level metrics and infrastructure monitoring.

This new structure enhances clarity and makes it easier to navigate dashboards based on use cases.

Enhanced Diagnostic Tool¶

The Privacera Diagnostic tool now includes additional checks and validations in the majority of Privacera Components. For more details, see Privacera Diagnostic section.

Payload Size and Chunking Updates in Audit Server and Fluentd¶

Increased the default payload size limit for Audit Server and Fluentd to 100MB. Increased default Fluentd chunk size to 100MB for improved data handling. Maximum 100MB chunks will now be stored in the Fluentd destination.