Dynatrace SaaS release notes version 1.265

Rollout starts April 25, 2023.

The latest Dynatrace is here!

Starting with Dynatrace version 1.265, we've begun rolling out the latest Dynatrace to all Dynatrace SaaS environments.

To ensure smooth transitions for all customers and optimize your user experience, we're doing a phased rollout starting April 25. We'll proactively inform the Dynatrace administrators via email when their respective environment has been upgraded.

Get a head start

Find out the prerequisites for setting up necessary access policies for your users to use the latest Dynatrace capabilities. For more information, see Onboard users to Grail and AppEngine.
Think about upgrading your licensing to Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS), our new flexible, usage-based monitoring consumption model. For more information, see Dynatrace Platform Subscription documentation.

What's included

Dynatrace AppEngine: Everything thinkable is now possible

AppEngine

AutomationEngine tames cloud complexity with answer-driven automation

Automation

Automated Change Impact Analysis with Site Reliability Guardian

Automation

Boundless analytics with our expanded Grail data lakehouse and new Dynatrace user experience

Grail

From observability to sustainability: Reduce your IT carbon footprint with Dynatrace Carbon Impact

Grail

New Dynatrace Documentation

Get to know the latest Dynatrace capabilities.

Dynatrace UI

Navigate the Dynatrace Platform

Introducing the Launcher, Dock, and apps—the Launcher is your new home page, the Dock holds all your favorite apps, and you can search your environment in record time.

New data visualizations

Learn how to use and control the latest Dynatrace data visualizations.

Observe and explore

Dashboards

Quickly and easily transform complex data into easy-to-understand visualizations that paint a clear picture for you.

Notebooks

Create powerful, data-driven documents for custom analytics in the brand-new Notebooks app, the go-to place for data exploration.

Visualizations for Dashboards and Notebooks

Learn about your visualization options with Dynatrace Notebooks and Dashboards.

Automation

Workflows

Boost your productivity, optimize your reporting, handle security alerts faster, or build any custom workflows.

Site Reliability Guardian

Make the right release decisions and empower SREs to apply Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for their critical services using Site Reliability Guardian.

Slack for Workflows

Automate sending messages to Slack based on the events and schedules defined for your workflow.

Jira for Workflows

Automate creating, commenting, and assigning Jira issues on the events and schedules defined for your workflow.

Ownership app

Extract entity ownership contact information to create workflows that automate notifications, task assignment, and other use cases.

Business Analytics

Business Flow

Track business key performance indicators (KPI), detect process anomalies, and prioritize optimization opportunities to improve business outcomes.

Carbon Impact

Track, report, and reduce the carbon emissions resulting from your cloud and on-premises infrastructure electricity consumption.

Explore Business Events

Explore Business Events is a central repository of resources related to business events, including blog posts, documentation, product links, and other applications relevant to business analysis.

Salesforce Insights

Ensure optimal performance of the Salesforce solution by monitoring performance, feature adoption, logins, user actions, and threats for your Salesforce environment.

Dynatrace Platform

AppEngine

With the introduction of the Dynatrace AppEngine, you can now build custom apps on top of all the observability data collected by Dynatrace.

AutomationEngine

Dynatrace AutomationEngine enables you to combine observability, security, and business data with causal AI to easily automate BizDevSecOps workflows at enterprise scale.

Dynatrace Hub

Find, activate, and run apps and extensions that address your specific observability needs.

New features and enhancements

New DQL functions

Platform | DQL

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

hashMd5
The hashMd5 function computes the MD5 hash for a given string expression.

hashSha1
The hashSha1 function computes the SHA-1 hash for a given string expression.

percentile
Calculates a given percentile of an expression.

New tool for writing cost-effective DPL patterns.

Platform | DPL Latest Dynatrace

Use the DPL Architect tool to:

Extract additional typed fields from the data in Grail.
Save time when developing DPL patterns.
Get instant feedback on the effectiveness and coverage of your patterns for your specific use case.

Bucket and table permissions in Grail

Platform | Grail

You can now assign user permissions to built-in (default) and custom buckets, and tables in Grail.

OneAgent health

Platform | OneAgent

OneAgent health offers an overview of all your deployed OneAgent modules and their corresponding health statuses, so you can detect anomalies before they become problems.

Management zone support for vulnerability notifications

Application Security | Vulnerabilities

You can configure your alerting profile to receive notifications

When a vulnerability is opened or reopened.
When a new management zone is affected by an open problem.

You can also set up an optional filter to receive alerts for a specific management zone.

For details, see

Metric events filter update

Platform | Davis AI

The logic of tag filter in metric events now considers a non-existing tag value as the "all" wildcard. If no tag value exists, all possible values of the specified tag match, including a null value. Let's consider an example:

HOST1 with tag Monitoring:True
HOST2 with tag Monitoring:False
HOST3 with tag Monitoring
HOST4 without any tags

Previously, the filter with the condition TAG equals Monitoring would match only the HOST3. Now the filter matches the hosts HOST1, HOST2, HOST3.

Ownership app

Automation | Ownership Latest Dynatrace

The Ownership app in the latest Dynatrace enables you to take advantage of two custom actions for building workflows that involve querying for the ownership team (and related contact information) of an entity. With these actions, you can extract data about the entity and integrate with other apps to send Slack notifications or Jira updates to the entity owners based on different types of triggers.

Custom keys for ownership information

Automation | Ownership

You can define custom keys for applying ownership information to entities in key-value pairs via tags and entity metadata. The default keys owner and dt.owner are available with each environment. However, you change these as required to define up to five custom keys. You can use any defined key as a prefix to create additional keys. For example, for the key entity-owner, you can use entity-owner.1 and entity-owner-2 in key-value pairs. Access the custom key functionality at Settings > Ownership > Configuration.

Metrics for Kubernetes events

Infrastructure Monitoring | Kubernetes

Kubernetes events are now written into a timeseries that can be filtered by event type and event reason. This timeseries can be used to search for event behavior over time and contains the affected entities.

Calling and called cards half sized

Infrastructure Monitoring | Kubernetes

Calling workloads, Called workloads , Calling services and Called services cards on the workload and Kubernetes service screens are now positioned in a single row and are half-sized for improved visibility.

Invalid VMware credentials disabled in VMware settings

Infrastructure Monitoring | Hosts

Now, invalid credentials are automatically disabled in VMware settings after 5 consecutive failed attempts to connect to a vCenter.

Adaptive traffic management V3

Apps & Microservices | Distributed traces

Adaptive traffic management in Dynatrace SaaS is now available in two versions

In Version 2, the peak trace volume is measured in Full-service call/minute.
In Version 3, the peak trace volume is measured in Byte/minute. This version supports data-heavy features, such as bind variables capture.

To learn about Adaptive traffic management versions with classic license, see Version comparison.

Dynatrace SaaS bind variables support

Apps & Microservices | Distributed traces

New support of bind variables capture for Dynatrace SaaS deployments. Want to enable this feature for your environment? Please contact a Dynatrace ONE product specialist by selecting the chat button in the upper-right corner of the Dynatrace menu bar.

Dynatrace API

To learn about changes to the Dynatrace API in this release, see Dynatrace API changelog version 1.265.

Resolved issues

General Availability (Build 1.265.96)

The 1.265 GA release contains 18 resolved issues.

Component	Resolved issues
Cluster	10
ActiveGate	2
Application Security	1
Log Monitoring	1
rest api	1
Session Replay	1
Synthetic monitoring	1
User Interface	1

Cluster

Filtering on Deployment Status for OneAgent was not working in some particular cases (order of applying filters) when filtering by name was used and the filter contained ":" character. (DMX-3390)
Fixed an issue in which some metrics couldn't be queries during a metric correlation in the user interface. (DAVIS-4226)
Fixed an issue in which a problem chart could stay in an error state even when the error was resolved. (DAVIS-4212)
The waterfall analysis no longer shows resources loaded by XHRs in frames twice. (RUM-9983)
RabbitMQ is now visible as main technology if mixed with technologies. (HOST-2460)
Fixed an issue where hybrid sessions with only errors were dropped. (RUM-10105)
An attempt to delete an attribute that either did not exist or has been deleted now returns a proper validation message explaining that the attribute cannot be found. (TI-6076)
Due to a bug, we have currently disabled the ability to duplicate an existing configuration in metric events. The fix is already underway and will be available shortly. (DAVIS-4437)
Corrected information on metric calculation for custom metrics. (LIMA-7072)
Corrected calculated data points displayed when creating a custom metric. (LIMA-7071)

ActiveGate

Fixed an issue with handling of CA Certificate and Custom SSL Certificate parameters in ActiveGate Windows installer, in which the actual location where the installer put the certificate, and the configured location of the file could be different. Now locations are consistent. (DMX-3477)
Fixed issue with assigning a Synthetic private location to an ActiveGate after update. (DMX-3283)

Application Security

The comment to the vulnerability status change (muting/unmuting) is now limited to 250 characters. The change applies to the UI and the API. (RSA-9284)

Log Monitoring

Log event ingest by open API could drop when ActiveGate instances were updated. Any drop in log event ingestion was short lived and stopped after the ActiveGate update was completed. This fix eliminates any such drops. (LOG-3294)

rest api

Fixed an issue in which the fold operator with aggregation could disable the default operator in metric selectors. (CLUSTER-5348)

Session Replay

Users with proper permissions can access the Session Replay Enablement and Cost control page. (SR-2175)

Synthetic monitoring

Fixed an issue related to the Synthetic browser monitor configuration migration, which could lead some environments to fail to start after the upgrade. (SYNTH-4745)