IBM Instana Observability Self-Hosted 1.0.227 Now Available

By PATRICK BUTLER posted Tue July 05, 2022 05:12 AM

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IBM Instana Observability Self-Hosted, formerly known as IBM Observability by Instana APM, releases a new version – version 1.0.227 – today, July 5, 2022.

This latest release delivers enhancements and additional coverage from what was delivered with version 1.0.225. In this release, you can directly use Instana packages for installation and deployment. For detailed instructions, see the Instructions.pdf file, which you can download from Passport Advantage.

Main features now available to IBM clients in the new release:

Operator & kubectl plugin

Added beta support for OpenShift
Added support for multiple agent keys and enabling gradual key rotation
Added support for custom CA certificates
Relaxed DB version requirements (major version is still a hard requirement, minor version is considered a minimum version)
New operation mode that enables scaling down for maintenance

Application Smart Alerts

Smart Alerts for Application Perspectives is an intelligent alerting capability that allows you to receive alerts automatically tailored for an arbitrary subset of calls to your applications, services or endpoints. The alerts are derived from out-of-the-box blueprints such as slow calls, erroneous calls, HTTP status codes and throughput. In addition, you can choose from several threshold types, including ones that apply statistical models. For detailed information, see Application Smart Alert docs.

AIX error report

Added support for error report as events for AIX system

Sensor improvements

Apache Dubbo Tracing

Added support of auto-trace for Apache Dubbo applications

Apache Tomcat Sensor

Added support for Tomcat v9 and v10

Go Tracer

Added instrumentation for RabbitMQ by using the streadweay-amqp module

HAProxy Sensor

Fixed displaying negative metric values

IBM ACE Tracing

Added support for Linux on Z (s390x, 64bit)
Supported auto-trace for IBM ACE running in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration with the Instana AutoTrace WebHook

IBM MQ Tracing

Supported auto-trace for IBM MQ running in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration with the Instana AutoTrace WebHook

Java Tracer

Added instrumentation support for Camunda business keys

Node.js Tracer

Added support for Node v18

Python sensor

Added a reminder to the agent configuration.yaml that the default value of python:autotrace:enabled is true and suggested false as an explicit config, as the default implicit is already true

RabbitMQ Sensor

Ensured that there are no metric gaps in UI charts
Verified support for version 3.9.x

vSphere Sensor

Added support for vSphere v7

Other improvements

Mobile App Monitoring

Added support for filtering beacon with the mobile device model. You can filter out the mobile data based on the device type (device model) by using the mobile device model filtering tag.

Azure SQL Database

Fixed event settings to display correct metric names and formats.

WebSphere Infrastructure

Decrease size of WebSphere Infrastructure javaagent jar.

Application Dashboards

For widgets that are not supported in Live Mode, a message This widget is not supported by Live Mode is added. In addition, a button is provided to stop Live Mode.

For additional features, improvements, and fixes made to the enterprise observability platform and automated Application Performance Monitoring solution, see the release notes at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/obi/current?topic=premises-build-225.

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