Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.285

Rollout start: Feb 12, 2024

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Announcements

Synthetic Monitoring location changes

Digital Experience | Synthetic Monitoring

The Alibaba Sydney and Mumbai public Synthetic Monitoring locations will be discontinued by the end of March 2024.

In anticipation of this change, if you use the Alibaba Sydney or Mumbai locations, we recommend reassigning your monitors to alternative locations to ensure that your tests remain functional. If you prefer not to do this yourself, starting from March 2024, we will automatically transfer your monitors to alternative locations.

To learn more, please refer to Public Synthetic locations.

Enabled new log configuration

Infrastructure Observability | Logs

We have migrated all tenants to the latest Log Monitoring configuration page as an enhancement. The change affects environments currently using Logs Classic or powered by Grail that rely on the older configuration page.

Affected configuration pages:

New features and enhancements

New DQL command

Platform | DQL

Now you can include the following command in your DQL queries:

  • dedup
    Removes duplicates from a list of records.
DQL dedup command

Updated DQL command

Platform | DQL

  • timeseries
    We added the shift parameter to the timeseries command.

New DQL functions

Platform | DQL

Now you can include the following functions in your DQL queries:

  • countDistinctApprox
    Calculates the cardinality of unique values of a field for a list of records based on a stochastic estimation.
  • countDistinctExact
    Calculates the cardinality of unique values of a field for a list of records.

Runtime metrics in Grail

Application Observability | Distributed traces

OneAgent-based runtime metrics are available in Grail and can be accessed and queried with Dynatrace Query Language. OneAgent version 1.283+ is required.

New feature flag for enabling @files support

Platform | OneAgent

The configuration option to expand Java VM options with parameters from @files is now enabled for improved process instrumentation and grouping.

Upgrade classic dashboards to Dashboards app

Latest Dynatrace Platform | Dashboards

If you have classic dashboards with Data Explorer–based tiles, you can recreate them in the Dashboards app with one click.

For details, see Upgrade from Dashboards Classic to Dashboards.

Dynatrace API

To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, see Dynatrace API changelog version 1.285.

Resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.285.74)

The 1.285 GA release doesn't contain any user-facing resolved issues.

Update 86 (Build 1.285.86)

This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.285 release.

Update 92 (Build 1.285.92)

This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.285 release.

Update 97 (Build 1.285.97)

This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.285 release.

Update 101 (Build 1.285.101)

This is a cumulative update that contains all previously released updates for the 1.285 release.

Update 108 (Build 1.285.108)

This cumulative update contains 11 resolved issues (including 2 vulnerability resolutions) and all previously released updates for the 1.285 release.

ComponentResolved issues
Dynatrace Cluster8 (2 vulnerabilities)
Platform1
Synthetic Monitoring2

Dynatrace Cluster

  • Vulnerability: Improved input validation for Kubernetes settings. (K8S-6899)
  • Vulnerability: Improved input validation for Cloud Foundry settings. (K8S-6898)
  • The `getCredentialsDetails` resource from the Classic Dynatrace Environment API v2 SDK for Dynatrace apps now returns code 403 instead of 401 when the current user is authenticated but does not have access to the requested credentials. (SYNTH-9933)
  • Resolved an issue that prevented access to a few global settings pages for users with conditional IAM policies assigned. (PS-13100)
  • Services based on OpenIngest data can be inspected on Kubernetes workloads. (K8S-8814)
  • Fixed an infrequent case on single-server clusters where the event timeout information was not stored properly, causing new events to use the default timeout of 15 minutes and, for some events, possibly leading to events closing and reopening more often than expected. (DAVIS-7801)
  • Improved performance of OneAgent registration to avoid false positive alerts about monitored hosts being unavailable. (PS-12755)
  • Users can no longer revert extracted services if they don't have tenant-wide settings write permissions. (TI-11033)

Platform

  • Timestamp fields in workflow event triggers are now serialized in ISO format (were epoch nanoseconds before). This means the format of timestamps in the event trigger is aligned with timestamps as returned by Grail DQL queries. (PPX-898)

Synthetic Monitoring

  • Credentials shared with a list of users can now be filtered by the Shared access type. (SYNTH-9958)
  • Resolved an issue in which Synthetic monitors with shared credentials were editable by users who did not have access to those credentials. (SYNTH-9945)