Host sensor releases

Instana monitors a host by using the Instana host sensor. The sensor provides insights into the health and performance of the host. For more information, see Monitoring Host.

1.1.208

Host sensor 1.1.208 is released on 30 June 2025.

Features

You can now view some new volume group metrics for the AIX host.

1.1.207

Host sensor 1.1.207 is released on 17 June 2025.

Fixes

The sensor now uses thread-safe methods to access the native SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) library to prevent exceptions during agent shutdown.

1.1.206

Host sensor 1.1.206 is released on 2 June 2025.

Improvements

This release adds the following new metrics for AIX hosts:

  • Two CPU-related metrics: Physical CPU Consumption and Stolen Idle Cycles
  • One system information metric: User Sessions

1.1.205

Host sensor 1.1.205 is released on 21 May 2025.

Fixes

Previously, the AIX host sensor sent only one load average in the sensor payload, despite the backend expecting three load averages in the sensor payload. This issue is now fixed and all three load averages are correctly included in the sensor payload.

1.1.204

Host sensor 1.1.204 is released on 20 May 2025.

Features

This release adds the following metrics to the Linux host sensor:

  • CPU Idle
    • For overall CPUs (Average)
    • For individual CPUs
  • User/System CPU Ratio
    • For individual CPUs
  • Memory metrics:
    • Virtual free storage
    • Virtual total storage
    • Virtual used storage
    • Shared memory
    • Total memory
  • Process metrics:
    • Process Blocked State
    • Process Waiting Runtime

1.1.203

Host sensor 1.1.203 is released on 19 May 2025.

Improvements

This release adds support for process related metrics for AIX host.

1.1.202

Host sensor 1.1.202 is released on 15 May 2025.

Improvements

The sensor now collects the disk metrics by parsing the /proc/diskstats file instead of using iostat.

1.1.200

Host sensor 1.1.200 is released on 5 May 2025.

Improvements

The release adds new system metrics for the AIX system.

1.1.199

Host sensor 1.1.199 is released on 22 April 2025.

Fixes

This release resolves an issue where the use of the SIGKILL signal led to RPM database corruption.

1.1.198

Host sensor 1.1.198 is released on 21 April 2025.

Features

The Host sensor can now monitor the following CPU metrics for AIX System:

  • CPU Busy (%)
  • CPU Idle (%)
  • CPU Context Switches
  • Device Interrupts
  • Time Spent in Hypervisor (%)