[Hawkular-dev] Hawkular BTM 0.8.0.Final

[Gary Brown]

Hi all

I'm pleased to announce the availability of version 0.8.0.Final of the Hawkular BTM project. The release can be found here: https://github.com/hawkular/hawkular-btm/releases/tag/0.8.0.Final

The main focus for this release has been adding Distributed Tracing capabilities to the project, and general UI improvements:

    * Distributed Tracing
        - New UI tab to display aggregated end to end view of activities across a distributed application
        - Supporting REST operations

    * Numerous UI improvements, including
        - Simplified Business Transaction overview page, including active and disabled business transactions
        - Common filter sidebar used by Application Performance and Distributed Tracing pages
        - Filtering on inclusion/exclusion of properties and/or faults
        - Finer grained control over start/end date and time on Application Performance and Distributed Tracing pages

    * Deriving end to end completion time

    * Deriving latency information from interactions between services

    * Instrumentation rules for
        - RxJava
        - Netty

    * Many bug fixes.


I would like to thank the following people for their contributions to this release:

    Alexandre Mendonça - thanks for all the cool UI work in this release
    Gabriel Cardoso - thanks for providing feedback and support on the UI style
    Andrew Dinn - thanks for continued (and very responsive) support with the use of Byteman
    Juraci Paixão Kröhling - thanks for continued support with integration with Hawkular Accounts
    Andrea Scarpino - thanks for identifying and helping to fix issues with the SQL driver instrumentation


Regards
Gary