v0.44.0-rc.0

[ptodev]

This is release v0.44.0-rc.0 of Grafana Agent.

Upgrading

Read the relevant upgrade guides for specific instructions on upgrading from older versions:

• Static mode upgrade guide
• Static mode Kubernetes operator upgrade guide
• Flow mode upgrade guide

Notable changes:

Bugfixes

• loki.source.podlogs: Fixed a bug which prevented clustering from working and caused duplicate logs to be sent.
  The bug only happened when no selector or namespace_selector blocks were specified in the Agent configuration. (@ptodev)

• pyroscope.scrape no longer tries to scrape endpoints which are not active targets anymore. (@wildum @mattdurham @dehaansa @ptodev)

Enhancements

• Upgrade github.com/goccy/go-json to v0.10.4, which reduces the memory consumption of an Agent instance by 20MB.
  If Agent is running certain otelcol components, this reduction will not apply. (@ptodev)

Other changes

• Remove setcap for cap_net_bind_service to allow Agent to run in restricted environments.
  Modern container runtimes allow binding to unprivileged ports as non-root. (@ptodev)

Installation

Refer to our installation guides for how to install the variants of Grafana Agent:

• Install static mode
• Install the static mode Kubernetes operator
• Install flow mode

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This discussion was created from the release v0.44.0-rc.0.