Build 273

Build 273 is released on 21 May 2024.

Minimum version to update from directly: Build 269.

Cumulative release notes #272, #273

Features

The following features are added.

AWS IoT Core

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors AWS IoT Core. For more information, see Monitoring AWS IoT Core.

Azure PostgreSQL flexible server

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors Azure PostgreSQL flexible server. For more information, see Monitoring Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server.

Filter empty rows in the Infrastructure table widget

The dataset selector in the Infrastructure table widget has a new checkbox for filtering the empty rows from the table widget. When you select the Filter empty values checkbox, the widget displays only the rows that have a value for the metric.

Kong API Gateway

The Kong API Gateway sensor now supports the hybrid mode architecture of Kong. For more information about monitoring the Kong API Gateway and its metrics, see Performance metrics for Kong API Gateway.

Microsoft Purview

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors Microsoft Purview. For more information, see Monitoring Microsoft Purview.

Mobile App Smart Alerts

You can now set up an alert for crashes in your monitored mobile app. For more information, see Mobile App Smart Alerts.

Optionally show groups with missing tags in the Table widget for Infrastructure and Platforms

The Table widget for the Infrastructure & Platforms data source now provides an optional configuration toggle for showing groups that are missing tags.

Oracle WebLogic 14 support

Instana now supports Oracle WebLogic 14cR1. For more information, see Monitoring WebLogic.

Profile page

The Profile page is added to Instana. Now you can view the email ID associated with your Instana user account and add your name to the profile. For more information, see Managing your profile.

SAP ABAP sensor

Instana now automatically generates built-in events for the ABAP system that is being monitored if any of the following instances occur:

  • The CPU is idle with the usage less than 10%.
  • The memory usage is greater than 80%.
  • The work process is stopped, shutdown, or in PRIV mode (private).
  • The file system usage is greater than 80%.

For more information, see SAP ABAP (public preview) built-in events.

TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.10 support

Instana now supports TIBCO BusinessWorks 6.10. For more information, see Monitoring TIBCO BW.

Improvements

The following functionalities are improved.

ClickHouse dashboard

Formatted the Running Merges table to improve the readability of specific metrics.

Elasticsearch shard level metrics

The index table on the Elasticsearch node dashboard now displays the details of indexes with shards on the node, aggregating data from those shards. To ensure the correctness of the index metrics that are displayed on the cluster dashboard, upgrade to Elasticsearch sensor 1.1.73.

Logging

For new logs, if no log level is identified in the log message, then the log level NONE is displayed.

SAP HANA sensor

Instana now supports the monitoring of the Lock Wait Statistics metrics in SAP HANA sensor. For more information, see Monitoring SAP HANA.

TIBCO ActiveSpaces monitoring

More metrics are now added to the dashboard of the TIBCO ActiveSpaces node.

Fixes

The following issues are fixed.

IBM OpenStack sensor

Previously, the project name, CPU, memory, and storage resources details were displayed wrongly on the IBM OpenStack sensor dashboard. This issue is now fixed, and the details are now displayed correctly.

WebSphere Application Server certificate expiration metric

Previously, the certificates.*.expDaysLeft metric showed negative values for the days past the expiration date. Now, on reaching the expiration date the metric value shows zero, and this issue is now fixed. As a result, the metric is now properly rendered in charts and can be used to trigger alerts within Infrastructure Smart Alerts.

Rewards

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Minor releases

273-1

  • Fixed a configuration issue that could lead to missing metrics when the BeeInstana metrics pipeline is disabled.

273-2

  • 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.