v0.13.0 - Alerts dashboard, alerting support for all probes, more config template functions, config documentation navigation

[manugarg]

Enhancements

• [config] Much expanded config template functions (functions documentation). Use sprig's functions for config template by @manugarg in Use sprig's functions for config template #524
• [alerting] Add alerts dashboard at /alerts. It will show currently firing alerts and some historical alerts. by @manugarg in [alerting] Add alerts dashboard. #530
• [alerting] Add alerting to all probe types. by @manugarg in [alerting] Add alerting to all probes except external. #533 & [alerting] Add alerting support to external probe #532
• [config] Provide a way to hide secret environment variables. You can use 'envSecret' instead of 'env' macro to make sure environment variable doesn't show on the expanded config (/config-running) page. by @manugarg in [config] Provide a way to hide secret environment variables. #536
• [validators.http] Add last-modified header validation by @robpickerill in [validators.http] Add last modified header validation #493
• [gcp] Add an option to override GCP API endpoint for resource discovery and logging. by @shellyvilenko in add changes to override GCP resources api endpoint #525 & Add flag to set GCP logging endpoint. #537

Bug fixes

• [bugfix] Fix a bug wherein HTTP probe will not consider a target as new if only its IP address changes. To fix that behavior, include target's IP in the target key. (HTTP probes do not recognize change of IP #535) by @ls692 in [bugfix] Add IP to endpoint key. (#535) #538

Documentation

• [docs] Rename /config root file to _index.md by @manugarg in [docs] Rename /config root file to _index.md #497
• [docs] Update protobuf documentation. by @manugarg in [docs] Update protobuf documentation. #499
• [docs.alerting] Add first draft alerting documentation. by @manugarg in [docs.alerting] Add first draft alerting documentation. #501
• [docs.config] Add ToC to the config documentation pages. by @manugarg in [docs.config] Add ToC to the config documentation pages. #503
• [docs] Add config documentation for the postgres surfacer. by @manugarg in [docs] Add config documentation for the postgres surfacer. #512
• [docs] Change default config language to textpb. by @manugarg in [docs] Change default config language to textpb. #516
• [docs] Fix anchor links handling. by @manugarg in [docs] Fix anchor links handling. #518
• [docs] Fix one more quirk of Firefox. by @manugarg in [docs] Fix one more quirk of Firefox. #521
• [surfacers.doc] Fix surfacers documentation links. by @manugarg in [surfacers.doc] Fix surfacers documentation links. #526

Full Changelog: v0.12.9...v0.13.0

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This discussion was created from the release v0.13.0 - Alerts dashboard, alerting support for all probes, more config template functions, config documentation navigation.

[manugarg]

One big change in this release is the new 'Alerts Dashboard', available at /alerts. Also, alerts now work for all probe types.