Build 284

Build 284 is released on 14 October 2024.

The release notes for all agent sensors are now available in the dedicated Sensor releases section.

Features

Increase aggregation

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

Endpoint to retrieve Instana-hosted PoP external IP addresses

A new Synthetic monitoring endpoint is available to retrieve the Instana-hosted PoP external IP addresses. For more information, see OpenAPI.

Synthetic monitoring RBAC improvements

Role Based Access Control (RBAC) for Synthetic monitoring includes the following enhancements:

  • With the Limited access permission on Synthetic monitoring, users in a group can now access the Synthetic tests and credentials that are associated with application perspectives, websites, and mobile applications.
  • Limited access for Synthetic monitoring includes permissions for credentials.
  • Now Synthetic tests and Synthetic credentials can be associated with application perspectives, websites, and mobile applications.

For more information, see Synthetic monitoring Limited access.

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.

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.

Synthetic monitoring

  • SSL certificate test: On the Summary tab for the test, "Last Run - Certificate is valid" is replaced with "Last Run - Certificate is Signed by Public CA".
  • Now you can associate a Synthetic test with applications, websites, and mobile applications by using the synctl tool.
  • The synctlExternal link icon tool now supports creating or updating a Synthetic credential to be associated with multiple applications, websites, and mobile applications.

Fixes

Business monitoring

  • Ordering business processes by health is now consistent across multiple pages of results.
  • Spark charts on the Business monitoring home page widget now display correctly.
  • An erroneous message was displayed after successfully creating a business perspective. This issue is now fixed.
  • Unrelated services are no longer displayed in the Top Services chart when business activities share an activity ID.

Synthetic monitoring

The following security vulnerabilities are fixed in Synthetic PoP:

  • CVE-2024-45590
  • CVE-2024-45296
  • CVE-2024-43799
  • CVE-2024-43800
  • CVE-2024-47764

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