Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.305

Pre-release information

This is an ongoing summary of changes in this planned release. Check back here at GA for the final version.

Rollout start: Dec 3, 2024 (planned)

Breaking changes

AWS log forwarder EOL

As announced earlier, the Dynatrace AWS log forwarder is deprecated.

Warning Breaking change End of support for the Dynatrace AWS log forwarder is planned for Dec 31, 2024. That time is approaching.

If you are still using the deprecated AWS log forwarder, we recommend that you switch to the new Stream logs via Amazon Data Firehose before Dec 31, 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

Launch of Security Posture Management

Application Security | Security Posture Management

We're thrilled to announce the launch of the new Application Security functionality, Security Posture Management, in Early Adopter mode. This functionality currently provides continuous monitoring and automated assessment for Kubernetes environments against CIS, NIST, DORA, and DISA STIG compliance standards and covers vanilla Kubernetes for all versions supported by Dynatrace. It comes with a dedicated Security Posture Management app that enables you to prioritize and report on all related compliance findings.

App update notifications

Dynatrace Hub

Never miss an app update again! Dynatrace Hub can now send you an email notification when there's an update available for an app.

To manage your email notifications about app updates

  1. Go to Hub and switch to the Manage tab.

  2. Select Notify on app updates.

  3. Open the list and and make your selections. There's a search box to make things easier.

    • To receive notifications about an app, select the checkbox.
    • To stop receiving notifications about an app, clear the checkbox.

  4. To save your changes, close the list and select Apply.

    You will start receiving email about updates to the selected apps.

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.

  • Synced crosshairs for graphs

    Platform | Dashboards

    When multiple graphs are displayed in one dashboard, the pointer crosshairs are synchronized across the graphs.

  • Relative links in dashboard Markdown tiles

    Platform | Dashboards

    In Dashboards, a Markdown tile can now link from one tile to another, and from one dashboard to another, using relative links.

    1. Display the target dashboard.

      • This can be the same dashboard if you want to link from one part of your dashboard to another part of the same dashboard.

    2. If you want to target a specific tile on the target dashboard, select the tile.

    3. On your browser address line, select and copy everything from /ui to the end of the displayed address.

    4. Go to the dashboard where you want to add the link.

    5. Create or edit a Markdown tile.

    6. Add a link of the form:

      [My freeform label](/ui/...)

      where /ui/... is the portion of the address you copied from the target dashboard's address line.

      Important: If you link from one document (dashboard or notebook) to another, make sure users of the source document (the document that links to other documents) have permission to view the linked documents. Otherwise, those links will return errors. You can avoid this by sharing your target documents with users of your source document. For details on sharing documents, see Share documents.

  • Categorical bar chart - numerical categories

    Platform | Dashboards Platform | Notebooks

    In a Categorical bar chart, you can now use numerical values as categories.

  • Tile descriptions

    Platform | Dashboards

    You can now add a description (up to 350 characters) to a dashboard tile.

    To add a tile description, edit the tile and select the Tile tab.

    A tile with a description displays an icon in the upper-right corner.

    • To read a tile description, hover over the icon .
    • To edit a tile description, select the icon .

  • Tables have automatically mapped sparklines for timeseries

    Platform | Dashboards

    Tables now come with automatically mapped sparklines when the underlying data is a timeseries.

  • Explore metrics updates

    Platform | Dashboards

    In Explore metrics tiles:

    • For a timeseries, fieldsAdd ... arrayAvg()... is now automatically added so you can immediately switch to other charts.

    • Expressions now also offer a Reduce to single value command.

  • Chart zoom interactions improved

    We have improved chart zoom behavior in Dashboards and Notebooks.

    To zoom in or out on a dashboard tile or notebook section, display the document and select the tile/section. Now use any of these methods to zoom in or out:

    • Press Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down.
    • Click and drag in the chart to select a new timeframe.
    • Select or in the chart toolbar.

    Zoom changes with this release include:

    • Dashboards Platform | Dashboards

      If you zoom on a tile without a custom tile timeframe, the global timeframe for the dashboard is updated accordingly, so timeframes stay in sync across the dashboard except where a tile has its own overriding timeframe.

      If you zoom on a tile with a custom tile timeframe but without a timeframe in the query, the selected timeframe is applied to the custom tile timeframe and the changed timeframe is reflected in the dashboard.

    • Notebooks Platform | Notebooks

      If you zoom in a timeseries in a notebook section, the timeframe of the section changes, and the change is persisted in the notebook.

    Note that zooming into timeseries charts is not available if the timeframe is set in the DQL query.

Dynatrace API

To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, check back here at GA.

Dynatrace SaaS resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.305.8)

The 1.305 GA release doesn't contain any user-facing resolved issues.