Docs release notes | New Relic Documentation

June 28

Docs version: June 21-27, 2024

New docs

Mobile monitoring's application not responding feature helps you track and analyze when and why your Android application's blocked for more than five seconds.
New browser monitoring log() and wrapLogger() API docs define the syntax, requirements, parameters, and examples on how to use these new endpoints.

Major changes

We've removed our top-level Other capabilities category and migrated everything that was there into more appropriate categories. With everything in its right place, it's easier for you to find what you're looking for.
Moved the OpenTelemetry collector examples on our docs site to our newrelic-opentelemetry-examples](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-opentelemetry-examples) GitHub repository to make maintenance easier and improve their open-source visibility.
Our AI monitoring supports NVIDIA NIM models and doesn't require any extra configuration outside of our manual or UI-based installation flows. Read more about it in our blog AI monitoring for NVIDIA NIM.

Minor changes

Added IAST validator service URL endpoints to FedRAMP compliant endpoints and networks.
Updated IAST troubleshooting with specific IP ranges to whitelist if you're not seeing your application.
Updated Ruby agent configuration with NEW_RELIC_INSTRUMENTATION_AWS_SQS auto-instrumentation configuration information.
Removed ApplicationExitInfo reporting configuration information from configure mobile monitoring settings, because you can do this in the UI.
Workflow enrichments support multiple variables so you can customize your data more specifically ot your needs.
Added the MobileApplicationExit attribute to our data dictionary. Our data dictionary isn't only a docs resource, but it also feeds attribute definitions directly to the UI, for example when you're writing NRQL queries in our query builder.
Removed docs related to the outdated alerts REST API.

Release notes and What's New posts

What's New for New Relic AI monitoring now integrates with NVIDIA NIM inference microservices
What's New for Update to the new synthetic monitor runtime to prevent impacts to your synthetic monitors
Android agent v7.4.1
- ApplicationExitInfo reporting enabled by default
Browser agent v1.261.0
- Logging API arguments passed as objects for improved extensibility
- Various other new features and bug fixes
Diagnostics CLI (nrdiag) v3.2.7
Kubernetes integration v3.29.0
- Added 1.29 and 1.30 support, dropped 1.24 and 1.25 support
- Updated dependencies: Kubernetes packages v0.30.2 and Alpine v3.20.1
Mobile app for iOS v6.5.0
- View all entities that are part of a workload
- More dashboard customization options
- Various other improvements
Node.js agent v11.20.0
- Support for Anthropic's Claude 3 messages API
- Various other improvements
Node.js agent v11.21.0
- Support for getting container IDs from ECS metadata API
PHP agent v10.22.0.12
- EOL support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1
- Various bug fixes
Ruby agent v9.11.0
- New instrumentation for the aws-sdk-sqs gem
- A couple of bug fixes

June 21

Docs version: June 14-20, 2024

New docs

We consolidated all of the errors inbox mobile crash docs into a single mobile group crashes tab.
New analyze model data describes the different ways you can use AI monitoring to observe your model performance.
New Google VertexAI monitoring integration describes how to activate the integration and start monitoring it.
New NVIDIA Jetson integration describes how to monitor your NVIDIA Jetson device.

Major changes

In our Python agent configuration, added STARTUP_DEBUG info.
In mobile monitoring configuration settings, added enable and disable info for background and ApplicationExitInfo reporting for Android.
A massive overhaul of the alerts navigation more clearly maps out your user journey through alerts creation, configuration, management, and use.

Minor changes

Aligned the structure of iOS and Android app launch time docs in response to customer feedback, which suggested we make them more similar.
Infrastructure logs now support Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat).
Updated Node.js and .NET core and framework compatibility.
In our AI monitoring installation guide, added Java agent configuration and other quality-of-life improvements.
Added AWS PrivateLink New Relic REST API endpoint.
Our Oracle database integration now supports up to version 23.
Our HAProxy integration now supports up to version 3.x.
Clarified that the .NET agent requires just-in-time (JIT) compilation, which means that it doesn't support Native Ahead of Time (AOT) deployment.
Added new instructions on how to expose Linkerd integration metrics.
Updated a screenshot on Atlassian Jira integration to show new Jira UI.
Added synthetic monitoring private location job manager endpoints.
Updated the style of the codeblocks in .NET agent configuration.

Release notes and What's New posts

What's New on Model inventory is now part of New Relic AI Monitoring
Anroid agent v7.4.0
- ApplicationExitInfo is part of data reporting
- App can report data while in background state
- Various bug fixes
Infrastructure agent v1.53.0
- Updated dependencies
Kubernetes integration v3.28.9
- Updated dependencies and various bug fixes
Python agent v9.11.0
- Adds agent_language to Lambda and collected Lambda metadata
- Support for Kubernetes
- Support for psycopg 3.0+
- Various bug fixes

June 14

Docs version: June 7-13, 2024

New docs

NR24-01 security bulletin addresses the recent Fluent Bit security vulnerability.
A new Cacti integration gives you information on how to see your RRD data in New Relic.

Major changes

We've moved away from using applied intelligence to refer to our Alerts capability. This creates a clearer, more cohesive experience as we introduce more AI features and functionalities. We completed a massive sweep to remove nearly all mention of "applied intelligence" from our docs.
Deleted several old, outdated alerts docs.
A rewrite of change vulnerability status makes it easier for you to enable this feature.

Minor changes

Removed the notifications section from CodeStream settings.
Added a new OpenTelemetry redis instance section to clarify that you need to manually include redis attributes for the collector.
Private Synthetics Job Managers now support permanent data storage via synthetic monitoring.
Added New Relic partner API endpoint to networks user-facing domains table.
Added version tracking metadata environment variables to the Ruby agent's sending handled errors.
Added environment variables for .NET Lambda monitoring for serverless and layerless.
Multiple docs updates related to hybrid mobile agent releases.
We've updated our docs to remove unsupported .NET Core versions. (We no longer support .NET Core versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, and 3.0.)
In response to customer feedback, updated info on how to view script logs in the synthetic monitoring UI.
Thanks to our Docs engineering team, we no longer hardcode v into our release notes titles.
Quality-of-life improvements to view slow query details removed some outdated content and brought procedural content up-to-date.

Release notes and What's New posts

What's New post for streamline log parsing.
Capacitor agent v1.4.0
- Support for Capacitor 6.0
Capacitor agent v1.4.1
- New backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled feature flags
Cordova agent v6.2.9
- Bug fix for a blob or array buffer crash
Cordova agent v6.2.10
- New backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled feature flags
Flutter agent v1.0.9
Logs v240610
- Related to the Fluent Bit NR24-01 security vulnerability
Mobile app for Android v5.20.2
- Better support for auto-refreshing session token
- New ANR support
Mobile app for Android v5.20.3
- New support for http requests in mobile and ANR reporting
.NET MAUI agent v0.0.9
- Bug fix for a start failure when app transitions from foreground to background state
.NET MAUI agent v1.0.0
- New backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled feature flags
Node.js agent v11.19.0
- New instrumentation for kafkajs
React Native agent v1.3.8
- New backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled feature flags
- interactionTracingEnabled feature flag disabled by default
Ruby agent v9.10.2
- Bug fix related to DynamoDB
- Bug fix removed Rails::Command::RakeCommand from the default autostart list
Unity agent v1.3.5
- Bug fix for NoticeFailure method crashes
Unity agent v1.3.6
- New backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled feature flags
Unreal Engine plugin v1.1.0
Unreal Engine plugin v1.2.0
- New backgroundReportingEnabled and newEventSystemEnabled feature flags
Xamarin agent v0.0.6

June 7

Docs version: May 31-June 6, 2024

New docs

A new OpenTelemetry data in New Relic doc is an index to help you find the OpenTelemetry info you're looking for.

Major changes

We've combined all our .NET API docs so now you can see them all in one place.
Consolidated Java and Python APM info into Monitor APM apps and services with OpenTelemetry so you can get this info in one place.

Minor changes

Updated PHP agent operating system support to state that we support an OS version one year after a vendor's end-of-life date. (This saves us some maintenance overhead, because we don't need to list specific versions now.)
Our .NET APM agent for .NET Core and Framework now supports Microsoft.Data.SqlClient v5.2.1. Also, .NET Framework 4.6.2 or higher requires .NET APM agent version 10.0 or higher.
On our homepage, we've broken OpenTelemetry out into its own tile button.
In Forward your logs using the infrastructure agent, clarified that using ANSI encoding on winevtlog addresses empty string logs, but isn't used to convert ANSI to UTF-8. Added example use-ansi entries.
Updated some non-standard callouts to use our recommended format.
In Send your logging data with our Log API, added "msg" to the JSON message attributes table.
Added http.response.status_code from http span link to OpenTelemetry docs in OpenTelemetry APM errors inbox UI.
In APM: Monitor apps and services with OpenTelemetry, added a new section that lists things to keep in mind when you're running APM agents alongside OpenTelemetry tools.

Release notes and What's New posts

What's New post for Manage alerts in VM with new “Ignored” alert feature
Mobile app for iOS v6.4.0
- You can rearrange the left navigation and the top five items appear in the tab bar.
- Converted login, account settings, group by screens, and others to SwiftUI.
.NET agent v10.25.1
- Agent license key should be optional in Serverless mode
Ruby agent v9.10.1
- There was an incompatibility with the Bootstrap gem, now fixed.

May 31

Docs version: May 24-30, 2024

New docs

Consolidated scores of OpenTelemetry docs into a single OpenTelemetry APM UI doc.
Collector for Confluent Cloud and Kafka monitoring helps you collect OpenTelemetry Kafka metrics so that you can monitor it with New Relic.
Linkerd integration is a service mesh for Kubernetes, making it easier to run services, providing runtime debugging and observability without making changes to your code.

Major changes

Quality rewrites to the following OpenTelemtry docs:
When creating custom dashboards, you can build them with variables from different data types.
Added a new, five-minute video to query time parsing in logs to help you get started parsing your logs directly in the UI.

Minor changes

Updated three .NET agent docs, such as Install the .NET agent on AWS Elastic Beanstalk, to include a link to our .NET agent samples repo, so that you can see some working examples.
Added Ruby environment variables to AWS Lambda serverless monitoring and containerized images (includes an updated diagram).
Added a note to OpenAI integration that you're better off using AI monitoring if you want to monitor the performance of an OpenAI app.
If you don't define an entity expiration time, the default is eight days. We've updated the docs to reflect this.
Added a note that read only permissions don't apply to dashboards, which have their own dashboard permission settings.
You can use NRQL to query time ranges in milliseconds now.
Added new IP ranges to data ingest IP blocks and user-facing domains.
Cleaned up the content in Atlassian Jira integration to make it easier to use.
Updated latest supported versions in the Node.js instrumented modules table.
Added new iOS background reporting section to configure mobile monitoring settings.
Completed a clarity and quality improvement edit of browser monitoring and the Rube agent.
Updated the Ruby agent configuration with changes related to the v.9.10.0 release.
Removed an old and no longer wanted OpenTelemetry troubleshooting doc.

Release notes and What's New posts

iOS agent v7.4.12:
- Fixed issues related to distributed tracing and CryptoKit or NSCoding warnings
- Background reporting is disabled by default
Kubernetes integration v3.28.8
- Updated Kubernetes packages, Go, and Alpine dependency versions
Mobile app for Android v5.19.0:
- Support for mobile HTTP request detail screens
- New entity detail screens control panel to adjust time window and filtering
Node API runtime v1.2.77:
- Fixed an error when subjectAltName was missing
Node browser runtime v2.3.28:
- Fixed an error when subjectAltName was missing
Node.js agent v11.18.0:
- Support for Redis v4 legacyMode client.v4.<command>
Python agent v9.10.0:
- Support for AIOBotocore and the Amazon Bedrock models Meta Llama3 and Mistral AI
- Fixed OpenAI error parsing and now records Loguru timing in milliseconds
Ruby agent v9.10.0
- New instrumentation for DynamoDB
- Automatically apply nonces from the Rails content security policy

May 24

Docs version: May 17-23, 2024

New docs

Our new Apache Mesos integration helps you monitor your distributed system kernel performance.
Our new Temporal cloud integration helps you monitor and diagnose workflow, namespace, and scalable application issues in your Temporal Cloud.
Do you have a .NET app on AWS Elastic Beanstalk? This new install doc shows a clear path to ingesting that data to our platform.

Major changes

Added and updated synthetic and browser scripted monitor code examples to synthetic monitoring best practices and synthetic scripted browser reference. Code examples are one of the things that are readers ask for the most, so we're always happy to see more of these.
In our network performance monitoring docs, a lot of little updates led to a major change: Updated supported environments for Podman across 17 docs.
Clarified how logs live archives works and when that log data is available.
Added a diagram and environment variables to Lambda monitoring instrument your containerized image layer.
New Relic's REST API v1 has been fully EOLed and we deleted several docs related to it.
A massive sweep of our infrastructure monitoring docs to:
- Align it our style guide.
- Remove unnecessary content.
- Make the installation doc more visible in the left nav.
- Improve the flow of the installation doc.
Our Developer-to-Docs site migration continues, with another 30+ docs migrated this week.
As of May 23, 2024, AI monitoring supports Java. We've updated several AI monitoring docs to reflect this important update.

Minor changes

Updated cloud data storage security controls for privacy with a link compliance report.
We simplified our .NET yum installation steps.
Updated Python compatibility doc to show that we now support Python 3.12.
Updated .NET compatibility to add that we support the Elastic.Clients.Elasticsearch version 8.13.12 datastore.
Updated Node.js APM agent compatibilty instrumented modules table.
Updated AWS Privatelink supported regions and zones endpoints.
Infrastructure agent now supports Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat), but we don't yet support infrastructure plus logs on this version of Ubuntu.
If you're using CyberARK and Microsoft SQL Server with Windows Authentication, we've clarified that you need to preface your username with your domain.
In our .NET APM agent configuration, we've added environment variables for ignored and expected status codes.
In use your charts, clarified what we mean by KB, MB, GB, and TB. (We use the International System of Units, which uses powers of 10 for calculations.)
In email settings, we've clarified allowed characters and limits on New Relic user email addresses.
Added the IAST validator service URL endpoint to our networks New Relic telemetry endpoints table.
Added a tip on how to monitor multiple SNMP trap version on one host in SNMP performance monitoring.
If you want to extend your Node.js instrumentation to include Apollo Server, we've added links to useful GitHub READMEs.
Added .NET compatibility info to AI monitoring compatibility and requirements.

Release notes and What's New posts

May 17

Docs version: May 10-16, 2024

New docs

A new doc on our NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) integration describes how to use the infrastructure agent and NRI-Flex to monitor GPU usage and performance metrics.
When Vulnerability Management is working too well, a recent update gives you the power to ignore vulnerabilities you're not concerned about.
A massive rework of the OpenTelemetry docs category, including a new APM: Monitor apps and services with OpenTelemetry to give you a solid place to start. Other changes:
- Reorganized the OpenTelemetry > Get started category to add consistent Overview docs to its subcategories.
- Renamed docs titles to clarify what's in them.
- Consolidated related docs to make it easier to find related info.
For people who'd rather not write regular expressions or Grok patterns to parse their logs, query time parsing is a powerful tool for parsing logs directly in the UI. (A lot of great screenshots in this one.)

Major changes

Continued to rewrite the on-host integration docs to make it easier to install and ensure the docs are accurate and up to date. Up this week: Port and Unix monitoring integrations.
Clarified how to manage and use data retention rules for single- and multiple-account organizations.
We've moved version tracking info from error tracking to version tracking and made some quality-of-life improvements along the way.
In October, 2024, we're EOLing the containerized private minion (CPM) and legacy synthetics runtime versions. In June, we're blocking the creation of new monitors using these legacy runtimes. We've added notes to this effect, like this EOL notice.

Minor changes

In our NerdGraph workflows tutorial, added a GraphQL example to add a workflow name and two channels.
Added a note that when you're creating a custom log parsing rule you need to paste unformatted logs into the parsing UI.
Added View session replays to the browser user permissions list.
Fixed incorrect Sonarqube config file example.
Added attributes to our data dictionary for the LlmChatCompletionMessage, LlmChatCompletionSummary, and LlmEmbedding event types.
Added session replay capitalization guidance to our style guide.
Added a stronger definition of log parsing to our intro paragraph.
Added gov-aws-api.newrelic.com to our list of FedRAMP-compliant endpoints.
Added a NerdGraph mutation example showing how to rotate an Azure client secret token.
Responding to customer feedback, updated Use your charts to clarify the Numeric, Date, Duration, and Time to Now chart options in the UI.
The errors inbox OpenTelemetry page in the UI has a new http.response.status_code group message value.
Our alerts notification message templates now support escape characters to help you avoid JSON-breaking characters, among other things.
You may have noticed our code blocks are looking a lot better. We've updated many of our codeblocks with language-specific syntax highlighting so that they're prettier and easier to read.
Updated code examples in the Python APM agent data_source_generator and register_data_source API docs.
Expanded our Azure log forwarding troubleshooting help.

Release notes and What's New posts

May 10

Docs version: May 3-9, 2024

New docs

Our Java Vert.x Event Bus integration and Java instrumentation for Vert.x extensions docs help our users extend the instrumentation of our Java APM agent for popular Java technologies, such as Cassandara, MongoDB, and Kafka, among others.
Our new OpenTelemetry troubleshooting doc helps our customers troubleshoot common OpenTelemetry issues. This is broken up into general troubleshooting tips and common customer issues.

Major changes

Added several new images to session traces, as well as updates to prerequisites, configuration, and use cases. Session trace data is billable starting June 10, 2024.
As part of our Developer-to-Docs site migration project, we've migrated some content related to the SDK component library.
Updated global technical support offerings to relect our current support policies and SLAs.

Minor changes

In our ServiceNow notification integration doc, updated links to ServiceNow's app store and added useful context about how to update ServiceNow attributes directly.
In our Serverless Framework manual install log forwarding instructions, added commands to install a serverless plugin for Python requirements and packaging the files and dependencies.
Added JavaScript examples, such as how to instument a web transaction, to our Node.js agent API doc.
Drupal 10.2 introduced a change that can prevent the PHP agent from auto-injecting the browser auto-instrumentation. We updated various docs, such as Browser monitoring and the PHP agent, to let people know of this change.
Updated Grok logs parsing to show how to add optional parameters.
When using the CyberArk REST API to manage secrets, added info about how to call username and password.
For our Android mobile agent Gradle plugin configuration, clarified when and why you'd want to use the variantMapsEnabled option.
We've reworked and consolidated several OpenTelemetry docs related to exporting OpenTelemetry data to New Relic.
Updated the tables in this NerdGraph dashboards doc from Markdown to our standard React component.
Clarified the required permissions when monitoring IBM MQ infrastructure.
Across several infrastructure integrations docs, added direct links to New Relic's .EXE installers and clarified that you don't have to restart the infrastructure agent after enabling new features, such as log parsing.
Updated dashboard query template variable rules with new guidance and specific examples.
Updated the incorrect hostname to podname in our Kubernetes plugin log forwarding doc.
If you've ever wanted to do a negative lookahead with network performance monitoring, now you can.

Release notes and What's New posts

May 3

Docs version: April 26–May 2, 2024

New docs

We've got a new Atlassian integration so people can sync issues and incidents created in New Relic with Atlassian Jira.
Our new best practices for integration users doc gives advice to New Relic administrators when integrating third-party systems with our platform, specifically as it relates to security.
A new doc on the Amazon S3 Storage Lens integration describes how to connect this service to New Relic.

Major changes

We've overhauled our Micrometer doc with clear, procedural steps to ingest data via the OpenTelemetry Micrometer bridge.
As part of our Developer-to-Docs site migration project, we've migrated content related to custom visualizations, NerdGraph, and the CLI, among others.
Updated .NET agent compatibility requirements for several supported frameworks.

Minor changes

We've updated "timeseries" to "time series" across the docs site. This brings it inline with our usage dictionary.
Updated browser limitations for noticeError to clarify that if an error is caught and re-thrown it won't have a stack trace and info on how to address that. (For Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer only.)
Added optional runtime related fields to broken link, certificate check, and step monitors to our NerdGraph synthetics tutorial. These help you create monitors that take advantage of our newer synthetics runtimes and private job managers.
Added info about using ENABLE_WASM and synthetics.enableWasm to enable Webassembly for Node Browser Runtime.
Added a new section about how browser session replay complies with data privacy laws.
Added a link to our 2024 State of the Java Ecosystem report to our introduction to the Java agent.
When installing Kubernetes for the OpenShift container platform, there are specific security constraints that we've now addressed in our docs.
We have removed an out-of-date browser troubleshooting doc to ensure accuracy.
We restructured our Containerized private minion configuration docs to help customers customize their CPMs.
We clarified how metrics are displayed when trim_stats is set to false.

Release notes and What's New posts

What's New post for Java agent v8.10.0 may impact normal operations of your applications.
What's New post for New Vulnerability Management enhancements.
What's New post for Gain in-depth performance insights into serverless functions instrumented with OpenTelemetry.
Browser agent v1.258.0.
Go agent v3.33.0
iOS agent v7.4.11.
Job manager v367.
Job manager v368.
Kubernetes integration v3.28.4.
Node browser runtime v2.3.21.
Node.js agent v11.16.0.

April 26

Docs version: April 19–25, 2024

New docs

Our new NVIDIA Triton integration monitors the deployment and management of AI models in production environments via the infrastructure agent.
Our infrastructure agent Azure monitor integration now supports Azure Recovery Services Vaults.

Major changes

We just rolled-out a completely redesigned docs homepage! Check it out! We wanted to:
- Put search front and center.
- Show a more linear, clear onboarding path for new users.
- Remove the left nav to reduce overwhelm for newbies.
- Create a clear path into docs for each of our capabilities.
- Add more animation and color for a more attractive, dynamic, and modern look-and-feel.
- Improve consistency between docs, newrelic.com, and the product UI.
Continued to rewrite the on-host integration docs to make it easier to install and ensure the docs are accurate and up to date. Up this week:
Thresholds are a new chart customization to add useful context to your charts.

Minor changes

AI monitoring isn't FedRAMP-authorized and we've noted that in the services not in scope table.
We've clarified how to instrument Go slog logger logs inside of a transaction and provided a better code example of how to do this.
Updated our NerdGraph synthetics tutorial with a new example query to retrieve the status of all runtime upgrade tests.
Our IBM MQ integration is compatible with IBM MQ version 9.0 or higher and our docs reflect that now.
Added manual and automatic instrumentation instructions for Ruby Lambda functions.
In our OpenTelemetry Java tutorial, clarified that the OpenTelemetry and New Relic Java agents do error handling differently for traces.
With version 9.9.0, the Python agent now monitors runtime metrics for physical memory. This is enabled by default.
Replaced UI path with direct link to NerdGraph API explorer in our UI.
Removed exception to our statement that all CloudWatch metrics from all AWS services are available.
Modified our Networks doc to update endpoints and clarify who to reach out to before updating them in future.
Updated browser API onEnd() function syntax.
For Kubernetes synthetic monitoring containerized private minions, removed Windows as a supported deployment option and clarified that Linux containers can only run on Linux nodes.
Updated Java agent classloading issues from JBoss and Wildfly troubleshooting doc to remove tabs.
For Alerts webhook notification integrations, we no longer support OAuth 2.0.

Release notes and What's New posts

What's New post for Update to the new synthetic monitor runtime to prevent impacts to your synthetic monitors.
What's New post for View ANSI colors in logs.
What's New post for New thresholds markers for line charts and tables.
Android agent v7.3.1.
Browser agent v1.257.0.
Containerized private minion (CPM) v3.1.10.
Java agent v8.11.1.
Kubernetes integration v3.28.3.
.NET agent v10.23.1.
Ping runtime v1.43.0.
Python agent v9.9.0 .

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