Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See the Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

New features

• Added an agent_config plugin that reports the agent's config file as inventory.

Improvements

• Added more diagnostic logging when using verbose mode.
• Added configs to adjust the frequency of certain inventory plugins. Here we show the name of the config, the default sampling period in seconds, and the fastest the plugin will sample (its "floor". You should only change these values if advised by New Relic Support.
  • sysctl_interval_sec, default: 10, floor: 10
  • daemontools_interval_sec, default: 15, floor: 10
  • supervisor_interval_sec, default: 15, floor: 10
  • systemd_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 10
  • sysvinit_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 10
  • upstart_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 10
  • rpm_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30
  • dpkg_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30
  • facter_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30
  • selinux_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See the document "Update the Infrastructure agent" for instructions detailing how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows only release.

Improvements

• Added new fields ram, total_ram, cpu_name, cpu_num, total_cpu, and total_cores to metadata/system/system for Windows.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See the document "Update the Infrastructure agent" for instructions detailing how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note this is a Linux only release.

Improvements

• Added new field total_ram to metadata/system/system for Linux that reports the amount of ram installed on the machine.
• Added new fields total_cpu and total_cores to metadata/system/system inventory for Linux that reports the total number of processors on the machine and the total number of cores (number of cores x number of processors).
• Added CPU steal field cpuStealPercent to SystemSample.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See the document "Update the Infrastructure agent" for instructions detailing how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Bug fixes

• Fixes a regression where sestatus would be called even if SELinux features were inactive.
• Log file set in config will no longer be overwritten during agent restart