Docs August 3 - August 7, 2026

New docs

• Introduced Workload Identity Federation as the recommended default way to connect GCP integrations.

Major changes

• Added FedRAMP-compliant endpoints for APM, infrastructure, browser, and mobile agents.
• Updated Install the ECS integration with two new Fargate forward-only modes: NRIA_IS_FORWARD_ONLY and NRIA_IS_SECURE_FORWARD_ONLY.
• Updated Ruby agent configuration with new options from Ruby agent 10.7.0, including transaction_tracer.cap_segment_artifacts, Puma instrumentation settings, and Google Cloud Run hostname options.

Minor changes

• Fixed User permissions by restoring the permission-definitions section.
• Updated User type to replace "applied intelligence" with "Alerts."
• Updated Workflow Automation document with the account.create.own_api_keys permission required to run a workflow.
• Updated Applications catalog and Infrastructure catalog to clarify how the Environment grouping is populated.
• Fixed Integrations and custom roles to correct the Cloud Resource Manager API description.
• Updated Cloud Cost Intelligence: Pricing with a qualitative cost comparison instead of exact per-GB ingest rates.
• Updated Chart types to restore simpler bar-chart guidance.
• Updated Configure mobile monitoring settings to reflect event persistence enabled by default.
• Fixed Kubernetes APM auto-attach instrumentation as it no longer requires a specific namespace.
• Updated eBPF agent best practices guide with a new "unified monitoring approach" section.
• Updated Amazon API Gateway REST (v1) monitoring integration to document CloudWatch Metric Streams as an ingest method.
• Fixed SDK based instrumentation CloudWatch fallback links.
• Added Table-level entity support and new storage metrics to Google BigQuery monitoring integration.
• Updated the New Relic Autopilot document to simplify the pricing requirement to Advanced Compute.
• Renamed Intelligent Workload to Intelligent Workloads.

Release notes

• Stay up-to-date with our latest releases:

  • Media agent for Android v4.4.0:

    • Added Japan (JP) region support.
    • Fixed several playback and QoE bugs.

  • Media agent for iOS v4.3.0:

    • Added Japan (JP) region support and new QOE attributes.
    • Fixed ad-break and multi-video rendition KPI issues.

  • NRDOT Collector v2.0.0:

    • Removed the deprecated jmxreceiver.
    • Bumped OpenTelemetry components to v0.157.0.
    • Fixed CVE-2026-56852.

  • NRDOT Host Monitoring v2.0.0:

    • Verified compatibility with NRDOT Collector 2.0.0.
    • Renamed the cumulativetodelta config node to cumulative_to_delta.

  • Kubernetes integration v4.5.0:

    • Shipped in Helm chart newrelic-infrastructure-4.5.0 and nri-bundle-8.0.12.

  • Node API runtime v1.2.254:

    • Fixed multiple CVEs in a security patch release.

  • Node browser runtime v3.0.197:

    • Updated Chrome and fixed multiple CVEs.

  • Ruby agent v10.7.0:

    • Added a segment-artifact cap, Puma server-statistics instrumentation, and Google Cloud Run hostname reporting.
    • Fixed slow SQL recording and explain-plan targeting issues.

  • Node.js agent v14.3.5:

    • Downgraded the ignoreApdex warning log to trace-level.

  • Node.js agent v14.3.6:

    • Fixed addAttribute over-counting attributeCount.

  • Android agent v7.8.0:

    • Added offline storage for failed Session Replay payloads and AGP 9.x support.
    • Fixed cold-start timing to measure to first rendered frame.