Nordic Semiconductor's nRF Connect SDK now has Memfault's SDK built-in, allowing
for customers and users of Nordic's chips and tools to integrate and use
Memfault in minutes.
One of Memfault's most capable features is Metrics. With Metrics, you can
determine how specific metrics on a single device correlate with each other to
root cause performance and power regressions, or aggregate them on a fleet level
and determine whether the health of your fleet of devices is improving over
time!
We're announcing new features today which should help make our metrics feature
more usable.
First, users can now view all the Metric names that have been received from
heartbeat events in the Settings → Metrics page. This allows for easy
auditing of metric names and configurations.
If you find any that are stale or shouldn't be tracked anymore, you can archive
them.
When Edit is clicked, users can configure the valid ranges for the metric,
which will improve the displayed charts by normalizing the Y-axis to possible
values. An example of where this could be useful is battery life, where the min
and max values are 0-100.
Users can also specify a single value for Memfault to ignore, such as
0xffffffff, which can represent the absence of a value.
These new features will enable developers and customer support representatives
to more easily dig into the health of a single device and the entire fleet.
That's not all though! We've made more improvements to symbol file uploading,
bugreport filtering, and the archiving of software versions.
The day you have all (maybe) been waiting for is here! Anyone can now sign up
for a free trial of Memfault! There is no sales team in your way of getting your
devices integrated with Memfault and monitoring your fleet of devices.
Many improvements have been happening on the Android side of the product,
primarily when viewing Caliper data within the Timeline view. We now include
almost every type of data a device can send in the timeline view, such as drop
box manager entries, log files, traces, and more.
View the timeline by day, drill into specific hours, and navigate to the pieces
of data that you want to investigate!
Make your Issue list more organized and concise with the new Issue merging
feature! Users can now merge Issues together by clicking the Merge button on the
detail page of an Issue and then selecting which Issue to be its parent.
This workflow is especially useful when there are multiple Issues stemming from
the same root cause, such as a stack overflow that presents itself with
different backtraces.
This feature is available for both Android and Real-Time products.
Memfault's Bort SDK v3.0 has been released,
which includes Memfault Caliper.
The Caliper system supports trace collection from various subsystems, as well as
per device and fleet-wide metrics collection via the Android batterystats
subsystem. Additional data sources, such as logs and system properties, are in
development and are coming soon!
Memfault's Caliper is designed to have minimal effects on runtime performance,
as well as consume less bandwidth and storage than sending bug reports.
To compare and contrast how Bug Reports and Memfault Caliper differ, please
refer to the Bort SDK Reference docs page.
Power up your log searching capabilities with filtering by log level, tags,
regular expressions. This helps you find offending log lines faster than ever.
Works for both Android and Real-Time products.