Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.304

Rollout start: Nov 4, 2024

Breaking changes

New Semantic Dictionary conventions and samples for unified ingest

Application Security | Vulnerabilities

Ingested AWS container vulnerability findings and OCSF vulnerability findings now follow the updated Semantic Dictionary conventions.

To help you visualize data and automate notifications, we provide an updated set of sample dashboards of vulnerability findings and workflows for Jira and Slack notifications that you can upload in your Dynatrace environment and use for your ingested security events.

Warning Breaking change Please note that this is a breaking change for the ingested vulnerability data formats. Previous versions of your dashboard and workflows might need to be redeployed using the updated samples published on GitHub.

For details, see Security events ingest.

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

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.

  • In-app feedback option in Notebooks

    Platform | Notebooks

    To give feedback on Notebooks Notebooks, open the Help menu in the upper-right corner and select Feedback. That opens a Dynatrace Community channel where you can tell us about your Notebooks experience. We would love to hear what you have to say.

  • WYSIWYG buttons in Markdown tile editor in Dashboards

    Platform | Dashboards

    In Dashboards, the Markdown tile editor now displays a row of formatting buttons above the edit box to make Markdown editing faster and easier.

  • Rounded timeframe expressions in Dashboards

    Platform | Dashboards

    In the timeframe selector for a dashboard or tile, you can now choose a rounded timeframe such as Yesterday and Today.

Multiple values for dt.security_context allowed

Platform | OpenPipeline

In the Permission stage in OpenPipeline, the Security context value (dt.security_context) previously could only be a string value. Now other data types (including numeric, boolean, and multi-value) are possible.

Combining bucket and record level permissions in table permissions

Platform | Grail

You can now combine both bucket and record level in your table permissions. For example, this statement provides access to all logs in the unrestricted_logs bucket and only specific records in the default_logs bucket:

ALLOW storage:logs:read WHERE storage:bucket-name="unrestricted_logs";
ALLOW storage:logs:read WHERE storage:bucket-name="default_logs" AND storage:dt.security_context="TeamA";

For details, see Permissions in Grail: Table permissions: Combining bucket and record level permissions.

New request attribute source available for CICS transaction Group ID

Application Observability | Distributed Traces

We have added support for the CICS transaction Group ID request attribute source.

Dynatrace API

To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, see Dynatrace API changelog version 1.304.

Dynatrace SaaS resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.304.31)

The 1.304 GA release contains 1 resolved issue.

Dynatrace Cluster

  • Anomaly detectors created via the Settings API and using default analyzer parameters are now working as expected. (DI-16920)

Update 33 (Build 1.304.33)

This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.304 release.

Update 36 (Build 1.304.36)

This cumulative update contains 4 resolved issues and all previously released updates for the 1.304 release.

Component
Resolved issues

Dynatrace Cluster

  • Resolved an issue that prevented apps that come with settings schemas from finishing installation on newly created environments. (PS-28636)
  • Anomaly detectors created via the Settings API and using default analyzer parameters are now working as expected. (DI-16920)
  • The number of supported (ingested) events per span is limited to 128. (APPOBS-2454)

User interface

  • Data Explorer, previous Dynatrace: fixed value of column matcher for table. (PAPA-21298)

Update 38 (Build 1.304.38)

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Update 40 (Build 1.304.40)

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Update 43 (Build 1.304.43)

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Update 45 (Build 1.304.45)

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Update 53 (Build 1.304.53)

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Update 56 (Build 1.304.56)

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Update 58 (Build 1.304.58)

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Update 63 (Build 1.304.63)

This cumulative update contains 1 resolved issue and all previously released updates for the 1.304 release.

Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Added new options to decrease the level of SSL certificate validation for MySQL and PostgreSQL. (DAQ-2021)

Update 66 (Build 1.304.66)

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Update 71 (Build 1.304.71)

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