Build 283

Build 283 is released on 8 October 2024.

Minimum version to update from directly: Build 279.

Cumulative release notes builds 282 and 283

These release notes are for builds 282 and 283.

Features

The following features are added.

File Monitoring sensor

The File Monitoring sensor is a new sensor that monitors and provides events based on user configurations. For more information, see Monitoring file or directory (public preview).

SAP ABAP sensor

The following updates are added to the SAP ABAP instance dashboard in the Instana UI:

  • Printer availability metrics on the Transactional Statistics tab.
  • Update record metrics on the System Overview tab.
  • System and user profile configuration on the System Overview tab.
  • RFC error logs on the Transactional Statistics tab.

Transport Request metrics are now supported for SAP ABAP. To view the metrics on the Instana UI, go to the SAP ABAP dashboard, and then click the Transactional Statistics tab. For more information, see Monitoring SAP with the ABAP sensor.

Snowflake sensor (public preview)

Instana Snowflake sensor provides real-time monitoring of credit usage, storage, query performance, and so on. For more information, see Monitoring Snowflake (public preview).

Support for Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 21c

The Oracle RAC sensor supports Oracle RAC 21c. For more information, see Monitoring Oracle Real Application Clusters.

IBM InfoSphere CDC sensor

The IBM InfoSphere CDC subscription instance dashboard now adds the following features in the Instana UI:

  • Time check missed and Network error KPIs in the subscription data store
  • Data store memory performance metrics for the source and target data store
  • Database workload metrics
  • Garbage collection metrics
  • Transaction histogram metrics, which is part of the database workload
  • Single scrape metrics

Dropwizard sensor

Instana now supports monitoring of all versions of Dropwizard 4.0 and earlier. You can now filter the Dropwizard custom metrics by using a regular expression. For more information, see Monitoring Dropwizard.

Improvements

The following improvements are provided.

Containerized environments of TIBCO ActiveSpaces

Support for monitoring containerized environments in TIBCO ActiveSpaces is added. You can now configure the poll rate for monitoring TIBCO ActiveSpaces. For more information, see Monitoring TIBCO ActiveSpaces®.

Column width in service endpoint lists

When long endpoint names were in Applications > Services > Endpoints, users had to scroll horizontally. Now, endpoint names are truncated if they exceed a certain length to keep the list within the window width. The full endpoint name is still visible in the tooltip.

Display emojis in Slack alert messages

The Slack alert channel configuration now includes a switch Display emojis. With this switch, you can control whether Slack messages display emojis. For more information, see Slack alert channel.

Enhancements to Calls details and Trace Timeline views

On the Analytics dashboard for calls, the following enhancements are made to the Calls details view to provide more accurate information for batched calls:

  • The label Latency is updated to Sum of latencies.
  • The label Self time is updated to Elapsed time.
  • Percentage displays are removed.

The Timeline view for traces is enhanced to improve the visualization of batched calls. The length of the call bar for batched calls is now determined by the minSelfTime value from the getTraceActivityTree method, rather than duration.

SAP HANA sensor

The SAP HANA sensor now has the following improvements:

  • Collects Virtual Memory, Workload Rate (per minute), Transaction Statistics, and Active Statement metrics.
  • Detects partial aborting and aborting transactions.

Test DBmarlin configuration

It is now possible to test the configuration for your DBmarlin integration within settings. For more information, see DBmarlin documentation.

Fixes

The following fixes are provided.

Backwards compatible tag validation

Previously, when call and trace analytics tags were renamed, custom dashboards and saved analytics views that referenced the old tags showed validation errors. The validation error is fixed, and now previous tag names are also recognized as valid tag names.

Rewards

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Minor releases

The releases include the following updates.

283-1

There was no 283-1 release.

283-2

Fixed an issue with the view of historical infrastructure metrics.

283-3

  • Previously, the Application Perspective Smart Alerts could not be edited. The issue is now fixed.
  • The issue with the Stack button of the Application Perspective view is now fixed.