Java sensor releases

Instana monitors your Java environment by using the Java sensor, tracer, and profiler. The Instana Java sensor provides infrastructure metrics across your environment. Instana Java Tracer provides automated code instrumentation and end-to-end traces of requests, while the Java profiler analyzes code-level performance and discovers bottlenecks in production code. For more information, see Monitoring Java virtual machine and Java Tracer releases.

Java sensor releases

The following releases offer the latest updates for Java sensor:

1.2.134

Java sensor 1.2.134 is released on 9 June 2025.

Improvements

  • Adds the tagsExtraction parameter to enable the extraction of Micrometer metric tags enclosed within curly braces {}.

1.2.133

Java sensor 1.2.133 is released on 13 November 2024.

Fixes

  • Improved handling when metric collection does not enable during attachment.

1.2.131

Java sensor 1.2.131 is released on 7 November 2024.

Improvements

  • Add Micrometer debug logging

1.2.130

Java sensor 1.2.130 is released on 7 October 2024.

Fixes

  • Better handling for broken connections between the agent and the JVM

Java Profile sensor releases

The following releases offer the latest updates for Java Profile sensor:

1.1.3

Java Profile sensor 1.1.3 is released on 9 July 2025.

Fixes

This release fixes verbose console logs that are generated by Java Profile sensor.

1.1.2

Java Profile sensor 1.1.2 is released on 7 July 2025.

Fixes

Previously, processes crashed when the existing profiler was not properly unloaded during sensor upgrade. This issue is now fixed.

1.1.1

Java Profile sensor 1.1.1 is released on 19 June 2025.

Fixes

This release fixes an issue where the Java Profile sensor stopped working on Alpine Linux.

1.1.0

Java Profile sensor 1.1.0 is released on 9 June 2025.

Features

This release provides the following features:

  • The profiling engine of Linux JVM Profiler is now based on async-profiler OSS library.
  • Windows is now supported in JVM Profiler on Windows that have JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) support.
  • ARM64 architecture is now supported in Linux JVM Profiler.

Fixes

This release fixes a segmentation fault issue in profiling AdoptOpenJDK that is built on OpenJ9 0.24.0.

1.0.30

Java Profile sensor 1.0.30 is released on 6 March 2024.

To get the following performance updates, you need to have Agent 1.1.712 or later.

Fixes

The signal segmentation violation (SIGSEGV) error in Java profiling is now fixed.