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Microservices Engine:Change description on MSE agent 4.3.x

Last Updated:Mar 11, 2026

Microservices Engine (MSE) agent 4.3.x redesigns the traffic protection layer for better compatibility with open-source Sentinel and improved agent stability. All existing features remain backward-compatible.

Review the following changes to determine whether your setup is affected.

ChangeImpactAction required
Metric log path movedAction requiredUpdate Logtail collection configuration
SENTINEL: prefix added to interfacesNo action requiredOptionally remove Sentinel or Spring Cloud Alibaba dependencies
Custom interface behavior change for non-COMMON resourcesAction required (conditional)Modify related rules if applicable

Metric log path change

Impact: Action required

The metric log path has changed. If you collect local metric logs, update your Logtail collection configuration before or immediately after upgrading the agent. If you do not update the configuration, log collection stops working after the upgrade.

Before:

~/logs/csp/

After:

EnvironmentNew path
Default/home/admin/.opt/AliyunJavaAgent/logs/sentinel/
Elastic Compute Service (ECS)<agent-installation-directory>/logs/sentinel

Add the new log path to your Logtail collection configuration to resume log collection. For details, see Report MSE traffic protection metrics to Simple Log Service.

SENTINEL: prefix added to custom interfaces

Impact: No action required

After upgrading to 4.3.x, interfaces prefixed with SENTINEL: appear in the custom interfaces list. These are generated by Sentinel or Spring Cloud Alibaba dependencies in your application and do not affect existing MSE interfaces or rules.

If these additional interfaces are unnecessary, remove the Sentinel or Spring Cloud Alibaba dependencies from your application.

Custom interface behavior for Sentinel-based resources

Impact: Action required (conditional)

This change applies only if you use open-source Sentinel adapters for tracking or create custom interfaces without setting ResourceType to COMMON.

No action needed if you created custom interfaces based on MSE documentation. Those interfaces are unaffected.

Action needed if either of the following is true:

  • You introduced open-source Sentinel adapters for tracking.

  • You did not set ResourceType to COMMON when creating custom interfaces.

In these cases, the following changes take effect after the upgrade:

PropertyNew behavior
Interface categoryResources are classified as custom interfaces
EntryTypeSet to INTERNAL
Resource name prefixSENTINEL: prefix is added

Update any rules that reference these resources to match the new resource names with the SENTINEL: prefix.