Heka Insights Agent v0.1.1

Heka Insights Agent v0.1.1

Heka Insights Agent v0.1.1 is a reliability, compatibility, and performance-focused release for Linux telemetry collection and OTLP metric delivery.

This release improves exporter resiliency, protects metric exports from duplicate processing, expands Ubuntu compatibility, and strengthens automated testing and package validation.

What’s New

• Added idempotency support for OTLP metric export requests
• Added HTTP 429 Too Many Requests handling
• Added support for the Retry-After response header
• Improved retry and backoff behavior for temporary exporter failures
• Improved OTLP HTTP request validation and error reporting
• Improved handling of failed and interrupted metric exports
• Expanded compatibility across supported Ubuntu versions
• Improved Debian package installation and upgrade behavior
• Improved environment-variable loading and configuration validation
• Added safer defaults for missing or invalid configuration values
• Improved systemd service startup and restart reliability
• Optimized metric collection and export execution
• Reduced unnecessary processing during repeated collection cycles
• Improved logging for exporter responses, retries, and failures
• Added additional unit and integration tests
• Added package installation and service lifecycle validation
• Updated project documentation and installation guidance

Included

• Standalone Linux AMD64 telemetry agent binary
• Ubuntu Debian package (.deb)
• systemd-managed background service
• CPU, memory, disk, network, and process telemetry
• Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoint
• OpenTelemetry OTLP HTTP metrics exporter
• Retry and rate-limit handling
• Idempotent metric export support

Supported Platform

• Ubuntu Linux AMD64
• Tested across supported Ubuntu LTS and recent Ubuntu releases
• systemd-based Linux environments

Installation

Download the Debian package from the Assets section and install it with:

sudo apt install ./heka-insights-agent_0.1.1_amd64.deb