--- upgrade: - | Monasca Log Transformer has been merged with Monasca Log Persister to improve performance and reduce resource consumption. Any custom Monasca Log Transformer configuration should be either merged into Monasca Log Persister configuration, or moved outside of the Monasca pipeline, for example, to Fluentd. Any custom Monasca Log Metrics config will also need to be updated to read from the raw logs pipeline, rather than the transformed logs pipeline. The transformed logs pipeline will be removed from Kafka automatically, as will any log transformer containers. There will be a short interruption to logging services whilst the pipeline is updated. During this time it's likely that a small window of logs will be lost from the transformed logs Kafka queue. If this is a problem, the Monasca API should be stopped on all nodes prior to upgrading Monasca. This will allow the transformed logs topic to drain into Elasticsearch before the pipeline is reconfigured. Services such as Fluentd, which post logs to the Monasca API, should buffer logs whilst this happens up to the maximum configured buffer. Note that there may be other services forwarding logs, and these will need to be inspected independently. The Log Transformer volumes will remain on the monitoring nodes and can be manually removed as described in the `documentation `__.