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 Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Better on-host integrations SDK support including pre-creating some require directories, skipping ill-configured integrations, and fixes around how the command for an integration definition is parsed.

Bug fixes

• Optimization fixes for the amount of time needed to check whether on a cloud instance. Should try once and timeout quickly. Optional disable_cloud_metadata can be used if you need to force turn off collection of cloud-specific metadata.

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

• Updates internal process for starting up and reading configuration files.
• Better handling of some configuration file formatting variants.

Bug fixes

• Fixes an issue where Windows Storage metrics could fail when encountering removable drives.

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

• Fixes agent crash if default Windows System Drive was other than C:
• Fixes bug where RPM packages were not starting after upgrades

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. Also note that the build number was "fast forwarded" to fix a version related bug.

Bug fixes

• High cross platform I/O rate change numbers now reporting correct storage, network, and processes.
• Improved diagnostics when calculating CPU usage in certain scenarios where it would appear unusually large.
• Fixes handling of Inventory naming prefix.

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 only release.

Bug fixes

• High Windows I/O read/write operations numbers now reporting correct 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 Windows and Linux release.

Improvements

• Improved handling for configuration files syntax.
• Agent can recover more gracefully when inventory information is ill formed.
• lp.exe plugin (Windows Programs Inventory) significantly more performant.
• Entities (hosts) are less likely to get combined unexpectedly when starting Agent from AMIs or other images.
• Warns if you try to use "localhost" as the hostname.
• Network interface information captured as inventory.

Notes

Agent build 1.0.336 was superseded by 1.0.338. They contain the same improvements, but 1.0.338 includes a Windows release and fixes a dormant issue introduced in 1.0.336.

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

• Test if the configured license is obviously not correct.
• Check network availability at startup to ascertain agent can communicate with New Relic.
• Additional verbose logging for debugging network data.
• Added an event_queue_depth config option (default 1000) to support hosts with high numbers of processes (100s or more). Adjust this number in increments of 1000 if you see "Queue full" messages in the logs. Will require a restart of the agent to take effect.

Notes

New Relic Infrastructure Agent builds are available for multiple platforms. See the 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

• Added an agent_config plugin that reports the agent's config file as inventory.

Improvements

• Added more diagnostic logging when using verbose mode.
• Added configs to adjust the frequency of certain inventory plugins. Here we show the name of the config, the default sampling period in seconds, and the fastest the plugin will sample (its "floor". You should only change these values if advised by New Relic Support.
  • sysctl_interval_sec, default: 10, floor: 10
  • daemontools_interval_sec, default: 15, floor: 10
  • supervisor_interval_sec, default: 15, floor: 10
  • systemd_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 10
  • sysvinit_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 10
  • upstart_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 10
  • rpm_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30
  • dpkg_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30
  • facter_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30
  • selinux_interval_sec, default: 30, floor: 30