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New docs

• Our new DataBricks integration describes how to collect telemetry from Spark deployments running on Databricks or elsewhere.

Major changes

• In syntheric monitoring troubleshoot runtime upgrade errors, added several new common error scenarios and how to resolve them.
• Rewrote introduction to AWS integrations to help you find the specific AWS service you're looking for and where to go to get started with that.
• In data privacy with New Relic, we've added a new section with actionable information on how to audit user activity on our platform.
• In MySQL monitoring integration, added new code examples and a new section on Microsoft Group Managed Service Account (gMSA).

Minor changes

• In the mobile SDK guide, added Android logs-related automatically instrumented methods.
• In New Relic OTLP endpoint, added a clarification on the differences in how OpenTelemetry and OTLP handle attribute types.

Release notes

Stay up-to-date on our most recent releases:

• Capacitor agent v1.5.1
  • Fixes an issue related to getHttpHeaderforTracking
  • Updated native Android agent to version 7.6.0
• Cordova agent v7.0.1
  • Fixes an issue related to getHttpHeaderforTracking
  • Updates native Android agent updated to version 7.6.0
• Flutter agent v1.1.3
  • Added null check for debugPrint message to prevent potential crashes
  • Fixes record metrics incorrectly sending a cout of 0
  • Updates native Android agent to version 7.6.0
• Infrastructure agent v1.57.2
  • Fixes an issue with enable_process_metrics
• iOS agent v7.5.2
  • Fixes a few hanging and crashing issues
• Node.js agent v12.5.1
  • Fixes handling of Pino merging object
  • Updates @newrelic/security-agent to v2.0.0
  • Adds Azure site extension publish job workflow fun trigger
• React Native agent v1.4.5
  • Updates native Android agent to version 7.6.0

New docs

• IAST configuration explains how to configure and schedule IAST scans.
• OCSF integration describes how to use this new integration to monitor your Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework data.

Minor changes

• Updated the requirements and compatibility information for vSphere monitoring integration. If your environment consists of more than 800 virtual machines, we've highlighted a workaround so you can report all of your data.
• Updated the code snippet required to forward Envoy logs to New Relic.
• Updated the code snippets required to configure NRI-Flex for Nextcloud and to forward Nextcloud logs to New Relic.
• Updated .NET agent compatibility and requirements for the most up to date versioning (as of these release notes):
  • StackExchange.Redis (both minimum supported version and latest verified compatible version)
  • AWS Bedrock (latest verified compatible version)
  • Confluent.Kafka (latest verified compatible version)
  • AWSSDK.SQS (both minimum supported version and latest verified compatible version)
• Updated the Node.js agent compatibility information for @aws-sdk/client-bedrock-runtime, @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, @aws-sdk/client-sns, @aws-sdk/client-sqs, @aws-sdk/lib-dynamodb, @aws-sdk/smithy-client, @langchain/core, @smithy/smithy-client, express, fastify, mysql2, next, and openai.
• Updated the instructions on how to see your control plane data in configure control plane monitoring.

Release notes and What's New posts

Check out our What's New posts to learn about new features and releases:

• Customizing chart refresh rates
• Improving notification workflows with new Slack integration features
• See logs in context in Kubernetes deployment views
• Browser agent v1.266.0
  • Removes reporting of long tasks
• Infrastructure agent v1.57.1
  • Supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) version 15.6
  • Uses Go 1.22
  • Updates newrelic/nri-flex, newrelic/nri-prometheus, newrelic/nri-docker, and newrelic/nri-winservices
• Logs v240912
  • Enables logging for New Relic by default
• Logs v240911
  • Supports logs integration on Amazon Linux 2023 (AArch64)
• .NET agent v10.30.0
  • Supports instrumentation of the Oracle.ManagedDataAccess and Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Core libraries
  • Provides preview support for instrumentation of isolated model Azure Functions (Check it out!)
  • Fixes the issue where the custom query name is lost for invalid or malformed queries
• Node.js agent v12.5.0
  • Enhances monitoring capabilities for Amazon ECS

New docs

• AWS Application Migration Service integration describes how to keep track of services you've migrated to AWS.
• Browser SPA monitoring 2.0 is an update that addresses several known issues and provide an improved monitoring experience for single-page applications.

Major changes

• Added a new section describing how to set up AWS cross-account access with New Relic.
• Added information about how to link your applications to Kubernetes, using either New Relic's or OpenTelemetry's instrumentation.
• On template variables: dynamically filter dashboards, added information on how to include and exclude variables in order to focus your dashboard visualizations on the data you're most concerned about.
• Updated several screenshots and added information about default and custom chart refresh rates.

Minor changes

• Added the BYPASS_HEAD_REQUEST description to NerdGraph tutorial: Manage your synthetic monitors.
• Clarified how to use the UI installation for Flutter application monitoring and addressed some minor inconsistencies.
• Added a note to stream logs using Kinesis Data Firehose to let you know that this AWS logs integration is not FedRAMP authorized.
• Scripted monitor proxy usage is supported and requires Firefox version 3.0.7 or higher.
• Updated logging best practices to provide some new guidance around data partitions.
• Added instructions on how to cancel your account.
• Added and updated screenshots on Kubernetes summary page.
• We support the Java Regex syntax in our logs parsing UI.
• Added a note that we've deprecated the browser monitoring createTracer SPA API method and the BrowserTiming custom event.
• The .NET agent supports Oracle versions 23.4.0 to 23.5.1 (the latest verified compatible version).
• Based on customer feedback, we've clarified how to use newrelic_notice_error (PHP agent API).

Release notes and What's New posts

• What's New post for filter dashboards faster with template variable toggle
• Android agent v7.6.0
  • Upgrade JDK support to JAVA22
  • Upgrade AGP support to version 8.6
  • Add event persistence feature flag
• Browser agent v1.265.1
• Disable websocket wrapping to fix problems with third-party libraries related to sockets
• Cordova agent v7.0.1
  • A new flag disables console log instrumentation
  • Native Android and iOS agents updated to version 7.5.1
• Job Manager v403
  • Internal improvements
• Job Manager v404
  • Fix a private location bug related to disrupted communications with New Relic
• Mobile app for Android v5.24.2
  • Improve cross-account support
  • Improve retry logic for failed HTTP calls
• Node API runtime v1.2.86
  • Update build image to address CVEs related to linux-libc-dev
• Node API runtime v1.2.88
  • Update packages to address CVE-2024-39338
• Node API runtime v1.2.94
  • Update packages to address CVE-2024-29415
• Node browser runtime v3.0.4
  • Add proxy support for Firefox monitors
  • Update packages to address CVE-2024-39338
• Node browser runtime v3.0.7
  • Update packages to address CVE-2023-42282
• Node.js agent v12.4.0
  • Add support for express@5
  • Disable instrumentation of 3rd-party packages via config.instrumentation.<library>.enabled
• Ping runtime v1.46.0
  • Update packages to address CVE-2024-25638

New docs

• Optimize your data ingest is the third installment in a four-part series on achieviing observability maturity and maximizing the benefits of an observability platform.
• OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes outlines the process to monitor a Kubernetes cluster with OpenTelemetry. This feature is still under development.

Major changes

• Consolidated .NET Core and Framework compatibility docs into a single place in .NET agent: compatibility and requirements.
• Updated understand and query high cardinality metrics to indicate how to adjust cardinality limits.
• Updated the guidelines to size and organize a partition in data partitions.
• In the New Relic Flutter agent installation procedure, updated the instructions to configure an Android app.
• In the New Relic Ionic Capacitor agent installation procedure, updated the instructions to configure a native Android app.
• In the New Relic Unity agent installation procedure, updated the instructions to configure an Android app.
• In the New Relic React Native agent installation procedure, updated the instructions to configure an Android app.
• Added an entry for a new hostname variable called exclude_matching-metrics. Use the variable to prevent unwanted data from being sent to New Relic.

Minor changes

• Added back the guides to migrate the .NET agent from 8.x to 9.x and from 9.x to 10.x.
• Updated the restrictions table in log event data to call out that instrumentation.name, instrumentation.provider, and instrumentation.version are reserved for internal use in mobile and browser integrations. Do not use these attributes in your application code.
• Fixed the GraphQL query to retrieve browser application configuration.
• Updated the private minion dashboard JSON under prerequisites in monitor private locations.
• Simplified the steps to install and use Go instrumentation tool.
• Added the Amazon S3 network endpoints for US and EU under user-facing domains in New Relic network traffic. Ensure that your network doesn't block these endpoints. Otherwise, the Synthetics UI may malfunction.
• Corrected the supported Joomla version for the PHP agent in compatibility and requirements.
• Changed the default values of backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled in the code to configure a Flutter project and to configure a React Native app.
• Fixed some minor inaccuracies and technical issues in Elasticsearch monitoring integration.

Release notes and What's New posts

• What's New post for a new type of alert condition threshold
• Infrastructure agent v1.57.0
  • Enables new local health status checks for valid credentials
  • Enables exclusion lists for process monitoring
• Node.js agent v12.3.1
  • Fixes REST API type payload detection in AWS Lambda
• React Native agent v1.4.4
  • Fixes an issue caused by a mismatch between the Android agent and the NDK agent

New docs

• Go easy instrumentation is an experimental tool that makes it easy to instrument your application with the New Relic Go agent, saving you time and effort. Try it now!
• Segmentation faults provides guidance on how to identify and fix segmentation faults when using the New Relic PHP agent.

Major changes

• Updated the instructions to manually install the Android agent.
• Starting August 26, 2024, only the new runtime is available for creating synthetic monitors. But you can downgrade the runtime of an existing monitor from the new version to the legacy version until October 22, 2024 EOL.

Minor changes

• In addToTrace, we've corrected the description and code example of the JavaScript object parameter.
• In Downgrade or cancel New Relic, added guidance on preparing for org deletion when using multiple authentication domains.

Release notes and What's New posts

• Node.js agent v12.3.0
  • Allows custom attributes to be assigned to LLM events in a function
  • Improves AWS Lambda event detection
• PHP agent v11.1.0.14
  • Supports Drupal 11
  • Fixes an issue where newrelic.so could not earlier use the strlcpy function on Linux

New docs

• Forward your Lambda function logs with New Relic and OpenTelemetry describes how to monitor AWS serverless applications with OpenTelemetry log events from AWS CloudWatch via the New Relic UI.

Major changes

• Quality improvements to the Explore your Kubernetes data category, starting with explore your Kubernetes cluster. The improvements include content reorganization, rewritten content, and updated screenshots to improve clarity and readability.
• The .NET agent now supports auto-instrumentation of certain Lambda function types. We've updated approaches to .NET serverless AWS Lambda performance monitoring to reflect that.
• Added a new category called Other infrastructure integrations to split out documentation that doesn't belong in alongside our infrastructure on-host integration docs. Atlassian Jira integration is the first doc in this new category.

Minor changes

• In introduction to AWS Lambda monitoring, added new sections on distributed tracing, extensions, Node.js, and Python environment variable configuration options.
• Added a link to our collector GitHub repo that describes how to set up OpenTelemetry for Kubernetes without our Helm chart.
• The browser API PageAction event limit has been increased from 120 to 1,000.
• Improved the clarity and readability of the PHP agent compatibility table.
• In the logs API, log event data has a new reserved attribute name prefix of instrumentation.* and any attribute with this prefix is dropped during ingest. We've updated log event data to reflect this.
• We're using BugCrowd for our coordinated disclosure program to report security vulnerabilities and added some info about how to sign up.
• In Fluentd plugin for log forwarding, to describe how we encode Japanese language log files.

Release notes and What's New posts

• What's New post for configure titles templates for improved alert processing
• Android agent v1.1.2
  • Fix a crash when an application goes to the background
• Infrastructure agent v1.56.1
  • Update dependency newrelic/nri-docker to v2.0.7
• iOS agent v7.5.1
  • Monitor watchOS apps via the iOS agent
• Java agent v8.14.0
  • Disable AI monitoring at the account/organization level
  • HikariCP instrumentation captures additional metrics
  • New instrumentation modules for: kafka-clients-metrics-3.7.0, jedis-5.0.0, vertx-sqlclient-4.4.2, and newrelic-scala-api.
  • New AWS MQ attributes added to spans
  • Bug fixes related to Netty and netty-reactor
• Logs v240812
  • Add support for Ubuntu 24.04 and SUSE 15.5(x86_64)
• .NET agent v10.29.0
  • New metrics and attributes for some supported libraries
  • Auto-instrument ASP.NET Core Lambda functions
  • If there's no application name, defaults to Lambda function name (when monitoring Lambda functions)
• Node.js agent v12.1.1
  • Bug fixes related to amqplib instrumentation and redis host/port parsing
  • Update kafkajs node metrics to remove /Named from the name
• Node.js agent v12.2.0
  • Add instrumentation support for Express 5 beta
  • Bug fix for koa instrumentation and route names
• End-of-life announcement for change to user and license keys
  • On September 25, 2024, we're removing the ability to copy API keys from the UI.

New docs

• Create "host not reporting" NRQL alert conditions describes how to set up alerting for a loss of signal.

Major changes

• Improved our installation and configuration steps in introduction to AWS Lambda monitoring to make it easier to see how your Lambda functions are performing in our UI.
• We've got a new end-of-life announcements section in our docs to make it easier for you to keep track of what's scheduled for end of life. It also includes an RSS feed for your convenience.

Minor changes

• Updated version compatibility information for our NGINX integration buildpack for VMware Tanzu.
• When forwarding logs with our infrastructure agent, we now support Ubuntu version 24.04.x (LTS version).
• We've deprecated pre-built alerts in our UI install flow and updated various docs to reflect that.

Release notes and What's New posts

• What's New for Synthetics now supports Firefox and multiple emulated devices
• What's New for Optimize AWS workloads faster, with one-step instrumentation and full stack observability
• Agentless monitoring for EC2, Azure VM, and standardized entity creation for EC2, Azure VMs, and GCP CE
  • Enhance visibility into your Amazon EC2 and Azure VM infrastructure
  • Remove the need for manual agent installations
• Browser agent v1.263.0
  • Decrease bundle size via converting static strings to warning codes
  • Shut down agent initialization if there isn't a valid licenseKey and applicationID
  • Shut down agent when it can't read a date header for the page view event harvest
• Browser agent v1.264.0
  • Normalize, aggregate, and harvest all generic events (1,000 event limit)
  • Report all customer PageAction data that uses the generic events feature
• Infrastructure agent v1.56.0
  • Add support for Fluent Bit 3 on Windows
• Kubernetes integration v3.29.4
  • Update Go to v1.22.5
• Node.js agent v12.1.0
  • In Pino instrumentation, pick log message from merging objects
  • Add TLS verification for Redis

New docs

• We've consolidated two complicated log forwarding docs into a single one that describes how to forward AWS logs, regardless of your setup. This makes it easier to find the instructions you need to set up log forwarding from AWS.
• We've consolidated two complicated log forwarding docs into a single one that describes how to forward AWS logs, regardless of your setup. This makes it easier to find the instructions you need to set up log forwarding from AWS.
• Amazon CloudWatch Application signals integration describes how to use this integration to monitor your AWS hosted services.
• A list of the open-source libraries, their versions, and licenses we're using for synthetic monitoring Node browser runtime.

Major changes

• Entity, EntityUpdate, and strings prefixed by Entity[0-9] are reserved for use by New Relic. We've updated data requirements and limits for custom event data to reflect this change.
• Our synthetic monitors support running as Mozilla Firefox. We've added information on how to use this in our manage your synthetic monitors NerdGraph tutorial and in several other places.

Minor changes

• We ended support of our partnership API in March 2023. We deleted several docs related to this API, but we're keeping introduction to Partnership API around to point you to how to use the NerdGraph API to do similar things.
• In Go agent configuration, fixed a minor error in the example code block for handling expected errors.
• Updated system requirements in forward your logs using the infrastructure agent to state that we support Debian version 11 (Bullseye) and 12 (Bookworm) and have dropped support for Debian version 9 (Stretch) and 10 (Buster). We've also dropped support for Windows Server 2012, following Microsoft's lead.
• In layerless instrumentation, fixed Python code related to importing the New Relic package into your code and adding custom events.
• In notification message templates, added some additional information about how to handle missing attributes in your message template.
• Added better Dockerfile examples to instrument your containerized function for Java, .NET, Node.js, Python, Ruby, and extension-only.
• Updated and added the following NrAiSignal attributes to our data dictionary: dataAccountId, earlyEventDropCount, fillOption, lateEventDropCount, removalCause, resetCause, slideBySeconds, and type.
• Updated the Dockerfile example in install PHP for Docker and other containers.
• The browser agent replaced page_action with generic_events and updated several docs to reflect this, such as addPageAction and finished.

Release notes and What's New posts

• Containerized private minion (CPM) v3.1.17
  • Update dependencies to address CVE-2024-37890
• Go agent v3.34.0
  • Collect user attributes with logcontext-v2/nrlogrus and logcontext-v2/nrslog
  • Use slog and zerolog to manage Go agent logs with the new nrslog library
  • Support for RegisterTLSConfig in nrmysql
  • Even if the Go agent has shut down, logcontext-v2/nrlogus still prints user logs
  • Switch protobuff to google.golang.org/protobuff in modfile
• Infrastructure v1.55.2
  • Update dependencies: Docker to v26.1.5, newrelic/nri-flex to v1.15.1, newrelic/nri-docker to v2.0.6, and nri-winservices to v1.0.2
• Job Manager v400
  • Supports running Mozilla Firefox
• .NET agent v10.28.0
  • Improve serverless mode detection
  • Set application name with via command line and the .msi installer
  • Various bug fixes
• Node browser runtime v3.0.1
  • Supports running Mozilla Firefox for synthetics monitors
• Python agent v9.13.0
  • Support for Boto3's upload_file command
  • Support for new Redis commands
  • Capture AWS SQS information on message spans
  • Add server.address attribute to RabbitMQ
  • Bug fixes related to OpenAI instrumentation and missing parameters in MessageTrace

New docs

• Approaches to .NET serverless AWS Lambda performance monitoring aims to clarify and outline the different requirements and capabilities when setting up instrumentation for your .NET Lambda functions.
• You can monitor your VMWare Tanzu NGINX integration with either .NET Core or Framework.

Major changes

• IAST supports Ruby in APM version 9.12.0 or higher.
• Added a new customer responsibility matrix (CRM) spreadsheet to our FedRAMP certification doc.
• Added detailed info to synthetics job manager configuration on how to mount a PersistentVolume for a job manager on Kubernetes.
• When you monitor your mobile app, you can disable distributed tracing as described in configure mobile monitoring settings.
• In our intro to Pathpoint, added new best practices info around creating flows, staging examples, and selecting relevant signals.
• Updated our acceptable use policy to address generative AI usage.
• Clarified .NET agent and Lambda function limitations you need to be aware of.
• Added non-ingest AWS Privatelink endpoints to send New Relic data via AWS PrivateLink.
• A thorough clean-up of PHP agent compatibility and requirements makes it much easier for you to understand and find the system compatibiliy and requirements information you need to know.

Minor changes

• Updated the infrastructure agent configuration settings to note that if you install the infrastructure agent via guided install, our CLI installer, then status is enabled by default.
• Finished adding all of the status colors in introduction to New Relic pathpoint
• We've got new infrastructure UI experiences for AWS, Azure, and GCP, and updated docs to match.
• Updated compatibility for .NET core and .NET framework.
• In Microsoft SQL Server, it turns out that VIEW ANY DEFINITION is the correct name for read access permissions.
• When you export a chart as CSV, if you have comments in your NRQL query, you may see unexpected results in the CSV.
• If your synthetic monitoring scripts are running in an environment with write protected directories and you need to import and store Node.js modules, prepend these paths to appropriate the filenames.
• Custom event names can include forward slashes, so we've updated data requirements and limits for custom event data to reflect that.
• Added the NEW_RELIC_LAMBDA_HANDLER environment variable to the introduction to AWS Lambda monitoring. This is used by our handler wrapper to find your function's actual handler.
• The Java APM agent isn't compatible with the latest version of Kafka. We've updated compatibility and requirements for the Java agent to reflect that we support versions 2.0.0 to 3.6.x.
• Added a note to requirements for the infrastructure agent to let that if you're running the infrastructure agent on Windows 2012, the highest available version is 1.37.1.
• Updated our APM agent docs to clarify that distributed tracing is enabled by default with our agents, but you need to enable Infinite Tracing.

Release notes and What's New posts

• What's New for Upcoming End-of-Life: Google Core Web Vital (FID)
• Android agent v7.5.1
  • Tighten the logic around metric clearance to prevent dropping metrics
  • Add sessionId to log reporting
• Android NDK agent v1.1.1
  • Better handling of potential memory leaks
  • More logging to improve debugging visibility
• Capacitor agent v1.5.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
• Cordova agent v7.0.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
• Flutter agent v1.1.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • New feature flag enables or disables distributed tracing
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
• Flutter agent v1.1.1
  • Fixed an issue where platform version wasn't being reported correctly for iOS apps
  • Fixed an issue preventing HTTP instrumentation when app and agent started from within RunZoneGuarded
• Job manager v363
  • Null checks for HAR deserialization
  • usesCustomNodeModules event attribute is no longer always false
• Kubernetes integration v3.29.3
  • Update Alpine to version 3.20.2 and Kubernetes packages to version 0.30.3
• .NET MAUI agent v1.1.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
  • Fixed distributed tracing malfunction when using a custom HTTP handler
• Node browser runtime v2.3.60
  • Use FIPs-compliant base images for the runtime
  • Upgrade packages to mitigate security issue CVE-2024-37890
• Node.js agent v12.0.0
  • Drop support for Node.js 16
  • Remove legacy context manager
  • Remove support for redis lower than version 2.6.0
  • Remove instrumentation for director
  • Update mongodb instrumentation to drop support for versions 2 and 3
• PHP agent v11.0.0.13
  • Add countDocuments MongoDB instrumentation for PHP 7.x
  • Verify and support Doctrine 3.x
  • Verify and support Larevel 11 (excluding Laravel Horizon)
  • Drop support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1
  • Upgrade Golang to version 1.22.5
• React Native agent v1.4.0
  • Don't use this version. Use version 1.4.1 instead.
• React Native agent v1.4.1
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
• Unity agent v1.4.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
• Unreal Engine Plugin v1.3.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0
• Xamarin agent v1.0.0
  • Add application exit information reporting, enabled by default
  • Implement static API to forward logs
  • Updated: native Android and iOS agents to version 7.5.0