Node.js agent release notesRSS

Added a check to the code level metrics utility to ensure filePath was set before adding the code.* attributes.

Updated to latest version of @newrelic/test-utilities.

Fixed issue where listing of dependencies and packages from symlinked nested directories created an infinite loop which caused the agent to never connect.

Reintroduced throttling during reading of instrumented application's dependency tree during startup, to prevent EMFILE issues.

Improved Restify support

• Added a new test stanza to run restify >=10 on Node 18.
• Update our versioned tests to support Restify 9.0.0.

Laid foundation for supporting Code Level Metrics via CodeStream. Note that this integration is not fully finished and should not be used.

Improved the readability and maintainability of agent by reducing the Cognitive Complexity of various aspects of the agent.

Added newrelic.noticeError() example to our API docs.

Upgraded @grpc/grpc-js from 1.6.9 to 1.7.3.

Upgraded @grpc/proto-loader from 0.6.13 to 0.7.3.

Removed async from benchmark tests, fixed failing benchmark suites, and removed deprecated suite.

Dropped support for vision, and instead only instrument @hapi/vision.

Updated configuration system to automatically create an environment variable mapping for a new config value.

• It will follow a convention of NEW_RELIC_PATH_TO_CONFIG_KEY.
• For example if there is a new configuration option of config.nested.object_path.enabled the env var would be NEW_RELIC_NESTED_OBJECT_PATH.ENABLED.

Removed transaction_tracer.hide_internals configuration. All of the internal configuration is now handled by Javascript symbols instead of non-enumerable properties, so there is no longer a performance penalty, as symbols are already hidden by default.

Increased the default limit of custom events from 1,000 events per minute to 3,000 events per minute. In the scenario that custom events were being limited, this change will allow more custom events to be sent to New Relic. There is also a new configurable maximum limit of 100,000 events per minute. To change the limits, see the docs for custom_insights_events. To learn more about the change and how to determine if custom events are being dropped, see our Explorers Hub post.

Updated CI process to include collection of code coverage statistics.

Added a [doc about our current feature flags)(https://github.com/newrelic/node-newrelic/blob/main/documentation/feature-flags.md).

Removed legacy agent async context propagation. The default behavior is now what was behind the feature_flag.new_promise_tracking. You can read more about the difference here.

Fixed an issue with the ES Module loader that properly registers instrumentation when the file path included url encoded characters.

Added an API for enqueuing application logs for forwarding

newrelic.recordLogEvent({ message: 'hello world', level: 'info' })`

Note: If you're including a serialized error make sure it's on the error key of the log event:

const error = new Error('testing errors'); 
newrelic.recordLogEvent({ message: 'error example', level: 'error', error })

Fixed cassandra-driver instrumentation to properly set instance details on query segments/spans.

Added a new context manager that leverages AsyncLocalStorage for async context propagation.

• This will be available via a feature flag config.feature_flag.async_local_context
• Alternatively you can set the environment variable of NEW_RELIC_FEATURE_FLAG_ASYNC_LOCAL_CONTEXT=1
• By enabling this feature flag it should make the agent use less memory and CPU.