APM Insight .NET Agent - Release Notes

.NET v5.4.0

Release Date: 26-10-2021

Issues Fixed

  • There were issues in collecting trace when exception occured irrespective of response time.
  • Standalone app was created as DOTNET_SERVICE when it was spawning from a Windows service.
  • Removed the profiler settings for the windows service and standalone app rather than disabling it during the agent uninstallation.
  • Namespace was not available in Custom instrumentation configuration tool.
  • Security issue fixes.

Enhancements

  • Support for Rabbit MQ monitoring.
  • Support for Microsoft SQL Async - collecting database calls only.
  • Support for MongoDB calls.
  • Support for Azure Service Bus calls.
  • Support for ElasticSearch calls.
  • Checksum verification to validate the integrity of the downloaded agent.
  • Showing Stand alone app version and Sorting option in Edit config tool
  • Suffix a request param value in transaction name (Hidden config).
  • Backup and restore config via command line and health monitor tool.
  • Extracting SQL parameter values from parameterized queries.
  • Tracking custom exceptions without modifying the code.
  • Revamped NLog exception tracking.
  • Thread profiling sampling threads count limited to 10 for better performance.
  • Web API application root tracker has been changed for the latest version of WebAPI.
  • Collecting database name in trace.
  • Default log level for profiler will be DEBUG for troubleshooting
  • Collect process specific environment variables in agent diagnostic file
  • Added host collection for PostgreSQL calls for service map.
  • Changing default port from -1 to component specific default port.

.NET v4.8.1

Release Date: 28-09-2020

Issues Fixed

  • The 'Create Diagnostic Zip File' option was not working in Health Monitor tool. (Broken since v4.8.0)

.NET v4.8.0

Release Date: 19-08-2020

Issues Fixed

  • Response code metric was not captured at instance-level.

Enhancements

  • Enhanced and revamped the Standalone App configuration in the agent configuration tool.
  • Revamped Health monitor tool for collecting diagnostic data.
  • Added inner exception stack trace in exception metric trace.

.NET v4.7.0

Release Date: 01-07-2020

Issues Fixed

  • The 'Create Diagnostic Zip File' option was not working in Health Monitor tool.
  • The APM Insight Monitor for .NET agent goes DOWN and metrics were not being collected, even though the .NET agent service was RUNNING.
  • On restart of .NET agent service, some of the APM Insight .NET instances get re-created under a new APM Insight Application and the existing APM Insight instance goes down.
  • Security critical issue fix in .NET 4.0 applications.

Enhancements

  • Modified the image in installation wizard.