Build 271

Instana Grafana datasource 4.0.0

To align with the latest updates from the Grafana team, all secure information, including the API key, must be stored in secureJsonData instead of jsonData.

From Instana release 270 in the Instana Grafana datasource 4.0.0, the API token, previously stored in jsonData is migrated to secureJsonData, which is a breaking change.

To prevent datasource breakage, you must reauthenticate the configuration page by providing the URL and API Token. For more information about the migration process, see the Instana Grafana datasource Configuration section.

Instana Grafana datasource 4.0.0 is the new base version and is only supported by Grafana 10.0.0 or later.

AWS RDS

Instana now supports the metric EBSIOBalance% for monitoring AWS RDS. For more information, see AWS RDS monitoring.

Azure Databricks

Instana now supports monitoring Azure Databricks. For more information, see Monitoring Azure Databricks.

Azure Machine Learning

Instana now supports monitoring Azure Machine Learning. For more information, see Monitoring Azure Machine Learning.

Contributor role for Applications

Instana now supports Contributor role for user access on Applications. For more information, see Managing user access on Applications.

Kafka sensor

Kafka sensor now supports JMX authentication with username and password to collect metrics.

Select Infrastructure metrics with regex

Instana now supports selecting multiple Infrastructure metrics with a regex. For more information, see Using a regex to select metrics.

Tracing support for WebSphere and Liberty on z/OS

Instana now supports tracing for WebSphere and Liberty on zOS. For more information, see Instana on z/OS Tracing requirement for WebSphere, Instana on z/OS Tracing requirement for Liberty

Android and iOS agent automatically detect views (public preview)

Instana Android and iOS agents now support a feature to automatically collect view information. Previously, you had to set the view name through API of the mobile app agent. For more information, see Mobile App View Detection.

Azure Databricks

Instana now supports monitoring the Unity Catalog of Azure Databricks. For more information, see Monitoring Azure Databricks.

Db2 LUW sensor: Db2 pureScale metrics

The Db2 dashboard now shows pureScale Page Access Table, pureScale Package Cache Table, and pureScale Group Buffer Pool Table.

DRBD sensor

Instana now supports monitoring Distributed Replicated Storage System (DRBD). For more information, see Monitoring DRBD.

SAP ABAP monitoring

• Instana now automatically discovers and monitors SAP ABAP file system and Buffer Statistics metrics. For more information, see Monitoring SAP with ABAP Sensor (public preview).

• Built-in events are added to detect Aborted and Cancelled Background jobs.

Added milliseconds resolution to call start time

The value of the call start time that is displayed in the call details panel on the Trace Detail page now includes resolution reduced to milliseconds.

Additional parameters for GetTraces API

You can now use the optional includeInternal and includeSynthetic parameters in the GetTraces API to control inclusion of internal and synthetic calls in the filtered output, just like for other APIs that support a tagFilterExpression parameter.

Alert notifications: Incremented alert about end-of-life Ruby runtime

Starting with Ruby sensor 1.6.6, an alert is displayed in the Instana UI when a Ruby runtime that is older than Ruby 3.1 end-of-life (EOL) is detected.

Better search in tag or metric catalog

Searching the catalog for tags and metrics yields more relevant results. Previously, searching for the word "namespace" used to return namespace labels for CRI-O and ContainerD as the first results. Now, when you search for "namespace", Kubernetes namespace UID, name, and labels are the first results. Also, search terms are now highlighted.

Searching can also be scoped within a category.

For example, after you select a category such as JVM, searching will happen only within that category.

Improved percentage calculation of time data

The percentage of duration for waiting time, self-time, and network time is only calculated if the duration is greater than or equal to one millisecond.

Improved performance in Analyze Infrastructure

• Loading the entity list is faster when no metrics are selected
• Commonly used tags are optimized for filtering and grouping

Search functionality on the Agent Details page

Now you can search for Agent zones on the Agent Details page.

Service mapping for Db2

Db2 calls are mapped to different service names based on the port and host. The pattern is Db2@<port> on <host>.

Trace details

You are now informed about the following options:

• Retries when the trace details take longer to load
• Possible causes if the trace cannot be found even after 3 unsuccessful retries

Elasticsearch shard level metrics

The index table on the Elasticsearch node dashboard now displays details of indexes with shards on the node, as the data aggregated from the shards on the node. To ensure the correctness of the index metrics displayed on the cluster dashboard, you must upgrade the Elasticsearch sensor to version 1.1.72.

Finer infrastructure tag suggestions

Infrastructure tag suggestions are tailored based on the current filter.

For example, when you are filtering on a Kubernetes Cluster, adding a Kubernetes Namespace tag to the filter list prompts suggestions for namespaces from the selected cluster.

Improved error handling for infrastructure analytics pipeline

The API endpoint /api/infrastructure-monitoring/analyze/metrics now issues a 503 SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE response with a meaningful error message when the analytics pipeline is not configured correctly.

SAP HANA sensor

• Instana now supports monitoring of SAP HANA SQL Plan Cache Statistics.
• Queuing connection support is added to Connections information.
• Consolidated the underlying charts of garbage collection statistics.

For more information, see Monitoring SAP HANA.

Tuxedo sensor

Improved the loading time of metrics of the Tuxedo sensor in the Queues table. In addition, the drop-down option in each row that contains two charts is now removed. You can click an item in the Queue Id column to view the charts.

Logs in Application Trace

Previously, to view the log message of a log item on the Application calls or traces page, you hovered over the log item. Now, you must click the log item to view the log message.

Monitoring NGINX

The parsing of geo blocks in the NGINX configuration files is fixed.

Call details layout

In certain call details views, the position of the header in the stack trace section was off. The position is now correctly set.

Unidentified infrastructure entity types

Entity types, such as Redis Enterprise database, Redis Enterprise shard, and Kafka task, lacked proper identification and dashboard. This issue is now fixed.

WebSphere Application Server sensor

Previously, the WebSphere Application Server in the Windows platform was not monitored by the Instana host agent because the server name contained an empty space. This issue is now fixed.

271-1

Support for migrating tenant unit master data from Classic Edition to Standard Edition

271-2

• Fixed an issue with the email notification channel where the email was sometimes not UTF-8 encoded and had cosmetic issues.
• Fixed an issue with third-party API calls in the Instana backend.