.NET agent release notesRSS

Notice

• Environment variables that start with or contain NEWRELIC_ are deprecated and may be removed in a future major release. Users are encouraged to update their installation to use NEW_RELIC_ names as soon as possible. (b00edda)

New features

• Implement consistent naming scheme for all environment variables. All environment variables starting with (or containing) NEWRELIC_ are now named NEW_RELIC_. Support for previous environment variables is retained, so this is not a breaking change. (#718) (#2812) (b00edda)
• Update CosmosDB instrumentation to support latest version (#2832) (27a78cb)

Fixes

• Handle null or empty SQS messages and/or message attributes (#2833) (758b770)
• Update Profiler to check whether Azure function mode support is enabled (#2822) (9669641)

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Updating your agent

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We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add support for the EnyimMemcachedCore client. (#2781) (52bdc11)
• Allow container linking for AWS ECS applications. (#2683) (d55567f)
• Parse Azure Function HttpTrigger parameters (#2776) (7e8c28b)

Fixes

• Prevent FileNotFoundException when handling connection issues while instrumenting .NET Framework apps. (#2750) (#2751) (cebd287)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Oracle instrumentation now supports latest version. (#2721) (50cb663)
• Initial support for instrumentation of "isolated" model Azure Functions. Instrumentation is disabled by default. (d8a79e5)

Fixes

• Preserve custom query name even if statement can't be parsed. (#2708) (#2709) (3ab0cb4)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Additional metrics and attributes for some instrumented libraries (#2675) (a033b81)
• Auto-instrument ASP.NET Core Lambda functions (#2662) (#2674) (ceaefc5)
• Use Lambda function name if application name is not set (#2695) (3dcf3af)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Improve serverless mode detection (#2661) (5f5dda8)
• Set application name via command line with the .msi installer (#2648) (369dcba)

Fixes

• Better Lambda web request input parameter validation. (#2653) (810d4af), closes #2652
• Revert recent Profiler warning fixes to address reported instability (#2663) (b3c9cd1)
• SQS instrumentation could cause InvalidOperationException (#2645) (#2646) (40b6ad5)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add support for disabling LLM monitoring at the account level. (#2592) (c31451a)
• Instrumentation for Amazon Simple Queuing Service (AWSSDK.SQS) (#2620) (ac738ba)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

Notice

• The .NET Agent now supports instrumenting AWS Lambda functions. See documentation for details: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/serverless-function-monitoring/aws-lambda-monitoring/get-started/monitoring-aws-lambda-serverless-monitoring/. (d96e29f)

New features

• Add an option to disable the file system watcher. (#2536) (27d0ed0)
• Add support for capturing container id from AWS ECS. (#2481) (c018b8a)
• Add support for using Sitecore.Logging and log4net together (#2537) (332529b)

Fixes

• Prevent NullReferenceExeption on APIGatewayProxyRequest (#2529) (18d833f)
• Refactor to eliminate usage of .GetAwaiter().GetResult() in Framework builds. (#2534) (#2535) (cfb2c28)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

Fixes

• Agent license key should be optional in Serverless mode. (#2499) (#2500) (801edc3)
• Nested logging contexts should not disable context data for Microsoft.Extensions.Logging (2508) (#2516) (6196af5)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.

New features

• Add support for AWS Lambda APIGatewayHttpApiV2ProxyRequest (#2472) (3f06bf6)
• Enable configuration of ignored and expected HTTP status code errors with environment variables (#2487) (eeb574f)

Fixes

• Accept inbound tracing headers in Kafka consume method instrumentation (#2488) (476378a)
• Upgrade Wix to v5 to fix an issue with non-elevated installs (#2471) (acd12fa)

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Updating your agent

• Follow standard procedures to update the .NET agent.
• If you're using a particularly old agent, review the list of major changes and procedures for updating legacy .NET agents.

We recommend updating to the latest agent version as soon as it's available. If you can't upgrade to the latest version, update your agents to a version no more than 90 days old. Read more about keeping your agent up to date. See the New Relic .NET agent EOL policy doc for information about agent releases and support dates.