Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.186

New features and enhancements

Dynatrace Managed support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS 8.1 deployment

RHEL 8 brings a number of enhancements to the RHEL family: a refreshed system kernel, improved system performance and security, application streams, and numerous other updates. All are optimized for hybrid cloud environments. We’re happy to announce that we’ve tested Dynatrace Managed installations (version 1.186) with RHEL 8.1 and CentOS 8.1.

After upgrading your Dynatrace Managed cluster node to the latest OS version, you need to execute reconfiguration of the node by running:

[PRODUCT_PATH]/installer/reconfigure.sh

Update 25 Feb 2020

Dynatrace Managed is now Red Hat certified software.

What has changed in the product?

For all other Linux distributions, the Dynatrace Managed firewall relies on iptables, the longstanding Linux firewall that has served users well for many years. You may not yet be familiar with nftables, a newcomer that offers some much needed upgrades and will ultimately replace the aging iptables. nftables was created as a remedy to the problems with iptables, namely scalability and performance. Starting with Dynatrace Managed version 1.186, while running RHEL/Centos 8.0+, the firewall service sets rules using the nftables utility and firewall.d service.

Receive notifications when your license overage quota runs low

We're continuously improving license notifications to increase consumption awareness and to proactively ensure that your Dynatrace monitoring isn't interrupted. As mentioned in Dynatrace Managed release notes version 1.172, we've added notifications for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) licenses. In that version, we extended notification capabilities to DEM units overages, including user sessions, Synthetic monitors, and host unit hours.

Notifications are also displayed for cluster administrators in the Cluster Management Console.

Once the quota has been adjusted, notifications for all affected users are removed automatically.

Enhance cluster automation by setting an internet proxy

Managing your configuration is critically important. You probably wouldn’t let anybody change the template configuration that you've tested in your staging environment. The new Internet Proxy API offers you the opportunity to get, update, and validate the configuration of connections from the cluster to the internet. In this case, it’s the Mission Control service. See what data is exchanged using this proxy. REST API definition is available from the Cluster Management Console as part of the Cluster Management API:

Resolved issues