Containerd sensor releases

Instana monitors Containerd by using the Instana Containerd sensor. The sensor provides insights into the health and performance of applications and services that run on Containerd. For more information, see Monitoring Containerd.

1.0.42

Containerd sensor 1.0.42 is released on 31 March 2025.

Improvements

You can now parse the cgroup data directly by using the environment variable INSTANA_CONTAINERD_PARSE_CGROUP_DATA=true.

1.0.41

Containerd sensor 1.0.41 is released on 28 January 2025.

Features

The Containerd sensor now supports Total Normalized CPU Time and Memory Working Set Usage metrics for Control Group V2 (cgroupv2).

1.0.40

Containerd sensor 1.0.40 is released on 9 December 2024.

Improvements

The Containerd sensor now supports the following Containerd versions: 1.6.x, 1.7.x, and 2.0.x.

1.0.39

Containerd sensor 1.0.39 is released on 10 October 2024.

Improvements

This release adds support for heartbeat to the Containerd sensor, which reduces the data that is sent to the Instana backend. The agent only sends data every 10 seconds if the backend supports the heartbeat.