New Features in This Release

Modular Web UI

The entire Loupe Web UI has been rebuilt to break functionality into modules built around key user workflows:

• View: Quickly find sessions and view their information.
• Monitor: Monitor your applications running in production, including clustered and multi-service applications.
• Resolve: Find and fix defects in your application for good, regardless of where your application is running.

Not all modules are included in every subscription; you can contact us to upgrade to a higher subscription tier if you'd like to try a module not in your current tier.

Loupe View

The previous Recent Sessions view and All Sessions views have been brought together into Loupe View to make it easier to get directly to the details of a sessions when you know what you're looking for.  This new module enables several Loupe Desktop workflows within the Web UI, providing more choice for users on their preferred way of accessing Loupe.

Loupe Monitor

Loupe Monitor adds operations-focused functionality leveraging the same data already collected by Loupe Agents.  It provides environment-specific Alerts for errors so your team can focus on the right events.

Loupe Resolve

The Event & Issue functionality of Loupe has been moved into Loupe Resolve.  Its also been enhanced to use the new Web UI side-by-side display so it's faster to move between issues and events without losing your place.  Researching issues is also faster with the new investigation views.

Selecting Applications to Resolve

Previously, every session data file was analyzed for Loupe Resolve unless it was explicitly suppressed.  Loupe 5 introduces new rules to let you pick which applications and versions you want to analyze so you can choose to ignore internal tools or older versions.

Application Keys

Loupe Agents can now use Application Keys to identify themselves to the Loupe Server.  Application keys provide additional flexibility such as:

• Configuring session collection by key: You can configure on the Loupe Server if a given application key should collect data, temporarily ignore data, or permanently ignore data.
• Route to an Application Environment: Each service in an Application Environment gets at least one Application key to identify the sessions for that specific service.

Compatibility

Loupe 5.x is generally backwards compatible with 3.0 and later with the following notes:

• Agent: Requires Server version 4.0 and Desktop 4.0.
• Server: Fully backwards compatible with Agents 3.0 and later.  Loupe Monitor requires a Loupe 5 Agent.
• Desktop: Compatible with Server versions 3.7.0 and later.  Compatible with any version of Agent.

Defects Fixed in This Release

This is the initial release of Loupe 5.0 and incorporates defect fixes previously published in Loupe 4.  For information on those fixes, see the various Loupe 4 release notes.