Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.303

Rollout start: Oct 21, 2024

Announcements

Log attribute becomes a content-like field

Infrastructure Observability | Logs

Starting with Dynatrace version 1.305, the log attribute will be treated in a similar way as content, message, payload and body attribute. These attributes are considered a content attribute of the log message.

Action might be required: If there is no content attribute defined for a given log source, the log attribute will be treated as content. If you have any log processing, log metric, and/or log events rules set on the log attribute, you'll need to update your configuration.

This change will ensure data ingested in through the log attribute that exceeds 2.5 KB isn't trimmed and will be accepted up to 256 KB, which is the default content attribute limit in OpenPipeline. For classic log processing pipeline ingestion, the limits are 250 B for any log attribute and 64 kB for content.

New features and enhancements

Cost Allocation: Host Monitoring and Application Security support

Account Management | Cost Management

The new Cost Allocation feature is now available. This feature provides enhanced financial oversight and budget control by allowing you to:

  • Integrate Cost Allocation into your existing Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS).
  • Monitor costs associated with Host Monitoring, Security Protection, and Security Analytics.
  • Access detailed documentation for step-by-step guidance on implementing and utilizing Cost Allocation in your environment.

For more information, see Cost Allocation.

One-click email notifications for active problems

Platform | Davis

To make it easier for you to receive notifications about active problems, we’ve introduced one-click email notifications in the Problems Problems app.

  • You can set up your own personalized email alerts based on detected issues.
  • The default filter is applied to pre-filter all active problems before sending email notifications to your email address.
  • This feature is specific to each user and does not affect other users in the same environment.

To set up email notifications for filtered problems using your email address, in Problems Problems, select the icon.

Problems app: one-click notifications

For details, see Visually notify and automate to speed up remediation.

Dashboards and Notebooks

  • Continuous improvements of visualization options

    Platform | Dashboards Platform | Notebooks

    In this and future releases, we're extending the customization options of the majority of our data visualizations in both the Dashboards and Notebooks apps. At the same time, we're introducing new unified UI visualization controls across both apps to improve the overall usability of these settings.

Updated DQL functions

Platform | DQL

We added the timezone parameter to the following functions:

We added the locale parameter to the formatTimestamp function.

OpenPipeline: added Drop record processor

Platform | OpenPipeline

With the new Drop record processor (dropProcessor), you can drop an ingested record before it's passed to further stages such as Metric extraction, Data extraction, or Storage. Note that dropped records are not retained.

Kubernetes deployment: additional scopes

Infrastructure Observability | Kubernetes

In addition to the metrics.ingest scope, the data ingest token now includes logs.ingest and openTelemetryTrace.ingest.

  • On the Start monitoring your Kubernetes clusters page, Install Dynatrace Operator section, the Data ingest token > Generate token option creates a token that includes the scopes:

    • logs.ingest
    • metrics.ingest
    • openTelemetryTrace.ingest

  • The Generate access token page now includes template Kubernetes: Data Ingest with the same scopes as above.

  • Previous Dynatrace The Data ingest token generated by the Kubernetes deployment page now contains the same scopes as above.

Tagging worker dashboard (Dashboards Classic)

Previous Dynatrace

The tagging worker process is responsible for assigning tags, management zones, and names to entities based on defined rules. Now you can use the new Tagging worker preset dashboard for Dashboards Classic to:

  • Check the runtimes of this worker split for tagging, management zones, and naming rules.
  • See the slowest applied rules during the worker run, which is important for scaling rules.

For more about tagging, see Best practices for scaling tagging and management-zone rules.

Services app

Application Observability | Services

Services Services is the latest Dynatrace experience for service analysis and it introduces

  • Enhanced usability, navigation, and onboarding
  • Improved Health experience
  • New search and filter experience
  • Better integration with the Dynatrace Platform. You can seamlessly analyze services in Notebooks, Dashboards, Distributed Tracing, and Kubernetes apps.
  • Custom metrics in context for unified services
Services app

Services Services is preinstalled and generally available with Dynatrace version 1.303. Existing service data and configurations are automatically migrated without breaking changes. The previous Dynatrace experience remains available side by side and has been renamed from Services to Services (Classic) Services Classic.

Share your feedback in Dynatrace Community!

Distributed Tracing app

Application Observability | Distributed Tracing

We're launching the Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing app for customers with Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS). Please note that the availability depends on the geographic region and the overall trace volume in your environment. The latest Dynatrace experience for trace analytics introduces

  • Enhanced data visualization for performance optimization and error analysis, with interactive timeseries and histogram charts that can be integrated in your dashboards.
  • Automatic attribute capture and display for both OneAgent and OpenTelemetry ingested spans. In a single dynamic view you can leverage new filtering capabilites, such as facets and the grouping functionality, and analyze traces down to code-level data.
  • Query creation and entry point for notebooks.

The previous Dynatrace experience is available side by side and it has been renamed to Distributed Traces (Classic) Distibuted Traces Classic.

Distributed Tracing app

You can discover the Distributed Tracing Distributed Tracing app in Dynatrace Playground and share your feedback in Dyntrace Community.

To get started, see Distributed Tracing.

Dynatrace API

To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, see Dynatrace API changelog version 1.303.

Dynatrace SaaS resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.303.42)

The 1.303 GA release contains 7 resolved issues.

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Dynatrace Cluster

  • A unified analysis page will no longer show metric markers for deleted problems. (DI-16748)
  • Permissions checks for service extraction is fixed. (TI-14133)
  • The `dynakube.yaml` file now uses the latest API version: `dynatrace.com/v1beta2`. (K8S-11176)
  • Relationship filters on the Services Classic page now combine multiple values with a logical OR operator. (TI-14422)
  • In the dashboard tile "Runtime Application Protection (RAP)" / "Top RAP hosts", incorrect metric `builtin:billing.runtime_vulnerability_analytics.usage_per_host` has been replaced by correct metric `builtin:billing.runtime_application_protection.usage_per_host`. (LIMA-22028)

Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Lowered the log verbosity to info. (DOB-917)

User interface

  • The OneAgent health heartbeat time format is now correct in the web UI. (TI-14367)