New docs
- Added Intelligent Exemplar documentation for the public preview feature to surface anomalous traces from latency or error spikes without manual filter rebuilding.
- Added Attribute Correlation Analysis documentation for the public preview feature to automatically identify attribute-value pairs driving latency or error spikes.
- Added Service maturity documentation for Scorecards maturity levels and weighted scoring to track service progression toward operational excellence.
- Added Configure multi-account routing for the New Relic eBPF agent documentation to route eBPF telemetry to different New Relic accounts per Kubernetes namespace.
- Added Autopilot Slack integration documentation to connect Autopilot to Slack for in-thread incident investigation.
- Added Introduction to smart alerts documentation for the public preview feature to monitor entity alert coverage against recommended standards and create conditions in bulk.
- Added Variables in notebooks documentation to parameterize notebooks with dynamic variables for repeatable investigation runbooks.
- Added Puma instrumentation documentation for Ruby agent sampling of Puma server statistics reported as timeslice metrics.
- Added Windows RDS MSSQL monitoring with NRDOT documentation to monitor SQL Server on AWS RDS using the NRDOT collector on Windows.
Major changes
- Updated Autopilot documentation across overview, setup, use Autopilot, and memories with the GA release, renaming from SRE Agent to Autopilot, updating compliance information to reflect HIPAA availability.
- Updated eBPF agent documentation for the 1.5.0 release with expanded kernel version support (
v5.8tov7.1), new supported Linux distributions (AlmaLinux 9.7+, Oracle Linux 8+, openSUSE Leap 15.5+, SLES 15.7+), and updated Kubernetes and Linux installation procedures. - Updated eBPF best practices with a new data sampling and fine-tuning section explaining how each telemetry type is sampled for data volume and cost control.
- Updated Prometheus high availability (HA) with a new quick reference table consolidating the three deduplication values and an updated introduction callout.
- Updated AWS integration for metrics manual setup by restoring the Firehose configuration section for the manual AWS CloudWatch metric stream setup.
- Updated Manage teams with a new Team Hub productivity widgets section documenting data requirements for deployment frequency, change lead time, MTTR, PR cycle time, and open pull requests widgets.
Minor changes
- Updated Kubernetes integration compatibility and requirements to add Kubernetes 1.35 to the supported version range.
- Fixed Events reported by mobile monitoring to correct the
MobileandMobileSessionevent session timeout from 10 minutes to 1 minute. - Updated Monitor workflow execution to clarify that
TRACElog level is now available and document its behavior for action output attributes. - Updated Next.js instrumentation with the Hybrid Agent to add that the Hybrid Agent approach currently only supports Next.js version 16 and above.
- Updated Ruby agent EOL policy to add Ruby 10.x and its minimum supported version (Ruby 2.6.0).
- Updated Multiple user records to clarify that removal from an organization's authentication domains is permanent and cannot be undone.
- Updated Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) data locations with revised processing location information.
- Fixed PHP agent troubleshooting for Fargate to correct a broken link.
- Updated Teams to clarify permission descriptions for the automations and hierarchies settings page.
- Updated Windows Hosted MSSQL monitoring with NRDOT with revised default values for top query collection configuration parameters.
What's new posts
- Contextual Dashboards now in Catalogs - Custom dashboards can now be linked directly to entities in Catalogs for single-click access to curated metrics.
- Accelerate incident investigation with New Relic Autopilot - Autopilot is now generally available as New Relic AI's operations assistant for incident investigation, root cause identification, and remediation recommendations.
Release notes
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- Fixed handling of
$0as a replacement in metric normalization rules to return the matched string in its entirety.
- Fixed handling of
- Fixed MongoDB host details resolution at operation time to support
mongodb+srv://clients.
- Fixed MongoDB host details resolution at operation time to support
- Added internal OpenTelemetry API to the agent.
- Added on-CPU time collection alongside wall time in
CpuProfiler. - Fixed unconditional
@opentelemetry/corerequire on agent startup.
Kubernetes integration v4.4.1:
- See the GitHub release notes for details. Included in
newrelic-infrastructure-4.4.1andnri-bundle-8.0.8.
- See the GitHub release notes for details. Included in
- Updated the embedded
newrelic-fluent-bit-outputplugin tov3.7.0(Windows) to resolve security vulnerabilities CVE-2026-39820, CVE-2026-42499, CVE-2026-33814, CVE-2026-42501, CVE-2026-33811, and CVE-2026-42504.
- Updated the embedded
- Bumped OpenTelemetry component versions from
v0.154.0tov0.156.0. - Bumped
nroracledbreceiverandnrsqlserverreceivertov0.156.1.
- Bumped OpenTelemetry component versions from
NRDOT Host Monitoring v1.21.0:
- Verified compatibility with
nrdot-collector:1.21.0for host monitoring use cases.
- Verified compatibility with
- Fixed security vulnerability GHSA-hrxh-6v49-42gf.