What's new in July 2023?
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In July 2023, v23.7 brought a raft of enhancements, updates, and fixes to *Cloud Native Application Observability, Agents, the SaaS Controller, On-premises Controller, and Accounts Management.
*Now, Cisco Cloud Observability 11/27/2023
In this article…
What release highlights should I know about?
What’s new? This section shows highlights from the newest features and capabilities for July 2023, whether they are new or revised.
TIPS | You can use the links on this table to jump to the product category’s corresponding section in this article, below. Looking for library updates and minor enhancements? See “other changes” for links to the Documentation.
NOTE | The Documentation Product Announcements and Alerts Home page for ongoing product release announcements, security and support advisories, as well as end-of-life and end-of-life support notices.
Also in Documentation, each product category has a Release Notes page where enhancements are described in detail on an ongoing basis. They are:
Cisco Full-Stack Observability (FSO)
Cloud Native Application Observability
AppDynamics APM Platform 23.x
On-premises AppDynamics APM Platform
In this article, each product enhancement summary section below will include links to the referenced Release Notes page in Documentation. Where available, links to the specific version will be included.
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Product Enhancement Summaries
Cloud Native Application Observability enhancement summaries
NOTE |See the Release Notes page in the Documentation for a complete list of Cloud Native Application Observability enhancements in July, including minor releases not included here.
Alert and Respond
(GA v23.6.0)
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You can now use the not equal to (!=) operator expression for monitored entities. See Define Entity Details.
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Troubleshoot AWS Lambda functions using OTel
GA v23.7
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You can now correlate traces and spans of Lambda functions to CloudWatch metrics from Lambda for troubleshooting.
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Monitor Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Services
GA v23.7
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You can now observe GCP Persistent Disk, and GCP Pub/Sub, for more visibility across your cloud infrastructure.
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Monitor resources on GKE
GA v23.7
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You can now monitor the Kubernetes resources on GKE.
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Observe additional AWS entities
GA v23.7 |
A number of new artifact versions are included in v23.6.0, including OTel Docker images for Linux and Windows, Cluster and Infrastructure Collectors Docker image, AppDynamics Collectors (as well as Operator) Helm chart, and DB Collector Docker image. |
Configure user-defined BTs and mark favorites
GA v23.7
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You can now define your own Business Transactions and mark favorites to appear at the top of the list.
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Onboard logs from cloud services
GA v23.7
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Forward CloudWatch logs from AWS EC2 and Lambda to your tenant.
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Two ways to onboard OTel logs
GA v23.7
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You can now use either the new filelog receiver in otel-collector, or the otel-java-agent. For the necessary K8s and App Services.
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Avoid rolling restarts of Log Collector pods after configuration change
GA v23.7
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New Helm chart parameter that prevents sequential rolling restarts of Log Collector pods is available for download.
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Support for true default log collections
GA v23.7
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New deployments only need to deploy the Log Collector to immediately see logs in the system, parsed by timestamp. Further refine your parsing configurations as needed.
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Log collection exclusion condition
GA v23.7
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Specify conditions for excluding log collection with the new logCollectorConfig.container.excludeCondition in your collectors-values.yaml parameter.
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View the entire surrounding a target log message
GA v23.7
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Visibility into the log messages before and after a target message enhances troubleshooting with insight into root cause.
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Flexibly explore your data with the Query Builder
GA v23.7
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The Query Builder, powered by our extensible Universal Query Language (UQL) lets you explore metrics, events, logs and traces across your entire ecosystem. Use pre-built templates or build your own queries using type-ahead suggestions, real-time syntax highlighting, and error detection.
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Better understand your tech stack with the Schema Browser
GA v23.7
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View all of the entities, along with their relationships and ingested metadata, across your entire data schema ..
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FSO Tenant Custom Roles
GA v23.7
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Account and Tenant Administrators can create custom roles to fine-tune user and Service Principal permissions for FSO tenant or FSO tenants through the Account Management Portal or through the Access Management API.
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Anomaly Detection for Infrastructure Entities
GA v23.7
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We expanded Anomaly Detection support for both Classic and Application ELB to proactively discover issues before they propagate and impact your business. |
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Agent enhancement summaries
NOTE | See the AppDynamics v23.7 Agent Release Notes page for a complete list of Agent enhancements in July, including library updates and bug fixes for: Analytics Agent, iOS Agent, Apache Web server Agent, PHP Agent, .NET Agent. For Bug Fixes, see Agent Resolved Issues
Android Agent
v23.7.1
GA August 4, 2023
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The EULA file was updated in this release.
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Apache Web Server Agent
v23.7.3
GA July 21, 2023
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Support for the IBM AIX operating system. See Supported Apache Web Servers. |
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Cluster Agent
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Now, you can use the enableInstallationReport parameter to view the summarized installation report. See Default Auto Instrumentation Properties in the documentation.
RKE2 1.26 is also supported, and the Cluster Agent was upgraded to Go language 1.20.6.
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iOS Agent
v23.7
GA July 31, 2023
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cocoalumberjack is updated to 1.9.2
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Java Agent
v23.7
GA July 31, 2023
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Set the enable-openai-metrics node property to true to enable OpenAI API Monitoring on the Java Agent. See Monitor OpenAI with Java Agent in the documentation.
Support for the TheoKanning/openai-java framework. See Java Framework Support under JVM Support in the documentation.
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Machine Agent
v23.7
GA July 26, 2023
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Use the InsallServiceWrapper.vbs script to address the unquoted service path enumeration vulnerability. See Windows Install Using ZIP with Bundled JRE in the documentation.
Upgraded third-party components: jackson-databind was upgraded to v21.13.5; com.google.guava was upgraded to v 32.0.1-jre
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.NET Agent
v23.7
GA August 1, 2023
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Code optimizations and performance improvements by enabling inlining on Linux .Net Agent.
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Node.js Agent
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Node.js Agent 23.7.0 supports Node.js versions 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, and now 20. See Node.js Supported Environments.
The Agent also includes support for OpenSSL 3.0
Upgraded third-party library: protobuf v7.2.4
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PHP Agent
v23.7
GA July 19, 2023
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Now supporting PHP v8.2 (See PHP Supported Environments in the documentation), this Agent also includes the resolution of issue PHP-2317 (See Agent Resolved Issues).
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Python Agent
v23.7
GA July 26, 2023
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Run the Python Agent proxy with the compatible JRE versions (8, 11, 17, and 19), thus you can download the agent without JRE. You can also opt to download the Python Agent that is bundled with the default JRE. For more information, see Install the Python Agent.
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SaaS Controller enhancement summaries
NOTE | See the full 23.6 SaaS Controller Enhancements for a complete, searchable, and sortable list of Agent enhancements, including minor updates not mentioned here.
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AppDynamics On-premises enhancement summaries
NOTE | See the full On-premises and AMP Platform Release Announcements for a complete, ongoing, and sortable list of enhancements
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Accounts and Licensing enhancement summaries
NOTE | See the full Accounts and Licensing Release Notes page for a complete, ongoing, and sortable list of enhancements
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Auditing
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Tenant Administrators can use auditing to monitor and review user actions. Among other use cases: identify security risks, adhere to compliance standards, gain behavior insights, and troubleshoot issues. See Auditing for more, including a list of common use cases, requirements, and limitations. (GA v23.6 Released June 26, 2023)
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SaaS Controller enhancement summaries
NOTE | See the full 23.6 SaaS Controller Enhancements for a complete, searchable, and sortable list of Agent enhancements
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What else should you know?
AppDynamics Documentation changes
REMINDER: End-user documentation is now part of Cloud Native Application Observability. You can discover and subscribe to Cloud Native Application Observability Modules and applications on the FSO Platform Exchange. Cost Insights, Application Resource Optimizer, and Kubernetes Cost and Workload Profiler .
Coming Webinars
Plenty of webinar activity is live on Community, including Embark on your OpenTelemetry-based full-stack observability journey (September 6 & 7), and An Introduction to Cisco AppDynamics (August 23 & 24). See dates and time by region, as well as registration links, in their respective posts above.
Check out the Events and Webinars filter in News & Announcements to keep an eye on more webinars to come.
University News
From self-paced Anomaly Detection courses (Standard), and How to Integrate Secure App with Splunk (Premium), to instructor-led ADQL for Business IQ, and ADQL Vizualization for Business IQ Insights, find the details on the Education product update, July 2023 post.
NOTE | Premium Self-Paced courses require a Premium University subscription. Visit our site for more information on subscription types.
Register for new courses here.
Community News
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Keep an eye on Community Updates for additional upcoming announcements.
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Resolved issues
See the complete lists of resolved Issues in the Release Notes.
• FSO Platform Release Notes, June 2023
• AppDynamics Cloud Native Application Observability Release Notes, June 2023
• AppDynamics (CSaaS) Release Notes, June 2023
• Accounts and Licensing Release Notes, June 2023
Essentials
PLANNING AN UPGRADE? | Please check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation as part of your upgrade planning process
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