March 11, 2026

Release 2.6.9 shipped on March 11, 2026.

Features#

Linux integration UX#

• Improved UX to handle when the number of machines are high, we now moved the list of hosts into a drop down for selection of auto instrumentation.

Integrations#

• Redis: Users can add multiple endpoints within a single machine for redis integration.
• Kafka: Added support for fetch cluster wide kafka broker metrics from a single node in a multi-node kafka cluster. With this user don’t have to integrate it in each node.
• JVM: updated JVM metrics dashboard with new metrics.

RUM#

• Added support for span panel inside heatmap details, now user can correlate backend span from the frontend click/error actions from heatmap.

Improvements#

Security related improvements#

• Added rate limit on API endpoint for better security.
• Updated third-party libraries and removed unused ones.
• Improved authorization in creation of roles, permissions and use invites.

UX improvements#

• Infra monitoring: added group by option in the table at the top.
• Upgraded the table component to display the total number of records at the bottom, without requiring scrolling (mainly useful for pagination) in any widget.
• Upgraded table component to increase/decrease size of a column without impacting another column’s size.
• Improved the dropdown UI to dynamically adjust its size based on screen size while creating widgets in the custom dashboard, so the full property name is visible.
• Settings → Projects: in the list of projects, users can click on the name of the project and open it directly from here.

Alert improvements#

• Added support for interpolation function for host based alerts
  • Linear:: Fills gaps by drawing a straight line between nearby values.
  • Last:: Uses the last known value to fill the gap.
  • Default Zero:: Replaces gaps with 0.
• Auto save selection of metrics and filters so if a user leaves the screen and comes back, they don’t have to start it from zero to configure alert.