Build 281

Amazon DocumentDB

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors Amazon DocumentDB clusters and instances. For more information, see Monitoring Amazon DocumentDB.

Azure Application Gateway

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors your Azure Application Gateway. For more information, see Monitoring Azure Application Gateway.

Azure SignalR

Instana now automatically discovers and monitors Azure SignalR instance. For more information, see Monitoring Azure SignalR.

New features on the home page

On the Instana UI home page, the following features are added:

• To provide a quick overview of incidents, Synthetic, and your custom dashboards, the Incidents, Synthetic monitoring, and My custom dashboards dashboards are added.

• To streamline your onboarding experience, a new onboarding task list is added. In the onboarding list, you can see a guided process with actionable tasks such as installing agents, inviting teammates, setting up tracing, creating application perspectives and Smart Alerts. By using this feature, you can get started quickly, enhance team collaboration, and explore Instana.

API token duplication

You can now duplicate API tokens. To duplicate a token, go to Settings > Team Settings > API Tokens and then click the Duplicate button. The creation dialog is now opened and prefilled with the values from the existing token.

DBmarlin integration settings

You can now set a link to your DBmarlin instance for bidirectional integration. To configure these integration settings, you must have the new permission for Configuration of database analysis tool integrations. For more information, see DBmarlin.

IBM MQ Tracing on IBM i

IBM MQ Tracing for IBM i is now available for public preview. For more information, see IBM MQ Tracing on IBM i.

Mobile app crash analysis

Crash analysis in mobile app monitoring is now generally available (GA). For more information, see Crash analysis.

SAP ABAP sensor

This release adds the following features to the SAP ABAP instance dashboard in the Instana UI:

• Workload Response Time line chart on the Summary tab to visualize system response times.
• Workload Response Time per step line chart on the Summary tab to visualize the response times for each dialog step.
• Split view of System Log Statistics on the System Overview tab to display Severity 1 and Severity 2 logs separately.
• Wait time metrics for work processes on the System Overview tab to improve performance insights.

Approximate data indicator in Analytics

In Analytics, a tilde (~) is now added to the count in the sidebar filter to indicate that the displayed data count is an approximate value.

Dropwizard sensor

The Dropwizard sensor now displays a warning on the dashboard when it reaches the metric limit. For more information, see Monitoring Dropwizard.

IBM MQ client library

IBM MQ, IBM App Connect Enterprise, and IBM MQ Managed File Transfer (MFT) sensors are improved to use IBM MQ client library 9.4, which is the latest version. You don't need to do anything.

Integrating details from DBA_TEMP_FILES into the Tablespace table

The details from the DBA_TEMP_FILES table are integrated to the existing Tablespace table in the Instana UI. But, you must grant the read access to the DBA_TEMP_FILES table for the user that is specified in the agent configuration file (<instana-agent-dir>/etc/instana/configuration.yaml). For more information about how to grant the access, see Monitoring Oracle database, Monitoring Oracle Multitenant database, and Monitoring Oracle RAC.

Layout of the home page

The layout of the home page is redesigned to comply with the Carbon guide. The new design enhances user accessibility and provides a more aesthetic experience.

Spring Batch endpoints

The Spring Batch endpoints are now made more stable by removing volatile parts of batch job names such as object IDs, lambda IDs, or field values. The new change in the Spring Batch endpoints can affect existing Spring Batch endpoint names.

Thresholds for Infrastructure Smart Alerts (public preview)

Threshold values for the warning and critical severities can be set on the Smart Alert configuration for Infrastructure. For more information, see Smart Alerts for Infrastructure monitoring.

Uptime card in the SAP ABAP instance

In the Summary tab of the ABAP instance, a card is added to display the system's uptime.

Viewing the ZHMC entities from Infrastructure

To view ZHMC entities in the graph, from the navigation menu in the Instana UI, select Infrastructure. To filter the ZHMC entities, in Infrastructure, click Map and then enter a query in the search field. You can use queries such as entity.type:zhmc, entity.type:zhmc.console, or entity.type:zhmc.cpc.

MongoDB sensor

Instana now supports monitoring metrics and configuration data for MongoDB and MongoDB Atlas 7.0.x.

SAP HANA sensor

The SAP HANA sensor now detects the following events with built-in events:

• High Disk usage
• User locks
• Scheduler job failures
• System events
• Archive log backup failures

For more information, see SAP HANA.

SAP ABAP sensor

A fix is added to generate an event when the IDoc transaction has an error and the job is in the Aborted status.

Typographical error in Oracle tag names

Due to a typographical error in the Oracle tag names, oracle.sevice.name is renamed to oracle.service.name and oracle.sevice.names is renamed to oracle.service.names. However, you can still use the old tag names for compatibility with the earlier versions.

Disable the Get answers button

To enhance the user experience, WalkMe and AssistMe are integrated with the Get answers button. Previously, the Get answers button was enabled by default. But now in self-hosted environments, the Get answers button is disabled by default because Instana does not provide third-party tools for self-hosted users. For more information about enabling the Get answers button, see the Enabling optional features(Docker) or Enabling optional features(Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform) documentation.

SAP ABAP sensor

This release includes the following fixes that are related to the SAP ABAP sensor:

• The Fiori scorecards view is modified for usability.
• The UNKNOWN user metric is no longer displayed in the Instana UI.

Tag changes in Infrastructure and Platforms

The following tags are removed from the Infrastructure and Platforms custom dashboards, and Analyze Infrastructure tag catalogs:

• podman.restartCount: Instead of using the podman.restartCount tag for filtering, you can use the restart count container metric to sort based on the number of restarts.
• openshift.deploymentconfig.namespace: Instead of using the openshift.deploymentconfig.namespace tag for filtering, you can use the kubernetes.namespace.name tag.

281-1

• The instana-console .rpm (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and .deb (Debian) packages are now signed by using GPG.