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title: "September 9, 2026"
description: "Middleware release 2.8.2 (September 9, 2026): Pricing, Log Anomaly, Alert, UI updates, Node.js Auto instrumentation."
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# September 9, 2026

Release 2.8.2 shipped on September 9, 2026.

## Features

### Pricing

- Introduced the Free Forever plan with monthly allowances of 100 GB data ingestion, 1,000 RUM sessions, 20,000 synthetic checks, 10 browser tests, and 2 million OpsAI tokens.
- A credit card is required to activate the Free Forever plan.
- Usage within the monthly free allowances is excluded from billing; only usage above the limits is charged.

### Log Anomaly

- Updated the log anomaly UI with new data and monitoring views across services.
- Added severity and anomaly type breakdowns for easier analysis.
- View related logs and detailed anomaly analysis to identify the potential cause.

![Log Anomaly: View related logs and detailed anomaly analysis to identify the potential cause.](/images/release/2026/2026-09-09-1.webp)

### Alert

- **Default stability alerts**

  - Added new default alerts related to monitor product core performance metrics.
  - Includes alerts for slow database queries, Kubernetes job failures, slow page loading, API failures, and slow API responses.
- Enabled email notifications for all default alerts. Users will receive an email when a default alert is triggered.
- **Notification Aggregation**

  - Configure whether grouped alerts are sent as a single notification or multiple notifications based on the selected grouping attributes.

![Alert: Notification Aggregation](/images/release/2026/2026-09-09-2.webp)

- **Alert trigger history**

  - View the status and resource name for each alert trigger when alerts are grouped by attributes.
  - Quickly identify which resources were impacted when an alert affects multiple resources

![Alert: Alert trigger history](/images/release/2026/2026-09-09-3.webp)

- **Analyze alert with OpsAI**

  - Analyze alert configurations with OpsAI to identify potential configuration issues.
  - Get recommendations for thresholds and other configuration changes to improve alert accuracy and reduce false alerts.

![Alert: Analyze alert with OpsAI](/images/release/2026/2026-09-09-4.webp)

### UI updates

- **Left menu redesign**

  - Updated the left menu with a new design and restructured project listing with option to search and clearer current project selection.
  - Separated Installation and Settings from project navigation for easier access.

![UI updates: Left menu redesign](/images/release/2026/2026-09-09-5.webp)

### Node.js Auto instrumentation

- Updated instrumentation to extend support to auto capture exception code for all frameworks (ex: Fastify, Koa, Hapi etc).
- Users can see exceptions in the error tab in APM trace.

### OpsAI Error detection

- Added support for 4 new types of issue detection for APM: Large HTTP payload, Slow DB query, Error grouping (stack trace) and uncompressed asset.
- This new type of issue detection is supported as default for all language APM.

### OpsAI

- Add a specific log as context when asking OpsAI a question.
- OpsAI uses the selected log as additional context to provide relevant answers.

![OpsAI: OpsAI uses the selected log as additional context to provide relevant answers.](/images/release/2026/2026-09-09-6.webp)

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