PHP Tracer releases

PHP Tracer now instruments the Microsoft SQL Server PHP extension (sqlsrv).

This release provides the following enhancements:

• Improved serverless PHP Tracer performance during PHP-FPM metrics collection.
• Logging of PHP deprecation warning when the instana.disabled_instrumentation INI setting is used to disable instrumentations.
• Effective instrumentation disabling configuration when both Span Disabling feature and instana.disabled_instrumentation INI setting are used.

PHP CLI crashed when PHP Tracer's debug logging is enabled and the error_log PHP INI setting is configured. This issue is now fixed.

You can now disable spans in PHP Traces either by using the agent configuration.yaml file or at PHP runtime by using the environment variable INSTANA_CONFIG_PATH .

This release improves exception handling in CakePHP by extending the middleware exception handler class in CakePHP.

The PHP Tracer now supports the following features:

• PHP-FPM process monitoring in AWS Fargate
• OpenSSL 1.1 for PHP on AWS fargate

This release resolves request and response header cache issues in cURL instrumentation.

You can now monitor PHP applications that run on Podman.

This release fixes an issue where the endpoint name was not specified for FPM status calls that are initiated through the CGI-FCGI tool.

You can now monitor PHP applications on AWS ECS.

This release has the following fixes:

• The Instana header issues when using the CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION is now fixed.
• The PHP service visibility issue is now fixed. You can now view the PHP service under the PHP runtime for Apache2handler SAPI.

This release provides OTEL SDK Instana PHP exporter. For more information, see OpenTelemetry PHP exporter.

The Instana PHP SDK is now deprecated.

This release fixes the Creation of dynamic property deprecation warning from the Instana PHP SDK stubs.

PHP Tracer now supports Windows environments.

This release improves the integration of PHP-CGI SAPI with PHP Tracer.

PHP Tracer now provides the following features:

• Removes support for PHP 7.0 and 8.0.
• Introduces bitmask value to disable openLDAP instrumentation by using the disabled_instrumentation setting in the PHP INI file.

The log level for PHP Tracer now defaults to NONE.

This release fixes the OpenLDAP callback integrations to remove deprecated PHP Zend function convert_to_long_base ().

This release fixes excessive INFO level logging to DEBUG level in PHP Tracer.

PHP Tracer now provides the following features:

• Supports the following environment variables:
  • INSTANA_AGENT_HOST
  • INSTANA_AGENT_PORT
  • INSTANA_EXTRA_HTTP_HEADERS
  • INSTANA_SECRETS
• Captures request and response custom HTTP headers in exit span.

This release fixes compatibility issues of MongoDB 1.20.0 and earlier with PHP 7.4 and later.

The PHP Tracer now supports PHP 8.4. This release also updates support for environment variable INSTANA_DEBUG and INSTANA_LOG_LEVEL to enable logging in PHP Tracer.

The PHP Tracer now supports PHP 8.4 RC4. This release also updates support for MongoDB. For more information, see Supported PHP extensions.

PHP Tracer now supports forking through the pcntl_fork() built-in extension. For more information, see Supported PHP built-in extensions.

Previously the PHP Tracer failed when it was used with the Drupal logger without specifying the third argument context for logging. This issue is fixed now.

You can now use the INSTANA_AUTO_PROFILE environment variable to enable or disable auto-profiling.

The PHP Tracer uses PHP runtime _SERVER array to fetch environment variables instead of the std::getenv() function.

PHP Tracer now captures the query statement from Couchbase queries that are made through the Couchbase PECL extension.

Previously, PHP Tracer crashed when Instana traced Elastica (ruflin/elastica) and Elasticsearch (elasticsearch/elasticsearch) while elastic/transport 8.10.0 or later was used as a transitive dependency. This issue is now fixed.