Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

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Features

• Added the dns_hostname_resolution configuration option (default: true). If set to false, the agent won't use DNS-based hostname resolution and will ask directly to the operating system.
• Added ignore_reclaimable configuration option (Linux only), which considers reclaimable memory as part of the free memory (and not part of the used memory). Free memory will be is calculated as: total - free - buffers - cached - sreclaimable, independently of the MemAvailable report from the kernel.

Improvements

• In cloud environments, the instance ID retrieval process is more solid during the agent startup. It also allows the agent to be spawned from VM snapshots.

Changes

• Removed total_cores host metric.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused the DiskMonitor samples to show devices in the deny list (from the file_devices_ignored configuration option).
• Fixed Storage Sampler in 32-bit Windows agent.
• Reduced the incidence of hostname flipping in DNS-based hostname resolution.
• Fixed a bug that, in the Linux agent, removed the last character of the command line of some process samples.
• (Linux only) Fixed the used memory values in the System Samples, which in agent 1.2.1 were slightly different from the actual value.
• Fixed a problem that, when an environment configuration option had a wrong format, caused the rest of the environment variables to not be parsed.

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Features

• Added disable_all_plugins config option that disables all the inventory plugins which don't have their own frequency option specified. Check out the documentation.
• Added cpu_profile config option for creating pprof cpu profiles.

Improvements

• Reduced CPU consumption by 80% on average.

Changes

• Decreased sysctl sampling frequency.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that avoids the agent being installed in old Ubuntu versions.

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New Features

• Adds support for running integrations as different users by setting the integration_user attribute in the instances section of the config file.
• Stops setting the NRIA_CACHE_PATH variable for integrations. This variable was used by pre-V3 SDK integrations for storing cache data. Without it the integrations will default to a /tmp directory like SDK V3 integrations.
• Attaches integration_user attribute to the integration samples.
• Adds new user/group nri-agent to be used in different user modes.

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Bug fixes

• Fixed wrong values in containerImageName for processes running inside a Docker container.

Changes

• In the Linux agent, fixed a problem with the /var/run/newrelic-infra folder that could prevent the agent to correctly start under some circumstances.

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Changes

• Limited the inventory source field to 100 characters. This would only affect custom integrations with atypically long source names.

Improvements

• For users with Facter enabled, we provide the facter_home_dir configuration option that allows setting the HOME environment variable for Facter. If unset, it defaults to the current user's home directory.

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug introduced in version 1.1.4 that prevented the agent running after a system restart.

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Improvements

• Windows Docker support for Windows Server 2016 hosts. Only Windows server native containers are supported.

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug that prevented protected processes from being recorded by the agent in Windows.

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Improvements

• Adds new functionality that will allow sample decoration from integrations that have add_hostname bool flag.

Security Update

• A security update for the Windows agent corrects an issue where the agent may follow unprivileged hard links or junction folders. Security bulletin NR18-12.

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug with docker in AWS instances that caused the agent not to report Docker metrics.
• Fix a bug that was making the agent to log "Plugin not registered" during agent startup.

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Improvements

• Add new improved Windows Storage Sampler based on PDH instead of WMI. This new sampler is faster and more reliable; it is activated by default, to revert to the old one you can set the legacy_storage_sampler option to true.

Bug fixes

• Fix a bug where some inventory items could disappear.
• Fix bug with strip_command_line=true that could cause some processes to be discarded in the samples.
• Fix bug that prevented some inventory items from updating their state when asked for a full reset.