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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

• 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

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.

Fixed

• Log forwarder (FluentBit) missing libssl library.

Error logged:

time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=debug msg="Launching process." component=integrations.Supervisor process=log-forwarder
time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=debug msg="Running command." command=/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit component=integrations.Executor env="[LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket]" path=/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit
time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=debug msg="/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" component=integrations.Supervisor output=stderr process=log-forwarder
sr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket]" path=/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit
rectory" component=integrations.Supervisor output=stderr process=log-forwarderlic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or di
time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=error msg="Error occurred while handling the process" component=integrations.Supervisor error="exit status 127" process=log-forwarder

Log forwarder was downgraded to previous agent release versions:

linux: output plugin 1.1.0, FB 1.3.0
windows: output plugin 1.4.6, FB 1.4.1

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.

Changed

• nri-docker to v1.6.0. New memory and storage metrics added. memoryUsageBytes and memoryUsageLimitPercent calculation has changed. Please refer to this product update post and nri-docker release notes for more information.
• nri-winservices to v0.2.0-beta.