Release Tracking
The release tracking screen and shows a list of all recent releases on the left side and the details to each release on the right side of the screen.
The details include a before/after comparison of 15 minutes before and after the release, and a list of the most degraded and improved transactions for this timeframe.
For each transaction you can directly find the root cause of the performance changes by comparing all available traces before and after the release using trace aggregation.
Create Release from the User Interface
You can create release from the user interface, but it is recommended to automate it during deployments.
On the monitoring chart, hover and click on the minute when the release happened. This loads the snapshot view and a button labelled "Add Release" appears.
Click on the button and enter release title and description, as well as the compare before and after duration to create the release.
Releases and Errors
When you use release events it will interact with errors in the following way:
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The occurrences counter "since last release" is reset to 0 when the release is for a production environment. You can find out how often each error occurred since the last release.
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If you use a "New Error/Exception" alert, then every error that occurs again for the first time since the release triggers a new notification.