Build 285

Build 285 is released on 7 November 2024.

Minimum version to update from directly: Build 281.

Cumulative release notes for builds 284 and 285

These release notes are for builds 284 and 285.

Features

The following features are added.

Aggregation for metrics

Instana now supports the capability to increase aggregation for metrics in custom dashboards and Analyze Infrastructure. For more information, see Aggregations.

Unit selection for custom metrics

You can now select a unit for custom infrastructure metrics on custom dashboards. For more information, see Unit for custom metric.

Download widgets as PDF in custom dashboards

Now, you can download the tiles in a custom dashboard as PDF files. The Download PDF option is added in the More menu. In addition, you can select data in a graph and right-click, and then select Download PDF.

Support for more than 3000 metrics per entity

Instana now supports ingestion of more than 3000 metrics per entity, with some restrictions. For more information, see Monitoring infrastructure.

Improvements

Build 285 provides the following improvements:

Host monitoring - AIX

The AIX CPU load average metrics is updated. For more information, see Monitoring host.

Microsoft SQL Sensor

The current version of the Microsoft SQL JDBC driver is updated to 12.8.1.

Fixes

Build 285 provides the following fixes:

Editing infrastructure custom dashboard widgets

Previously, when editing a custom dashboard widget with an infrastructure dataset and a filter expression, the widget could not be saved due to a validation error. This issue is now fixed.

Inconsistent formatting in analyze infrastructure

Previously, in the analytics view for infrastructure entities, the metrics displayed in the table were not formatted correctly. This issue is now fixed and displays metrics with the correct format.

Kubernetes monitoring

The Pods Alloc. value for Kubernetes nodes is now correctly calculated and disregards finished pods.

Trace details

Previously, when you sorted the Service Endpoint List, the list displayed inconsistent results. The issue is now fixed and displays consistent results in the Service Endpoint List across multiple pages.

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