New Services and Features

SmartSense 1.3.0 includes the following new services:

Reporting and visualization for workloads through Activity Analyzer and Activity Explorer
To learn how to access Activity Explorer, see Accessing Activity Explorer.
Web-based (HTTPS) bundle upload through https://smartsense.hortonworks.com
See Manual Bundle Upload.
Bundle upload with SmartSense Gateway through an HTTPS authenticated proxy
See Configuring the Gateway to Use HTTPS.

SmartSense 1.3.0 includes the following new features:

Automatic detection of environment-specific configurations, such as custom service user names, and configuration, home, and log directories
Capturing of the following data:
- Additional component metrics for DataNode, NameNode, and NodeManager
- Host-level metrics from AMS
- Queue metrics for ResourceManager
- Ambari Alert Log: /var/log/ambari-server/ambari-alerts.log
- Grafana configuration, logs, and dashboard definitions
Annonymization of secure information:
- Apache Knox LDAP bind password
- Wire encryption password
- hadoop.security.group.mapping.ldap.bind.password
- SSN and credit card numbers
Default removal of the following parameters from capture:
- audit.log
- ldap-password.dat
- Azure and Amazon S3 credentials and keys
Expanded Hive metadata collection, which allows support and engineering departments to gather detailed information about Hive optimizations and configuration
Embedded SmartSense Gateway, which allows deployments with outbound internet access to upload bundles without having to explicitly install the SmartSense Gateway
Periodic removal of previously captured bundles (Bundles captured locally are removed after 30 days)
User experience improvements to the capture and browse pages in the SmartSense View

The following features are deprecated in SmartSense 1.3.0:

​New Services and Features