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July 8, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.19.2

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Changed

June 30, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.19.1

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Fixed

  • 597 HTTP APIs regression introduced at v1.19.0 where status_server_enabled acted as http_server_enabled and viceversa.

June 29, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.19.0

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. We recommend you to upgrade the agent every 3 months.

Added

#589 Detailed log to help troubleshoot payloads sent to New Relic platform when pushing event samples (non dimensional metrics). This example shows how to enable trace-level logging. #212 A temporal hostType value for boxes running in the cloud is defined until cloud identifier gets resolved.

Changed

#562 Log forwarder as "recommended" package dependency in linux systems.

  • Supported distributions have enabled "recommends" declared dependencies out of the box. Unless this is disabled, installation should be transparent.
  • In case your distribution has disabled "recommends" dependencies you'll need to explicitly enable it via apt-get -o APT::Install-Suggests="true" install newrelic-infra.

#552 Goreleaser updated to version 0.169.0

June 21, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.18.2

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent. New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Added

Changed

  • Added identity, command channel, logging, and trace FedRamp endpoints.
  • Curl version pump for container image.

Fixed

  • #221 - Issue that prevented the Windows service to exit when unexpected failures occured on the child process.

June 11, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.18.1

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent.
New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Added

  • Added the following new host memory metrics (see documentation):
    • memoryCachedBytes
    • memorySharedBytes
    • memorySlabBytes
  • Agent self instrumentation #477
    • This is a base implementation of a prometheus endpoint to gather some metrics about agent runtime and a few product metrics.
    • In order to work, agent opens a port with prom data and starts nri-prometheus integration to scrap prom endpoint and send data to the backend.
  • Status API #475. See docs

Changed

  • Upgraded nri-prometheus to v2.7.0 #517
  • Updates Winlog.yml sample #336

May 31, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.18.0

Notes

A new version of the agent has been released. Follow standard procedures to update the Infrastructure agent.
New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Added

  • newrelic-infrastrucutre agent now supported on ARM architecture for linux.

Fixed

  • CVE-2020-14040 Updated golang.org/x/text/encoding/unicode dependency to avoid infinite loop #438.

Changed

  • Upgraded FB win version up to v1.7.3
  • Upgraded nri-prometheus to v2.6.0.
  • Upgraded nri-flex to v1.4.1.
  • Upgraded curl in agent docker image to version 7.77.0-r0

May 4, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.17.1

Notes

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

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Fixed

  • Log forwarder (FluentBit) missing libssl library.

Error logged:

time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=debug msg="Launching process." component=integrations.Supervisor process=log-forwarder
time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=debug msg="Running command." command=/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit component=integrations.Executor env="[LANG=en_US.UTF-8 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket]" path=/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit
time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=debug msg="/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" component=integrations.Supervisor output=stderr process=log-forwarder
sr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket]" path=/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit
rectory" component=integrations.Supervisor output=stderr process=log-forwarderlic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or di
time="2021-05-03T13:35:29-07:00" level=error msg="Error occurred while handling the process" component=integrations.Supervisor error="exit status 127" process=log-forwarder

Log forwarder was downgraded to previous agent release versions:

linux: output plugin 1.1.0, FB 1.3.0
windows: output plugin 1.4.6, FB 1.4.1

May 3, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.17.0

Notas

Se ha lanzado una nueva versión del agente. Siga los procedimientos estándar para actualizar el agente de infraestructura.

New Relic recomienda que actualice el agente regularmente y, como mínimo, cada 3 meses.

Cambió

April 21, 2021
Infrastructure agent v1.16.5

Notes

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

New Relic recommends that you upgrade the agent regularly and at a minimum every 3 months.

Fixed

  • The Log forwarder (FluentBit) stopped working on some Linux distribution versions (Ubuntu16, RHEL7, AmazonLinux2). See a sample error log:
time="2021-04-20T23:50:00+02:00" level=debug msg="/var/db/newrelic-infra/newrelic-integrations/logging/fluent-bit: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" component=integrations.Supervisor output=stderr process=log-forwarder
time="2021-04-20T23:50:00+02:00" level=error msg="Error occurred while handling the process" component=integrations.Supervisor error="exit status 127" process=log-forwarder

The Log forwarder has been downgraded to the previous agent release versions:

  • Linux: output plugin to 1.1.0, FluentBit to 1.3.0
  • Windows: output plugin to 1.4.6, FluentBit to 1.4.1

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