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Claudia.Landivar · ‎07-31-2020

What highlights should I know about?

These release highlights include the newest features and capabilities at-a-glance this month. In the grid below, we’ve flagged who may be most interested or impacted in your organization by each enhancement.

Category	Enhancement	User and Performance Analyst	Admin and Implementer	Developer
Cloud Native	Kubernetes Enhancement			✓
Cloud Native	IPM App Connect Enterprise Support (formerly IIB)		✓	✓
Ease of Use	Database Monitoring Re-design	✓	✓
	Support EUM (BRUM, MRUM) App Metrics in Dash Studio	✓	✓	✓
	Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM)	✓	✓
System Admin Updates	Access to Downloads from Account		✓
System Admin Updates	University Subscription Management		✓

Cloud Native

With our Kubernetes Cluster Agent enhancement, we now give visibility into Container Name, ID and Stateful Sets in Events and Inventory.
We now support IBM APP Connect Enterprise Support (ACE) V11 on AIX to ensure we are up-to-date with the latest frameworks and versions. ACE is formally known as IBM Integration Bus (IIB).

Ease of Use

The database monitoring redesign creates a unified, relevant and well-documented setup experience making it quicker and easier to configure the settings that meet your needs.
JMX Data Binding in Dash Studio: Visualize performance metrics for JMX Objects through Dash Studio's widgets, including time series.
With our recent ServiceNow Integration, records of Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (CWOM) decisions will be automatically created in ServiceNow. CWOM will also provide VDI environments with unprecedented performance, scale and density to provide Virtual User Desktops with their required resources for optimal customer experiences. CWOM can also now make scaling decisions that assure the optimal use of Microsoft Azure Reserved Instances, maximizing RI coverage and utilization while assuring application and virtual machine performance.

System Administration

Downloads: To provide a more seamless experience, users can download artifacts directly from their Account page beginning in June 2020. There is no impact to your CI/CD pipeline or any automation you may have implemented, the Downloads page (downloads.appdynamics.com) remains intact. Read the FAQ here to learn more.
University Licensing Provisioning: In June, we improved the AppDynamics University experience so Company Administrators can more easily manage subscription and University subscribers. Learn more about managing University subscriptions here and check out AppDynamics University.

NOTE: These Download and AppDynamics University features are our latest steps in expanding the Accounts experience for a more streamlined user experience.

Heads up - What else you should know

AppDynamics received FedRAMP authorization at the moderate impact level in June 2020. If you are a government customer and are interested in leveraging the FedRAMP authorized SaaS solution, learn more and get in touch here.

Share your feedback! Participate in a Beta today

We’re currently running two Beta programs and looking for your feedback:

Submit feedback on the Dash Studio Preview through the in-product feedback button or on Community here
Sign up for the Beta program for our Lambda Python Serverless Tracer and learn more about our capabilities on the Serverless APM for AWS Lambda page. The tracer's language matches your AWS function code's implementation.

Resolved Issues

The following list notes key issues that were resolved this month. To see a complete of this month's resolved issues, see Resolved Issues by Month.

Account

"Reset Password" field is disabled (L4A-11678)
Email alerts stop because of a notification configuration (L4A-12167)
LDAP sync fails while updating user outside of session¬† (L4A-12510)

Controller

Roles with view permission can disable analytics for the application (ANALYTICS-12454)
The succeeded pod count includes the number of deleted pods on the Pods page (CLUSTERMON-1257)
Cluster agent pod is not created if MustRunAsNonRoot security policy is in place (CLUSTERMON-1631)
Controller upgrade from 4.5.x to 20.3 no longer fails with MySQL upgrade version (ECONSOLE-5906)
Service Availability is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (SERVER-7621)

Database Monitoring

Collectors display multiple nodes with the same name when creating a health rule (DBMON-4676)
The Network Dashboard flowmap does not display the backend nodes of database (DBMON-6628)
The ‘Connect backends to Database Visibility to track health status’ message gets displayed every time, even when not required (DB6718)
20.4 - syd-p-con-1: Missing DB backend nodes in Network Dashboard Flowmap (DBMON-6641)
Agent is reporting its own monitoring query for MongoDB (DBMON-6805)
The Database Agent fails to monitor Oracle version 11 (DBMON-7037)

EUM Cloud

Update the Neustar map library to correct geodata (EUMPLAT-601)
Metrics missing intermittently due to a SocketTimeoutException when EUM tries to download metrics (EUMPLAT-776)

Machine Agent

Machine agent spawning lot of awk commands which result in exhaustion of system resources (SERVER-6143)

UI

When you open an Event UI and re-load the background UI, the refreshed background UI display is distorted (ALERT-5349)
Widgets not added to dashboards if the auto-save option is not selected (ANALYTICS-12500)
The 'Connect backends to Database Visibility to track health status' message is displayed every time even when it is not required. (DBMON-6718)