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In October, we released the version 20.10.0 Controller and Enterprise Console as well as key product enhancements and agent updates. We also resolved a series of issues associated with the previous release.
Table of Contents
Heads Up - What Else You Should Know
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 Cluster Monitoring Enhancements | ✓ |
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| Ease of Use | Experience Journey Map Enhancement | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Automatic Business Transaction Enhancement | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Enhancements to Dash Studio | ✓ | ✓ | ||
System Admin Updates |
Access to Download from Account Page | ✓ |
Cloud Native
Kubernetes Monitoring Enhancements
- Capture Log Snippets and Associate with Events and Containers. You can manage the pod logs for both SaaS and on-premises environments. You can also view logs for restarted or failed pods, along with logs for the CrashLoopBackoff events. For information, see Manage Logs For Pods. (Released October 6, 2020)
- You can use regular expressions to dynamically configure the namespaces that you want to monitor.
To use this feature, you need Controller version 20.10 or later, along with Agent version 20.9 or later. For details, see the nsToMonitorRegex and the nsToExcludeRegex parameters in Configure the Cluster Agent YAML File. (Released October 6, 2020)
Ease of Use
- You can now filter Experience Journey Map for additional fields such as device, OS, and location. Learn about all the options to Filter User Journeys. (Released October 6, 2020)
- Automatic Business transaction correlations are now enabled by default for .Net Agent 20.6.0 and higher. For more information, and details on how to manually enable/disable business transaction correlations for older agent versions, see our business transaction documentation. (Released October 6, 2020)
Dash Studio Enhancements (Documentation)
- Leverage the Data Grid widget, select between 3 different styles for your Time Series charts. To more easily analyze and compare performance data, you can now access the Properties Panel in view mode to change the comparison data presented. (Released October 6, 2020)
- Easily view your AppDynamics agent version when analyzing Mobile RUM data. (Released October 6, 2020)
System Administration
- With access to Downloadable artifacts from your Account page, users can download artifacts without visiting the Downloads page. There is no impact to your CI/CD pipeline or any automation you may have implemented. Read the FAQ here to learn more. (Ongoing release started in June 2020)
To view all technical documentation associated with this month’s releases, please visit Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes in our documentation portal.
Heads up - What else you should know
- Your AppDynamics Certification exams have moved! The AppDynamics Certifications Program initiated a transition to a new process for candidates this past July. As a first step in a long-term, multi-stage migration plan, the exam process is temporarily independent of the new AppDynamics University experience.
If you previously received a registration confirmation for your exam, please see How to register for and access AppDynamics certification exams. - Have a great product idea? Contribute to the AppDynamics Community Idea Exchange, where you will be able to submit your ideas, and vote on or discuss ideas from other community members. To participate, sign in to the Community and look for the Idea Exchange button in the top navigation. See Idea Exchange Guidelines for more details.
Thanks in advance for helping guide the future of our product! - As of August 2020, AppDynamics Java users no longer need to choose between dynamic instrumentation and performance when running on IBM JVM. The newer releases for Java 8 don't exhibit the same performance penalty when class retransformation is enabled. Find out more 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 our Mobile App Beta program. We’re redesigning the AppDynamics Mobile App to provide users 24/7 access to powerful performance insights, on-the-go.
Resolved Issues
The following list notes key issues that were resolved this month. To see a complete listing of this month's resolved issues, see Resolved Issues by Month.
Alert and Respond
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Drill-down for health rule violation and affected entities displays blank results (ALERT-6669)
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"Application with id:-1 does not exist" error is displayed when you access the health rules using the dashboard and click on the Critical or Warning tabs (ALERT-6767)
Controller
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Custom transaction match rules cannot be created from Snapshot screen (AMCSEV-768)
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The Pods tab does not display the data (CLUSTERMON-1948)
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The Transaction Snapshot is not displayed for the Oracle Cluster (DBMON-7060)
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Filtering incorrect for the Service Endpoints in the getRequestSegmentsByFilterHandle API (DIAGPLAT-925)
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Some top summary stats (TSS) are bound to the wrong ID (DIAGPLAT-961)
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Enterprise Console now honors timeouts in Windows Stop Service during upgrade (ECONSOLE-6221)
Metadata
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MDS connection pools no longer ignore JDBC parameters in domain.xml (METADATA-9355 and METADATA-9372)
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Upgrade MySQL to 5.7.31 (EUMPLAT-1104)
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Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility
in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation.
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