Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.252
Product news
- Tailored access management for Dynatrace, Part 1: One configuration for all authorization requirements
This is part one of a blog post series explaining how to use security policies to set permissions within Dynatrace. In this post, you'll learn about the new permissions for environment roles, which extend the coverage of our security policies.
- Getting answers from data starts with automated log acquisition, at any scale
Dynatrace enables configuration-as-code for logs, making data acquisition, filtering, masking, and anonymizing scalable in enterprise environments. Orchestrating a fleet of OneAgents from a central configuration point removes error-prone manual work for DevOps and SRE teams across dynamic IT landscapes.
Announcements
Davis Assistant end of life
Dynatrace Davis Assistant will reach end of life on January 31, 2023. After this date, the service will be shut down, and interactions with Davis Assistant will no longer be possible. Existing integrations, for example, with Slack or Microsoft Teams, will cease to work at that time.
For options and best practices on managing the push of problem notifications to your preferred third-party incident management or ChatOps service, see problem notifications documentation.
New features and enhancements
Role-based environment permissions are available in Dynatrace IAM
Cross Solutions | IAM
You can now manage the classic roles-based access using Dynatrace IAM. For more information, see Migrate role-based permissions to Dynatrace IAM policies.
Log storage configuration
Infrastructure Monitoring | Log Monitoring
Dynatrace allows you to include and exclude specific log sources for analysis by Dynatrace Log Monitoring.
The storage configuration is based on rules that use matchers for hierarchy, log path, and process groups. These rules determine the upload of log files known to OneAgent, auto-detected log files, and custom log files defined per process group.
Log timestamp configuration
Infrastructure Monitoring | Log Monitoring
Dynatrace allows you to define rules that control log data timestamps.
Log Monitoring now provides the ability to define a specific date format using timestamp rules to specify what should be considered a timestamp in the log record.
Remote configuration management
Cross Solutions | Settings
We introduced a mechanism for remote configuration management for OneAgents and ActiveGates.
You can now perform bulk configuration at scale and control it centrally from the Dynatrace Deployment status page or by using the Dynatrace API.
The following configuration options are now available for remote configuration management:
OneAgent configuration
- Host group assignment
- Network zone assignment
ActiveGate configuration
- ActiveGate group assignment
- Network zone assignment
For more information, see Remote configuration management of OneAgents and ActiveGates.
Custom chart filter added
Cross Solutions | Data Explorer and dashboards
If you are upgrading Custom charts to Data Explorer charts, we have added a Custom charts: Yes filter to the Dashboards table to make it easy for you to identify dashboards that still need to be upgraded. For details, see Upgrade your custom charts now.
Email templates for problem notifications
Cross Solutions | Problems
You can avail of a larger email body size when configuring email templates for problem notifications—the size of the email body has been increased from 5,000 characters to 10,000 characters.
Resolved vulnerabilities can be muted
Application Security | Third-party vulnerabilities
Resolved third-party vulnerabilities can now be muted and unmuted. Muted resolved third-party vulnerabilities remain muted if they are reopened.
New filters on the Kubernetes workload page
Infrastructure Monitoring | Kubernetes
You can now filter the Kubernetes workload list by:
- Kubernetes service
- Kubernetes service name
- Kubernetes service type
Kubernetes services
Infrastructure Monitoring | Kubernetes
- The Kubernetes service page, like other Kubernetes pages, now displays a warning message for outdated ActiveGates.
- The Kubernetes service page, in the Properties section, now displays the
externalNamefield. This property is only defined for Kubernetes services of typeExternalName.
Request attribute section
Apps & Microservices | Distributed traces
When you Expand 
a trace from the Distributed traces list, the trace overview hosts all the related request attributes in a dedicated section.
Dynatrace API
To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, see Dynatrace API changelog version 1.252.
Resolved issues
General Availability (Build 1.252.142)
The 1.252 GA release contains 7 resolved issues.
Cluster
- Metric Event Configurations for service (and potentially more) entities now generates problems if the name or tag filter was used. (APM-388396)
- * dql-auto-completion is more lightweight, calculating _fulltextToApply_ and _newCursorPosition_ on suggestion selection (not on dropdown creation) * When a suggestion is applied, it will check the rest of the query and try to remove enough characters to avoid leftovers. It only removes a minimum number of characters, so the user doesn't feel like part of the query has been removed. (APM-385563)
- We limit the number of workload spec change details within one event to 10, to avoid display problems and running into size limits for event metadata. (APM-386732)
- Fixed an issue in which possible types of monitored entiity attributes were not displayed properly in response of the Entity API v2. (TI-3549)
- Fixed an issue where a dimension filter on a metric selector was incorrectly returning an empty result, which was also causing management zone filters to return an empty result despite having metric data for the selected management zone. (APM-387341)
- Fixed wrong display names in monitoring rules for custom process groups regarding the Kubernetes namespace and Kubernetes Pod UID. (TI-3234)
- Fixed error on AWS Lambda Functions screen, which could sometimes appear when switching between monitoring solutions. (APM-386334)