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July 25
Docs June 13 - July 24, 2025

New docs

  • Added new feature on How to debug New Relic Browser Agent issues, including detailed logging, network request monitoring, and inspection events for enhanced troubleshooting in agent versions 1.285.0 and higher.
  • Added Azure Functions support for python and .node.js functions monitoring.
  • Added Cost optimizer for actionable insights to enhance compute efficiency, with features for identifying inefficiencies, providing optimization recommendations, and estimating CCU savings in the New Relic platform.
  • Added [Cloud Cost Intelligence], offering tools for visibility and management of cloud costs, including features such as comprehensive cost breakdowns, Kubernetes cost allocation, real-time cost estimation, and cross-account data collection, currently supporting only AWS cloud costs.
  • Added OpenTelemetry observability for Kubernetes with New Relic featuring provider-agnostic integration for seamless monitoring of clusters through the Helm chart, enhancing telemetry signals for metrics, events, and logs transmitted to New Relic's tools and dashboards.
  • Added Limitation and troubleshooting for Windows integration
  • Added AWS integration via CloudFormation and CloudWatch Metric Streams, supporting API Polling for unsupported services.
  • Added Enhanced tags for New Relic database entities for database entities monitored via on-host integrations for MySQL and MS SQL Server, enriching metadata insights and organization in New Relic without affecting billing or existing telemetry.

Major changes

Minor changes

  • Added Transaction as a retention period for Transaction traces.
  • Added Destination as a new category to Alerting rules and limits.
  • Added a callout in Introduction to the Azure Native New Relic Service document to ensure that diagnostic settings on Azure resources are configured correctly, or disable forwarding via the Azure Native New Relic Service to prevent data from being sent to the New Relic platform.
  • Updated the latest compatible libraries for .NET agent.
  • Added a callout in iOS agent release notes document to announce that, starting from iOS SDK version 7.5.4, a change now results in the reporting of previously suppressed Handled Exception events.
  • Updated requirements for service-container relationships to specifying resource attributes for Kubernetes environments and container.id for non-Kubernetes environments, ensuring proper telemetry configuration for OpenTelemetry resources in New Relic.
  • Added CLI support for specific infrastructure agent version installation, enabling consistent deployments and system compatibility; specify version using @X.XX.X in the recipe name.
  • Added a callout to emphasize role access requirements for using Manage Account Cardinality, Manage Metric Cardinality, and Create Pruning Rules features in the UI; ensure permissions are set in the Cardinality Management.
  • Updated the Compatibility and requirements for the Node.js agent to v12.23.0.
  • Added minimum required permissions for setting up an Elasticsearch.
  • Updated the FACET attribute maximum acceptable use of limits from 5000 to 20000 values for NRQL alert syntax.

Release notes

June 13
Docs May 16 - June 12, 2025

New docs

  • Added Change Tracking Events to track changes across your applications and infrastructure using New Relic's Change Tracking capability. Capture, visualize, and analyze changes to understand their impact on your systems.
  • Added the procedure to upgrade the Prometheus agent to version 2.
  • Added a document that explains what is nested variables and how to use them on dashboards.

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May 16
Docs May 2-15, 2025

New docs

Major changes

Minor changes

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  • .NET Agent v10.41.0:

    • Allow incoming W3C traceparent sampled flag to influence .NET agent sampling decision.
    • Fixed null reference exception in Asp.NET Core 6+ browser monitoring injection.
  • Ruby v9.19.0:

    • Added Thread ID as attribute to all spans.
    • Added support for W3C TraceContext Trace Flag.
    • Includeed request.uri in Transaction events by default.
    • Fix error in Active Job instrumentation when using perform_all_later.
  • Python agent v10.11.0:

    • Added support for Google Gemini via Google Generative AI SDK.
    • Instrumented new AWS Kinesis methods.
  • Python agent v10.12.0:

    • Added support for Redis v6.0.0.
    • Fixed conflicts with opentelemetry-proto package.
  • NRDOT v10.12.0:

    • Added routing connector to host and k8s distro.
    • Updated otel components to 0.125.0.
    • Add memory_limiter to all host pipelines.
    • synched config with nr-k8s-otel-collector 0.8.10.
  • Go agent v3.39.0:

    • Addeded nrfiber integration for go fiber framework.
    • Updated nrslog example with new API.
    • Added Optional Path Filtering Function to nrgin Middleware.
    • Added ConfigDatastoreKeysEnabled to nrreddis integration allowing for reporting the names of keys along with the datastore operations.
    • Added support for time objects for attribute values for nrslog.
    • Fixed linking metadata location in log messages.
  • Browser agent v1.290.0:

    • Addeded Bundler tools exports tool.
    • Set UserAction currentUrl before aggregation end.
    • Improved lazy-loading optimization.
    • Splitted API code.
  • Node browser runtime v3.0.30:

    • Upgraded internal axios to 1.8.2.
  • PHP v11.9.0.23:

    • Add auto-instrumentation of object oriented hook implementations introduced in Drupal 11.1.
    • Improve performance of user functions instrumentation for PHPs 8.0+.
  • Kubernetes integration v3.39.1:

    • Updated kubernetes packages to v0.33.0.

May 2
Docs April 18-May 01, 2025

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  • Python agent v10.10.0:

    • Added async support for Elasticsearch.
    • Enabled parsing of GraphQL configuration settings.
    • Fixed a crash in Kombu when running with Sentry.
  • Kubernetes integration v3.39.0:

    • Upgraded newrelic-infrastructure to version 3.44.0
    • Updated the nri-bundle to version 5.0.122
  • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.5:

    • Migrated teams from EXT to NGEP.
    • Added multi-team support.
    • Introduced team search functionality in the team detail screen.
  • Mobile app for iOS v6.9.6:

    • Fixed the in-app feedback functionality.
  • Browser agent v1.289.0:

    • Removed the agent configuration cache and associated getters/setters.
  • Node.js agent v12.18.2:

    • Updated createSegment to prevent adding segments to the trace when max_trace_segments is exceeded.
    • Revised the compatibility report.
  • Node.js agent v12.18.1:

    • Added defensive code for calculating exclusive time on a segment when the segment cannot be located in the transaction trace tree.
    • Improved how the OpenTelemetry bridge trace propagator assigns traceparent and tracestate headers.
    • Updated the compatibility report.

April 28
Docs version: April 18-24, 2025

Major changes

  • Added trace.id attribute to the AjaxRequest event that acts as a distinct identifier for individual requests, ensuring their differentiation across inter-process and intra-process boundaries.

  • Removed AmazonQ integration section from New Relic's documentation.

  • Updated the PREDICT clause with the default behaviours.

  • Removed video agent and all the corresponding documents from the New Relic documentation.

  • Marked the NerdGraph tutorial for Alert notification channels as deprecated.

  • Discontinued the support for end-to-end (E2E) test coverage on operating systems utilizing Control Group v1.

  • Added new investigate state in the Alert section.

Minor changes

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  • Browser agent 1.288.1:

    • Ensured event buffers always exist to prevent race conditions between agent life-cycles and data storage.
    • Fixed a bad reference to a parent function that was not previously accessible.
  • iOS agent v7.5.5:

    • Addressed customer-reported crashes and bugs.
  • Mobile app for Android v5.29.4:

    • Fixed bugs and made performance improvements.

April 21
Docs version: April 11-17, 2025

New docs

Major changes

  • Added sampler.remote_parent_sampled in Java Agent Configuration: Config File to define how the agent should handle sampling spans when their parent span from an upstream entity was sampled.
  • Update the SCIM provisioning to specify that it now requires a Paid Edition for automated user management in New Relic.
  • Updated the Cloud Rule APIs document for pipeline control to include information on how to drop attributes from dimensional metric rollups.
  • Added a query to track login and logout events on the Account Change Tracking page.

Minor changes

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  • .NET agent v10.40.1

    • Fixed the non-infinite timeout issue that appeared when creating HttpClient and SocketsHttpHandler instances.
    • Fixed the issue preventing repeated SQL explain plan attempts after initial failure.
  • Browser agent 1.288.0:

    • Updated the architecture to Prevent storing session data past session expiry.
    • Introduced isFirstOfSession attribute on InitialPageLoad events.
    • Fixed the the hasReplay attribute missing issue after session recording is resumed.
    • Fixed the issue causing errors when the logging feature aborted before the agent set up the event buffer.
  • Python agent v10.9.0

    • Add OpenTelemetry compatible datastore span attributes.
    • Fixed the LangChain instrumentation issue for string response types.
    • Disabled Kombu instrumentation.
  • Java agent v8.20.0

    • Added support for CRaC.
    • Added support for JDK24.
    • Added sampling options when an inbound traceparent exists.
    • Added support for Undertow as a stand-alone module.
    • Added support for Couchbase Client.
    • Added feature flag to apply Kotlin ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException fix to all methods.
    • Fixed netty 'Unknown' transactions.
    • Refactored AWS docker id fetch to use 5s timeout.
    • Prevented cache lock for long DB statement parsing.
    • Added config to specify whether java.sql is loaded by platform classloader.
  • Kubernetes integration v3.38.0

    • Updated lastTerminatedTimestamp to use time.Time instead of int64 for better time handling.
    • Updated kubernetes packages to v0.32.3.
    • Updated go to v1.24.2.
    • Updated golang.org/x/crypto to v0.37.0.
  • Diagnostics CLI (nrdiag) v3.3.0

    • Updated to return a warning instead of an error when there is an issue connecting to github to verify the version.
    • Added the following tasks for Kubernetes and Agent Control:
      • K8s/AgentControl/helm-controller - Collects Agent Control helm-controller pod logs
      • K8s/AgentControl/source-controller - Collects Agent Control source-controller pod logs
      • K8s/AgentControl/agent-control - Collects Agent Control agent-control pod logs
      • K8s/Flux/Charts - Collects Flux Helm Charts information
      • K8s/Flux/Repositories - Collects Flux Helm Repositories information
      • K8s/Flux/Releases - Collects Flux Helm Releases information
      • K8s/Resources/Config - Collects K8s configMaps for the given namespace in YAML format
      • K8s/Resources/Deploy - Collects K8s deployments information for the given namespace in YAML format
      • K8s/Resources/Pods - Collects K8s pods information for the given namespace in YAML format
      • K8s/Resources/Daemonset - Collects K8s daemonsets information for the given namespace in YAML format
      • K8s/Env/Version - Retrieves the version of the kubectl client and of the cluster
      • K8s/Helm/Releases - Collects the list of helm releases
  • Android agent v7.6.6

    • Fixed the custom interaction conflicts with default interaction.
  • Service level

    • Added the capability to export the configuration of a service level as Terraform code.
  • Node.js Agent v12.18.0

    • Added support for Azure functions background trigger types.
    • Added support Azure functions HTTP trigger type.
    • Updated span streamer to properly retry failed batches and handle flushing batch queue every 5 seconds.
    • Update otel bridge rules synthesizer to properly handle consumer kind rules.
    • Updated compatibility report.
    • Fixed prisma CI issues.
    • Improved logging within utilization detection.

April 11
Docs version: January 31-April 10, 2025

New doc

  • AWS SQS message queue instrumentation supports distributed trace headers for SQS messages starting from version 2.1.0, with guidance on custom instrumentation for message receiver operations.
  • Alert Intelligence Tool enhances the ability to assess application health and performance through agentic integration with our partners.
  • Confluent Cloud managed streaming for Apache Kafka provides guidance on monitoring Kafka clusters and topics, and setting up alerts for Confluent Cloud.
  • New Relic AI summary for Session Replay summarizes and maps session replay event trail data, enabling a better understanding of errors and successes in users' browser journeys.
  • Response intelligence with New Relic AI reduces the time to resolve issues and incidents by leveraging New Relic AI with response intelligence.
  • Browser logs capture real-time browser console logs to enhance observability, simplify debugging, and improve user experience.
  • Introduction to Transaction 360 offers a revolutionary approach to application monitoring and troubleshooting by automatically capturing and correlating all entities and data related to specific problems or questions.
  • AWS logs in Context provides a comprehensive, integrated log management solution that enhances troubleshooting efficiency and system observability within AWS environments.
  • Manage and reinstall your current instrumentation with Agent Control.
  • Agentic Control is a lightweight agent supervisor that manages other New Relic and New Relic distributions of OpenTelemetry agents by communicating with Fleet Control to remotely configure, update, and monitor the health of infrastructure-level instrumentation.
  • Pipeline control allows you to manage the flow of data from your monitored entities to New Relic.
  • Docker container integration monitors and reports metrics from Docker containers to New Relic.
  • Lambda response monitoring functions in Node.js applications to gain real-time insights into the performance and behavior of each invocation.

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  • .NET agent v10.36.0

    • Added .NET 8+ support for System.Data.Odbc.
    • Added support for instrumenting OpenSearchClient requests.
    • Fixed Azure Function app name prefix to faas.name attribute in Azure Function transactions.
    • Fixed the custom attribute values of type float and decimal not being serialized correctly.
    • Improved error handling in AWS account ID parsing logic.
  • Browser agent 1.287.0:

    • Updated the architecture to enable future micro front-end support.
  • Browser agent v1.281.0

    • Enhanced the UserAction fields to capture "nearest" field values when the UserAction target does not include the desired fields.
  • Browser agent v1.280.0

    • Removed the agentIdentifier argument from agent constructors.
    • Rolled back to the previous FirstInteraction implementation.
  • Job manager 439:

    • Updated the runtime polling frequency from 60 minutes to 30 minutes to reduce the impact of faults in runtime releases.
  • Mobile app for Android v5.28.4

    • Upgraded the agent dependency to version 7.6.2.
    • Improved the page loading experience.
    • Enhanced user analytics.
  • Mobile app for iOS App 6.9.4:

    • Integrated the force update.
    • Fixed the Prometheus bug.
    • Fixed the Insights API events bug.
  • Mobile app for iOS v6.8.9

    • Implemented time measurement for Top Flows pages, focusing on requesting and loading API responses, and page rendering.
    • Fixed the page session time instrumentation for Explorer and Logs.
    • Implemented a fix to stop the page session when the app transitions to the background and resume it when the app returns to the foreground.
  • Mobile app for iOS v6.8.8

    • Added page session tracking events.
    • Added click events.
    • Fixed a bug related to incorrect page session creation via bottom tabs.
  • Node.js agent v12.12.0

    • Added health check support for upcoming features.
    • Added OpenTelemetry bridge instrumentation, including a context manager and processor to handle synthesizing segments and time-slice metrics.
    • Updated the default config to accept undefined as the default value.
    • Updated the compatibility report.
  • Node API runtime 1.2.115:

    • Fixed broken links by decoding & to &.
  • NRDOT 1.0.3:

    • Updated upstream components to version 0.123.0.
  • Python agent v10.6.0

    • Added entity linking attributes for AWS Kinesis and AWS Firehose.

January 31
Docs version: January 24-30, 2025

New doc

  • Auto logging enhances front-end observability for Pro and Pro+SPA browser agents, enabling automatic collection of WARN level console log messages.

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  • Go agent v3.36.0
    • Enhanced the security agent integration to improve trace handling and security analysis.
    • Fixed bugs.
  • Browser agent v1.279.0
    • Deprecated First Input Delay (FID), in favor of Interaction To Next Paint (INP).
  • Android agent v7.6.3
    • Introduced build-time feature flag for LogInstrumentation.
    • Enhanced logging.
    • Fixed bugs.
  • Python agent v10.5.0
    • Introduced agent health reporting.
    • Fixed bugs.
  • Ruby agent v9.17.0
    • Support Ruby 3.4.0.
    • Added instrumentation for aws-sdk-firehose.
    • Enhanced Kubernetes APM auto-attach - new agent version precedent.
    • Added health checks when the agent runs within Agent Control.
    • Added Redshift as recognized ActiveRecord adapter.
    • Added instrumentation for aws-sdk-kinesis.
    • Fixed bugs.
  • Node.js agent v12.11.3
    • Fixed bugs.
  • Java agent v8.18.0
    • Added scala3 source detection.
    • Vertx: decreased the amount of tokens created.
    • Added new instrumentation modules for Struts2 v6.7.0 and Kafka 3.9.
    • Added support for distributed tracing in AWS SQS.
    • Added relationship metric support for Kafka clients node metrics.
    • Fixed bugs.
  • Fluent Bit v3.1.9
    • Multiline reset fixes high CPU.
    • Improved error messaging and Multiline filter.
    • Upgraded CTraces.
    • Calyptia output updates for Windows and agent registration.
    • Fixed bugs.

January 24
Docs version: January 17-23, 2025

New docs

Major changes

Minor change

  • Documented the existing capability in the NRQL reference to use the * with SELECT clause to retrieve all available attributes along with specified additional columns.

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  • Kubernetes integration v3.33.0:
    • Added new chart versions for New Relic infrastructure and bundle.
  • Mobile app for Android v5.28.0:
    • Fixed crash issues on the host services screen.
  • Fluent Bit v3.1.9:
    • Fixed vulnerabilities by supporting the latest Fluent Bit.
    • Facilitated Fluent Bit v3.1.9 for the infrastructure agent.
    • Updated the Fluent Bit Output Plugin Docker image.
    • Installed the new plugin image with the New Relic Logging Helm chart.
  • .NET agent v10.35.0
    • Enabled DynamoDB entity relationships.
    • Instrumented Lambda invocations in AWS SDK.
    • Facilitated SocketsHttpHandler for configuring HttpClient in .NET 6+.
    • Fixed the inconsistency of console logging between the Agent and Profiler.
    • Fixed incorrect string comparisons in the Profiler.
    • Reduced the likelihood of a deadlock in HttpClient.SendAsync().

January 17
Docs version: January 10-16, 2025

New docs

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  • Android agent v5.27.2:

    • Added events for enhanced application performance.
  • Browser agent v1.278.2:

    • Bug fixed to allow pageView feature to access to an event buffer.
  • Browser agent v1.278.3:

    • Fixed an issue where obfuscation rules weren't followed when added after the agent was initialized.
  • Infrastructure agent v1.59.2:

    • Updated the bump nri-flex version.
  • Kubernetes integration v3.32.4:

    • Added new chart versions for New Relic infrastructure and bundle.
  • Node.js agent v12.10.0:

    • Added instrumentation for @opensearch-projects/opensearch v2.1.0+.
    • Fixed a bug for event matcher to use properties specific to web requests.
    • Fixed mysql2 tests for new mysql2 version.
    • Updated the eslint configuration.
    • Removed the t.diagnostic from tests.
    • Updated the codecov-action to latest released version sha.
  • Node.js agent v12.10.1:

    • Updated the undici instrumentation to fix crash with trying to calculate the exclusive duration on a segment that no longer exists.
    • Updated the compatibility report.
    • Fixed the DNS integration tests.
  • PHP agent v11.5.0.18:

    • Fixed the Drupal error and enhanced exception handling
    • Addressed the aws-sdk-php versioning change

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