Infrastructure agent release notesRSS

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Changed

Linux

• Better error handling for NFS support.
• HostInfo plugin to provide uptime for older distros.

Bug fixes

• The agent will reuse network connections again. Since v1.3.18, the agent created a new connection on each metrics post. Not reusing the connections may lead metrics to be accumulated and submitted with long delays in systems where the connection establishment is slow.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Added

• Linux: Added additional checks to confirm the user ID to determine whether the agent is running as a root user.

Changed

• Using a new endpoint for Agent identity retrieval to mitigate the hostname flipping issue. This change was introduced for the Windows Agent 1.5.37, and now is also active for the Linux Agent.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Added

Added new NFSSample (event type is NFSSample) for gathering NFS client metrics. This is configurable by the following config option:

• metrics_nfs_sample_rate (default: 20)
• detailed_nfs (default: false)

Notes

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Changed

Add extra information on verbose logs. On each metrics post, an incremental counter and the timestamps of the submitted metrics are logged.

Windows specific

Using a new endpoint for Agent identity retrieval to mitigate the hostname flipping issue.

Notes

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Changed

• Improve trial management mechanism in Agent
• Add support for including extra attributes in the Events; before, events only supported a summary and category field, now extra attributes can be defined.

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Changed

• Optimized Storage Sampler CPU consumption (noticeable in agents managing > 100 mounted devices).

Windows specific

• All executables are now signed.
• Added versioning info to newrelic-infra-ctl.exe.
• These changes should avoid Defender to flag the package as threat.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Windows only

• Previous agent version 1.5.0 got flagged by Windows Defender. We found it was a false positive. This version proved to pass Defender test, but could still get flagged by Defender on some systems.
• Improved StorageSample metrics performance. Please refer to the New Relic event data dictionary for a detailed description of them.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Changed

• Improved StorageSample metrics performance.
  • Please refer to the New Relic event data dictionary for a detailed description of them.

Windows only

IMPORTANT: This version was deleted from the Windows repository to avoid causing issues on the platform.

• Improved hostname flipping issue mitigation using a new endpoint for agent identity retrieval.
  • Cases where a host flipping its hostname (because DNS lookup is not available or any other reasons) caused host entity identification to change (and some alerts to fail) should be mitigated, but some cases could still persist.

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update your Infrastructure agent.

Added

• New StorageSample metrics. Please refer to the New Relic event data dictionary for a detailed description of them.
  • Linux-only storage metrics: inodesFree, inodesUsed, inodesTotal and inodesUsedPercent.
  • Windows-only storage metrics: avgQueueLen, avgReadQueueLen, avgWriteQueueLen and currentQueueLen.

Security notes

• Windows package gets flagged by Windows-Defender on some machines. Use newer versions instead.