.NET Core sensor releases

Instana® monitors .NET applications by using the Instana .NET sensor and provides insights into their health and performance.

For more information, see Monitoring .NET and .NET Core based applications.

See the following sections for the latest updates on .NET Core and .NET Core Trace sensors:

Release 1.0.115

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.115 on 20 July 2026.

Features

This release upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • NLog 6.1.4
  • StackExchange.Redis 3.0.17
  • MongoDB.Driver 3.10.0
  • Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 10.0.10
  • Hangfire.Core 1.8.24

For more information, see Supported libraries and frameworks for tracing.

Release 1.0.113

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.113 on 13 July 2026.

Improvements

This release upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Confluent.Kafka 2.15.0
  • StackExchange.Redis 3.0.0
  • StackExchange.Redis 3.0.7
  • StackExchange.Redis 3.0.11

Fixes

This release fixes an issue with the lifetime of module metadata interfaces.

.NET Core sensor

The following releases offer updates for .NET Core sensor:

Release 1.0.114

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.114 on 14 July 2026.

Improvements

You can now customize log deletion for LogCollector in the agent configuration.yaml file (<agent_install_dir>/etc/instana/configuration.yaml).

Release 1.0.112

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.112 on 8 July 2026.

Improvements

This release upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Azure.Storage.Queues 12.27.1
  • MySqlConnector 2.6.1

Fixes

This release provides the following fixes:

  • Extended option to support tracing for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.
  • Fixed an issue where root calls were missing in AWS Lambda traces.

Release 1.0.111

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.111 on 2 July 2026.

Improvements

This release upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • CouchbaseNetClient 3.9.3
  • ServiceStack 10.0.8
  • ServiceStack.Redis 10.0.8

Fixes

This release provides Glibc backward compatibility fix for Autotrace webhook.

Release 1.0.110

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.110 on 26 June 2026.

Improvements

This release enhances installation and cleanup process for Log Collector and .NET Core sensor.

Release 1.0.109

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.109 on 19 June 2026.

Improvements

  • Upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:
    • Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 10.0.9
    • Aerospike.Client 8.4.2
    • Google.Cloud.PubSub.V1 3.36.0
  • Adds support for base tracing Docker image for Alpine, Ubuntu (Noble and Resolute).

Release 1.0.106

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.106 on 11 June 2026.

Features

Currency version upgrades

Fixes

This release fixes the memory leak issue in the Classic Profiler.

Release 1.0.105

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.105 on 11 June 2026.

Features

This release upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • Microsoft.Azure.Cosmos 3.60.0
  • Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore 10.0.8
  • StackExchange.Redis 2.13.17
  • Npgsql 10.0.3

Fixes

This release fixes the following issues:

  • Azure Functions Kafka headers propagation issue.
  • Vector out of bounds error message in ClrProfiler version-based rewrite checks.

Release 1.0.104

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.104 on 1 June 2026.

Improvements

This release simplifies log collection by removing custom compression logic from the sensor code. The sensor now uses the LogCollector utility's native collect mode, which provides cleaner, more maintainable, and efficient code.

Release 1.0.103

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.103 on 27 May 2026.

Features

This release upgrades support for the following libraries and frameworks:

  • StackExchange.Redis 2.13.1
  • CouchbaseNetClient 3.9.2
  • MongoDB.Driver 3.8.1
  • Aerospike.Client 8.4.1

For more information, see .

Improvements

This release provides the following enhancements:

  • Captures Request and Response HTTP headers on both HTTP entries and exits
  • Refactores the instrumentation by modifying ExtractCallData to include the typeName in the data
  • Adds missing versions to the supported versions list

Release 1.0.101

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.101 on 18 May 2026.

Improvements

This release removes outdated core libraries from the Instana agent path.

.NET Core Trace sensor

The following releases offer updates for .NET Trace sensor:

Release 1.0.6

Instana released the .NET Core sensor 1.0.6 on 14 July 2026.

Fixes

Disabled port 16819 to prevent data from unintended sources from being processed and to avoid errors caused by invalid or malformed payloads.