elastic/apm-agent-java v1.5.0

Release 1.5.0

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Potentially breaking changes

• If you didn't explicitly set the service_name previously and you are dealing with a servlet-based application (including Spring Boot), your service_name will change.
  See the documentation for service_name and the corresponding section in Features for more information.
  Note: this requires APM Server 7.0+. If using previous versions, nothing will change.

Features

• Added property "allow_path_on_hierarchy" to JAX-RS plugin, to lookup inherited usage of @path.
• Support for number and boolean labels in the public API (#497).
  This change also renames tag to label on the API level to be compliant with the Elastic Common Schema (ECS).
  The addTag(String, String) method is still supported but deprecated in favor of addLabel(String, String).
  As of version 7.x of the stack, labels will be stored under labels in Elasticsearch.
  Previously, they were stored under context.tags.
  Number and boolean labels were only introduced in APM Server 6.7+. Using this API in combination with an older APM Server versions leads to validation errors.
• Support async queries made by Elasticsearch REST client.
• Added setStartTimestamp(long epochMicros) and end(long epochMicros) API methods to Span and Transaction, allowing to set custom start and end timestamps.
• Auto-detection of the service_name based on the <display-name> element of the web.xml with a fallback to the servlet context path.
  If you are using a spring-based application, the agent will use the setting for spring.application.name for its service_name.
  See the documentation for service_name for more information.
  Note: this requires APM Server 7.0+. If using previous versions, nothing will change.
• Previously, enabling capture_body could only capture form parameters.
  Now it supports all UTF-8 encoded plain-text content types.
  The option capture_body_content_types controls which Content-Types should be captured.
• Support async calls made by OkHttp client (Call#enqueue).
• Added support for providing config options on agent attach.
  • CLI example: --config server_urls=http://localhost:8200,http://localhost:8201
  • API example: ElasticApmAttacher.attach(Map.of("server_urls", "http://localhost:8200,http://localhost:8201"));

Bug Fixes

• Logging integration through MDC is not working properly - #499
• ClassCastException with adoptopenjdk/openjdk11-openj9 - #505
• Span count limitation is not working properly - reported in our forum
• Java agent causes Exceptions in Alfresco cluster environment due to failure in the instrumentation of Hazelcast Executors - reported in our forum