Build 289
Build 289 is released on 27 January 2025.
Features
The following features are added.
Business monitoring custom dashboard support
You can now use business monitoring data to create widgets of the following types within your custom dashboard:
- Big Number
- Pie Chart
- Time Series Chart
- Top List
Cost observability and allocation with IBM Kubecost (public preview)
Instana now supports IBM Kubecost. For more information, see Integrating with IBM Kubecost.
Generic volume mounts for Kubernetes Agent deployment
You can now mount generic volumes into the agent pod by using Instana agent operator and Helm chart. These volume mounts can be configured from ConfigMaps, secrets, or other types of volumes in Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. By using this approach, you can provide the agent with external data such as self-signed certificates, custom keys, and trustStores, or apply additional custom files during the agent deployment. For example, see Helm chart documentation.
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler monitoring
Instana now enables the monitoring of Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler by default. However, you can opt out of this feature if it is not required. For more information about enabling and disabling optional features, see Enabling optional features (Kubernetes or OpenShift Container Platform).
Improvements
The following improvements are provided.
New metrics for LLM monitoring
LLM monitoring of Instana now supports the following metrics that the LLM model and applications aggregate:
- Total Input Tokens
- Total Output Tokens
- Total Input Cost
- Total Output Cost
Service level objectives (SLO)
The Create Service Level Objective (SLO) dialog box now displays the correct units for websites and synthetic tests.
Synthetic monitoring
By default, the Results page is sorted in descending order based on the Started column.
Fixes
The following fixes are provided.
Charting of custom call metrics with negative values
Previously, the mean aggregation chart for custom call metrics with negative values displayed invalid data. This issue is now fixed.
Latency-based sorting of trace list in unbounded analytics
The trace list in unbounded analytics now correctly sorts by latency. Previously, when you attempted to sort the list based on latency, the trace list in unbounded analytics appeared in an unordered sequence. This issue is now fixed.
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