Changelog
What's new
v1.0.0
April 27, 2026
majorFirst Public Release
Sparge v1.0 is now open source. Model-agnostic, observable by design, deployable in minutes.
- ◈Nine reliability engines (Apache 2.0): SLO Engine, Context Scorer, Lineage Graph, Drift Detector, Cost Router, AI Narrator, Fleet Registry, Red Team Engine, Audit Log
- ◈Multi-model AI via LiteLLM — 100+ providers including local Ollama (no API key required)
- ◈Full self-observability: 18 Prometheus metrics, OTEL traces to Grafana Tempo, structlog JSON to Loki
- ◈One-liner installer: curl -fsSL https://get.sparge.ai | sh
- ◈Kubernetes operator with sidecar injection (failurePolicy: Ignore)
- ◈AgentSLO + AgentFleet Kubernetes CRDs
- ◈Docker Compose: 8-service observability stack (OTEL + Prometheus + Grafana + Tempo + Loki + Alertmanager)
- ◈Pre-built Alertmanager rules for SLO breach, context quality, and LLM cost alerts
- ◈Enterprise integrations: ServiceNow (FastMCP 3.2), Jira, PagerDuty, Slack
- ◈52 tests across 6 test modules
v0.9.0
March 15, 2026
minorMulti-Model AI Provider
Replaced vendor-specific AI integration with LiteLLM-based abstraction layer.
- ◈LiteLLM integration supporting 100+ LLM providers
- ◈Per-use-case model selection: SPARGE_NARRATOR_MODEL, SPARGE_JUDGE_MODEL
- ◈Automatic fallback chains on provider failure
- ◈Ollama local model support — fully air-gapped operation
- ◈Cost tracking per provider per model
v0.8.0
February 20, 2026
minorSelf-Observability Layer
Sparge now instruments itself with the same rigour it applies to monitored agents.
- ◈18 Prometheus metrics at /metrics endpoint
- ◈OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation (FastAPI + engines)
- ◈structlog JSON structured logging with correlation IDs
- ◈@timed_engine decorator for engine performance tracking
- ◈Pre-built Grafana dashboards (Platform Overview, AI Cost Intelligence)
- ◈Alertmanager rules pre-configured
v0.7.0
January 30, 2026
minorContext Quality Scorer
Three-dimension context quality scoring detects root cause of >50% of production failures.
- ◈Freshness (45%) + Completeness (35%) + Consistency (20%) scoring
- ◈12 enterprise data type refresh expectations
- ◈Schema drift detection between observations
- ◈Under 2ms scoring latency — no external API calls
- ◈Recommendations generated on quality degradation
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