v 4.7.9.6 Release notes
Release information
Release date | August 2024 |
4796 Software | |
Configuration properties |
New features
Insights
This release brings backend improvements that enhance performance, efficiency, and the accuracy of insights across the platform. It brings more cost-saving recommendations focusing on workload rightsizing and optimization. The following insights are included in this release:
Rightsizing for Streaming Workloads:
For fixed-sized clusters, recommendations are provided to optimize cost and performance.
For autoscaling clusters, to ensure efficient resource allocation during scaling events.
Rightsizing Recommendations for Autoscaling Scenarios:
For long-running tasks within a job run, optimizing resource usage throughout task execution.
For parallel executions of tasks within a job, enhancing efficiency for simultaneous processes.
For contention on driver scenarios, reducing resource competition on the driver node to improve performance.
Conservative Savings Model: A new savings model provides cost-saving insights across all categories, even when direct cost bindings are unavailable.
Instance type whitelisting has been implemented to provide enhanced control over the types of instances used for receiving insights, ensuring that only approved instance types are utilized.
Home page
The Top-X page now includes a "Most Wasted Cost" widget, highlighting the costs associated with failed and killed jobs, allowing users to quickly identify and address inefficiencies.
Customer ValueGen app
This release introduces a new Customer ValueGen app with comprehensive workload analysis, ROI computation, and productivity insights for Databricks environments. The app enables users to analyze historical data, benchmark costs, and identify optimization opportunities to drive enhanced cost efficiency and operational improvements. It includes features for evaluating savings potential, monitoring the cost and savings funnel, and running various diagnostics on the status of insights. Additionally, users can conduct productivity boost analysis and mark applications as interesting to focus on key areas for optimization.
Databricks Partner Connect
Unravel Data is now integrated into the Databricks Partner Connect page, allowing end users to directly create trial accounts for greater flexibility.
Data Pipelines and Improved Cost Insights
Enhancements to secondary data pipelines have been made to ensure better performance, improved monitoring, and greater consistency across the platform. Additionally, backend changes on the Cost Explorer page now deliver more accurate insights, providing you with more precise real-time costs in trends, drill-downs, and budget tabs.
UI Updates
This release includes several UI improvements to enhance clarity and readability across the platform. These updates include refined color schemes and label adjustments to ensure better visual contrast and a more intuitive user experience. In addition, sorting and search issues as well as consistency and accuracy problems are addressed, ensuring a more seamless and accurate experience across the platform.
Security, Infrastructure and Compliance
Critical security vulnerabilities related to Public/Internal Services have been addressed, and the handling of encrypted sensitive values has been improved.
Activities related to CentOS 7’s end-of-life in June have been completed.
Configuration management capabilities for non-Kubernetes environments have been enhanced, and the installation and build processes have been streamlined for faster deployments.
The following table contains key issues addressed in the 4.7.9.6 release.
ID | Description |
|---|---|
App Store | |
APP-614 | App Store tasks fail to start with SSL enabled on the MySQL database. |
Auto Action | |
DT-3033 | The date-time format in the policy-violation downloaded CSV file is incorrect. |
Billing | |
DT-3186 | The Billed Cost Over Time graph includes the first day of the next month on the X-axis, despite displaying only the data for the selected period. This issue does not affect functionality or data accuracy. |
DT-3171 | The downloaded CSV file name should be suffixed with the month of the year for which billing data is downloaded. |
Cost | |
DT-2981 | There is a significant cost deviation between dbx_cluster and Spark hitdocs. |
DT-2125 | The cost displayed for the "Executor Idle Time Detected" insight is incorrect |
UIX-6305 | The Others category is displayed twice in legends when the number of clusters exceeds 1000 in the Chargeback page. |
DT-3130 | In the Trends tab, the time displayed in the last x days selection has a time value greater than the current time on the trends page. |
Compute | |
DT-2083 | The Total Allocated Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Vcore and memory are not visible in the Compute > Trends page. |
All jobs in the running status are displayed in the Finished tab under Job Runs instead of showing only the finished jobs. | |
Home | |
DT-3095 | There is an inconsistency in displaying the 'Wasted Cost' and 'Untapped Savings' values compared to the 'Total Cost' value under each section in the Home -> TopX tab. |
Spark | |
UIX-6567 | The filters are not retained when switching between the Inefficient and All tabs in the Databricks UI. |
DT-4040 | The percentage shown in "Potential Savings per Run" for the Node Downsizing Insight is incorrect. |
DT-3099 | The Task Time and App Time fields are empty for certain jobs. |
DT-2981 | Some cost deviations are observed between Spark hitdocs and Databricks clusters. |
UI | |
UIX-6321 | The Workflow section currently displays jobs running within the specified duration instead of only jobs completed within the selected time frame. |
Unravel Assistant | |
AI-134, AI-138 | The Unravel Assistant provides incorrect responses to certain questions related to productivity and data skew jobs. The team is actively working on resolving this issue. |
Workflows | |
CPLANE-3614 | Audit logs are not getting written in the database. |
The upcoming releases will include the following key fixes to enhance user experience. It is important to note that while these issues exist, there is no immediate critical impact on using the product, and users can continue to utilize its functionality with confidence.
ID | Description |
|---|---|
Cost | |
DT-2968, DT-2967 | Incorrect filters applied while redirecting from budgets to chargeback. |
Data | |
DT-3123 | In the Data page section, the default enabled checkbox is incorrectly disabled under tables. |
Home | |
DT-3096, DT-3095, DT-2837 | The Annualized savings under the sections highlighting the Most Savings in the Topx tab, is incorrectly displaying as zero dollars in certain scenarios. |
DT-2920, DT-3060, DT-2821 | Instead of displaying No data present for selected date range when data is unavailable for a selected date range, empty widgets are shown. |
DT-2836 | Wastage cost is incorrectly showing more than the Cluster cost in some cases. |
Insights | |
DT-2006 | Recommendations are provided for a failed pipeline when users utilize multiple tasks with shared job clusters, and one of the tasks fails. |
DT-2125 | The UI shows a cost discrepancy for the Executor Idle time detected insight in the Databricks version 14.2 with Photon enabled. |
DT-3037 | Node right sizing filters are not being applied on the Insights Preview page. |
DT-3012 | The insight preview page displays incorrect costs for job signatures. |
Reports | |
DT-3122 | Incorrect count of events shown on TopX Report. |
Spark | |
DT-3104 | Multiple instances of the same events are being generated for a single Spark application cluster. |
DT-3103, DT-3026 | There is a mismatch in the executor count when garbage collection (GC) events occur. |
SaaS (Free) | |
DT-2037 | In the Databricks Standard (free) environment, there is an issue where the User Flow badge obstructs pagination. |
UI | |
UIX-6281 | The cost comparison for all the instances is not displayed on the Pipeline detail page. |
Workflows | |
DT-2104 | Sorting is incorrect when the list contains both strings starting with capital and small case letters, |
Azure bill integration
Actual bill data is not live; once configured, it will be available from Azure once every day. The cost for a few clusters may be updated after a couple of days in the bill.
One record per cluster per day is maintained, even if the cluster is restarted multiple times within a day or cluster sessions span across multiple days.
If there are issues with Azure billing, the cost data will not be updated on Unravel.
Tags on cost pages come from actual cost data, while tags on the compute page come from Spark configuration. There is a possibility that the tags on these pages don’t match. This issue will be fixed in the upcoming release.
Billing
Some discrepancies may occur in cost calculations due to differences between the user time zone displayed on the Compute page and the UTC-based aggregation on the Billing page. (DT-2350).
In certain scenarios, the budget status may inaccurately display as Ok even when the budget has been exceeded. This discrepancy occurs when Azure billing is enabled and is a known limitation. Notifications for budget can be delayed by two or three days due to the minimum 24-hour delay in receiving bills. (DT-3091)
Compute
Jobs by status graphs in the Trends tab display spark application details and not the job details. Our development is actively looking into this design limitation and efforts are underway to address this in future updates to enhance the product's capabilities. (DT-2008)
Data is inconsistent between Compute page and Cost page in some cases when Azure bill is enabled. This is a known limitation because of Azure bill data not being live. Our team is actively looking into this limitation and efforts are underway to address this issue in the future updates. (DT-3078)
Data
If tables are created with the same name, accessed, deleted, and re-created, and if those tables are re-accessed, then their query and app count do not match. (DATAPAGE-502)
Home
Home page does not display alerts on the UI when there is missing ROI data for a single day. (DT-2509)
Hovering on Total Cost Trend on the Summary tab of the Home page may display inaccurate date information. (DT-2408)
Insights Preview
In some cases, there is a discrepancy in the runs displayed in the Job Runs page for the selected job. When you click on View runs, only runs with
dbx_cluster kindhaving a Spark app id are listed. The discrepancy is due to data inconsistency between entries ofdbx_cluster kindanddb kindand this is an expected behavior. (DT-3042)Workflows
The current implementation has a limitation where the wrong run count is displayed for the job ID when sorting by run count in the Workflows > Jobs section. This discrepancy is currently under investigation by our development team, and active efforts are being taken to resolve this issue. (UIX-6526)
Our development team is actively investigating the following Known issues and are working towards resolving them. It is important to note that while these issues exist, there is no immediate critical impact on using the product, and users can continue to utilize its functionality with confidence.
Bug ID | Description | Workaround |
|---|---|---|
Compute | ||
PIPELINE-1636 | Inconsistent data is displayed for the cluster Duration and Start Time on the Compute page. | NA |
CUSTOMER-3017 | The job duration displayed in the TopX section of the "Longest Running Jobs" on the Job Compute graph is incorrect. | NA |
Cost | ||
UIX-5624 | Data is not displayed when you click the Optimize button corresponding to OTHERS for the Cost > Chargeback results shown in the table. | NA |
DT-1094 | The No data available message is displayed on the Compute page after navigating from the Trends and Chargeback pages with Tag filters. | NA |
Datapage | ||
DATAPAGE-473 | For Hive metastore 3.1.0 or earlier versions, the creation time of partitions is not captured if a partition is created dynamically. Therefore, the Last Day KPI for the partition section is not shown in Unravel. | NA |
Insights | ||
DT-1987 | There is a mismatch in the computation of costs for fleet and spot instances in Databricks clusters. This issue arises due to the unavailability of the exact node type in the cluster info response. | NA |
Performance | ||
ASI-933 | In the Lag setup, the Duration is not updated for running applications. The Duration should be updated every 15 minutes. | NA |
ASI-936 | In the Lag setup, the App Time data is missing in the Timing tab of many applications. | NA |
Spark | ||
PIPELINE-1616 | If the Spark job is not running for Databricks, the values for the Duration and End time fields are not updated on the Databricks Run Details page. | NA |
DT-2012 | Incorrect details are displayed on the AppSummary > Job Run page when a user repairs a previously failed job. The displayed information may not accurately reflect the repaired job's details. | NA |
DT-1742 | The timezone for the NodeRightSizing insight event is inconsistent in the Spark details page. | NA |
DT-2029 | Applications in a success state may inaccurately display an associated job in a running state instead of transitioning to a failed state. | NA |
DT-3122 | The TopX Report displays an incorrect count of events. | |
UI | ||
PIPELINE-1935 | In the Pipeline details page, when you select the data for a specific date, all instances are displayed instead of displaying only the instances within a selected date. | NA |
UIX-6263 | The | NA |
Workflows | ||
DT-1461, PIPELINE-1939, PIPELINE-1940, DT-1093, PIPELINE-1924 | The UI and data exhibit inconsistencies, including problems with job run details, issues related to multiple workflow runs and UTC timestamps , empty content in workflow job pages and issues with filter values and duration display. | NA |
