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Are you interested in seeing firsthand what's coming down the pipeline in AppDynamics? We’re currently running several BETA programs and we’re looking for new participants:   AWS Lambda Monitoring (Serverless Computing) Transaction Analytics Beta Program: Agentless Analytics on SaaS .NET Core: Agent on Linux    As we launch additional BETA programs, we'll post the latest information here. You can also subscribe to this discussion thread to receive an email notification when we post an update -   if there's something new, you'll be the first to know!   Note: This is the most up-to-date list of BETA programs. Any previously listed programs are no longer active have been removed from this post. ... View more

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To log in to the Controller, you will need your account name, username, and individual password . If you are unable to log in or forgot your password, please follow below instructions to reset your password.    Note: The instructions below are applicable if you are using AppDynamics Local Login. It is possible that your Admin set up your account with SAML or LDAP. If you're having trouble with your SAML or LDAP login, please contact your Admin. If you do not know who to reach out to within your organization, we recommend starting with your company's IT department.    1. Launch your Controller URL from your browser. 2. On the login screen, click the Forgot Password button.   3. When prompted, enter your account name and username. Note: You should have received these credentials in your initial “Welcome to AppDynamics” email. If you cannot remember them, please locate that original email. If you no longer have the welcome email, contact your account admin or Customer Support for assistance.   4.  Click the Reset Password button and a link to reset your password will be sent to your email address. ... View more

As of October 15, AppDynamics has released the v4.5.2 of the Agents, Enterprise Console and Controller. This article includes information about these updates, current BETA programs, and a few other features and capabilities— see below for further details.    Table of Contents Feature Enhancements Beta Programs Resolved Issues Get Started Additional Resources Ask a Question   What are the highlights I should know about? These release highlights will guide you through the newest features and capabilities. Notice in the grid below each feature enhancement identifies most interested or impacted users.   Product Feature Enhancement User and Performance Analyst Admin and Implementer Developer Infrastructure Platform Monitoring for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) ✓ ✓ ✓ Machine Agent Independent Release   ✓   Health Rules for Network Visibility Metrics  ✓     Application Performance Custom Correlation for Standalone Agents ✓ ✓ ✓ Full Zend Opcache Support ✓ ✓ ✓ IIB Agent: Auto-Discovery and Monitoring of Database Calls ✓ ✓ ✓ EUM Correlation for Vert.x http ✓ ✓ ✓ Enhanced Masking Capabilities for Sensitive Data Collection ✓ ✓ ✓ Out of the Box Support for Jetty HTTP Client Versions 8 and 9 ✓ ✓ ✓ Business Performance ADQL String Manipulation Functions ✓ ✓ ✓ Extensions AWS Kinesis   ✓       Platform Monitoring for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) To separate the task of configuring APM and infrastructure monitoring, we've introduced a new tile on the Pivotal Network specifically for platform monitoring. There are now two AppDynamics tiles: Application Monitoring for PCF for configuring APM and Transaction Analytics, and Platform Monitoring for PCF for configuring infrastructure monitoring with KPI dashboards, health rules and alerts. Quick to install with minimal configuration, the new tile uses little memory and you can choose which AppDynamics Tile to deploy to each environment. We also updated the Nozzle implementation, replacing the Machine Agent-based metrics reporting mechanism with a light, Go Language-compliant Go SDK. To take advantage of this tile, you’ll need a Go SDK AppDynamics license. Read the full documentation and blog post for details, or learn about our recent Pivotal Award for Outstanding Solutions and Services .   Machine Agent Independent Release Starting in 4.5.2, you can take advantage of the newest Machine Agent enhancements and bug fixes without waiting for a Controller upgrade. The latest Machine Agents are backwards compatible with any 4.4.0+ Controller, so you can upgrade your agents while upgrading your Controller at a time that works best for you. Read the full documentation for more details.   Health Rules for Network Visibility Metrics A new health rule type, Advanced Network, allows you to easily set health rules for metrics related to network activity, such as PIE (performance impact events), zero window, data retransmission, and errors. Read the full documentation for details.   Custom Correlation for Standalone Agents Starting in 4.5.2, you can implement custom correlation to trace transactions spanning across tiers or parent-child threads using the .NET Microservices Agent for .NET Core and the .NET full framework. With custom correlation, you can gain deeper insight into your application, even when the default detection mechanisms are not capable of auto-correlating transaction. Read more configuring this for the .NET Microservices Agent here .   Full Zend Opcache Support The PHP Agent is now fully compatible with Zend Opcache. Get the benefit of significant performance uplift by turning on Zend Opcache and get full visibility with AppDynamics. Review the full documentation on PHP versions and agent support.   IIB Agent: Auto-Discovery and Monitoring of Database Calls The IIB Agent now automatically detects and monitors database interactions within flows, highlighting the impact of database performance on the performance of Business Transactions flowing through the IIB broker. Read the full documentation for details on the IBM Integration Bus Agent.   EUM Correlation for Vert.x http Get the benefit of correlation EUM visibility and Business Transaction visibility with applications built on the Vert.x framework. Read the full documentation for details on supported Java frameworks.   Enhanced Masking Capabilities for Sensitive Data Collection We've enhanced your data redaction capabilities to prevent sensitive personally identifiable information to be collected and exposed outside of the application. For more details, see the full documentation    Out of the Box Support for Jetty HTTP Client Versions 8 and 9 The out of the box configuration for the Jetty HTTP client, frequently used within Java applications, has been enhanced to provide automatic detection and correlation for versions 8 and 9 of the Jetty Client. For more details on out HTTP Client support, see the full documentation.   ADQL String Manipulation Functions AppDynamics users who have collected data in the wrong structure, type, serialization, or format have previously needed to adjust their agent settings to specifically focus on insights of interest. Starting in 4.5.2, BiQ ADQL users have access to string manipulation functions, which empower ad-hoc data transformation for all event data in the analytics event service. With string information functions which return string length() and the indexOf() certain characters in a string, users can easily hone in on a substring(), combine multiple strings with the concat() operator, and trim() out unnecessary repeated characters from the beginning and ends of fields. Read the full documentation for details.   Extensions This month, we developed four new AWS Kinesis extensions for capturing statistics from Amazon CloudWatch and displaying them in the AppDynamics Metric Browser: AWS Kinesis Data Streams Monitoring Extension AWS Kinesis Analytics Monitoring Extension AWS Kinesis Firehose Monitoring Extension AWS Kinesis Video Streams Monitoring Extension    See What’s Coming! Join a BETA today We’re currently running several BETA programs and we’re  looking for new participants: AWS Lambda Monitoring (Serverless Computing) Transaction Analytics Beta Program: Agentless Analytics on SaaS .NET Core: Agent on Linux   To see a list of the latest active BETA programs, subscribe to the  related discussion thread .   Resolved Issues In September, we addressed multiple product issues in order to create an improved customer experience. Below are some of the key issues that were resolved:   Analytics Funnel widget graphic shows no results even when results exist (ANALYTICS-8106) When creating a Business Journey, choosing different data types for Primary Keys of different Milestones causes a validation error (ANALYTICS-8454) Elasticsearch leader election fails in on-premises AppDynamics deployments (ANALYTICS-9498)   APM OIT feature not working on JDK9 and JDK10 because of the absence of tools.jar ( JAVA-3941 ) 4.5 agent does not start with WebLogic 10.0 (log4j) ( JAVA-4020 ) Missing Microsoft Azure search exit calls ( DOTNET-2790 ) SSRS crash due to agent-bootstrap-instrumentations (DOTNET-2787)    Database Visibility Each Couchbase collector should consume one license per node ( DBMON-3895 ) End User Monitoring Some internal errors are being reported as timeouts (SYNTH-2287) Deep link to EUM Snapshot uses wrong appId (EUMUI-1337) Correlated business transaction snapshots fail to open when no EUM session data exists (EUMUI-1496)   Comprehensive lists of resolved issues organized by product area are now available in  4.5.x Release Notes .     Get started>> Download Essential Components (Application Agents, Enterprise Console and Controller (on-premise), Events Service. and EUM Components),  Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fix Details AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release   Additional Resources More on AppDynamics with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, and PCF>> If you are interested in learning more about what AppDynamics has to offer by way of cloud monitoring, check out our new Monitoring Cloud Applications documentation page. We think it’s a great resource— it’s a comprehensive guide on our cloud platform providers and how to keep track of changes in your infrastructure and components.   Update: Simplified Oracle and IBM DB2 Database Visibility Entitlements >> Database Visibility for Oracle and IBM DB2 is now consistent with how we entitle for MS SQL server and MySQL, which is one license for each database instance.   Can’t find what you are looking for? Need more assistance? Ask a question in the Latest Release forum. ... View more

Last week, AppDynamics was recognized by Pivotal Software at the SpringOne Platform Conference for our strong commitment to the Pivotal ecosystem and its customers. This is the first year that Pivotal has recognized specific members of its partner community for their excellence in building and delivering solutions to their customers   Read the complete blog post to learn more about this award >>  https://blog.appdynamics.com/news/appdynamics-receives-pivotal-award-outstanding-solutions-services/     Congratulations to @Mark.Prichard, Senior Director of Product Management at AppDynamics, and team on your 2018 Pivotal Partner Award!   ... View more

Kubernetes and OpenShift are powerful and flexible. They’re also complex to set up, monitor and maintain at scale. Check out @Sasha.Jeltuhin's latest engineering blog for a look into what we monitor in OpenShift, as well as some advice on how our strategy might benefit your own environments >>    Monitoring Kubernetes and OpenShift with AppDynamics         ... View more

Join @Mark.Prichard and @Jonah.Kowall of AppDynamics and Kamala Dasika of Pivotal in this webinar as they discuss how application and business performance monitoring on applications deployed in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) can help you proactively detect potential issues and drive business outcomes.      Cloud-Native Insights: How Platform & App Visibility Drive Business Outcomes Thursday, September 13 10:00am PST Sign up here >>  ... View more