APM Insight .NET Agent - Release Notes

.NET v6.3.0

Release Date: 01-12-2023

Issues Fixed

The issue of capturing requests with a sampling factor when the route is different has been resolved. [.NET Core]
The issue with AWS token detection, when "Use Instance Metadata Service Version 2" is enabled on an AWS EC2 instance, has been resolved. [.NET and .NET Core]
The issue with the Health Monitor tool, which displayed the "Loading profiler failed" warning message when the w3wp processes were idle, has been fixed. [.NET]

Enhancements

Support for .NET 7.0 applications. [.NET Core]
Support for external calls made via the WebClient provider. [.NET]
Support for including response code in external HTTP requests and displaying it in the trace. [.NET and .NET Core]
Support for tracking the response body for API transactions. [.NET Core]
Support for SQL call tracking using common database commands. [.NET]
Added an agent tray icon to show a shortcut to all agent-related tools. [.NET]
Added a separate XML-based configuration file for the Windows service filter. [.NET Core]

.NET v6.0.2

Release Date: 10-08-2023

Issues Fixed

An issue with the Profiler detecting .NET Core applications hosted on IIS has been fixed.[.NET Core]
An issue that occurred during the restart of the agent service has been fixed. The application pool recycle should now happen only after the service has successfully started.[.NET]
Casting request response time from long to int data type to synchronize at the collector end.[.NET]
Fixed an issue with getting the entire stacktrace in the Serilog provider.[.NET and .NET Core]
IIS issue with count mismatch when running a WCF application in classic mode has been resolved.[.NET]
Reading process environment variable in agent diagnostics.[.NET Core]
SQL parameter collection when the value is in quotes.[.NET and .NET Core]
Support for tracking background SQL calls as a separate request can now be enabled or disabled.[.NET and .NET Core]
The issue of printing unwanted log prints in the agent tracker factories has been fixed.[.NET and .NET Core]
There was an issue with error tracking when an exception occurred in the PreSendRequestHeaders event; this has now been fixed .[.NET]
The issue with collecting SQL parameters has been resolved. (When a user cleared the SQL parameters in their application, the APM agent was not able to collect the SQL parameters).[.NET and .NET Core]
The issue with creating a monitor with a new instance name after cloning the server with the APM agent has been resolved.[.NET and .NET Core]
The standalone app filter configuration set COR_PROFILER even though it was not configured during the agent upgrade. This issue has been resolved.[.NET]
The issue with getting a trace for a failed external component has been resolved.[.NET and .NET Core]
The issue with transaction merge patterns not being cleared in the Edit configuration tool has been resolved.[.NET]

Enhancements

Added note for App filter config in .NET core installation.[.NET Core]
Agent custom logs are included in the health monitor diagnostic zip.[.NET]
Application filter option enable/disable added for profiler via config file.[.NET Core]
For auto scaling, the host type AZURE VM has been changed to AZURE.[.NET and .NET Core]
HTTP Client support for tracking remote calls.[.NET]
Immediate configuration update during application startup is supported.[.NET]
The health monitor tool now displays information when there is a conflict with another APM product impacting APM Insight.[.NET]
.NET core startup instrumentation for.NET core 2.x and later versions.[.NET Core]
.NET 5 now has Windows service support.[.NET Core]
Permissions for the agent custom logs directory path are set.[.NET]
Redesigned to track all 4xx and higher errors.[.NET Core]
Revamped .NET Core startup instrumentation.[.NET Core]
Support for capturing the Request wait time of transactions in IIS.[.NET]
Support for capturing an instance's IP address list.[.NET and .NET Core]
Support for collecting .NET core application environment details in the .NET agent during diagnostics.[.NET]
Support for external call tracking via HTTP Client.[.NET]
Support for Entity framework for both .NET and .NET core.[.NET and .NET Core]
Support for .NET 6.0 applications.[.NET Core]
Support for RabbitMQ.[.NET Core]
Support for Redis.[.NET Core]
Support for specifying the APM application name via the command line during agent MSI installation.[.NET]
Support for tracking web method in ASPX.[.NET]

Note:The URL with the web method will be included in the transaction name.

Support for tracking SQL calls running in background tasks.[.NET and .NET Core]
Support for Windows Docker containers.[.NET and .NET Core]
Supports MVC route data tracking and transaction names customization.[.NET Core]
Supports reading the hostname and website name from the environment variable in Azure app services.[.NET and .NET Core]
The application status is synced with the monitor status in the .NET agent.[.NET]
WCF services now have Net.TCP request tracking support.[.NET]
The exact_url field has been added to the transaction trace to show the full URL.[.NET and .NET Core]

.NET v5.4.0

Release Date: 26-10-2021

Issues Fixed

There were issues collecting traces when an exception occurred, irrespective of response time.[.NET]
Standalone app was created as 'DOTNET_SERVICE' when spawned from a Windows service.[.NET]
Removed the profiler settings for the windows service and standalone app instead of disabling it during the agent uninstallation.[.NET]
Namespace was not available in the Custom instrumentation configuration tool.[.NET]
Security issue fixes.[.NET and .NET Core]

Enhancements

Support for self-contained applications.[.NET Core]
Support for Rabbit MQ monitoring.[.NET]
Support for Microsoft SQL Async - collecting database calls only.[.NET]
Support for MongoDB calls.[.NET]
Support for Azure Service Bus calls.[.NET]
Support for ElasticSearch calls.[.NET]
Support for .NET Core 3.1 applications.[.NET Core]
Support for tracking HTTP Headers.[.NET Core]
Support for .NET 5.0 applications.[.NET Core]
Support for MySQL Connector.[.NET Core]
Support for application filters.[.NET Core]
Support for entity framework core.[.NET Core]
Support for configuring instrumentation via portal.[.NET Core]
Checksum verification to validate the integrity of the downloaded agent.[.NET and .NET Core]
Moved the custom instrumentation configuration file to the application's publish directory.[.NET Core]
Enhanced the agent diagnose tool for troubleshooting.[.NET Core]
Displaying the standalone app version and the Sorting option in Edit configuration tool.[.NET]
Suffix a request param value in transaction name (Hidden config).[.NET]
Backup and restore config via command line and health monitor tool.[.NET]
Extracting SQL parameter values from parameterized queries.[.NET]
Tracking custom exceptions without modifying the code.[.NET]
Revamped NLog exception tracking.[.NET]
Thread profiling sampling threads count is limited to 10 for better performance.[.NET]
Web API application root tracker has been changed for the latest version of WebAPI.[.NET and .NET Core]
Collecting database name in trace.[.NET and .NET Core]
Revamped the .NET core uninstallation script to remove agent settings completely.[.NET Core]
Default log level for profiler will be 'DEBUG' for troubleshooting purposes.[.NET and .NET Core]
Collect process specific environment variables in the agent diagnostic file.[.NET and .NET Core]
Added host collection for PostgreSQL calls in the service map.[.NET and .NET Core]
Changing default port from -1 to component specific default port.[.NET and .NET Core]

.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.