ActiveGate release notes version 1.251

Rollout start: Oct 14, 2022

With this release, the oldest supported ActiveGate versions are:

How long are versions supported following rollout?

ActiveGate installer on Linux requires multi-user.target

The ActiveGate installer on Linux requires the Linux boot process to be finished, which means that multi-user.target has to be active on your system. Otherwise, the installation is aborted.

The ActiveGate installer starts the dynatracegateway service during the installation process to download ActiveGate modules and the service depends on multi-user.target.

ActiveGate base image set to UBI Micro

To increase the security, we set the ActiveGate base image to Red Hat's UBI Micro.

Java update

To take advantage of performance improvements, the latest security-vulnerability enhancements, and bug fixes, we've updated the ActiveGate installer to use Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 11.0.16.1.

SQL data source

Microsoft SQL extensions

The Extensions 2.0 framework now enables you to extend your application observability into data acquired directly from your Microsoft SQL Server layer. For more information, see:

SQL extensions support SSL communication

With this ActiveGate release, Extensions 2.0 framework supports SSL connections to the databases for all the database monitoring extensions. For more information, see

SNMP traps extensions support SNMP v3

With this release SNMP Traps extension is capable of processing SNMP v3 traps.

The reported traps are stored as log events with variable bindings represented as log attributes.

You can also view the trap events on a dedicated unified analysis page.

For more information, see SNMP traps data source.

Prometheus extensions

You can now configure your Prometheus-based extension using a DNS-based service discovery configuration.

Supported extensions:

For more information, see Manage Prometheus extensions.

ActiveGate on s390 CPU architecture

Starting with version 1.251, ActiveGate is supported on Linux on the IBM Z architecuture, or, in other words, on the s390 CPU architecture.

Linux distributions supported for s390 architecture

The s390 architecture is supported on selected versions of the following Linux distributions.

For details, see Hardware and system requirements for routing/monitoring ActiveGates on Linux.

ActiveGate purposes on s390 architecture

ActiveGate on s390 supports a subset of purposes. For example, Synthetic Monitoring and extensions aren't supported. For details, see ActiveGate purposes and functionality.

Ubuntu 16 for private Synthetic locations end of support

As Chromium development for Ubuntu 16.04 stopped at version 90, we can no longer assure a high enough level of stability and security for synthetic monitor execution on Ubuntu 16. We have discontinued our support for installing Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate on Ubuntu 16 after ActiveGate version 1.251. That is, ActiveGate version 1.251 is the last Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate supported on Ubuntu 16.

With Dynatrace version 1.254, Synthetic-enabled ActiveGates on Ubuntu 16 can no longer be updated.

Chromium support for private Synthetic locations

Chromium 105 is the latest supported version for Synthetic-enabled ActiveGate installed on:

Chromium 105 is bundled with the Windows ActiveGate installer.

For more information on supported and provided Chromium versions, see Requirements for private Synthetic locations and Create a private Synthetic location.

Operating system support

Resolved issues