Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Bug fixes

• When a wrong agent id was set up prior to have a cloud-id, agent was not able to migrate to a new more stable id once it got cloud-id. Now agent id is updated and new data is therefor attached to this more stable cloud-id.

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A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Changed

• Agent service binary is now newrelic-infra-service instead of newrelic-infra. Later is now a child process spawned by the prior. See further details.

Added

• Command channel. Enables NR platform to trigger commands to agents via command-api HTTPS endpoint . See further details.
• Added log entry for when initializing docker client fails: unable to initialize docker client.

Bug fixes

• Disabled keep-alive on cloud metadata requests to avoid leaking open connections.

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Changed

Linux

• Better error handling for NFS support.
• HostInfo plugin to provide uptime for older distros.

Bug fixes

• The agent will reuse network connections again. Since v1.3.18, the agent created a new connection on each metrics post. Not reusing the connections may lead metrics to be accumulated and submitted with long delays in systems where the connection establishment is slow.

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A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Added

• Linux: Added additional checks to confirm the user ID to determine whether the agent is running as a root user.

Changed

• Using a new endpoint for Agent identity retrieval to mitigate the hostname flipping issue. This change was introduced for the Windows Agent 1.5.37, and now is also active for the Linux Agent.

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Added

Added new NFSSample (event type is NFSSample) for gathering NFS client metrics. This is configurable by the following config option:

• metrics_nfs_sample_rate (default: 20)
• detailed_nfs (default: false)

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Changed

Add extra information on verbose logs. On each metrics post, an incremental counter and the timestamps of the submitted metrics are logged.

Windows specific

Using a new endpoint for Agent identity retrieval to mitigate the hostname flipping issue.

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Changed

• Improve trial management mechanism in Agent
• Add support for including extra attributes in the Events; before, events only supported a summary and category field, now extra attributes can be defined.

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Changed

• Optimized Storage Sampler CPU consumption (noticeable in agents managing > 100 mounted devices).

Windows specific

• All executables are now signed.
• Added versioning info to newrelic-infra-ctl.exe.
• These changes should avoid Defender to flag the package as threat.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Windows only

• Previous agent version 1.5.0 got flagged by Windows Defender. We found it was a false positive. This version proved to pass Defender test, but could still get flagged by Defender on some systems.
• Improved StorageSample metrics performance. Please refer to the New Relic event data dictionary for a detailed description of them.