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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.

Changed

• nri-docker to v1.6.0. New memory and storage metrics added. memoryUsageBytes and memoryUsageLimitPercent calculation has changed. Please refer to this product update post and nri-docker release notes for more information.
• nri-winservices to v0.2.0-beta.

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

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.

Changed

• Upgraded log-forwarder (FluentBit) to v1.7.3.

Fixed

• Issue that caused package conflict errors during the installation process of the Linux infrastructure-agent.

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.

Fixes

• Linux specific: Fixed issue when log-forwarder (Fluent Bit) was not able to process systemd logs. Due to a transition from building the Infra Agent in our previous internal pipeline to the publicly available GitHub actions, we applied the following changes:
  • Included Fluent Bit 1.6.3, built by our previous internal pipeline, from (here)[https://github.com/newrelic/fluent-bit-package/releases/tag/1.3.0].
  • Included Fluent Bit Output Plugin for New Relic v1.4.3 from (here)[https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-fluent-bit-output/releases/tag/v1.1.0].

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.

Changed

• newrelic-fluent-bit-output to v1.4.1.

• Log forwarder feature comes with Fluent Bit version v1.6.3, now obtained from (here)[https://github.com/newrelic/fluent-bit-package/releases/tag/1.4.1]. For more information about Logging feature, see our docs.

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.

Fix

• #357 An issue with the agent update that disabled newrelic-infra-service and remain the agent stopped.

Changed

• Downgrade newrelic-fluent-bit-output to v1.4.0.
• Log forwarder feature has downgraded Fluent Bit to version v1.6.3 and downgraded Fluent Bit Output Plugin for New Relic to v1.4.3. For more information about Logging feature, see our docs.
• newrelic/infrastructure agent docker image only for amd64.

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/infrastructure agent docker image is now published as multi-arch (amd64 and arm64).

Changed

• nri-docker built-in integration updated to v1.4.3
• Log forwarder feature has updated Fluent Bit to version v1.7.2 available here and Fluent Bit Output Plugin for New Relic to v1.4.6. For more information about Logging feature, see our docs.
• nri-flex built-in integration updated to v1.4.0.

Deprecated

• CentOS 5 & RHEL 5 newrelic-infra packages are no longer published due to manufacturer end of life. Please check the system requirements documentation for an updated list of supported OS and platforms.

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, at least every 3 months.

Added

Changed

• #307 Docker image update: alpine 3.13, ca-certificates 20191127-r5, ntpsec 1.2.0-r0, curl 7.74.0-r0

Fixed

• #302 Fixes an issue where literals within configuration files containing "#" (like password fields) caused an "invalid configuration file" error.
  • This bug was introduced at v1.14.2.

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

• #288 Add tracing capabilities (enabled via trace: ["proc"]) to enable logging process IO counters as they are fetched from the OS.

Changed

• #301 nri-flex updated to v1.3.10.

Fixed

• #299 Command API wrong allowed integration name and condition.