Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.278
Rollout start: Oct 23, 2023
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Product news
- Streamline vulnerability-risk communications with intuitive and automated security reporting
Dynatrace delivers security data on Grail™ to enable flexible analysis and reporting of security findings. This addresses the pain of communication and collaboration within enterprise DevSecOps teams and their stakeholders. With ready-to-use dashboard and notebook templates, you can now get immediate insight into your organization’s security posture, perform powerful in-depth analyses, and easily track remediation efforts.
Announcements
New Dynatrace Documentation design
With Dynatrace version 1.278, we have introduced an important change to our documentation to ensure that we provide you with the most relevant and focused information.
- Documentation for Dynatrace Managed and SaaS have their own dedicated URLs.
- Managed docs won’t be indexed by public search engines any longer; use Dynatrace Search instead.
- Documentation sites have a new look and feel.
For more information, see the New Dynatrace Docs post in the Dynatrace Community.
New features and enhancements
New DQL functions
Platform | DQL
Now you can include the following functions in your DQL queries:
- hashXxHash32
ThehashXxHash32function returns a xxHash32 hash for a given string expression. - hashXxHash64
ThehashXxHash64function returns a xxHash64 hash for a given string expression. - hashCrc32
ThehashCrc32function returns a CRC32 hash for a given string expression.
New names in Log Monitoring settings
Infrastructure Observability | Logs
We have changed the page names to better reflect the purpose of the particular settings pages. The functionality of these settings remains unchanged.
Old Name
New Name
OneAgent configuration
Advanced log settings
Custom log source configuration
Custom log sources
Log storage configuration
Log ingest rules
Timestamp configuration
Timestamp/Splitting patterns
Security data on Grail reaches GA
Application Security | Vulnerabilities
The following features are now released to General Availability (GA):
- Change events, triggered whenever the status, assessment, or impact of a vulnerability changes. For a list of available change events, see Semantic dictionary.
- State reports, allowing you to view the full historical state of a vulnerability or an affected entity. For a list of available , see Semantic Dictionary
- Out-of-the-box-templates for security data analysis and reporting.
Perform bulk actions on external tracking links
Application Security | Vulnerabilities
You can now set, update, or delete external tracking links for remediation items in bulk. For details, see Tracking link for process groups and Tracking link for Kubernetes nodes.
DDU consumption for unified service failure metrics
Application Observability | Services
The builtin:service.request.failure_count metric no longer consumes DDUs.
Set ownership via Kubernetes annotations
Infrastructure Observability | Kubernetes
ActiveGate version 1.277+ Ownership for Kubernetes entities can now be set via annotations.
OS services monitoring rules based on host custom metadata
Infrastructure Observability | Hosts
When setting up OS services monitoring policies, you can now define rules that leverage host custom metadata. For more information, see OS services monitoring.
Dynatrace API
To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, see Dynatrace API changelog version 1.278.
Resolved issues
General Availability (Build 1.278.64)
The 1.278 GA release contains 8 resolved issues.
Dynatrace Cluster
- Selecting "Anomaly detection settings" from the Node details page now opens cluster-wide settings instead of tenant-wide settings. (K8S-7807)
- Fixed a web UI issue that prevented the user from closing instance details on the mobile waterfall analysis page. (RUM-13533)
- Parsing of OS service detection rules no longer allows invalid rules such as `$eq(A) or $eq(B)` (where the correct syntax is `$or($eq(A),$eq(B))`). (HOST-4269)
- Fixed long loading times for Unified Service Screen. (TI-9442)
- Corrected an issue with disabling email and webhook notifications of closed problems. Previously, even though notifications of closed problems were disabled, notifications of closed problems that matched only after resolving were sent out. (DAVIS-6040)
Platform
- The matcher used in different stages of the log pipeline no longer fails on DQL conditions with an empty string as a pattern parameter in {{matchesValue}} and {{matchesPhrase}} functions when used in conjunction with other matching conditions on the same field. (PPX-773)
- Fixed an issue that caused increased memory usage when querying metrics in larger environments. (CLUSTER-10075)
Session Replay
- Fixed an issue with resources not loading in session replay in different situations: * A bug in the Replay when a resource is requested to the original server and this server returns different content depending on the "Accept" header. * A bug in the Replay when loading resources with a relative path in a page with a <base> tag. * A race condition bug in the Agent when recording resources with a relative path inside an iframe. * A bug when replaying a session after more than 30s without any activity. (SR-2722)
Update 65 (Build 1.278.65)
This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.278 release.
Update 66 (Build 1.278.66)
This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.278 release.