On October 4, 2017, we released version 1.13 of our Kieker framework for application performance monitoring and dynamic software analysis. As usual, the release is available for download at https://kieker-monitoring.net/download/.
- New features (selection)
- Kafka writer and reader
- Records provide API access to property names
- SpringBoot REST interceptors
- Improvements and refactorings
- Performance improvements in the monitoring component (including API changes to the writers)
- Refined architecture including minor (internal) API changes to records
- Library updates
- Dropped features
- Database (SQL) writer and reader
- Explicit support for HornetQ and OpenJMS (may be still be used via the JMS API)
- Java 7 (or higher) required
- Infrastructure
- Migration to Atlassian Cloud (Confluence and Jira)
- Jenkins-based continuous delivery pipeline integrated with GitHub
- Docker containers for examples (JPetStore livedemo, RSS example), build containers
- Bug fixes and improvements to code, performance, tests, documentation, examples