Collectors
OPC-UA Collector
always check the compatibility matrix below before installing a new version compatibility collectors of all versions >= v1 0 0 are compatible with all factry historian versions >= v4 0 0, in both directions however, for certain functionalities, certain minimum versions of the collector and factry historian are required more information is always available in the release notes feature compatibility matrix this is the compatibility matrix for version listed on this page if you have downloaded a newer version than the one listed on this page please check the release notes of that version feature opc ua collector version factry historian version collector auto update >= v1 6 0 >= v6 4 0 v2 0 3 released on 06/06/2025 bug fixes allow negative serial numbers in x509 certificates v2 0 2 released on 26/05/2025 bug fixes modified the measurement settings schema to make sure measurement creation cannot be blocked when not filling in eventfilteroperator v2 0 1 released on 23/05/2025 changes updated the base collector to v3 1 1 added checks to avoid incorrect health updates v2 0 0 released on 30/04/2025 changes removed support for windows 7 and 8 add support for filtering of events based on a field on the event base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 9 3 released on 29/01/2025 changes disabled streaming until a data loss fix is implemented base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 9 2 released on 02/01/2025 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 9 1 released on 09/10/2024 changes collector immediately goes into state ‘unstable’ when the server closes the connection (collector receives eof or writes to a broken pipe) v1 9 0 released on 03/10/2024 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 8 1 released on 06/09/2024 bug fixes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 8 0 released on 12/06/2024 changes unknown status codes now have the status code appended to the status message added documentation about common opc ua status codes v1 7 2 released on 07/06/2024 changes added support for performance monitoring with pyroscope bug fixes restored windows 7 compatibility base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 7 1 released on 23/05/2024 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 7 0 released on 24/04/2024 changes added settings to be able to only collect one value from an array node based on the index bug fixes fixed arm6 and arm7 builds v1 6 3 bug fixes fixed a bug where the collector would get stuck reconnecting to the opc ua server v1 6 2 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 6 1 bug fixes fixed a bug where the collector would not pause a measurement changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 6 0 changes added support for auto updating requires historian server >= v6 4 0 base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 5 8 changes send error points with badfactrymonitorerror when a monitor request fails v1 5 7 changes disabled cgo v1 5 6 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 5 5 changes added a configurable failed read request limit counter base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 5 4 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 5 3 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf v1 5 2 changes base collector docid\ t1yxxmmun80y fxbd2raf bug fixes fixed a bug in the opc ua library causing the client to be stuck in an infinite loop v1 5 1 bug fixes monitored measurement whose monitor request failed will periodically retry to monitor added monitorretrytimeout advanced setting v1 5 0 changes added the event collection type for opc ua alarms & conditions v1 4 3 bug fixes fixed crash if buffer path could not be opened collector no longer tries to register collector if historian api is unavailable v1 4 2 changes added support for idle state removed warning, error, panic and fatal as possible log levels v1 4 0 changes removed eventbuffer, this functionality has been moved to a separate collector v1 3 6 changes upgraded to gopcua library v0 3 5 v1 3 4 bug fixes restart collector on changed failover settings v1 3 0 when updating to this version keep in mind that environment variables that had a different value will need to be set in the historian changes changed most environment variables to be configured as advanced collector settings in the historian v1 2 1 bug fixes fixed panic on invalid node id changes added timeout to cancel of opc ua subscription fixed bug where collector might start polling twice when settings and status are changed within the collector polling window v1 2 0 changes added preliminary support for redundancy the collector will not repeat logs regarding connection errors to the historian server v1 1 8 changes added gzip compression for new buffer files, old buffer files will still work added general environment variable, buffer disk batches, which determines how many batches will be written to a buffer file default value is 20 added priority for handling of buffer items, prioritizing logs and statistics over points changed default value for buffer max batches from 10 > 100 points with value ‘good’ now also get counted as good points in the statistics added deploy trigger for opc ua documentation v1 1 7 bug fixes fixed possible index out of range exception when getting system statistics added measurement error status for unsupported values, factrybadunsupportedtype v1 1 6 changes changed ‘maxage’ property in opc ua requests from 2000 > 0 added retries for nodeid registration added possibility to disable registration of nodeid’s by setting max nodes per register to 0 v1 1 5 changes added first version of opc ua documentation bug fixes fixed expired certificate problem v1 1 4 bug fixes fixed crash on points with nil values changed all points with nil values to 0 v1 1 3 bug fixes fixed potential out of bounds exception in buffer memory fixed data race when calculating buffer size on disk fixed handling of array values v1 1 2 changes skip registration of integer node id’s v1 1 1 bug fixes fixed last index of event buffer not getting processed made quotes optional in event buffer node id’s v1 1 0 features added event buffer functionality bug fixes fixed opc ua client not connecting with some url’s