What's new in perfino 4.1.0
Sep 21, 2023
- New features:
- Support for Hibernate 6
- Full support for monitoring with Java 21, including virtual threads
- Bugs fixed:
- Regression in 4.0.2: Units for lower and upper bounds of thresholds were not saved and were always set to the first element in the drop-down
- GC telemetry did not show any data under some circumstances
- Fixed NPE in transaction-based views, when moving to a period with available data after showing a period with no available data
- Class browser failed to show if multiple classes with the same name existed
- The timeline actions in the memory view did not work in comparison mode
- Previous service accounts are now preserved when installing a perfino update on Windows
- The "Send test mail" button in the installation wizard did not work
- When the "vmUseSsl" property in perfino.properties was set to true, the agent keystore file was not automatically added to the agent files that are downloaded from the perfino UI
- Fixed NPE during LDAP lookup
New in perfino 4.0.4 (Feb 16, 2022)
- New features:
- Dark mode for documentation
- Support for fine-grained CPU profiling on macOS ARM (Apple Silicon)
- Support for monitoring Java 18
- Bugs fixed:
- Show" action in the MBean operation result window did not work
- Fixed a problem where the agent would continue to record too much data if it could not reach the perfino server for extended periods of time
- Fine-grained CPU recording action did not work with Java 8 on Linux
- Users that were created automatically through LDAP had no access rights for JVM groups
- Fixed SSL compatibility issues with some SMTP servers
New in perfino 4.0.3 (May 21, 2021)
- Fixed SSL connection problem for encrypted agent communication with recent Java releases
New in perfino 4.0.2 (Feb 26, 2021)
- New features:
- Full support for monitoring with Java 16
- Bugs fixed:
- When deleting snapshots or VMs, the table was not refreshed
New in perfino 4.0.1 (Dec 4, 2020)
- New features:
- Added support for Jakarta EE 9
- Bugs fixed:
- Regression in 4.0: Time line actions in data views did not work anymore
- Regression in 4.0: Hierarchy in sampling views was broken for long call chains
- Fixed exception when clicking the "Choose transaction" button in the hot spots view when no hotspots were shown
- Some warning labels were unreadable in dark mode
New in perfino 4.0 (May 29, 2020)
- New features:
- HTTP probe
- Dark mode
- Responsive UI
- Recording of JFR snapshots in VMs view and with a trigger action
- Webhook trigger action
- Trigger action for taking shallow memory snapshots
- LDAP authentication
- Options for showing a logarithmic and frozen y-axis in telemetries
- The maximum retention time for transactions is now configurable
- The perfino server can now run with Java 11 in addition to Java 8
- Keyboard support for tables
- The perfino agent no longer depends on the java.desktop module
- Configurable window title
- Bugs fixed:
- Do not trigger a lower bound threshold violation for average time telemetries if there were no transactions or probe events
New in perfino 3.2.3 (Oct 14, 2019)
- New features:
- Support for monitoring with Java 13
- Bugs fixed:
- JProfiler installation detection did not work anymore since the top-level directory in the JProfiler archives contain the full version number
- Fixed a memory leak in the data collector
- Fixed a StackOverflowExceptions in the agent
New in perfino 3.2.2 (Dec 4, 2018)
- New features:
- Full support for monitoring with Java 11
New in perfino 3.2.1 (Aug 23, 2018)
- Transaction graph in the dashboard did not advance fast enough, leading to an incorrect time scale
- Fixed a memory leak in the telemetry drop-down
- Periodic heap snapshot options were always taken from a sub-group even when it did not override that setting
New in perfino 3.2 (Mar 2, 2018)
- New features:
- Full support for monitoring with Java 10
- Added a "contextPath" property in perfino.properties that adds a prefix to the URL. This is useful if the web server is behind a reverse proxy.
- Support for mongoDB 3.6
- Support for Wildfly 12
- Left clicking on data points in telemetries now shows the context menu
- The documentation is now also available as an eBook that can be downloaded from web site
- Bugs fixed:
- Fixed a rare class loader dead lock during instrumentation
- Threshold configurations for telemetries with a unit of "milliseconds" had an invalid default unit selection for lower and upper bounds
- Improved robustness of the database during crashes
- Fixed an NPE when the URL query string was empty and parameters were used for the transaction name. This could lead to unrecorded transactions.
New in perfino 3.1 (Jul 18, 2017)
- New features:
- Full support for monitoring with Java 9
- Support for HBase 1.3
- Support for Cassandra DataStax driver 3.3
- Support for mongoDB 3.4
- Support for Axis2 1.7 and CXF 3.1
- JDBC, Cassandra and MongoDB telemetries are now stacked area graphs showing recorded and unrecorded statements separately
- Added a "Auto-scroll to end" check box to the log viewers
- Bugs fixed:
- The telemetry overview did not work for single VMs
- The time range for "Recently seen JVMs" in the VMs view was always one hour. Now it is set to the the selected sparkline range
- Telemetry consolidation data was not created for all VMs
- Set actions were not disabled when the recording settings were shown in the installer
- Threshold bounds in the configuration were limited to 8 digits
- Scrollbar for view selector was missing in VM data view
- View filters in transaction-based views were not removed when switching top-level views
- Some monitoring data directly before a thread death may not have been recorded
- Hiding data in charts and telemetries by clicking on legend items was not persistent across data updates
- Hiding data in charts and telemetries by clicking on legend items did not adjust the scale of the y-axis
- Gracefully handle multiple perfino -javaagent VM parameters on the command line
- Timelines in the call tree view did not use the "Split" policy selection and always showed merged policies
New in perfino 3.0 (Sep 14, 2016)
- NEW FEATURES:
- Micro service-friendly licensing scheme, with one perfino license you can now monitor an unlimited number of JVMs
- An overload protection mechanism now prevents service degradation due to misconfiguration
- Hot backups of the database via the REST API
- Separate databases for config data and recording data
- Reduced size of the database
- Problems view in the dashboard
- Improved transactions view in the dashboard
- Drill-down directly from the dashboard
- Transaction timeline for call tree and hot spot views
- More time ranges in telemetries, added zoom buttons at the top and in the context menu
- Double clicking on telemetries zooms in
- Inline navigation buttons when hovering at the edges of telemetries
- Context menu actions in telemetries for jumping to call tree, hot spot and other related views
- Animated vertical scale changes for telemetries
- After a temporary network problem, the browser UI can now reconnect to the server
- Icons in call tree are now colored corresponding to their policy violation type
- The UI now survives temporary network connection problems and reconnects to the backend automatically
- BUGS FIXED:
- First RMI call that passed a callback object was not recorded correctly
- Call graph: Selected nodes were not auto-scrolled into view when the detail panel was shown
New in perfino 2.0.2 (Jan 21, 2016)
- New features:
- Web transactions: Show full URLs in the "Method sampling" view
- Web transactions: Numeric IDs in URL segments are now replaced with an placeholder by default. In the config dialog of the naming element there is a check box to avoid this replacement.
- MBean browser: Always add "ObjectName" attribute
- MBean browser: Show keys in MBean tree
- When double-clicking on the "Naming" and "Policies" columns in the transaction definition list, go directly to the corresponding step in the wizard
- Bugs fixed:
- Probe hot spots views: When expanding and collapsing the comparison area, the layout of the header area was broken
New in perfino 2.0.1 (Jul 16, 2015)
- Bugs fixed:
- Bundled Jetty server was vulnerable to the Logjam attack
- JRE bundles are now Java 8 to avoid problems with weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys
- Improved performance of transaction consolidation
- Fixed JDBC connection problems with older MySQL versions
New in perfino 2.0 (May 6, 2015)
- New features:
- Free for development with a single VM monitoring and 24 hour historical data
- New look for the web frontend
- Added an MBean browser view
- Configurable telemetries based on MBean data
- Enhanced Devops telemetries to match capabilities of MBean telemetries
- REST API for exporting recorded data
- Probe data in dashboard
- Support for running the web frontend on Jetty 9 and Tomcat 8
- Updated bundled Jetty web server to Jetty 9.2.6
- Bugs fixed:
- The login form would not remember user/password combination for recent versions of Chrome and Firefox
- Made auto-update of agent more robust when a perfino upgrade is performed
New in perfino 1.0.1 (May 6, 2015)
- New features:
- Only use one external port for RMI communication between collector and UI, making it possible to deploy collector and UI in different networks separated by a firewall
- Bugs fixed:
- Fixed rounding issue for maximum display range of sparklines when maximum values where close to 1
- Updated bundled Jetty web server to 8.1.16
- Updated bundled H2 database to 1.3.176