NIC Exporter Release Notes

NIC Exporter Release Notes#

nic-v1.2.0#

New Features#

  • LIF-Level Aggregated Queue-Pair Metrics: Introduced aggregated QP metrics at the LIF level, reducing Prometheus metric cardinality and lowering Exporter and Prometheus CPU/memory overhead compared to enabling per-QP metrics.

Improvements#

  • Image Size Optimization: Docker image size reduced by 57% (from 903MB to 386MB) by stripping debug symbols from nicctl binary and Go binaries

nic-v1.1.0#

  • nicctl Bundling: nicctl is now bundled within the NIC exporter Docker image, eliminating the need to mount nicctl from host

nic-v1.0.1#

  • Improved RDMA statistics collection, reducing the previously observed latency by several folds compared to the earlier release nic-v1.0.0

nic-v1.0.0#

  • NIC Metrics Exporter for Prometheus

    • Real-time metrics exporter for AMD NICs.

    • Supports both Docker and Debian installations.

    • Collects metrics using nicctl, rdma, and ethtool, and works across hypervisor, VM, and bare-metal environments.

    • Optimized RDMA stats, reducing the previously observed latency by multiple folds compared to the beta release.