Node.js agent release notesRSS

Notes

• Custom instrumentation

  The agent now allows you to annotate your application code to provide customized instrumentation. This includes the ability to time both web and background transactions, and add tracers to measure activity within transactions like querying a database. For more information, see custom instrumentation

Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the express instrumentation where if you named an error handler function handle it would cause a recursion depth error.

• Added a check for invalid characters in the app_name setting.

  The agent will now emit a warning and disable itself if any application name is invalid. Allowed characters are alphanumerics and certain punctuation characters ({}.?!')

• Router queue time now properly handles floating point values.

• Fixed a bug where a socket connection could throw a synchronous error and cause the application to crash.

• We now support Cassandra via the node-cassandra-cql driver.

  New database instrumentation means that we can present you with the timing data for how long those queries take. Thanks to Aaron Silvas from GoDaddy for the initial implementation of the Cassandra instrumentation.

• Router queue time now supports t=<number> in the X-REQUEST-START and X-QUEUE-START headers.

Notes

• Agent now tracks metrics for router queue time. In addition to X-REQUEST-START, the agent now supports X-QUEUE-START header times. This metric will show up as "Request Queueing" in the Overview tab.

Notes

• General release of proxy support for the agent to connect to New Relic.
  • HTTP/HTTPS support from the newrelic module to the proxy
  • HTTP/HTTPS support from the newrelic module to New Relic.
  • Basic proxy authentication.
  • Allow custom certificates during TLS negotiation.
  • For more information, read our docs here
• Fix for enabling High-security mode via an environment variable
• Optimization to allow early garbage collection of TLS slab buffers.

Notes

• Plain http routes (i.e. routes outside of a framework) now apply config naming rules early. See rules for naming and ignoring requests.

  This fixes a bug where generating the Browser Timing Header would not work without a framework (i.e. express, restify, hapi).

• Beta support for connecting to newrelic via ssl through a proxy.

Notes

• The agent now reports the value of the NODE_ENV environment variable to New Relic.

  This will show up in your Settings -> Environment tab in APM. The data is being collected for debugging and to aid support.

Notes

• Support for instrumenting a standalone express 4 router. See issue 154.
• Set the default log level to info.