Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented self-hosted WCF applications from automatically creating Traced Errors.
Upgrading
- For upgrade instructions, see Upgrade the .NET agent.
- If you are upgrading from a particularly old agent, see Upgrading legacy .NET agents for a list of major changes to the .NET agent.
New Features
- Added StackExchange.Redis framework support. The .Net agent now records time spent making StackExchange.Redis API calls, which will appear as Datastore metrics and Transaction Trace segments in New Relic APM.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that cause Automatic Browser Monitoring to cause problems on web pages that have no HEAD tag and also contain the text "<BODY" inside of an inline script.
- Improved agent error reporting for applications using WebAPI v1 in unsupported configurations. A warning will be displayed in the agent log (during agent startup) if an application is using an unsupported configuration.
- Azure KUDU (scm) sites were being instrumented by the .NET Agent due to a change in the way Azure is naming application pools. We have updated our logic to match the new application pool naming so these sites will be ignored by the agent.
Upgrading
- For upgrade instructions, see Upgrade the .NET agent.
- If you are upgrading from a particularly old agent, see Upgrading legacy .NET agents for a list of major changes to the .NET agent.
New Features
- Added ServiceStack.Redis v3.x and v4.x framework support. The .Net agent now wraps time spent making ServiceStack.Redis API calls, which will appear as Datastore metrics and Transaction Trace segments in New Relic APM.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused web transaction data to be lost if the request contained an invalid "Referer" HTTP header.
Upgrading
- For upgrade instructions, see Upgrade the .NET agent.
- If you are upgrading from a particularly old agent, see Upgrading legacy .NET agents for a list of major changes to the .NET agent.
Fixes
- Fixes a bug which caused the .NET Agent to stop reporting intermittently due to an exception raised within the .NET Framework and caught by the Agent.
- Fixes an unhandled System.ObjectDisposedException in the agent.
Fixes
- Web requests for static resources which are handled by System.Web.Optimization will be named with the requested URL instead of the unmapped route parameters (some previously were named {controller}/{action}/{id}).
Fixes
- Transactions using MVC attribute routing will show the correct action name instead of "Unknown Action".
Important
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
New Features
- Adds an API method for setting the name of the application reported to in New Relic at runtime.
- Adds a configuration option for stopping the agent from reporting automatically when the agent starts up.
- Adds an API method for telling the agent to start reporting at runtime.
Fixes
- Fixes a bug where self-hosted WCF applications would not correctly report on the overview page.
- Fixes a bug where database calls and external calls in a background/async thread would result in a transaction named
*showing up in the Other bucket. - Fixes a bug where apdex was not reported for self-hosted WCF applications.
- Fixes a bug where API calls from an application that didn't have any instrumentation would not report any data.
- SQL object names are more accurately parsed. In particular, table names will be recognized with an expanded set of characters. The agent is able to parse table names with a variety of separator characters and formatting whitespace. For example,
{Table1},[ Table2 ],"Table3"andTable4.
Known Issues
Important
If you are using WebAPI and targeting .NET Framework 4.0 then you may need to opt-in to a .NET Framework 4.5 bug fix in order to continue seeing web transactions! For more information, see WebAPI transactions are missing.
Important
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Improvements
- The .NET agent now provides an API for sending custom events to New Relic Insights.
Important
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that sometimes caused thread profiles to be empty.
Important
The end-of-life date for this agent version is July 29, 2019. To update to the latest agent version, see Update the agent. For more information, see End-of-life policy.
New Features
- Web transaction types (seen in tooltips) should now be more meaningful. When you mouse over a transaction, instead of showing Action it will show ASP, MVC, WebAPI, WebService, WCF, etc.
Upgrade Notes
Important
This improvement to transaction naming may impact the transaction names of existing metrics including Key Transactions, Alert on Anything metrics and Insights queries based on transaction names. These would need to be recreated with the new transaction name after the upgrade.
Fixes
- The agent will now fallback to using the proxy configured for the executing user when talking to New Relic.