perfino releases

perfino Release 4.3

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

End user monitoring now supports Jakarta EE
Full support for monitoring JVMs running with Java 26
Added support for MongoDB Java driver 5.6+
Added support for Hibernate 7.2
HTTP probe: Added support for Apache HttpClient 5.5+
Updated bundled Jetty web server to Jetty 12.1.5
Updated dependencies to fix several CVEs

Bug fixes:

For LDAP queries, the user name was not encoded correctly

perfino Release 4.2

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

Added two-factor authentication (2FA)
Separate API key for the perfino REST API that can be generated from the user drop-down
Full support for monitoring JVMs running with Java 24
Support for MongoDB Java driver 5.3+
Added support for Vert.x 5.0
Added support for Hibernate 6.6
Added support for Support for OpenJPA 4
The perfino server now runs with Java 21, the minimum version for monitored JVMs is now Java 8

perfino Release 4.1

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

Support for Hibernate 6
Full support for monitoring with Java 21, including virtual threads

Bug fixes:

Regression in 4.0.2: Units for lower and upper bounds of thresholds were not saved and were always set to the first element in the drop-down
GC telemetry did not show any data under some circumstances
Fixed NPE in transaction-based views, when moving to a period with available data after showing a period with no available data
Class browser failed to show if multiple classes with the same name existed
The timeline actions in the memory view did not work in comparison mode
Previous service accounts are now preserved when installing a perfino update on Windows
The "Send test mail" button in the installation wizard did not work
When the "vmUseSsl" property in perfino.properties was set to true, the agent keystore file was not automatically added to the agent files that are downloaded from the perfino UI
Fixed NPE during LDAP lookup

perfino Release 4.0.4

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Dark mode for documentation
Support for fine-grained CPU profiling on macOS ARM (Apple Silicon)
Support for monitoring Java 18

Bug fixes:

"Show" action in the MBean operation result window did not work
Fixed a problem where the agent would continue to record too much data if it could not reach the perfino server for extended periods of time
Fine-grained CPU recording action did not work with Java 8 on Linux
Users that were created automatically through LDAP had no access rights for JVM groups
Fixed SSL compatibility issues with some SMTP servers

perfino Release 4.0.3

Fri, 21 May 2021 07:00:12 GMT

Bug fixes:

Fixed SSL connection problem for encrypted agent communication with recent Java releases

perfino Release 4.0.2

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Full support for monitoring with Java 16

Bug fixes:

When deleting snapshots or VMs, the table was not refreshed

perfino Release 4.0.1

Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Added support for Jakarta EE 9

Bug fixes:

Regression in 4.0: Time line actions in data views did not work anymore
Regression in 4.0: Hierarchy in sampling views was broken for long call chains
Fixed exception when clicking the "Choose transaction" button in the hot spots view when no hotspots were shown
Some warning labels were unreadable in dark mode

perfino Release 4.0

Fri, 29 May 2020 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

HTTP probe
Dark mode
Responsive UI
Recording of JFR snapshots in VMs view and with a trigger action
Webhook trigger action
Trigger action for taking shallow memory snapshots
LDAP authentication
Options for showing a logarithmic and frozen y-axis in telemetries
The maximum retention time for transactions is now configurable
The perfino server can now run with Java 11 in addition to Java 8
Keyboard support for tables
The perfino agent no longer depends on the java.desktop module
Configurable window title

Bug fixes:

Do not trigger a lower bound threshold violation for average time telemetries if there were no transactions or probe events

perfino Release 3.2.3

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

Support for monitoring with Java 13

Bug fixes:

JProfiler installation detection did not work anymore since the top-level directory in the JProfiler archives contain the full version number
Fixed a memory leak in the data collector
Fixed a StackOverflowExceptions in the agent

perfino Release 3.2.2

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Full support for monitoring with Java 11

perfino Release 3.2.1

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:00:12 GMT

Bug fixes:

Transaction graph in the dashboard did not advance fast enough, leading to an incorrect time scale
Fixed a memory leak in the telemetry drop-down
Periodic heap snapshot options were always taken from a subgroup even when it did not override that setting

perfino Release 3.2

Fri, 02 Mar 2018 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Full support for monitoring with Java 10
Added a "contextPath" property in perfino.properties that adds a prefix to the URL. This is useful if the web server is behind a reverse proxy.
Support for mongoDB 3.6
Support for Wildfly 12
Left clicking on data points in telemetries now shows the context menu
The documentation is now also available as an eBook that can be downloaded from web site

Bug fixes:

Fixed a rare class loader dead lock during instrumentation
Threshold configurations for telemetries with a unit of "milliseconds" had an invalid default unit selection for lower and upper bounds
Improved robustness of the database during crashes
Fixed an NPE when the URL query string was empty and parameters were used for the transaction name. This could lead to unrecorded transactions.

perfino Release 3.1

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

Full support for monitoring with Java 9
Support for HBase 1.3
Support for Cassandra DataStax driver 3.3
Support for mongoDB 3.4
Support for Axis2 1.7 and CXF 3.1
JDBC, Cassandra and MongoDB telemetries are now stacked area graphs showing recorded and unrecorded statements separately
Added an "Auto-scroll to end" check box to the log viewers

Bug fixes:

The telemetry overview did not work for single VMs
The time range for "Recently seen JVMs" in the VMs view was always one hour. Now it is set to the selected sparkline range
Telemetry consolidation data was not created for all VMs
Set actions were not disabled when the recording settings were shown in the installer
Threshold bounds in the configuration were limited to 8 digits
Scrollbar for view selector was missing in VM data view
View filters in transaction-based views were not removed when switching top-level views
Some monitoring data directly before a thread death may not have been recorded
Hiding data in charts and telemetries by clicking on legend items was not persistent across data updates
Hiding data in charts and telemetries by clicking on legend items did not adjust the scale of the y-axis
Gracefully handle multiple perfino -javaagent VM parameters on the command line
Timelines in the call tree view did not use the "Split" policy selection and always showed merged policies

perfino Release 3.0

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

Micro service-friendly licensing scheme, with one perfino license you can now monitor an unlimited number of JVMs
An overload protection mechanism now prevents service degradation due to misconfiguration
Hot backups of the database via the REST API
Separate databases for config data and recording data
Reduced size of the database
Problems view in the dashboard
Improved transactions view in the dashboard
Drill-down directly from the dashboard
Transaction timeline for call tree and hot spot views
More time ranges in telemetries, added zoom buttons at the top and in the context menu
Double clicking on telemetries zooms in
Inline navigation buttons when hovering at the edges of telemetries
Context menu actions in telemetries for jumping to call tree, hot spot and other related views
Animated vertical scale changes for telemetries
After a temporary network problem, the browser UI can now reconnect to the server
Icons in call tree are now colored corresponding to their policy violation type
The UI now survives temporary network connection problems and reconnects to the backend automatically

Bug fixes:

First RMI call that passed a callback object was not recorded correctly
Call graph: Selected nodes were not auto-scrolled into view when the detail panel was shown

perfino Release 2.0.2

Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Web transactions: Show full URLs in the "Method sampling" view
Web transactions: Numeric IDs in URL segments are now replaced with an <id> placeholder by default. In the config dialog of the naming element there is a checkbox to avoid this replacement.
MBean browser: Always add "ObjectName" attribute
MBean browser: Show keys in MBean tree
When double-clicking on the "Naming" and "Policies" columns in the transaction definition list, go directly to the corresponding step in the wizard

Bug fixes:

Probe hot spots views: When expanding and collapsing the comparison area, the layout of the header area was broken

perfino Release 2.0.1

Wed, 15 Jul 2015 07:00:12 GMT

Bug fixes:

Bundled Jetty server was vulnerable to the Logjam attack
JRE bundles are now Java 8 to avoid problems with weak ephemeral Diffie-Hellman keys
Improved performance of transaction consolidation
Fixed JDBC connection problems with older MySQL versions

perfino Release 2.0

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Free for development with a single VM monitoring and 24 hour historical data
New look for the web frontend
Added an MBean browser view
Configurable telemetries based on MBean data
Enhanced Devops telemetries to match capabilities of MBean telemetries
REST API for exporting recorded data
Probe data in dashboard
Support for running the web frontend on Jetty 9 and Tomcat 8
Updated bundled Jetty web server to Jetty 9.2.6

Bug fixes:

The login form would not remember the user/password combination for recent versions of Chrome and Firefox
Made auto-update of agent more robust when a perfino upgrade is performed

perfino Release 1.0.1

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:00:12 GMT

New features:

Only use one external port for RMI communication between collector and UI, making it possible to deploy collector and UI in different networks separated by a firewall

Bug fixes:

Fixed rounding issue for maximum display range of sparklines when maximum values where close to 1
Updated bundled Jetty web server to 8.1.16
Updated bundled H2 database to 1.3.176

perfino Release 1.0

Tue, 03 Jun 2014 07:00:12 GMT

New features:

Initial release