APM Insight Python Agent - Release Notes

Python Version 1.8.1

Release Date: 25-05-2026

Enhancements

• Support for Falcon Framework (WSGI).
• Support for improved Celery background transaction monitoring.
• Support for Gunicorn Gevent worker process.
• Support for Async RabbitMQ (aio_pika module).
• Added support in the Auto Profiler to read the process user identifier (UID), process monitoring rule, and server monitor key and include them in the ARH/connect request.
• Updated the Auto Profiler Python Docker image with architecture-specific agent builds and improved agent source paths.
• Added support for capturing HTTP status codes, request headers, and response headers for the following libraries: http, httplib, httpx, urllib, and urllib3.
• Added connection failure detection for pymysql, memcache, and redis components.
• Implemented a single-threaded scheduler to handle tasks and application parameter aggregation.
• Added support for async Redis calls and capturing connection details in the redis module.
• Added support for async HTTP calls in the httpx module.
• Added context-based capturing of MySQL calls in the PyMySQL module.
• Added background transaction support for RabbitMQ Pika consumer callbacks.
• Implemented context switching from thread local to greenlet at module load time.

Issues Fixed

• Resolved an agent initialization failure in macOS environments caused by the logger object returning a NoneType value.
• Fixed issue with FastAPI tracker returning None when closing transactions.
• Fixed bug in capturing synchronous Redis calls.

Python Version 1.6.3

Release Date: 16-06-2025

Enhancements

• Support for RabbitMQ as a message broker.
• AWS ECS environments are now automatically identified as Docker environments.
• PyMySQL module implementation has been moved to objectproxy.

Issues Fixed

• The issue in mysqlclient where host details could not be fetched has been fixed.

Python Version 1.6.1

Release Date: 21-04-2025

Enhancements

• Supported WSGI servers: Waitress, Cheroot, WSGIRef, and Werkzeug.

Python Version 1.5.3

Release Date: 06-01-2025

Issues Fixed

• Traces are not getting captured in the Flask framework if the transaction returned a custom response code has been fixed.
• High CPU utilization by Python agent , if the Data exporter is not reachable has been fixed.

Python Version 1.5

Release Date: 28-10-2024

Enhancements

• Support for distributed tracing.
• Support for stack trace queries.
• Support for capturing IPv4 addresses.
• Support for asynchronous call capture in Django ASGI applications.
• Support for async component modules: AIOREDIS, AREDIS, AIOMYSQL, ASYNCPG, and Redis async client.
• Support for PyMongo module.
• Support for Psycopg2 parameterized query object extraction.
• Support for FastAPI and Starlette frameworks.
• Support for PyMssql, PyODBC, OracleDB, and cx_Oracle modules.
• Support for Docker environment detection and ID retrieval from the mountinfo file.
• Support for Tornado and Streamlit frameworks.
• Support for custom Instrumentation.
• Support for Tracker and TransactionContext class APIs.
• Support for async_cron module.
• Support for capturing celery background task.
• The license key has been added to every request made by the Data Exporter.
• NoSQL regex modifications implemented for the data exporter.

Issues fixed

• Memory issues caused by txn object references remaining after metric processing have been resolved.
• The issue with the transaction name in the Traces tab being appended with an incorrect HTTP hostname has been resolved.
• The issue related to a Flask bug in the view wrapper has been resolved.

Python Version 1.1

Release Date: 25-09-2023

Enhancements

• Supported Frameworks : Django , Flask , CherryPy, Pyramid, and Bottle.
• Supported databases and components: PyMySQL, Psycopg2, Pymemcache, Redis, SQLite, Cassandra, Jinja2, Genshi, and Mako.
• Supported HTTP libraries: http.client, httplib2, httpx, urllib, urllib3.
• Introduced data exporter for Python agent which help us to reduce the load on Python agent.
• Support for custom log directory has been added.