inspectIT 1.8 Release

Owned by Ivan Senic
Last updated: Nov 21, 2017
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The final stable version of the inspectIT 1.8 line is version 1.8.5.105 released on 13th September 2017. User documentation space for this version is Documentation 1.8.

Features overview 

Most important features of 1.8 line are:

  • Automatic injection of JavaScript agent for End User Monitoring on the browser side
  • Tracing correlation between user actions in the browser and back-end traces
  • Tracing improvements and support for additional technologies / libraries:
    • Asynchronous tasks executed via Java executor services
    • HTTP client calls made with Apache HttpComponents Async Client
  • Automatic performance problems detection using diagnosis service
  • Continuous sending of the metrics collected on the agent with implicit back-pressure
  • Support for Java 9
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Third party tools versions

Here are the versions of third party tools that you might want to integrate with inspectIT and that work with version 1.8.5

  • inspectIT supports influxDB in version 1.2.x
  • To show measurements from influxDB you can use Grafana in version 4.x

Upgrade guide

If you are updating from version 1.7.11 here is a summary of the upgrade guides related to all 1.8 versions:

How to install the new version?
  • Use the installers to install the new version. Best practice is to use a new folder for the installation and integrate the version of inspectIT into the folder name.
Necessary adaptions
  • 1.8.3 If you are running UI on the latest MacOSx you might need to start the UI using the startup script. More on this can be found here.
  • 1.8.5 The agent mapping configuration is now based on the order of mappings. This might change the behavior with your existing settings. More information is available on Agent mappings configuration page. 
Things that will not work anymore
  • 1.8.3 inspectIT dismissed the support for 32bit operating systems. This means that from this release and further on there will be only 64bit release packages available.
  • 1.8.3 To better support asynchronous and EUM tracing, inspectIT did a breakable change in the data model of the tracing data. This means that all the tracing data saved in storage with previous versions will not be openable in version 1.8.3 and later. 

Demo

The best way to try inspectIT 1.7 version is to use the Spring PetClinic Microservices sample application.

Release planning

Internal planning for the 1.8 version can be found on page: /wiki/spaces/ROAD/pages/92574501.