Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0

Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0!

There were no changes since 2.6.0-BETA.3.

Changes Since 2.5.0

Deprecations

If using Local Forwarder Channel, this will be a breaking change.

• Removed Local Forwarder Channel. Local Forwarder is now a deprecated solution.
  The classes and configuration elements which supported this solution have been removed.

Enhancements

• Improved MongoDB instrumentation (#1132)
• W3C tracing with back-compat is now enabled by default (#1141)
• Use newer id format when reporting request and dependency telemetry (#1174)
• Removed unused dependencies from azure-application-ingishts-spring-boot-starter (xmlpull, xstream).
• Updated to the latest version of the struts API library (used by com.microsoft.applicationinsights.web.struts.RequestNameInterceptor).
• Various stability improvements (#1177)
• Agent now supports Java 13 (#1149)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed memory leak with ChannelFetcher when TelemetryClient is instantiated in large numbers.
• Fixed Unknown constant pool issue with modeule-info.class when using older versions of ClassGraph.
• Older Jersey versions failing when scanning classes due to inclusion of a few Java 8 class files (#1142)
• Fixed potential issue with URI building in ConnectionString parsing.
• Fix remote dependency target field format (#1138)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA.3

Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA.3!

Enhancements

• Use newer id format when reporting request and dependency telemetry (#1174)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed pom file dependency in applicationinsights-spring-boot-starter (#1197)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA.2

Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA.2!

Deprecations

If using Local Forwarder Channel, this will be a breaking change.

• Removed Local Forwarder Channel. Local Forwarder is now a deprecated solution.
  The classes and configuration elements which supported this solution have been removed.

Enhancements

• Removed unused dependencies from azure-application-ingishts-spring-boot-starter (xmlpull, xstream).
• Updated to the latest version of the struts API library (used by com.microsoft.applicationinsights.web.struts.RequestNameInterceptor).
• Various stability improvements (#1177)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Unknown constant pool issue with modeule-info.class when using older versions of ClassGraph.
• Fixed potential issue with URI building in ConnectionString parsing.
• Fixed memory leak with ChannelFetcher when TelemetryClient is instantiated in large numbers.

Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA

Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.6.0-BETA!

Enhancements

• W3C tracing with back-compat is now enabled by default (#1141)
• Improved MongoDB instrumentation (#1132)
• Agent now supports Java 13 (#1149)

Bug Fixes

• Older Jersey versions failing when scanning classes due to inclusion of a few Java 8 class files (#1142)
• Fix remote dependency target field format (#1138)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.1

Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.1!

There were no changes since 2.5.1-BETA.2.

Changes Since 2.5.0

Enhancements

• Connection String introduced for better government cloud support
• Agent now captures MongoDB queries

Bug Fixes

• Fixed exception thrown by agent when using Apache HttpClient ResponseHandler methods (#1067)
• Fixed async thread tracking (#1100)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.1-BETA.2

Introducing Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.1-BETA.2!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed QuickPulse URL construction; regression from 2.5.1-BETA (#1089)
• Fixed async thread tracking (#1100)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.1-BETA

Introducing Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.1-BETA!

Enhancements

• Connection String introduced for better government cloud support
• Agent now captures MongoDB queries

Bug Fixes

• Fixed exception thrown by agent when using Apache HttpClient ResponseHandler methods (#1067)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.0

Announcing Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.0!

There were no changes since 2.5.0-BETA.5.

Summary of Changes Since 2.4.x

Enhancements

SDK-wide

• Added Java 9/10/11/12 support
• Introduced new jar, applicationinsights-web-auto.jar, which automatically registers the web filter. No need to modify web.xml or add @WebFilter.
• Simplifies role name configuration by adding <RoleName> tag in ApplicationInsights.xml.

New Agent Features

• Generic JDBC driver support: captures JDBC queries for all JDBC drivers.
• Automatically captures dependencies for async requests by tracking the request across multiple threads.
• Agent now captures application logging from Log4j 2/1.2 and Logback.
  • This removes the need to add the applicationinsights-logging-*.jar dependency and modify the application's logging configuration.
• Improved HTTP client support:
  • java.net.HttpURLConnection
  • Apache HttpClient 3.x
  • OkHttp3
  • OkHttp2 now supports distributed tracing
• Sets Operation Name automatically based on Spring @RequestMapping, JAX-RS @Path and Struts action class/method name.
  • This removes the need for RequestNameHandlerInterceptorAdapter or other interceptors.
• Agent now supports multiple applications deployed in the same application server (temporarily in the 2.4.0)
• Simplified JBoss and Wildfly deployment when using the agent: no need for workarounds using jboss.modules.system.pkgs, java.util.logging.manager, -Xbootclasspath
• Added agent logging capture threshold, configurable via <Logging threshold="warn" />
  in the AI-Agent.xml, with default threshold warn (#1026)

Removed/Deprecated

• Removed support for <RuntimeException> custom instrumentation in AI-Agent.xml

Bug Fixes

• #969 Fixes ability to configure Live Metrics iKey programatically.
• #978 Possible NPE during development
• Fixed request telemetry displaying 200 response code for some failed requests (#810)
• Fixed GC performance counters not working (#929)

Miscellaneous

• Starting with this release, you can now find the agent and the collectd plugin on Maven Central as applicationinsights-agent and applicationinsights-collectd under the same group, com.microsoft.azure.

Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.0-BETA.5

Introducing Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.0-BETA.5!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed ClassCastException that could happen when using HttpURLConnection (#1053)

Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.0-BETA.4

Introducing Application Insights Java SDK 2.5.0-BETA.4!

Bug Fixes

• Fixed registration of custom JMX performance counters (#1042)
• Fixed IllegalStateException that could happen when using HttpURLConnection (#1037)
• Fixed NullPointerException that could happen when using Java 11 (#1032)