All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
- Add Gremlin console in Web UI
- Add
ovsnetflow
capture to act as a NetFlow receiver - Add target mechanism to export flow using ERSPAN or NetFlow
- Packet injector:
- Allow use as a standalone executable
- Allow reaching external IPs
- Support multiple captures on a single interface
- Allow creating API resources with a TTL
- Added support for all DNS fields
- Add flow validation workflow
- Gremlin:
- Add
Has
step onValues
result - Add
NEE
(not equal or not exist) predicate - Add
Dedup
step onShortestPath
result
- Add
- Set capture ID in flow metadata
- Properly handle updates in Gremlin filters
- Fix rtt calculation for RST packet
- Set real Kubernetes cluster name
- OVN probe with support for logical switches, routers, ports and ACLs
- Network Service Mesh (NSM) probe
- Open vSwitch:
- Use JSON schema when using ovs-ofctl command line utility
- Use Golang OpenFlow decoder based on loxigen
- Support for Gremlin
Metric
step on OVS interfaces - Add advanced options for
ovssflow
capture type
- eBPF:
- 802.1q/VLAN support
- IP/GRE support
- Libvirt:
- Associations to SRIO-V virtual functions
- Add pure Go implementation for static builds
- Kubernetes:
- Add configmap/secret data keys to metadata
- Added health checks to Skydive template
- Move workflow execution to server side
- Move RTT from flows to metrics to keep history of it
- SRIO-V support
- SFlow Counters support
- Add VPP probe
- Flow life cycle Fields to track TCP sessions
- TCP fields support to eBPF probe
- NetLink probe reports permanent hardware address
- Report kernel command line as metadata
- Mechanism to report config file fields as metadata
- Report global OVS information as metadata
- UI:
- Add collapse/expand support for dict/map
- Add edge highlighting support
- Gremlin:
- Add Without predicate
- Python:
- Add injection to REST API
- Add alert to REST API
- Improve eBPF probe performances
- General agent performance improvements
- Kubernetes and Istio support improvements
- Fix TTL field setting for ICMPV4 packet injection
- Improve communication performances between agent and analyzer
- Fix datastore replication issue
- LLDP topology probe for topology auto discovery
- Libvirt probe
- runC container probe
- Introduce WebSocket endpoint to get flows notifications
- Extra flow layers such as DHCP, VRRP and DNS
- Add command line command to export/import topology
- Gremlin:
- New HasEither step to generate a OR filter instead of AND
- NextHop step to compute the next hop using routing tables
- Support for OpenFlow group tables
- Wait for elasticsearch to be ready instead of failing
- Refactored TLS configuration
- Switch to gopacket master branch
- Revamp Web UI
- Remove user metadata API
- Disable elasticsearch by default in devstack plugin
- Bug fixes:
- Fix Limit for topology Gremlin steps
- Fix packets missed to due timeout when using afpacket
- Use Capture.ID instead of capture gremlin expression
- Fix IPv6 connection state when using eBPF
- Fix openflow rule modification
- Add node/edge rules API to register nodes and edges
- Add Ansible library to create nodes and edges
- Bug fixes:
- Fix WebSocket flow authentication
- Fix deployment on RHEL using Ansible
- Fix SElinux policy to connect to Keystone
- Change Docker base image to Ubuntu
- Add origin field in python api
- Gremlin:
- Add
descendants
to retrieve both parents and children - Add
As
andSelect
steps to get the union of a set of nodes - Allow queries on booleans
- Add
- New JavaScript API
- Support for browsers, NPM or the Skydive embedded JS engine
- Convert command line shell to JavaScript
- Add API to upload and execute workflows
- Add support for Power architecture:
- Build Docker images
- Test architecture on our CI
- Retrieve OpenContrail routing tables
- Improved Elasticseach backend:
- Add support for rolling indices
- Bump minimal version to 5.5
- Retrieve more Kubernetes metadata and create dedicated section on the Web UI for it
- Performance improvements using
easyjson
- Allow using different authentication backends for API and for internal communications
- TripleO: move to config-download mechanism
- Add
RBAC
mechanism - Provide development
Vagrant
boxes onVagrantcloud
, supportingVirtualBox
andlibvirt
- Report more
Kubernetes
objects: deployment, services, daemonsets, jobs and more - Report interface features from
netlink
- New
FOREVER
andNOW
Gremlin predicates - Add
SELinux
policy security module for RPM packages - Add authentication and
etcd
clustering to theAnsible
playbooks
- Flows:
- Parsing code rework for correctness and performances
- Fix metrics with multipath
- Provide a way to define the layers used (L2/L3 or L3 only)
- Split
Keystone
auth section : one for the probe and one for authentication - Support different elasticsearch connections per index
- WebUI:
- Nicer sidebar
- Dedicated section for routing table
- Allowing managing alerts
- Group
OpenFlow
rules by priority and actions
OVS-DPDK
fixes
- Add Latency to WebUI topology links
- Packet Injector now allows to increment ICMP
id
for each packet - New
Light
WebUI theme - Add
Has
Gremlin step toSocketInfo
step allowing to filter socket information - New socketinfo probe to retrieve active sockets of a host.
The new
Sockets
Gremlin step can be used to retrieve socket information corresponding to flows. - Add
Bandwidth
to WebUIMetric
tables - Add clustering support for embedded Etcd
Aggregates
Gremlin step now uses fixed time slices- Add LXD topology support
- Python API now suports TLS and authentication
- SocketInfo now supports kernel wihtout ePBF support
- Fixed Flow metric issue on large packets
- Add capture
Name
to node metadata - Fixed
RTT
display on WebUI
- Add Kubernetes probe
- Retrieve Open vSwitch port metrics
- Allow traffic capture on Open vSwitch ports
- Add host info, such as CPU, memory, OS, Open vSwitch options, to metadata
- Add
Preferences
pane to the Web UI - Allow SSH to agents through the WebUI (thanks to Dede)
- Allow cross compilation of Skydive
- Long-running packet injections can now be stopped
- Performance improvements:
- Add gzip support for both API and WebSocket
- JSON serialization optimizations
- The
skydive-client
module now supports Python 2.7
- Flow capture with eBPF probe
- Add routing table to the node metadata
- Python module
skydive-client
available through pypi - Allow dynamic peering between analyzers
- Allow customizing the WebUI through external JS and CSS files
- Use Dijkstra as graph shortest path algorithm
- Fix use of domain name and IPV6 in service addresses
- Scalability improvements:
- Improve ping mechanism for better disconnection handling
- Reduce graph lock pressure for Neutron and alerts
- New DPDK probe
- Topology:
- Allow filtering per client
- Add ARP table to the node metadata
- WebUI:
- Add sliding panel for filtering, highlighting and time selection
- Add legend to report filter and time
- Allow selecting capture type
- Allow deploying multi analyzers and elasticsearch with Vagrant
- Add support for Snort alert messages
- Handle network namespaces created by
docker network
- Bump minimal Go version to 1.8
- New probe to retrieve and display for Openflow rules on OVS switch
- Flows:
- Enable SYN/FIN/RST capturing
- Add RTT per layer
- Map flows to process
- Use WebSocket for flows from the agents to the analyzers
- Gremlin:
- Add
BPF
step to filter raw packets - Add
BothV
step - Add
Subgraph
step to provide a way to get a restricted view of the Graph. For ex: only the "layer2" topology. - Add
Ipv4Range
predicate which matches ipv4 in a range - Make
HasKey
work with complex metadata value, ex: list
- Add
- Packet injector:
- Add payload support for TCP packets
- Add support for UDP packets
- Ansible module to deploy Skydive
- API:
- Add and remove user metadata on nodes
- Add a status API
- Change etcd default listen port
- Full HTTPS support
- WebUI:
- New implementation of the topology for better readability and performances
- Make time slider easier to use
- Add zoom fit button
- Flows:
- New 'sflow' probe to support capture on physical interfaces
- Allow keeping raw packets for flows
- Add ICMP layer to flow structure
- Graph:
- Make metadata a real JSON object
- Add forwarding database to the node metadata
- Gremlin:
- Add CONTAINS predicate to test if a value is in an array
- Add BothE step that returns the incoming and outcoming edges for a node
- Add E() step to return all the edges of a graph
- Packet injector:
- Add icmpv6 support
- Add TCP support
- Make use of raw sockets
- API:
- Allow returning the graph as dot
- Graph:
- Ensure correctness of the nodes and edges timestamps on both agents and analyzers
- Moved to Github and dedicated CI infrastructure
- Trigger alert when a successful evaluation changes
- Flows:
- Enable all flow probes by default
- Do not include payload in layer path
- Agents do not use etcd any more
- Use zap logger
- Bug fixes:
- Resync captures when becoming master
- Fix orphaned VLAN interfaces thanks to Mark Goddard
- Fix handling of Docker labels containing a dot
- Elasticsearch:
- Support Elasticsearch 5
- Bulk indexing for graph and flows for improved performance
- WebUI:
- Display bandwidth on L2 edges
- Restore discovery and conversation views
- Allow loading multiple configuration files
- Support for logging to file and syslog
- Bash completion file
- Keep all netlink events ordered
- Websocket:
- Introduced namespace subscription mechanism
- Validate messages using JSON schemas
- Use bulk to reduce graph messages number
- Bug fixes:
- Fix analyzer deadlock on agent stop
- Return status error if capture registration failed
- Support multiple analyzers for high availability and scalability
- Store interface metrics as node metadata
- Flows:
- New 'pcapsocket' flow probe to inject pcap files
- Support for VLANs
- BPF support for afpacket, pcap and sFlow
- Packet statistics counter for the 'pcap' capture type
- API:
- New /api/config route to access configuration values
- Introduce a WebSocket Python client
- Topology:
- Report link speed
- Allow link metadata definition in 'fabric' probe
- Add Docker labels to metadata
- Gremlin:
- Allow querying graph with a time slice: the Gremlin 'Context' step now accepts a second argument which is a duration. When specified, graph queries will return all the revisions of the matching nodes during this time period
- Allow 'Metrics' step on graph queries
- New 'HasNot' and 'HasKey' steps
- Allow sorting in ascending and descending order for both flow and graph queries
- WebUI:
- Add flow-table component
- Allow to limit number of flows in flow-table
- Allow collapsing all nodes belonging to a host
- Show interface statistics in table
- Switch all timestamps to milliseconds
- Changed analyzer.storage config section from a string to a dictionary
- Flows:
- Consistent querying for live and stored flows
- Remove analyzer flow table
- Gremlin:
- 'Dedup' step now handles many keys
- Remove since predicate as replace by context duration
- Topology:
- Allow 'netns' probe to work within a containerized agent
- WebUI:
- Speed up the topology display by reducing number of redraw
- Migration to 'vuejs' JavaScript framework
- Alerting:
- Use Gremlin expression for alerts on both graph and flows
- Allow writing alerts in JavaScript
- Alerts can now execute scripts and trigger Webhooks
- New Grafana plugin (https://github.com/skydive-project/skydive-grafana-datasource)
- New OpenShift template
- Gremlin:
- Add 'Aggregates' step
- Allow sorting and deduplicating against a property
- Topology:
- Handle IP adding / removal on interfaces
- Add peering probe which creates a link based on MAC addresses
- Flows:
- Support Geneve tunneling
- Add Layer 3 tracking ID
- Add support for Ethernet and IP over MPLS
- Neutron:
- Adding Neutron attributed IPs to nodes
- Add metadata on Neutron managed namespaces
- WebUI:
- Keep position of nodes in local storage across browser refresh
- Flows:
- Use persistent ID in flows to handle agent restarts
- Topology:
- Remove unsupported titan and gremlin backends
- Gremlin:
- Convert 'Bandwidth' step to 'Metrics' and 'Sum'
- Flows:
- Add packet injector to generate traffic between two interfaces
- Support Geneve tunneling
- Add support for MPLS over both UDP and GRE
- Add sFlow tunneling support
- Add 'Application' metadata that contains the last layer type
- Gremlin:
- New 'Metrics' Gremlin step to get all the metrics associated to a set of flows
- New 'Values' step which returns values of a property: ex: G.V().Values('Name')
- New 'Sum' step that returns aggregation over named node property: ex: G.Flows().Sum('Metric.ABBytes')
- New 'Regex' predicated to use regular expression when querying graph and flows
- New 'At' alias for 'Context' and allow more user friendly time definition ex: g.At('-5m').V()
- New 'Within' filter for flows
- New 'Since' predicate to select flows
- New 'CaptureNode' step to get the capture nodes of a set of flows
- OpenStack:
- Add support for Keystone V3
- Autodetect Skydive agent running inside a virtual machine
- WebUI:
- Add packet injector tab
- Add support for zoom-in zoom-out and reset
- Add the "famous" "mmmgnmm bob effect"
- Misc:
- Experimental support for TLS communication between agents and analyzer
- Vagrantfile to bootstrap a 3 nodes setup
- Flows:
- Manage captures from the analyzer to handle use case like setting capture point on all the interfaces between two nodes
- Simplify packet processing and remove timeout mechanisms at the probe level
- Correct packet length for outer/inner packets in tunnels
- Topology:
- Move 'fabric' probe onto the analyzer and add a WebSocket API
- WebUI:
- Update timeslider to use delta instead of date
- Restore discovery and conversation views
- Fix node selection issue after agent Resync
- Bugs fixes:
- Many bugfixes around network namespaces that caused Goroutines to run in the wrong namespace that resulted in flow captures and packet injection errors
- Fix leak of namespace fd in docker probe
- Build:
- Do not integrate generated file anymore
- Flows:
- Encapsulation support (VXLAN, GRE)
- IPv6 support
- Gremlin:
- Add 'Sort' step to sort flows by uptime time
- Add 'Nodes' step to get capture, source and destination nodes
- Topology:
- Add cache for gremlin, titangraph and orientdb backends
- Add OpenContrail probe
- WebUI:
- Use shortest path to create captures
- Support for tunneling
- Client:
- Add an 'allinone' command
- Add a 'shell' command
- Documentation:
- Add quick start and contributing sections to README.md
- Add rest, flow schema section and some fixes
- Flows:
- Reworked flow structurem to simplify exploitation and storage
- Use ANode, BNode, Node instead of old name for flows
- Gremlin:
- Optimize Dedup step for flows
- Ensure error is passed for every step
- WebUI:
- Replace flow jsonview by a flow grid table
- Change node selection behaviour
- Docker:
- Use scratch as Docker base image
- Add missing configuration file for Docker image
- OpenStack:
- Add availability configuration variable
- Retrieve metadatas when port metadatas are updated
- Bugs fixes:
- Properly handle default values in configuration
- Fix fd leak when using http clients
- Stop timer of gopacket
- Fix frozen agent when a flow query was used while when stopping flow table
- Use elasticsearch as a time series database
- Add elasticsearch graph backend
- New node ID that persists between agent restart
- New afpacket capture type
- New 'fabric' probe to register external equipment like Top Of Rack switches
- Gremlin improvements:
- Add 'Range' and 'Limit' Gremlin steps
- Add 'Hops' step to get the nodes traversed by a set of flows
- Add architecture section to the documentation
- Add devstack functional testing
- Skydive binary is linked statically with pcap
- Renamed 'pcap' probe to 'gopacket'
- Web UI improvements:
- Clearer representation using groups of nodes
- Node pinning
- Highlight traversed nodes in Web UI
- Bug fixes:
- Wait for analyzer before starting agent
- Avoid capture create with duplicate gremlin request (both thanks to Konstantin Dorfman)
- Fix shortestPath and add a test to illustrate the bug (thanks to Antoine Eiche)
- Limit neutron API calls (thanks to Jean-Philippe Braun)
- Use authenticated request while waiting for the analyzer (thanks to Mathieu Rohon)
- Gremlin improvements:
- Allow filtering flows in Gremlin query
- Add bandwidth calculation
- New steps: Count, Both
- New predicates: Lt, Gt, Lte, Gte, Between, Inside, Outside
- Scaling improvements
- Use protobuf instead of JSON for analyzer - agent communications
- Switch Docker image to Ubuntu
- Improved release pipeline (executables, Docker image)