SmartSense Release Notes
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New features

SmartSense 1.5.0 includes the following new features, improvements, and behavioral changes:

Table 1. New features

HWX Jira

Description

ST-3824

The new UI page called What is Captured, available from the SmartSense View, shows what is captured fo a given cluster. The information provided on this page depends on what components are installed on the cluster.

ST-3769

Three new activity explorer dashboards: Job Comparison, User Summary, and Workload Trend dashboards provide you with user and workload-specific information.

For more information, refer to Access the activity explorer.

ST-3973

Installing SmartSense on HDF clusters is supported. When installed on an HDF cluster, SmartSense can be used for capturing troubleshooting bundles. Activity Analysis, Activity Explorer, and Recommendations are not available.

For installation instructions, refer to Installing SmartSense on HDF.

For instructions on how to use SmartSense for capturing troubleshooting bundles, refer to Capture bundles for troubleshooting.

ST-3823, ST-3759

Capturing DAS service is supported.

Table 2. Behavioral changes:

HWX Jira

Description

ST-3769 Bundles include a report of capture executions.

ST-3761

The availability of Hive application capture option now depends on the availability of Data Analytic Studio in cluster: If DAS is not installed, Hive capture is not available.

Improvements

HWX Jira

Description

ST-3760

Present capture report failures on the Bundles page in the SmartSense View.

ST-3675

Support ATS V2 as part of YARN app data capture.

ST-3768

Integrate YARN activity analysis with ATS V2.0.

ST-3708

Integrate Tez Analyzers with DAS.

ST-3961

Increase the retention period for activity data used for the chargeback report.

ST-3958

Collect livy server logs and configuration for Spark and Spark2 services.

ST-3954

Support NameNode federation in HDFS activity analysis.

ST-3953

Improve activity explorer upgrade by archiving old notebooks.

ST-3851

Collect all capture command errors in the capture report.

ST-2844

Update topology creation based on new data structure of Ambari 2.7.0.

ST-3810

Preserve original file if no anonymization rules match file content.

ST-3578

SmartSense Recommendations UI improvements (filters and pagination).

Deprecations

HWX Jira

Description

ST-3919

Deprecate Smartsense UI on port 9000.