.NET Core sensor releases

Instana monitors .NET applications by using the Instana .NET sensor and provides insights into their health and performance.

For more information, see Monitoring .NET and .NET Core based applications.

Release 1.0.71

.NET Core sensor 1.0.71 is released on 26 August 2025.

Improvements

This release provides the following enhancements:

  • Support for Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1 3.27.0
  • Collection of Event Viewer logs by using LogCollector
  • Azure function optimization

Fixes

This release provides the following fixes:

  • Redaction of password strings containing the equal sign (=)
  • Improved tracer-agent communication when sending spans
  • Assembly file version checks to support instrumentation

Release 1.0.68

.NET Core sensor 1.0.68 is released on 23 July 2025.

Improvements

This release provides the following enhancements:

  • The .NET Core sensor now uses the existing ConfiguredObjectMapper instance instead of creating a new ObjectMapper instance whenever the sense handle is called in the sensor.
  • The following info message is now removed from the .NET Core sensor: CLR - Log Collector - Adding Sensor Capability.

Release 1.0.67

.NET Core sensor 1.0.67 is released on 17 July 2025.

Features

The sensor now supports Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1 3.25.0.

Fixes

This release fixes the memory leak issue related to FastRandom objects.

Release 1.0.66

.NET Core sensor 1.0.66 is released on 16 July 2025.

Improvements

This release updates the sensor to support the .NET log collector feature.

Release 1.0.65

.NET Core sensor 1.0.65 is released on 26 June 2025.

Improvements

This release updates the .NET Core Tracing libraries to 1.298.2.

Release 1.0.64

.NET Core sensor 1.0.64 is released on 29 May 2025.

Features

This release adds instrumentation for the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient library.

Fixes

This release fixes the following issues:

  • StackExchange.Redis NullReferenceException on CLR 8 and earlier
  • Alpine memory access violation for found libraries

Release 1.0.63

.NET Core sensor 1.0.63 is released on 29 April 2025.

Fixes

The validation path for downloading tracing libraries for .NET Core Autotracing was not functioning correctly. This issue is now fixed.

Release 1.0.62

.NET Core sensor 1.0.62 is released on 23 April 2025.

Features

This release updates the .NET Core tracing libraries to 1.293.1.

Release 1.0.61

.NET Core sensor 1.0.61 is released on 14 April 2025.

Features

This release updates the .NET Core tracing libraries.

Release 1.0.60

.NET sensor 1.0.60 is released on 24 February 2025.

Improvements

The .NET Core sensor's dependency on the CLR sensor is removed.

Release 1.0.58

.NET sensor 1.0.58 is released on 18 December 2024.

Improvements

.NET Core sensor tracing values are updated.

Release 1.0.57

.NET sensor 1.0.57 is released on 10 December 2024.

Improvements

The Linux environment variables file is renamed from global_env.sh to instana_dotnet_global_env.sh.

Release 1.0.56

.NET sensor 1.0.56 is released on 21 November 2024.

Improvements

AutoTrace for .NET Core is now supported on Windows and Linux.