March 2026 monthly summary focused on delivering platform support and release enhancements across the New Relic Open-Install and Helm charts. Key features delivered: - Alma Linux 9 platform support added to newrelic/open-install-library, enabling installation and runtime on Alma Linux systems. (Commit fbd06f1ab7274e679981cec55af136bbf387a2b5) - eBPF Agent 1.3.0 release and enhancements in newrelic/helm-charts, including improved logging, JVM metrics reporting, and kernel header installation improvements to improve OpenShift compatibility. (Commit f80c051113e1367613b37ef44209484f4268a141) Major bugs fixed: - No major bugs reported this month. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Expanded supported OS environments and streamlined agent instrumentation through Alma Linux 9 support and eBPF 1.3.0 release. - Improved OpenShift compatibility and runtime observability, reducing deployment friction and enabling smoother upgrades. - Strengthened release engineering, packaging, and documentation through chart version bumps and README variable documentation. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Platform configuration and packaging for Linux distributions (Alma Linux 9). - Helm chart development, release automation, and release-note practices. - eBPF agent integration, logging enhancements, metrics exposure, and kernel header management for OpenShift. - CI/CD readiness and documentation discipline to facilitate faster reviews and deployments.

February 2026: Focused on expanding platform coverage and improving installer reliability in open-install-library, delivering an Amazon Linux eBPF agent installation recipe. This work enhances cross-platform compatibility and reduces onboarding friction for users deploying eBPF on Amazon Linux.

Concise monthly summary for 2026-01 highlighting key features, major fixes, impact, and technologies demonstrated across two repos: newrelic/helm-charts and newrelic/open-install-library. Focus on business value and technical accomplishments.

December 2025 delivered cross-repo observability and maintainability improvements across New Relic’s helm-charts and open-install-library. Key features delivered include Container-Optimized OS (COS) and AWS Bottlerocket support with automated kernel-header installation and granular data filtering for APM and network metrics in helm-charts. In open-install-library, eBPF agent reporting was enhanced by replacing TCP statistics with network metrics reporting and adding robust filters for APM and network data. A refactor of the init container logic to a ConfigMap-based script, along with a reorganized values.yaml, streamlined configuration and maintenance. An installer-script ConfigMap was introduced to centralize init tasks. A bug fix addressed ebpf configuration stability in the latest changes. Overall impact: expanded runtime support, improved data fidelity and filtering, and reduced maintenance overhead for observability pipelines. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Kubernetes, Helm charts, ConfigMaps, eBPF, kernel-header automation, and filter-driven data modeling for metrics.

November 2025: Delivered substantial improvements in deployment simplicity and observability across helm-charts and the open-install-library. Key work includes unifying the eBPF agent and client image in newrelic/helm-charts with improved observability configuration, enabling OTLP port configurability and new reporting flags, and introducing Vizier port configurability in open-install-library. A focused documentation fix clarifies TCP_STATS_REPORTING behavior to reduce misconfigurations. All changes preserve backward compatibility where applicable and align with CI checks, improving reliability for customers and reducing operational toil.

Monthly summary for 2025-10 | newrelic/open-install-library Overview: - Delivered reliability-focused enhancements and configuration improvements to the eBPF agent and installation recipes, improving observability and cross-distro consistency, with a focus on production robustness and ease of operation. Key features delivered: - Enhanced eBPF agent data collection and robustness: span collection for multiple protocols, default log file path, and kernel version compatibility check to improve robustness and functionality. Commits: 9844fd9c99a7490f80176ad3de621783dde2293d (enable spans and add default log path in the config). - Port-based server entity identification configuration: Introduced INCLUDE_PORT_IN_SERVER_ENTITY_IDENTIFICATION to optionally include the port in server entity naming across CentOS and Ubuntu installation recipes; standardized boolean representation as a quoted string. Commits: c29490d9471b3f5e9fec31c21bc1e8adddcf8ff1, 823d41f7ff8c1b22e51dd209ad97d12263345f9a. - Documentation and guidance for Linux headers in eBPF agent setup: Clarify and document the paths for downloaded and distributed Linux headers, emphasize absolute paths and Kubernetes considerations, and enhance comments in CentOS/Ubuntu config files. Commits: fd58cb4487d78cf2e6a3ef13f88fc26b0cf3d629, f94483d999d2b35b0c45fc66b22e72adec1a738c. Major bugs fixed: - No separate bug fixes reported this month; addressed robustness and configuration issues within feature work to reduce operational risk and improve reliability (eBPF span collection, port-based identification, and header-path guidance). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved observability fidelity with multi-protocol eBPF data collection and safer defaults (log paths and kernel checks), enabling faster root-cause analysis and better monitoring coverage. - Increased accuracy and consistency of server entity naming across distributions by optionally including port information, reducing misidentification risk in asset inventories. - Reduced onboarding and maintenance friction through explicit, Kubernetes-aware guidance for Linux header paths and clearer config documentation. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - eBPF data collection and runtime configuration, kernel version compatibility checks, cross-distro scripting (CentOS/Ubuntu), environment variable conventions and quoting, documentation discipline, and config hygiene. Deliverables by commits: - 9844fd9c99a7490f80176ad3de621783dde2293d: enable spans and add default log path in the config - c29490d9471b3f5e9fec31c21bc1e8adddcf8ff1: Introduce env INCLUDE_PORT_IN_SERVER_ENTITY_IDENTIFICATION - 823d41f7ff8c1b22e51dd209ad97d12263345f9a: Add quotes in env INCLUDE_PORT_IN_SERVER_ENTITY_IDENTIFICATION - fd58cb4487d78cf2e6a3ef13f88fc26b0cf3d629: Update description for config envs - f94483d999d2b35b0c45fc66b22e72adec1a738c: Minor update in config comment

September 2025 performance summary focusing on delivering deployment flexibility, upgrade reliability, and secure telemetry across two key repositories (newrelic/helm-charts and newrelic/open-install-library).

August 2025 monthly summary for newrelic/open-install-library focusing on SUSE eBPF installer enhancements, deployment identification, and test coverage. Key outcomes include improved deployment reliability on SUSE, clearer deployment observability, and expanded automation through end-to-end testing and environment-based deployment naming.

July 2025 monthly summary for newrelic/helm-charts focused on aligning Helm chart versioning to the deployed artifact and improving deployment metadata accuracy. No major bugs fixed this month. The change enhances release traceability and operator confidence across environments.