Java agent v8.16.0

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New features and improvements

Obfuscate JVM properties 2114
The Java agent will now obfuscate values passed to JVM properties. For example: -Dprop=12345 will now be sent as -Dprop=obfuscated. The documentation has information on how to disable obfuscation and how to add exceptions.

Cloud API 2081
The Cloud API allows cloud provider account information to be provided to the agent. This will allow the agent to populate the cloud.resource_id attribute in calls to select cloud services.
The API documentation has information on how to use it programmatically.
This information can also be provided using a configuration option.

Support distributed tracing for Kafka Stream 3.7.x 2095
Report if agent was installed via Azure site extension 2094
Lazy initialization of GUIDs on DefaultTracers 2088
Java HttpClient: Addition of status code to reported externals 2089
AWS Lambda: populate cloud.resource_id using data from Cloud API 2115
Kinesis Data Streams: populate cloud.resource_id 2112
DynamoDB: populate cloud.resource_id 2113

Fixes

Use recordResponseTimeMetric instead of recordMetric 2128
Use WeakReference HttpUrlConnection instrumentation 2082
Fix a bug where Jetty 12 would not properly link distributed traces 2140
Update to JFR daemon 1.13.0 2129
This update changes the HTTP client used, which caused problems with some proxies.

IAST

CSEC version bump to 1.5.1 2076
Changelog: https://github.com/newrelic/csec-java-agent/releases/tag/1.5.1

Update to latest version

To identify which version of the Java agent you're currently using, run java -jar newrelic.jar -v. Your Java agent version will be printed to your console.

Then, to update to the latest Java agent version:

Back up the entire Java agent root directory to another location. Rename that directory to NewRelic_Agent#.#.#, where #.#.# is the agent version number.
Download the agent..
Unzip the new agent download file, then copy newrelic-api.jar and newrelic.jar into the original Java agent root directory.
Compare your old newrelic.yml with the newly downloaded newrelic.yml from the zip, and update the file if needed.
Restart your Java dispatcher.

If you experience issues after the Java agent update, restore from the backed-up New Relic agent directory.

Update agent config differences

We add new settings to newrelic.yml as we release new versions of the agent. You can use diff or another diffing utility to see what's changed, and add the new config settings to your old file. Make sure not to overwrite any customizations you've made to the file, such as your license key, app name, or changes to default settings.

For example, if you diff the default newrelic.yml files for Java agent versions 7.10.0 and 7.11.0, the results printed to the console will be like:

➜ diff newrelic_7.10.0.yml newrelic_7.11.0.yml
...
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>       # Whether the log events should include context from loggers with support for that.
>       include_context_data:
>
>         # When true, application logs will contain context data.
>         enabled: false
>
>         # A comma separated list of attribute keys whose values should be sent to New Relic.
>         #include:
>
>         # A comma separated list of attribute keys whose values should not be sent to New Relic.
>         #exclude:
>
125a138
>
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<     enabled: false
---
>     enabled: true
...

In this example, these lines were added to the default newrelic.yml in Java agent version 7.11.0. If you're moving to 7.11.0 or higher, you should add these new lines to your original newrelic.yml.

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