Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Notes
Added support for Cross Application Tracing
The agent now supports Cross Application Tracing, which allows the New Relic APM UI to display traces that span multiple applications.
Fixed a bug that would cause application to crash on request when using the kraken framework.
Loosened the restrictions on the
app_name
setting. Application names may now include any Unicode characters.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Fixes
Fixed a type error while checking payload size before reporting to New Relic.
When this occurred the agent would fail to send the payload to New Relic. This was more likely to occur in high throughput applications.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
- Fixed a bug where mutibyte characters would cause an error when sending data to the New Relic servers.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Notes
Updated hapi instrumentation to support the recently released v6.9.
Fixed a bug where an invalid package.json could cause the agent to crash while it recursed through
node_modules
gathering version details.Properly name
other
SQL queries.Previously when the agent failed to parse SQL it would create a metric stating the database type, query type, and query table were all unknown. This has been changed to keep track of database type and create an appropriate
other
operation metric like other agents.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Notes
Custom Instrumentation functions now pass through the return value of their passed in callback.
Multiple improvements to PostgreSQL instrumentation
When no callback was detected in the query functions, we were inserting our own. The insertion itself caused a crash. Adding a callback also modified the behavior of the pg module. Instead, we now listen for
error
orend
events to finish segments.We now generate metrics for statement type/table combinations. Look for these in the database tab your APM Account!
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Fixes
Improved MongoDB find instrumentation.
The
mongo
driver provides many ways to invoke its API and find documents. In previous releases, some API invocations would create transaction trace segments that would not end properly, leading to inaccurately large segment times. This release ensures the agent always instruments finding and iterating through documents, ensuring segment times are accurate.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Improvements
PostgreSQL support via the `pg` driver.
The Node.js agent now records the amount of time spent in transactions with PostgreSQL databases. This timing can be viewed in the Transactions page within individual transactions and their traces.
The agent supports all of the following `pg` usage scenarios:
- Using the pure javascript API exposed directly from `pg`
- Using the "native" API exposed from `pg.native`
- Using the "native" API exposed directly from `pg` when the `NODE_PG_FORCE_NATIVE` environment variable is set
- Using the pure javascript API from the `pg.js` module
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Fixes
- Removed a preemptive DNS lookup of the New Relic servers that could cause errors when behind a proxy.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Fixes
Fix to prevent proxy credentials transmission
This update prevents proxy credentials set in the agent config file from being transmitted to New Relic.
Importante
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Improvements
MySQL Pooling Support
Better support for mysql pooling, including connections that use
createPoolCluster
andcreatePool
. Previously connections obtained through a pool could potentially be uninstrumented.