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Control Center 2025.5 Release Notes

What’s New in This Release

GridGain® Control Center is a comprehensive, customizable cluster management and developer tool for Apache® Ignite™ and GridGain applications. Use Control Center to query data across caches, monitor performance metrics, define and track production alerts, take snapshots for backup and recovery, and collect and analyze API traces. The latest Control Center release, 2025.5, includes new features, as well as improvements and issue resolutions.

GridGain 9 Connector Support Scope

GridGain Control Center supports GridGain 9 versions 9.0.17 and later and Apache Ignite 3.0.0 and later.

You need to update Cloud Connector to the latest version (2025.5) to securely connect your GridGain 9 and Apache Ignite 3 clusters to Control Center.

New Features

Fully Automated Deployment

Control Center now provides an extended REST API for fully automated, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployment and configuration. It enables declarative management of users, teams, clusters, notification channels, and alert configurations, and integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines

View and Update Cluster Configuration

Control Center now allows viewing and updating cluster configuration directly from the My Cluster screen. Users can access configuration actions from the context menu and either edit settings in the built-in editor or upload configuration files.

Improvements and Fixed Issues

Control Center Changes

Issue ID

Category

Description

CC-12216

General

Updated Spring Boot dependencies from version 3.5.7 to version 3.5.9.

CC-12168

General

Fixed known issue that prevented upgrading from Control Center 2024.4 and earlier.

CC-12158

General

Updated internal GridGain version to 8.9.28.

CC-12134

General

Angular version was updated to version 21.0.2, and Validator version was updated to version 13.15.22.

CC-12091

General

Fixed Control Center renaming artefact during deployment.

CC-11979

General

Added rate metrics for counter GridGain 9 metrics.

CC-11970

General

Control Center now validates team names before sharing and blocks the action if the team name is not unique.

CC-11969

General

Control Center now validates whether alerts, teams, notification channels, and queries have unique names.

CC-11935

General

Control Center now correctly accounts for schema when creating indexes on GridGain 9 and Apache Ignite 3 clusters.

CC-11902

General

You can now detach cluster from the Global team.

CC-11857

General

Updated Angular version to 21.0.0.

CC-11831

General

License now expires at the end of the expiration day.

CC-11828

Monitoring

The node filter dashboard parameter now correctly works with query widget node selector.

CC-11794

General

Reworked "Clear" and "Remove all" context actions for GridGain 8 caches.

CC-11733

General

You can now check your cluster configuration from My cluster screen.

CC-11728

General

Improved logging for account management issues.

CC-11709

General

Nodes widget now shows the "Uptime" column for GridGain 9 and Apache Ignite 3.0.0+ clusters.

CC-698

General

You can now update GridGain 9 and Apache Ignite 3 cluster configuration from Control Center.

CC-11696

General

You can now manually specify a node’s name in the Events screen.

CC-11643

General

REST API was extended to support Fully Automated Deployment feature. Methods for teams, users, attachments, alerts, and notifications were added.

CC-11638

General

Control Center now highlights when the GridGain 8 cluster is in a rolling upgrade mode.

CC-11633

General

Control Center now displays fully qualified table names in convenient format.

CC-11405

General

Tables are now grouped by their Schemas on the Table screen.

CC-11087

Monitoring

Alert email subject and body now include alert configuration data.

CC-11077

General

You can now collect data from multiple nodes in the "System views" widget for GridGain 8 and Apache Ignite 2 clusters.

CC-10838

Monitoring

You can now configure Running queries monitoring from the Configuration dialog on My cluster screen.

CC-10763

General

Control Center now returns correct response in case of cluster authentication issue.

CC-9123

General

Improved code highlighting and autocomplete for SQL editor.

Updating to 2025.5

You can update Control Center to 2025.5 from 2022.2 and more recent versions. To update from older versions, update to 2022.2 first.

  1. If you haven’t yet, update to Java 17 or 21.

  2. Follow the update instructions.

Updating to 2025 with an External Cluster

If you use an external GridGain 8 cluster for data storage, ensure that the cluster version is compatible with the internal Control Center client node. For this release, the required version is 8.9.28.

Follow these steps to perform the update correctly:

  1. Stop Control Center.

  2. If an external cluster upgrade is required, follow upgrade instruction or enable rolling upgrade.

  3. If you haven’t yet, update Control Center to Java 17 or 21.

  4. Proceed with the standard Control Center update instructions.

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