Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Prevent multiple instances of an integration from running at the same time.

Bug fixes

• Fixes issues with possibly corrupt JSON stored in the delta cache due to agent shutting down uncleanly.
• Security Bulletin NR18-05: Fixes issue introduced in version 1.0.822 where command lines that included arguments that themselves had paths in them would trip up the parser and not properly strip out the command.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Optimized inventory data gathering performance for sysctls.
• Updated YAML parsing to be more reliable.
• Can use dots in the names in inventory prefixes in integrations.

Bug fixes

• Fixes a potential panic when trying to read network information.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Linux and Windows release.

Improvements

• Factor built-in integration filters noisy puppet_agent_pid change events.
• Enhanced information available when running in verbose logging mode to help find StorageSample issues with unsupported file systems.
• StorageSamples are now collected for vxfs filesystem on Linux.
• Windows: svchost.exe processes will show more context info in their process names (akin to TaskMgr.exe behavior).
• Windows: Initial support for optional enabled_elevated_process_priv (set to true to use) which captures more process information if the account being used to run the agent has the SeDebugPrivilege right in its local policy.

Bug fixes

• StorageSample I/O calculations that show percentage should now display a ceiling of 100%.
• Agent will better detect when a PID is reused on Linux and Windows, and refresh any cached information about that process.
• Windows: built-in integration lp.exe (List Packages), has been re-written to use the latest On Host Integration SDK and protocol. The original integration was not working reliably and could litter logs with warnings.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows release.

Bug fixes

• If you are using the strip_command_line option in its default (true) setting, the command line value will properly handle paths with white space embedded in them.
• A memory leak found on Windows 10 and Windows Servers 2016 has been fixed.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

New features

• Adds support for latest versions of the Infrastructure Integration SDK.
• Adds support for identifying the Google Cloud Platform instance ID (NOTE: all the existent GCP nodes will be renamed as now we're adding the gcp prefix in the id. This may trigger false-positive host not reporting alerts)

Bug fixes

• Fixes bug where absolute values specified in custom integration command lines would not be recognized.
• Fixes possible race condition when trying to collect storage metrics that could lead to a panic error and crash the agent.
• Fixes problem on Windows where agent would try to read the deprecated user_data folder and cause an error.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Bug fixes

• Deprecated Sysctl message will no longer appear in the logs.
• Containerized agents will now restart without an error.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Bugs

• Disk free/used percent now matches output from df -h on Linux.
• Docker container metadata now updates on a one-minute schedule. This will capture container changes such as restarts or container name changes.
• Payload compression for outgoing data will be turned on for all agents. To turn off compression, set the config setting payload_compression_level to 0.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Limit the scope of the agent's search for pidfiles in /var/run to a max depth of 3

Bugs

• Fixed bug causing sysctl inventory to always be blank
• When the same device is mounted to multiple paths, the device's IO metrics will be attached to each path's StorageSample event rather than just one of them
• When running in AWS, the Linux distribution string reported as "linuxDistribution" will no longer include the AMI ID
• Restored the output of external plugins in verbose logs
• Fixed inconsistency in processDisplayName values
• Removed "Empty line handling plugin output" message from verbose logs when the plugin was handled correctly

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See Update the Infrastructure agent for how to download and update the appropriate version of the agent for your platform.

Note also that this is a Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Implemented Windows Disk Utilization metrics. Those can now be seen on the Storage and Compute pages.

Bugs

• Fixed issue where hosts unable to retrieve Azure metadata did not show up in the UI