Build 282

Build 282 is released on 16 September 2024.

Features

The following features are added.

Smart Alerts for logs

  • Instana now supports Smart Alerts based on logs. For more information, see Smart Alerts for logs.
  • Custom dashboards now support logs as a data source for time series, pie chart, and big number widgets.

Business monitoring

Business monitoring is no longer an add-on feature and is now included in the observability standard package. For more information, see Business Monitoring.

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.

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 datastore
  • Datastore memory performance metrics for the source and target datastore
  • Database workload metrics
  • Garbage collection metrics
  • Transaction histogram metrics, which is part of the database workload
  • Single scrape metrics

Improvements

The following improvements are provided.

Action and Access log

Action log and Access log are now grouped in Settings > Team Settings > Audit trail. Existing bookmarks are still functional.

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®.

User profile menu

From the navigation menu in the Instana UI, the Sign Out and Tenants items are now moved from the More section to Profile menu. The Sign Out and Tenants items are now renamed to Log out and Switch unit or tenant respectively in Profile menu.

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.

Synthetic monitoring

Hotfixes were applied to Instana 281 for the following issues. The fixes are available on Instana 282.

  • If you clicked the View Related Test Results tab from the Event page, the Summary tab on the Synthetic test results kept reloading. This issue is fixed.

  • Synthetic tests could not be created due to 414 error:the internal request URI was too large. This issue is fixed.

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