Build 280

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.

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.

Log Integrations is moved to the Integrations section

In Team Settings, Log Integrations is moved from the Log Management section to a new section called Integrations. Now, Log Integrations is in the Integrations > Logging section.

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.

Synthetic monitoring

The mssql and telnet-client third-party modules are added to the JavaScript playback engine in Synthetic PoP 1.2.4 or later. You can import these modules by using the API script. For more information, see Importing optional module.

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.

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.

Synthetic monitoring

If a Selenium IDE script (.side) included the following characters or commands, the script failed in Synthetic PoP. This issue is fixed in Synthetic PoP 1.2.4 or later.

• Single quotation marks in the editContent command
• The assertText or verifyText command with leading or trailing white spaces

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.

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.