ActiveGate release notes version 1.261

Rollout start: Mar 14, 2023

With this release, the oldest supported ActiveGate versions are:

Standard Support
Enterprise Success and Support
1.243
1.237

How long are versions supported following rollout?

Chromium support for private Synthetic locations

Chromium 109 is the latest supported version for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate installed on:

  • Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8
  • CentOS 7
  • Amazon Linux 2

Chromium 109 is bundled with the Windows ActiveGate installer.

For more information on supported and provided Chromium versions, see Requirements for private Synthetic locations and Create a private Synthetic location.

Prometheus histogram metrics

Prometheus histogram metrics are now ingested by default.

  • The _sum and _count parts of the histogram are ingested as dedicated counter metrics.

For example, the istio_request_duration_milliseconds histogram metric results in two counter metrics:

  • istio_request_duration_milliseconds_sum.count
  • istio_request_duration_milliseconds_count

This feature produces additional metrics and it's subject to Davis data units (DDU) licensing.

Labels for Kubernetes service

On the Kubernetes service page, the Kubernetes service labels are now displayed in the Properties and tags section.

Histogram metrics in the Istio metrics section

On the Kubernetes workload, namespace, and service pages, a new Response time chart is added to the Istio metrics section.

Operating system support

Future Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes

The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 January 2025
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 June 2025
The following operating systems will no longer be supported starting 01 July 2025

Past Dynatrace ActiveGate operating systems support changes

The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 May 2024
The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 June 2024
The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 July 2024
The following operating systems are no longer supported since 01 December 2024

Resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.261.190)

The 1.261 GA release contains 1 resolved issue.

ActiveGate

  • Misleading description of unsupported option `--enable-synthetic --disable-browser-monitors` has been removed from ActiveGate installer help. (DMX-2850)