0.7.0-beta

This version is a pre-release (Beta).

Please read our documentation for instructions on setting up .NET tracing and details about supported frameworks.

Changes since 0.6.0-beta:

• New Integrations

  • MongoDB (#236)
  • ADO.NET providers (#248)

• Bugfixes

  • fix disabling individual integrations (#246)

• Internal

  • facilitate access to private fields and properties by emitting IL (#235)
  • improved logging from profiler library (#247)

Breaking change: this release removes the SqlServer integration and replaces it with the new AdoNet integration. This change only affects you if you were disabling the SqlServer integration using the DD_DISABLED_INTEGRATIONS environment variable.

0.6.0-beta

This version is a pre-release (Beta).

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Changes since 0.5.2-beta:

• Core libraries
  • allow changing a span's service name after the span is created (#229, #231)
• Integrations
  • ASP.NET Web API: fix for null reference exception when value of cancellation token is CancellationToken.None (#230)
  • allow disabling individual integrations (#237) NOTE: there's a known issue with this feature which is fixed in release 0.7.0
• Internal
  • add new tool to autogenerate integrations.json file from attributes declared in the integrations themselves (#232)
  • add support for decoding metadata signatures for generic classes, i.e. mdTypeSpec (#234)
  • improved profiler logging (#234, #237)

0.5.2-beta

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Changes since 0.5.1-beta:

Configuration:

• add support for DD_ENV environment variable to set a trace's environment
• add support for DD_SERVICE_NAME environment variable to set a service's name

NuGet packages:

• change target frameworks to include net461 as recommended in the NuGet documentation; all packages now target netstandard2.0;net45;net461

0.5.1-beta

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Changes since 0.5.0-beta:

Core:

• #208 Add support for DD_AGENT_HOST and DD_TRACE_AGENT_PORT environment variables
• #213 Fix whitespace in C++ profiler log file

Integrations:

• #211 Fix exception in Elasticsearch integration caused by wrong method return type
• #212 Instrument asynchronous methods using async/await instead of Task.ContinueWith()
  • avoids wrapping exceptions in an AggregateException
  • ensures Task is finished before disposing Scope

0.5.0-beta

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Changes since 0.4.1-beta:

New feature:

• #171, #179 Initial Linux support!

Internal enhancement:

• #178 Use Sigil to validate dynamically emitted IL

Web API 2 integration:

• #178 error 'object' does not contain a definition for 'ExecuteAsync' when HttpConfiguration.EnableSystemDiagnosticsTracing() is used

StackExchange.Redis integration:

• #178 use T instead of Task<T> as the generic argument to RedisBase.ExecuteAsync<T>()

0.4.1-beta

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Changes since 0.4.0-beta:

MSI installer:

• #173 enable .NET Core profiler (in addition to .NET Framework profiler)

Core library:

• #174 allow FlushAndCloseAsync() to be called more than once (fixes #172)
• #175 retry when posting data to Trace Agent (fixes #149)

0.4.0-beta

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Changes since 0.3.2-beta:

New integrations:

• #163 Elasticsearch.Net / NEST
• #167 ASP.NET MVC 4

Core enhancements:

• #156 use the first inner exception from AggregateException until we can support multiple errors
• #158 update NuGet dependencies Microsoft.CSharp and MsgPack.Cli
• #168 replaced logging mechanism in C++ profiler code to use spdlog

ASP.NET MVC integration:

• #155 set HTTP response code to 500 when an unhandled exception thrown in user code
• #157 add missing tags when using attribute routing

ASP.NET Core MVC integration:

• #165, #166 fix error in entry probe

StackExchange.Redis integration:

• #159, #162 added many, many more integration tests, especially around Sync and Batch methods

0.3.2-beta

This version is a pre-release (Beta).

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Changes since 0.3.1-beta:

New features:

• Added TraceId and SpanId properties to Span class (manual instrumentation)

Bug fixes:

• SqlClient integration
  • fix service name so it's different from the web framework integrations
• StackExchange.Redis integration
  • fix error when calling certain methods in the redis client (e.g. StringGet())
  • only include the port number in the out.port tag
• all integrations
  • make operation names clearer and more consistent

0.3.1-beta

This version is a pre-release (Beta).

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Changes since 0.3.0-beta:

New integrations:

• StackExchange.Redis (tested with 1.2.x)
• ServiceStack.Redis (tested with 5.2.x)

Bug fixes:

• never add tags with null values (breaks MsgPack deserialization on the Agent)
• SqlClient integration: add tags for hostname, database name, and user name, remove tag for connection string

MSI installer for Windows:

• don't schedule a system reboot, let user restart IIS at their convenience
• change license to Apache 2.0 to match code repo

NuGet packages:

• add Datadog icon

Build tools:

• use vcpkg for C++ dependencies
• include CoreCLR headers (8MB) instead of the entire repo as a submodule (848MB!)

0.3.0-beta

This version is a pre-release (Beta).

First release of public Beta.

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Changes since from 0.2.4-alpha:

• ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core MVC integrations
  • normalize resource name capitalization for
  • add http method to resource name