The final stable version of the inspectIT 1.7 line is version 1.7.11.94 release on 19th May 2017. User documentation space for this version is Documentation 1.87.
Features overview
Most important features of 1.7 line are:
- Automatic remote tracing support for communication based on HTTP and JMS
- Implementation of the opentracing.io API as part of the inspectit.agent.java.sdk project
- Dynamic instrumentation support (update of the instrumentation points without need to restart the application)
- UI based business context definition for defining applications and business transactions
- Support for monitoring based on influxDB and Grafana
- Alerting for long-term monitoring data stored in influxDB based on static thresholds thresholds
Related blog posts
- inspectIT 1.7 – Cross-JVM Tracing
- Dynamically change monitoring points during JVM run-time with inspectIT
- Can opentracing scene benefit from new tracer implementations?
Third party tools versions
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From this version inspectIT provides option to force creation of the MBean server. Thus, if you are monitoring the JMX attributes using inspectIT make sure that MBean server is created or forced by inspectIT. If the server is not created the monitoring of the attributes will not be possible, as simply inspectIT does not have where to read the data.Status colour Yellow title 1.7.5
From version 1.7.9 inspectIT is compatible with influxDB version 1.2. You can freely update the version of influxDB in order to get latest features and bug fixes. inspectIT does not provide any guarantee that it's backward compatible with older influxDB versions.Status colour Yellow title 1.7.9
From version 1.7.10 dynamic instrumentation has been disabled by default on the IBM JVM due to the possible problems with re-transformation of classes. In addition after using class re-transformation on the IBM JVM, the JIT compilation is completely suspended by the JVM. Thus, it's advised not to use re-transformation with the IBM JVM. However, Environment configuration allows overriding of the default settings if needed.Status colour Yellow title 1.7.10
Instrumentation configurations that have been exported with previous version of inspectIT will not work with the newest version. There is a need for a small manual adaptation:Status colour Yellow title 1.7.11 - Open your exported .xml file
- Locate the schemaVersion attribute in one of the exported environments or profiles
If attribute exists add the located attribute and it's value to the root XML element configuration-interface-import-data
<
configuration-interface-import-data
schemaVersion
=
"4"
>
The key of the inspectIT tag header used in the load testing changed to inspectit_tag, thus update to load tests is necessary if you used tagging option. Note that this change enables tag propagation to all the JVMs that interact in the request coming from the load testing tool (based on new tracing support).Status colour Yellow title 1.7.11
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