Docs version: January 31-April 10, 2025

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• AWS SQS message queue instrumentation supports distributed trace headers for SQS messages starting from version 2.1.0, with guidance on custom instrumentation for message receiver operations.
• Alert Intelligence Tool enhances the ability to assess application health and performance through agentic integration with our partners.
• Confluent Cloud managed streaming for Apache Kafka provides guidance on monitoring Kafka clusters and topics, and setting up alerts for Confluent Cloud.
• New Relic AI summary for Session Replay summarizes and maps session replay event trail data, enabling a better understanding of errors and successes in users' browser journeys.
• Response intelligence with New Relic AI reduces the time to resolve issues and incidents by leveraging New Relic AI with response intelligence.
• Browser logs capture real-time browser console logs to enhance observability, simplify debugging, and improve user experience.
• Introduction to Transaction 360 offers a revolutionary approach to application monitoring and troubleshooting by automatically capturing and correlating all entities and data related to specific problems or questions.
• AWS logs in Context provides a comprehensive, integrated log management solution that enhances troubleshooting efficiency and system observability within AWS environments.
• Manage and reinstall your current instrumentation with Agent Control.
• Agentic Control is a lightweight agent supervisor that manages other New Relic and New Relic distributions of OpenTelemetry agents by communicating with Fleet Control to remotely configure, update, and monitor the health of infrastructure-level instrumentation.
• Pipeline control allows you to manage the flow of data from your monitored entities to New Relic.
• Docker container integration monitors and reports metrics from Docker containers to New Relic.
• Lambda response monitoring functions in Node.js applications to gain real-time insights into the performance and behavior of each invocation.

Major changes

• Added Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams, ElastiCache (Memcached), and Amazon MQ (ActiveMQ) as Supported entity relationships for OpenTelemetry.
• Added Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams with Amazon Managed Kafka (MSK) to generate MSK entities in New Relic. These entities are tagged with aws.clusterName or aws.kafka.ClusterName, aws.awsRegion or aws.region, and aws.topic or aws.kafka.Topic.
• Added additional Solr troubleshooting instructions for the metric changes in version 8.10.
• New Relic has discontinued the use of the following IP ranges:

  • 3.145.244.128/25

  • 3.77.79.0/25

  • 3.27.118.128/25

  • 20.51.136.0/25

  • 4.197.217.128/25

  • 18.246.82.0/25

  • 158.177.65.64/29

  • 159.122.103.184/29

  • 161.156.125.32/28

    As of May 1, 2025, these ranges may be reallocated by the cloud provider to other customers for purposes beyond our control. Please update your network configurations accordingly.

• Added a troubleshooting document to retrieve the New Relic license key for issues using AWS Secrets Manager with New Relic.
• Added a troubleshooting document for Lambda functions not showing as instrumented.
• Added a troubleshooting document for issues adding multiple AWS accounts with respective regions.
• Added a troubleshooting document for issues using AWS Secrets Manager with New Relic.
• Added New Relic Agentic integrations to FedRAMP.
• Added a new document on New Relic's EC2 Image Builder integration.
• Added Dashboards to CodeStream.
• Added OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes monitoring and New Relic Distributions of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
• Extended the deadline to May 14, 2025, for updating the Synthetic IP ranges of your Synthetic monitors.
• Added new IP ranges for Synthetic monitoring in Synthetic monitoring.
• Updated the Query account document to include queries for logged users.
• Updated the feature flags for Android monitoring.
• Updated the Anomaly detection document to include information on a new field for anomaly NRQL alert conditions, allowing users to configure seasonality.

Minor change

• Distributed Tracing for sending messages is supported from version 2.1.0 to the latest in the frameworks and libraries for Java monitoring.
• AWS Glue Spark ETL jobs have limitations for Python Shell jobs in the AWS Glue monitoring integration.
• Added Canada (British Columbia and Saskatchewan), Chicago, District of Columbia, Illinois, and Vermont to the territories currently subject to sales tax.
• Updated the Windows option for instrumenting Azure Functions with the New Relic .NET Agent.
• New Relic Java's layered and SDK instrumentation are now compatible with com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-events versions 3.0.0 and later.
• Added exceptional cases where both legacy externals and uninstrumented GUIDs might appear.
• Added instructions for onboarding to the new map experience directly from the Service Maps page.
• Updated the supported hours section.
• dSYM files are now limited to 1 GB each.
• Added NODE_OPTIONS as an additional environment variable for AWS Lambda.
• Added log labels to agent configuration and agent forwarded log label information.
• Updated the New Relic API keys section with details on managing and obtaining full keys when needed.
• Users of Java Agent 8.18.0 need to manually enable SQS instrumentation in the newrelic.yml file.
• The NEW_RELIC_USE_ESM environment variable will be removed in future versions of the Node.js Lambda layers.
• Updated the conditions per policy limit from 500 to 1000.
• Effective Monday, March 3, 2025, our Kubernetes integration will no longer support Kubernetes v1.27 and earlier. Kubernetes integration v3.40.1 and later will be compatible only with Kubernetes versions 1.28 and later.
• Restored the Mermaid diagram support information.
• Added associated pricing details for Advanced and Core Compute pricing plans.

• Updated the email account settings document to include information on special character support.

• Updated the Agent Control document to clarify that multiple installations of Agent Control on the same cluster are not supported.
• Updated the Node.js agent configuration document to include batching and compression settings for infinite tracing.
• Updated the use TCP endpoint document to include information on finding logs by searching for the attribute plugin.type:"syslog-newrelic".
• Added a new access and data management section in the Agentic AI document.
• Added limitations of log APIs in the use TCP endpoint document.
• Updated the Kubernetes document to highlight the importance of restarting pods after deployment.
• Updated the environmental variables for Azure functions.
• Updated the New Relic OTLP attribute processing document for added clarity.

Release note

Check out our What's New posts to learn about new features and releases:

• What's New posts for:

  • Enhanced control for Session Replay settings
  • Update to New Relic Synthetics IP ranges
  • 1-Click Log Forwarding for Java Applications
  • Updates to New Relic access control
  • Upcoming change to count(*) in Dimensional Metrics Queries
  • Timeslice Metrics and Lookup Tables Now Available in Data Explorer
  • Changes to data exploration products
  • New Relic Control
  • New filter bar and data table support for error inbox
  • Login and logout audit events
  • PromQL translator now in the query console

• EOL post for:

  • Change to data exploration

Stay up-to-date on our most recent releases:

• .NET agent v10.36.0

  • Added .NET 8+ support for System.Data.Odbc.
  • Added support for instrumenting OpenSearchClient requests.
  • Fixed Azure Function app name prefix to faas.name attribute in Azure Function transactions.
  • Fixed the custom attribute values of type float and decimal not being serialized correctly.
  • Improved error handling in AWS account ID parsing logic.

• Browser agent 1.287.0:

  • Updated the architecture to enable future micro front-end support.

• Browser agent v1.281.0

  • Enhanced the UserAction fields to capture "nearest" field values when the UserAction target does not include the desired fields.

• Browser agent v1.280.0

  • Removed the agentIdentifier argument from agent constructors.
  • Rolled back to the previous FirstInteraction implementation.

• Job manager 439:

  • Updated the runtime polling frequency from 60 minutes to 30 minutes to reduce the impact of faults in runtime releases.

• Mobile app for Android v5.28.4

  • Upgraded the agent dependency to version 7.6.2.
  • Improved the page loading experience.
  • Enhanced user analytics.

• Mobile app for iOS App 6.9.4:

  • Integrated the force update.
  • Fixed the Prometheus bug.
  • Fixed the Insights API events bug.

• Mobile app for iOS v6.8.9

  • Implemented time measurement for Top Flows pages, focusing on requesting and loading API responses, and page rendering.
  • Fixed the page session time instrumentation for Explorer and Logs.
  • Implemented a fix to stop the page session when the app transitions to the background and resume it when the app returns to the foreground.

• Mobile app for iOS v6.8.8

  • Added page session tracking events.
  • Added click events.
  • Fixed a bug related to incorrect page session creation via bottom tabs.

• Node.js agent v12.12.0

  • Added health check support for upcoming features.
  • Added OpenTelemetry bridge instrumentation, including a context manager and processor to handle synthesizing segments and time-slice metrics.
  • Updated the default config to accept undefined as the default value.
  • Updated the compatibility report.

• Node API runtime 1.2.115:

  • Fixed broken links by decoding & to &.

• NRDOT 1.0.3:

  • Updated upstream components to version 0.123.0.

• Python agent v10.6.0

  • Added entity linking attributes for AWS Kinesis and AWS Firehose.