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Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Changed

• All environment variables defined in integration config files treated as uppercase. Also, the variables printed in payload output log. #676.

Added

• Brew formula file to publish the initial Beta of the infrastructure agent on Homebrew for macOS. See the homebrew-core PR status and our public documentation to learn more about requirements and limitations for macOS support.

Fixed

• Certain configuration settings printed as memory addresses instead of values. For example, enable_process_metrics #647.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Fixed

• Don't send inventory if forward only mode is enabled #659
• Avoid executor possible goroutine leaks #658

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Changed

• Bump nri-prometheus #651
• Bump nri-flex #653
• Bump fluent-bit #632

Added

• MacOS instrumentation beta. Docs not published yet.
• Log truncated or dropped events #634.
• Entity status API #635

Fixed

• Lazy loaded dimensional metrics harvester, to avoid memory consumption when no dimensional metrics are sent. #648

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Changed

• 599 Add memory profile interval.
• 605 Bump nri-flex.
• 600 Upgrade fluent-bit version to 1.7.9.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Fixed

• 597 HTTP APIs regression introduced at v1.19.0 where status_server_enabled acted as http_server_enabled and viceversa.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Added

#589 Detailed log to help troubleshoot payloads sent to New Relic platform when pushing event samples (non dimensional metrics). This example shows how to enable trace-level logging. #212 A temporal hostType value for boxes running in the cloud is defined until cloud identifier gets resolved.

Changed

#562 Log forwarder as "recommended" package dependency in linux systems.

• Supported distributions have enabled "recommends" declared dependencies out of the box. Unless this is disabled, installation should be transparent.
• In case your distribution has disabled "recommends" dependencies you'll need to explicitly enable it via apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests="true" install newrelic-infra.

#552 Goreleaser updated to version 0.169.0

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Added

• Windows service recovery settings (documentation).

Changed

• Added identity, command channel, logging, and trace FedRamp endpoints.
• Curl version pump for container image.

Fixed

• #221 - Issue that prevented the Windows service to exit when unexpected failures occured on the child process.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent.
New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Added

• Added the following new host memory metrics (see documentation):
  • memoryCachedBytes
  • memorySharedBytes
  • memorySlabBytes
• Agent self instrumentation #477
  • This is a base implementation of a prometheus endpoint to gather some metrics about agent runtime and a few product metrics.
  • In order to work, agent opens a port with prom data and starts nri-prometheus integration to scrap prom endpoint and send data to the backend.
• Status API #475. See docs

Changed

• Upgraded nri-prometheus to v2.7.0 #517
• Updates Winlog.yml sample #336

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent.
New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Added

• newrelic-infrastrucutre agent now supported on ARM architecture for linux.

Fixed

• CVE-2020-14040 Updated golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode dependency to avoid infinite loop #438.

Changed

• Upgraded FB win version up to v1.7.3
• Upgraded nri-prometheus to v2.6.0.
• Upgraded nri-flex to v1.4.1.
• Upgraded curl in agent docker image to version 7.77.0-r0