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Third quarter guidance

TW J
TW J
Technical writer

Here’s an overview of new features and notable changes of WhaTap’s 3rd quarter services in 2023. Take a look at new features offered by WhaTap at a glance.

New features

Common

Added Project flexboard update role.

Application
  • The Trace analysis feature has been newly reorganized.
  • The Transaction Map menu map chart has been improved.
Server

The Resource board and Event Configuration menus have been improved.

Kubernetes
  • Installation of Docker PHP has been provided.
  • The Integrated Container Map menu has been provided.
Database
  • The PostgreSQL product's V2 service has been launched.
  • The MySQL product's V2 service has been launched.
Browser
  • The Pageload hitmap menu has been improved.
  • Error details have been added to the Browser Error menu.
AWS Log

The AWS Log monitoring product's official service has been launched.

Network

Beta service of the Network Performance Monitoring product has been launched.

An overview of changes other than new features for each product, the corresponding release versions, and changes in the agent can be found in the following guide.



Common​

Notable new features and changes in the Common section of WhaTap Q3 2023 include the addition of Edit Project Flexboard role and improvements for convenience.

The Edit Project Flexboard role has been added, so you need this role to edit the Flex Board in the project.

Other updates have been made to improve overall convenience. The About WhaTap Monitoring menu has been added to check WhaTap's service version and product list.

In addition, the WhatsApp notification configuration has been added in Notifications and the time selection restriction method when generating daily reports in Integrated Report has been changed. Previously, you could select an end time up to 23:59 of the previous day, but now you can select an end time up to 1 hour before the current time.

The following overview guide helps you understand what's new and what's not in the Common section for the 3rd quarter in 2023, along with the released versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

  • Feature Added the guidance message when throttle has been set for the agent to limit API requests. Service 1.104.18​

  • Changed Modified to select Default among the Interval selection options, when any Time search section is changed. Service 1.108.14

  • Feature Added the function to display the default interval value, if you select Default among the Interval selection options. Service 1.108.14

  • Feature Added the About WhaTap Monitoring menu to display the service version and product list. Service 1.108.15

Alert​​

  • Feature In Notifications > Event notification settings per-user, added the WhatsApp alert setting. Service 1.104.00

  • Feature In Notifications, added the User-Header function in the Webhook JSON addition form for the 3rd party plugin. Service 1.106.00​

  • Feature In Notifications, added the fold/unfold function in the Event notification settings per-user section. Service 1.106.00​

Report​​

  • Feature Integrated Report modified the time selection limit for daily reports. Service 1.104.00

Management​​

  • Feature In Manage account INFO. > User phone, and Alert notification setting, added the WhatsApp alert setting. Service 1.104.00

  • Feature In Member list, repositioned the member deletion and role modification buttons to the member name column. Service 1.104.00

  • Feature In Create and Management added the logo image guide message (guide to the recommended image size, file capacity, and extension). Service 1.104.00

  • Feature Added the Project flexboard update role Service 1.104.00

Laboratory​

  • Feature In Kubernetes and Java products, added the menu: Sitemap > Laboratory > Remote Access Status. Service 1.104.00

  • New In Laboratory, Added Integrated log search. Service 1.104.12

My Usage​

  • Feature In Payment Information, added Overseas bank transfer customer registration when registering the payment data. Service 1.104.17

User Interface​

  • Feature Added the tooltip that displays the full project name in the project name of the Sidebar. Service 1.104.00

Applicatoin​

We are introducing notable new features and changes in the Application product suite in Q3 2023, including the reorganized Transaction analysis feature and improvements to the Transaction Map screen.

The Transaction analysis feature has been reorganized. Previously, the transaction list was loaded under Hitmap, but now, the Transaction analysis pop-up window appears when you drag Hitmap, making it easier to analyze and compare information details for each section. Additionally, an option has been added to directly view errors only in the transaction list filter.

Transaction Map has changed the map design to improve visibility, and the error cases are now displayed first when normal and error transactions overlap.

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Additionally, for .NET products, the Stack menu that was available only for Java and Python products, has been added. You can easily check Top stack, Unique stack, and Active Stack through the Stack menu.

The following overview guide helps you understand new features and major changes in the Application product suite in Q3, 2023, along with release versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

  • Changed The Transaction analysis feature has been reorganized into a pop-up manner. Service 1.106.00

  • Feature In the Client IP tab under Stat/Report > Statistics, added to display (Whatap) when it corresponds to the WhaTap IP address in the IP list. Service 1.108.5

  • Changed Added the error options for the Transaction analysis window and improved others. Service 1.108.12

.NET​​

Agent guide

Java​

Java Agent v2.2.11 July 10, 2023​

  • New Tracing the mongodb-reactive

Java Agent v2.2.12 July 21, 2023​

  • New The ignore_http_method option has been added.

Java Agent v2.2.13 August 8, 2023​

  • New Added the hooking option for CompletableFuture tracing.

Java Agent v2.2.14 August 17, 2023​

  • Feature Tracing resilience4j has been added.

  • Feature Tracing undertow has been added.

  • Feature Added the option to handle SQL exceptions and HTTP call exceptions as custom exceptions.

  • Feature Upon occurrence of java.sql.SQLException, added the option to display together with error code.

Java Agent v2.2.15 August 31, 2023​

  • Feature kafka-clients-2.4.0 tracing

  • Feature Added the function to ignore java.sql.SQLException with specific error codes.

  • Feature Added the error stack display function in transactions: The first error stack is displayed when multiple errors occur in transactions.

Java Agent v2.2.16 September 8, 2023​

  • Feature Java 20 is supported (Java option is required).

  • Feature Tracing for Lettuce drivers in Redis.

  • Feature Included the Lettuce settings in the spring-boot-3.0 configuration

Java Agent v2.2.18 September 26, 2023​

  • Feature By setting the super of HttpServlet, the function to start an HTTP service has been added in the class that inherits the class. You can use comma (,) as the delimiter.

  • Feature db2-11.5 tracing

  • Feature Oracle database trace settings have been added. Restarting is required after applying the option. The default value is true.

  • Deprecated While tracing HTTP services, excluded the org.apache.catalina.filters.FilterBase class from the default tracing.

PHP​

PHP Agent v2.6.2 September 13, 2023​

  • Feature Added the large profile processing option.

    • whatap.large_profile_enabled Boolean

      Default false

      We can collect up to 10,000 profiles (steps). For a larger collection, it is recommended to use the split_profile_enabled option.

    • whatap.split_profile_enabled Boolean

      Default false

      It collects more profiles by separating certain amounts of profiles into virtual transactions. Multiple transaction lists are separated for display.

  • Feature Added the compressed profile data transmission option.

    • whatap.profile_zip_enabled Boolean Defalut true

.NET​

.NET Agent v2.1.1 July 17, 2023​

  • New The active stack is supported.

  • New The .Net support environment analysis tool has been added.

.NET Agent v2.1.2 July 20, 2023​

  • New WCF is supported.

.NET Agent v2.1.5 September 13, 2023​

  • New Added the webservice_method_timeout option to adjust the timeout.

Go​

Go Agent v0.2.3 September 13, 2023​

  • Feature Added the large profile processing option.

  • Feature Added the compressed profile data transmission option.


Server​

For the Server product in Q3 2023, the feature to copy the existing event configuration to the current project has been added in Event Configuration, and improvements have been made for user convenience, such as displaying the fatal and warning status separately in the agent status widget in Resource board.

The following overview guide helps you understand new features and major changes in Server products in Q3 2023, along with release versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

  • Feature In Event Configuration, added the Copy to Current Project option into the Copying event settings (Copy policy in the past) function. Service 1.104.00​

  • Fixed In Dashboard > Resource board, modified the agent status widget to display fatal and warning states separately. Service 1.106.13​


Kubernetes​

Notable new features and changes in WhaTap's Q3 2023 Kubernetes products include Docker PHP installation and the newly added Integrated Container Map menu.

It applies the WhaTap monitoring agent to the PHP application running on the Docker container and packages the container image. After installing the whatap-php package, you can install the agent by setting the installation scripts and container environment variables.

The Integrated Container Map menu has been newly provided, including the cluster project and namespace project. The unified container map provides additional grouping options for each project, allowing you to view container maps in cluster projects and individual namespace projects.

The following overview guide helps you understand new features and major changes in the Kubernetes products in Q3 2023, along with release versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

  • Feature In Install Application Agent, added the Docker PHP item. Service 1.104.11​

  • Feature Added the Integrated Container Map menu. Service 1.106.00​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Container Map, added the option to hide the tags in the event log. Service 1.106.00​Dashbord

  • Feature In Container Map, added the Unequal filter option. Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In the container summary view panel under Container Map, added the Event count trend chart that displays the event counts under the Event tab. Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In the container summary view panel in Container Map, modified to change the messages depending on the log view role and status under the Log > Log Search tab. Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Container Map, replaced the filter to enhance the function. Service 1.108.0​Resource

  • Feature In Performance Summary, added the trend charts for container counts and pod counts. Service 1.104.00​

Agent guide

Kubernetes Agent v1.3.6 September 27, 2023​

  • Feature Added the node data (cluster version, node status, etc.) for update of the node list.

Kubernetes Agent v1.3.7 September 27, 2023​

  • Feature Added the key value for linking the node list in the application list menu to be reorganized.

Database​

WhaTap introduces notable new features and changes to the Database product suite in Q3 2023, V2 service launching.

In this third quarter, the V2 services of the PostgreSQL and MySQL products have been launched. The V2 services have focused on improving convenience.

RDS and XOS tabs have been separated by product environment and the Monitoring a Database Instance menu has been improved. For example, the option to save active session table presets and the option to view plans in session details have been added.

The following overview guide helps you understand new features and major changes in the Database product suite in Q3 2023, along with release versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

PostgreSQL / MySQL​​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Flex Board, the sorting changes in the Active Session table can be saved. Service 1.106.00​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Monitoring a Database Instance, added the view for the Active Session table on a new window. Service 1.106.00​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Monitoring a Database Instance, the sorting changes in the Active Session table can be saved in presets. Service 1.106.00​

  • Feature In Dashboard > DB size, download CSV has been added. Service 1.108.0​

  • Feature Separated the tabs for each product environment (RDS, XOS). Service 1.108.0​

  • Feature Added the Info icon to display metrics for each widget. Service 1.108.0​

  • Feature Applied to display maximum data values on the line chart. Service 1.108.0​

  • Changed In Management > Agent Installation, added the AWS RDS kill session's grant command in the Create monitoring account section. Service 1.108.18​

PostgreSQL​​

  • New PostgreSQL V2 monitoring service launched Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Monitoring a Database Instance for V2 products, added the plan lookup to the session details in the active session table. Service 1.106.00​

  • Feature In PG SQL Statistics, added options to select lookup criteria (temp blocks read, temp blocks written). Service 1.108.0​

MySQL​​

  • Feature In Dashboard > Monitoring a Database Instance for V2 products, the initial sorting in the Active Session table can be set. Service 1.106.00​
Agent guide

DBX​

DBX v1.6.8 August 18, 2023​

Common​​
  • Feature Modified the agent configuration file.
PostgreSQL V2​​

  • Feature Added the db_postgresql_used_dm category.

  • Feature Divided the pg_dml option of the whatap.conf file into pg_dml_interval and pg_dml_limit.

MySQL V2​​

  • Feature Added categories for db_mysql_active_session, db_mysql_deadlock, and db_mysql_tables.

  • Feature Sent agentinfo to the tag count.

XOS​

xos v1.1.4 July 13, 2022​

  • New Added the TCP functions.

xos v1.1.6g July 11, 2022​

  • New Added the log monitoring function.

Browser​

Notable new features and changes to the Browser product in Q3 2023 include Pageload hitmap menu improvements and Browser Error error details.

In case of Pageload Hitmap, the OS version and client IPs have been added to the detailed pageload data, and the filtering feature has been newly provided.

Now, when you select an error message from the Error message table list in Browser Error, you can view detailed statistical information about the error based on the error message. You can also view error logs that occurred for each time zone.

Error log branching example

The following overview guide helps you understand new features and major changes in Browser products in Q3 2023, along with release versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

Dashboard​​

Analysis​​

  • Feature In Page Load Hitmap, added the OS version and client IP in the pageload details. Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In Page Load Hitmap, added the page group filter and search filter. Service 1.106.00​

Report​​

Agent guide

Browser Agent v1.2.1 July 6, 2023 ​

  • Feature Set to collect errors every 5 seconds in case of same errors.

  • Feature Displayed the version inside the browser agent file.

Browser Agent v1.3.0 September 6, 2023​

  • Feature Collects data when exiting during a page load.

  • Feature Added the AJAX request header collection option.

  • Feature Collects the AJAX aborted metrics.

  • Feature Improved the page load event handling logic (interaction of 100 ms).

Browser Agent v1.3.1 September 25, 2023​

  • Feature Added the cookieSecure option. You can set the secure option when the browser agent stores values such as user ID and session ID in the browser cookie storage.

Network​

In the third quarter of 2024, WhaTap officially launched its Beta service of the Network Performance Monitoring product, which collects network data for processes to identify congestion and failures between networks and improve users' network performance. For more information about the product, see the following.


AWS Log​

WhaTap's AWS Log monitoring service has been officially launched in the third quarter of 2023. Without having to go through the cumbersome process of checking each resource in S3 and Log Group, WhaTap AWS Log collects various logs generated on AWS and provides the integrated monitoring. For more information about the product, see the following.

Guide to new features and major changes

Log​

Here are notable new features and changes to the Log products in Q3 2023.

Updates have been made to improve overall convenience. The keyword highlighting feature has been added to the Log Search, Log Trend, and Transaction log menus. Additionally, the adjacent log search feature has been added to the Log Search menu.

The following overview guide helps you understand new features and major changes in Log products in Q3 2023, along with release versions.

Guide to new features and major changes

  • Feature In Log search, Log Trend, and Transaction log, added the keyword highlighting function. Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In Log search, added the function to search logs for the time zone adjacent to the selected log. Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature Under Log, added the timestamp as the Add a column item in Setting icon Table settings > Column settings Service 1.104.00​

  • Feature In Log Configuration, improved the selection UI for detection of categories and logs. Service 1.108.0​

  • Feature Added the scroll position movement and highlighting functions to the base log from the adjacent logs. Service 1.108.0​

  • Feature In Alert > Log, the filtering is disabled when no category is selected in case of adding the template events with Composite log event Service 1.108.0​

  • Feature In Alert > Event Configuration > Log > Composite log event, added the templates for function update and addition of the log event template. Service 1.108.0​