Build 211

Build 211 is released on 12 October 2021.

Minimum version to update directly: Build 207.

• Cumulative features from release #210, #211
  • IBM Z HMC monitoring
  • Kafka lag data monitoring
  • Node.js
• Improvements
• Fixes
• 211-1
• 211-2

Cumulative features from release #210, #211

IBM Z HMC monitoring

Instana now supports remote monitoring of zHMC as a platform. It includes a built-in dashboard that displays key metrics. For more information, see IBM Z HMC docs.

Kafka lag data monitoring

• Added a support to enable or disable lag data collection (it was automatically collected by default). For more information, see Kafka documentation.

Node.js

• Added console.warn and console.error instrumentation (v1.133.0)
• OpenTelemetry Exporter (v1.134.0)
• Added Fastify 2.x and 3.x support (v1.135.0)

Improvements

• LDAP settings: Added help and validations for inputs.
• IBM ITM V6 technology preview: Added "airgap" support
• Application monitoring: expose the AWS tags under the key-value pair tag aws.tag allowing, for instance, the creation of Application Perspectives representing environments.
• End-user monitoring for websites: the Get Grouped Beacon Metrics API endpoint now supports complex filters with AND/OR operators and nested levels.
• IBM ACE Sensor: Added support of remote monitoring
• IBM Db2 v 11.5 LUW Sensor
  • Added various metrics that are related to Transactional Logs, Table Space Stats as metrics collections.
  • Added detailed table views for Reorg, Idle UOW entries, HADR Primary, and Secondary Logs, HADR connections.
  • Added tables for HADR and STANDBY Db2 servers where user-defined schemas can be added in the configuration yaml to view the system table details.
• End-user monitoring for websites: the Get Grouped Beacon Metrics API endpoint now supports complex filters with AND/OR operators and nested levels.
• UI Backend performance: reduced memory pressure and improved performance of simple graph-related queries
• Go Sensor: version instrumentation/instaecho/v1.0.0 was released. Support for Echo framework was added.
• Application Perspective configurations: AP configurations can now be viewed in read-only mode by users that do not have permission to create applications, but have an AP assigned as an RBAC area.
• IBM i OS: Added new Metrics (Active Subsystem and Job queues) and snapshot (environment information).

For more information, see IBM Db2 docs

Fixes

• Nginx sensor 1.1.77: Fixed parsing of NGINX configs with geoip2 blocks.
• LDAP settings: Now the error description is shown when the configuration is saved.
• IBM Cloud Platform sensor 1.0.11: Fixed IBM Load Balancer for VPC metric showing zero value.
• PHP Tracer Extension 1.16.6: Fixed threading issue in PHP FPM.
• C++ Sensor 1.1.4: Removed false positive monitoring event cpp_collector_not_installed.
• PHP Tracer Extension 1.16.7:
  • Added cURL error reporting
  • Fixed the crashing profiler in CLI environment
• IBM DataPower: Fixed null error in log

211-1

• Monitoring agent issues is now enabled by default.

211-2

• Updates Docker images with changes and fixes from the SaaS release.