1.5.0 release note

You must create the following tables when upgrading from 1.1.x

ApplicationMapStatisticsCaller_Ver2
ApplicationMapStatisticsCallee_Ver2
ApplicationMapStatisticsSelf_Ver2
HostApplicationMap_Ver2
AgentLifeCycle
AgentEvent

Please refer to hbase-create.hbase or hbase-create-snappy.hbase for the relevant commands.

Known Issues

• There may be intermittant lockups when viewing Realtime Active Thread Chart. This will be fixed in the next release.

New Features

• Implemented plugins - profilers are now pluggable - #117
• Added active thread count monitoring for agents - #560, #751
• You may now configure alerts and alarms #762, #862
• SQL statements can now be combined with bind values for display - #1064
• HTTP request parameters and SQL bind values tracing may now be enabled/disabled - #1204, #1211, #1217
• Added transaction per second monitoring for agents - #1069
• Added support for tracing asynchronous calls - #261, #301
• Added support for tracking agent life cycle - #84
• Collector's resources can now be managed with JMX - #582
• Added support for Spring Boot applications - #951
• Added API for querying logged in user - #943
• Added configuration for enabling/disabling batch execution - #762
• Added support for generating delegation code to profile method overrides - #674
• Added statistics page for Pinpoint agent versions - #1241

New Plugins

• Added Thrift support - #329
• Added Jetty support - #771
• Added OK HttpClient support - #960
• Added Google HttpClient support - #781, #782
• Added Jackson support - #466
• Added Gson support - #462
• Added Json-lib support - #460

Enhancements

• Improved logic for SQL Cache - #208
• Web now shows detailed error messages on exceptions - #535
• Separated commons-hbase module - #558
• Improved SqlMetaData table performance by using distributed row keys - #572
• Call stacks are now depth limited - #743
• Added JVM version to Agent information - #906
• Main class can now be extracted from a jar/war/zip files - #956
• Improved ByteArray encoding/decoding performance - #985
• Cluster client/web code is now used in both Collector and Web - #1017
• AgentInfo is no longer lost for agents staying active past TTL value - #1117
• Improved memory usage for server map queries
• Separated application type and Span service type = #228
• Improved application type detection - #195
• Pinpoint Web now uses dbcp2 - #1072
• Improved matcher logic for generating external links for agents = #1053
• SqlMetaData table now uses fixed length byte array for qualifier name - #592
• Improved row key distribution for SqlMetaData table - #562
• Pinpoint version is now added to system properties when agent is started - #173

Fixes

• Fixed Arcus plugin stopping the client from reconnecting on Arcus/Memcached server fault - #1174
• Fixed an issue where Zookeeper would not reconnect on session expiration when Pinpoint cluster management is enabled - #191
• Data is now properly traced when profiling older Oracle jdbc drivers - #193
• Fixed an issue where applications were not differentiated if they had the same name/different types - #214
• Fixed server map error when a USER node pointed to applications with the same name/different types - #254
• Fixed Filter Wizard displaying incorrect data when filtered by agents - #732
• Fixed an issue where the server map failed to link nodes on HTTP calls made to non-80 ports - #968
• Fixed an error when transactions were filtered by RPC calls with types for internal methods - #488

UI & UX

• Clicking on the Response Summary chart's error bar now takes you straight to the transaction view - #396
• Added help tooltips - #497
• Dates are now correctly displayed in Internet Explorer - #507
• You are now redirected to the main page when the transaction view is not reachable - #522
• Improved timeline UI performance - #672
• Added configuration page for setting :
• Default depth, period - #1092
• Favorites for applications - #1221
• Application menu is now inactive on intial page load
• Changed time slider to calendar format

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