Docs version: April 11-17, 2025

New docs

• NerdGraph tutorial: Managing the Metric Normalization Rules provides guidance on using NerdGraph for managing metric normalization rules.
• Scorecards templates library has customizable templates for engineering and business use cases, grounded in enterprise best practices to tackle common challenges.
• New Relic OTel K8s Metrics Mapping outlines how Kubernetes OpenTelemetry metrics are mapped to New Relic Kubernetes metrics.

Major changes

• Added sampler.remote_parent_sampled in Java Agent Configuration: Config File to define how the agent should handle sampling spans when their parent span from an upstream entity was sampled.
• Update the SCIM provisioning to specify that it now requires a Paid Edition for automated user management in New Relic.
• Updated the Cloud Rule APIs document for pipeline control to include information on how to drop attributes from dimensional metric rollups.
• Added a query to track login and logout events on the Account Change Tracking page.

Minor changes

• Updated the .Net agent compatibility version.
• Removed the limitation on PingOne in automated user management that was previously unsupported due to group provisioning restrictions.
• Added a limitation in the Anomaly Detection page specifying no support for monthly or yearly seasonality due to computational limits.
• Updated the Node.js agent compatibility report.
• Added batching and compression settings for infinite tracing to the Node.js agent configuration document.

Release notes

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

• What's New post for Login and logout audit events.

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

• .NET agent v10.40.1

  • Fixed the non-infinite timeout issue that appeared when creating HttpClient and SocketsHttpHandler instances.
  • Fixed the issue preventing repeated SQL explain plan attempts after initial failure.

• Browser agent 1.288.0:

  • Updated the architecture to Prevent storing session data past session expiry.
  • Introduced isFirstOfSession attribute on InitialPageLoad events.
  • Fixed the the hasReplay attribute missing issue after session recording is resumed.
  • Fixed the issue causing errors when the logging feature aborted before the agent set up the event buffer.

• Python agent v10.9.0

  • Add OpenTelemetry compatible datastore span attributes.
  • Fixed the LangChain instrumentation issue for string response types.
  • Disabled Kombu instrumentation.

• Java agent v8.20.0

  • Added support for CRaC.
  • Added support for JDK24.
  • Added sampling options when an inbound traceparent exists.
  • Added support for Undertow as a stand-alone module.
  • Added support for Couchbase Client.
  • Added feature flag to apply Kotlin ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException fix to all methods.
  • Fixed netty 'Unknown' transactions.
  • Refactored AWS docker id fetch to use 5s timeout.
  • Prevented cache lock for long DB statement parsing.
  • Added config to specify whether java.sql is loaded by platform classloader.

• Kubernetes integration v3.38.0

  • Updated lastTerminatedTimestamp to use time.Time instead of int64 for better time handling.
  • Updated kubernetes packages to v0.32.3.
  • Updated go to v1.24.2.
  • Updated golang.org/x/crypto to v0.37.0.

• Diagnostics CLI (nrdiag) v3.3.0

  • Updated to return a warning instead of an error when there is an issue connecting to github to verify the version.
  • Added the following tasks for Kubernetes and Agent Control:
    • K8s/AgentControl/helm-controller - Collects Agent Control helm-controller pod logs
    • K8s/AgentControl/source-controller - Collects Agent Control source-controller pod logs
    • K8s/AgentControl/agent-control - Collects Agent Control agent-control pod logs
    • K8s/Flux/Charts - Collects Flux Helm Charts information
    • K8s/Flux/Repositories - Collects Flux Helm Repositories information
    • K8s/Flux/Releases - Collects Flux Helm Releases information
    • K8s/Resources/Config - Collects K8s configMaps for the given namespace in YAML format
    • K8s/Resources/Deploy - Collects K8s deployments information for the given namespace in YAML format
    • K8s/Resources/Pods - Collects K8s pods information for the given namespace in YAML format
    • K8s/Resources/Daemonset - Collects K8s daemonsets information for the given namespace in YAML format
    • K8s/Env/Version - Retrieves the version of the kubectl client and of the cluster
    • K8s/Helm/Releases - Collects the list of helm releases

• Android agent v7.6.6

  • Fixed the custom interaction conflicts with default interaction.

• Service level

  • Added the capability to export the configuration of a service level as Terraform code.

• Node.js Agent v12.18.0

  • Added support for Azure functions background trigger types.
  • Added support Azure functions HTTP trigger type.
  • Updated span streamer to properly retry failed batches and handle flushing batch queue every 5 seconds.
  • Update otel bridge rules synthesizer to properly handle consumer kind rules.
  • Updated compatibility report.
  • Fixed prisma CI issues.
  • Improved logging within utilization detection.