Madrid, July 2021
eProsima has launched the new release of Statistics Backend v0.3.0. This release includes new features, as well as API breaks and several improvements and bugfixes. Find below the detailed list of the main advancements accomplished in this new version.
API breaks
- StatisticsBackend::dump_database methods now have an additional argument clear.
Features
- Support to create monitors on discovery server networks.
- Statistics data related to meta-traffic are now collected under the built-in meta-traffic endpoint created on each participant.
- Entities removed from the network now have a non-active status.
- Transitions between active and non-active status are notified to the user listeners.
- It is possible to change the domain listener and mask after the monitor is created.
- Dumping the database can optionally delete the traffic data from the internal data structures after the dump is completed, in order to reduce memory footprint.
Bugfixes & Improvements
- By default, statistics data is received using UDP transport, shared memory is disabled.
- Network latency data now relates to a source participant and a destination locator (previously a source locator and a destination locator).
- Statistics data can now trigger the discovery of a new locator.
- Improved entity names and aliases to be more user-friendly.
- Solved an issue that may cause the internal database to freeze.
- Allow for topics with the same name to be on different domains.
Do you want to know more? Check out the complete list on Fast DDS Statistics Backend release notes!
ADVANTAGES OF EPROSIMA FAST DDS Statistics Backend:
- Minimize communications latency: the network monitor will report the communications latency.
- Maximize publication's throughput: monitor the throughput so that the rate of packets/bytes sent per second can be maximized.
- Minimize packet loss: monitor packet loss to reduce the number of lost/dropped packets by adjusting the publication settings.
- Multi-Platform Support: Linux & Windows
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