Release notes for version 0.85.0

Release date: 23 Jun 2026

• bump version of VM components to v1.146.0
  Update note 1: defaultDashboards.defaultTimezone is removed. Dashboard timezone is now managed exclusively by Grafana (e.g. grafana.grafana\.ini.date_formats.default_timezone).

Update note 2: defaultRules.groups[*].targetNamespace is replaced by defaultRules.groups[*].jobNamespaces, a per-group map from scrape job name to namespace regex. A global defaultRules.jobNamespaces is also available and is merged with per-group values (per-group wins on conflict). The new defaults scope kubernetesApps to kube-state-metrics and kubernetesStorage to kubelet.

Update note 3: Helm-rendered dashboard ConfigMaps and VMRules are removed. Dashboards and rules are now fetched and applied at deploy time by the sync-job (syncJob.enabled: true by default). Disable syncJob.enabled only if managing dashboards and rules externally.

• add traces storage support: vtsingle and vtcluster deploy operator-managed VTSingle/VTCluster CRs; ports follow the 10xxx scheme (single 10428, insert 10481, select 10471, storage 10491); Grafana Jaeger datasource is auto-provisioned pointing at <endpoint>/select/jaeger; dashboard sync entries for single-node and cluster views are included
• add logs collection and storage support: VLSingle, VLCluster, VLAgent with k8sCollector for automatic Kubernetes logs collection, Grafana datasource integration, and internal VMAuth routing when both metrics and logs backends are configured. See #1910 and #1909
• introduce sync-job config with common section (clusterLabel, multicluster) shared across dashboards and rules; Grafana-specific settings (labelName, labelValue, datasource, operator) live under dashboards.common.grafana
• add defaultRules.rules global per-rule overrides map to patch spec or enable/disable individual rules across all groups
• add per-group spec: support in defaultRules.groups for VMRule group-level properties (e.g. interval, params)
• add defaultRules.jobNamespaces (global) and defaultRules.groups[*].jobNamespaces (per-group, merged) to inject namespace=~"<value>" into metric selectors by scrape job name; replaces per-group targetNamespace
• add syncJob.multicluster to override multicluster mode independently of grafana.sidecar.dashboards.multicluster
• multicluster: false no longer injects clusterLabel into aggregation by() clauses in rule expressions; existing labels are still renamed to match the configured clusterLabel
• rename defaultRules.additionalGroupByLabels to defaultRules.extraGroupByLabels; old key accepted as fallback; per-group extraGroupByLabels: [] now explicitly clears the global value
• remove defaultDashboards.defaultTimezone
• add per-group extraGroupByLabels override that replaces the global defaultRules.extraGroupByLabels for that group. See #2832.