Learn how you can participate in Previews and Early Adopter releases.
Previews
Previews provide you with access to new features so that we can hear your feedback and ultimately deliver features that exactly meet your needs.
Disclaimer
While planned, there is no guarantee that a Preview feature will ever reach GA status.
Previewed features can be used free of charge during the Preview period, but they may consume licensing units when they reach GA status.
Preview features aren't meant to be used in production environments.
Previews aren't covered by our Support team, but rather by product management. SLAs don't apply.
Qualifying customers are selected based on technical criteria. Final decisions are made by product management and there is no guarantee of participation.
While participating in a Preview, you agree to stay in touch and provide feedback.
Previews are available to both SaaS and Managed customers.
The following previews are currently open for participation.
Free of charge during the Preview. Once released, these metrics will be licensed and consumed just like other custom metrics (available through purchase of a Data ingest and analytics package).
Participate
Registration closed. If you think you have a good use case, contact your Dynatrace guardian or Dynatrace account manager.
This feature consumes custom metrics and DEM units (available through purchase of Data Ingestion & Analytics and Digital Experience Monitoring packages).
New features are introduced in an Early Adopter release phase on an opt-in basis. Early Adopter release features are publicly available, fully supported, production-ready, and available as a user opt-in.
Early Adopter release features consume licensing units in exactly the same way that GA features consume licensing units.
The following Early Adopter release features are currently available:
With Dynatrace 1.180, you can now enable the W3C Trace Context for context propagation of distributed tracing. This help reduce broken traces as the W3C Trace Context headers are less likely to be dropped by proxies and cloud gateways. W3C Trace Context also helps to achieve trace tool interoperability and can be used in scenarios with multiple Dynatrace environments.
Dynatrace can now use process group monitoring rules to control the “deep” monitoring of your applications. These rules allow you to define which kinds of applications you want to exempt from deep monitoring and which ones you want to include.
Early Adopter releases introduce new features on an opt-in basis. They are fully supported and production-ready.
License unit consumption
OneAgent Early Adopter release features consume licensing units in exactly the same way that GA features consume licensing units.
Scope
You can enable a OneAgent Early Adopter feature for the entire environment or within just a few process groups for testing purposes.
Requirements
Check the New OneAgent features table for basic requirements:
Min. OneAgent version specifies the minimum OneAgent version. You can enable an Early Adopter release only for OneAgents that meet that requirement.
Requires restart specifies whether it requires a process restart before it becomes operational.
Getting started
Go to Settings > Server-side service monitoring > Deep monitoring.
Expand New OneAgent features.
Switch Disable/Enable on to enable a feature.
To make a feature available only within select process groups, select the Process group override tab and then click Add process group override.
Go to Settings > Monitoring > Monitored technologies and switch Continuous memory profiling on.
Description
This feature enables the continuous memory profiling on Java processes via Diagnostic tools > CPU analysis. Requires Java 11 and a JVM supporting Low-Overhead Heap Profiling (JEP 331).
Go to Settings > Monitoring > Monitored technologies and switch TIBCO BusinessWorks version 5.x on.
Description
Enable this to see TIBCO BusinessWorks applications and processes as a separate Enterprise Service Bus service. This currently only support starter processes and not subprocesses.
Go to Settings > Monitoring > Monitored technologies and switch PHP MongoDB for Linux (PHP NG Monitoring only) on.
Description
Enable this to get visibility into MongoDB statements in PHP applications. This feature is available for PHP NG Monitoring only with PHP MongoDB driver ver >= 1.3, Windows OS is not supported yet.
Go to Settings > Monitoring > Monitored technologies, set the PHP NG monitoring switch to the On position, and restart the PHP application by restarting PHP services: Apache, PHP-FPM, Fast-CGI IIS or Apache processes.
Go to Settings > Monitoring > Monitored technologies and switch Java Real user monitoring v2 on.
Description
A new improved version of Java Real User Monitoring that brings better performance and improved compatibility (specifically with Netcracker and Apigee).
Starting with OneAgent version 1.155, you can monitor PHP on your Windows (IIS/Apache) environments—full-stack monitoring is now available on Windows for Apache mod_php applications and PHP CGI.