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Table of Contents Feature Enhancements Resolved Issues Get Started Ask a Question   We have released the v4.5.14 Controller and Enterprise Console (actual date September 24). Below are key product enhancements, recent agent updates and resolved issues in the month of August.   Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation .    What are the highlights I should know about? These release highlights are 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 feature enhancement.   Category Enhancement User and Performance Analyst Admin and Implementer Developer Network Agent Installer Enhancements   ✓     Network Agent Installer Enhancements You can now install the Network Agent on Windows platform using the MSI installer package. For more information see, Install Network Agent on Windows Using MSI .     Resolved Issues Here is a list of key issues that were resolved this month:    BRUM Page rendering issue when SPA2 is enabled (BRUM-5407)   Controller Validation for HTTP data collectors should only look for field names and types from HTTP parameters (ANALYTICS-11120) Enable/disable backend correlation checkbox missing from the newly converted HTML UI for “Backend Detection” (APMPLAT-11716) Update the platform bundled JRE to the latest 1.8.x release to resolve performance problems (ECONSOLE-4475) Package MySQL 5.7.26 or the latest version in the product (ECONSOLE-4960)   Database Only select statements are being allowed (Lexer Change) (DBMON-3977) Error connecting to Sybase JZ006: Caught IOException: java.io.IOException: JZ0TS: Truncation error trying to send (DBMON-5347) Blocking Sessions page throws a 500 error with any duration over 1 hour (DBMON-5397) DB Agent does not work for Java version later than 1.8 (DBMON-5398) Update DBMon Repo Lexer Version to have DBMON-3977 and DBMON-4181 (DBMON-5431) WaitStates not reporting on Query Details Page for  Controller (DBMON-5549) Calls per minute at tier level not being reported (JAVA-5324) Xpath Split feature does not work in  (JAVA-5952)   .NET .NET Core Linux crashes with ‘invalid pointer’ exception due to exported stdlib symbols conflict (DOTNET-3911) .Net Analytics Dynamic Service - Suppress ‘internal buffers full’ messages (DOTNET-4069)   Platform Reporting Service key password should be separated from the Controller keystore password (ECONSOLE-5323)   UI ADQL search box unresponsive when the number of event fields is high (ANALYTICS-11733) Relevant Fields should not be querying on high cardinality fields (ANLYTCS_ES-926)  Time range selector is not available on sharing dashboard (UIPLATF-5506) Unable to load MDS Guide reference from Legacy Tier id Registration Service (SRVLESS-856)     Get Started Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components) Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.) AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes Extensions   Can’t find what you’re looking for? Need more assistance? Ask a question in the Latest Release forum. ... View more

Table of Contents Feature Enhancements Resolved Issues Get Started Ask a Question   We have released the v4.5.13 Controller and Enterprise Console (actual date August 27). Below are key product enhancements, recent agent updates and resolved issues in the month of August.   Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation .    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 AIOps OpenTracing Support ✓ ✓ ✓ Java Cross-BT Correlation ✓ ✓   ✓ Increased Retention of Granular Metrics ✓ ✓   ✓   Analytics Business IQ Landing Page ✓ ✓   Java Persistence Thresholds   ✓   ✓ CloudWatch Integration (ELB)   ✓         OpenTracing Support New open-source observability standards are gaining steam every day and we are proud to be one of the first to support the OpenTracing Project.  The new OpenTracer uses OpenTracing APIs to capture all the BTs, Snapshots, SEPs, Callgraphs, etc. and corresponding metrics from your self-instrumented applications.    As a generic OpenTracing implementation, our Tracer can be used with any framework or user application which has OpenTracing calls and it will be able to capture the AppD relevant information to the Controller.   For an overview and more information, see Open Tracing Support.   Isolate Problems and Monitor Dependencies with Cross-BT Correlation Cross-BT Correlation will enable service owners to identify or rule out any external downstream dependencies or callers as a root cause before investigating a problem with your service.   With the Cross-BT hovercard, you’ll see which downstream BT your service is calling and monitor downstream BTs that your service is dependent on by showing its dependencies n levels deep and showing its callers for a given BT.  Now you can filter snapshots by the calling BT and see the calling BT details in the snapshots.   For more information, see the APM Platform Notes .   Increased Retention of Granular Metrics In AppDynamics SaaS version 4.5.13, retention of one-minute granularity of metrics data in the Controller has been increased from one day to eight days. This increased retention allows you more time for detailed analysis, reduces the need to export data for external retention and allows AppD to build new features using machine learning to automatically configure new baselines and health rules using this historical data.     For more information, see release notes for 4.5.13 .   Business IQ Landing Page Analytics now has a landing page that consolidates key data from the transaction, browser, and mobile events. The new Analytics Home page gives you a holistic view of your Analytics data, consolidating data from the backend to end user sessions in one, out-of-the-box screen. You can now copy text from the results of your ADQL queries for use in other queries. Reduce Transient Alert Noise with Persistence Thresholds AppDynamics now allows you to define 'Persistence Thresholds' for health rule conditions. This reduces alert noise and ensures that false alerts are minimized. You can define the 'number of times metric performance data should exceed the defined threshold' to constitute a violation and subsequently trigger an alert. This way, any temporary threshold violation is ignored. For more information, see Persistence Thresholds .          CloudWatch Integration (ELB) AppDynamics users can now view Amazon-hosted entities and data in several products by connecting their Amazon account to AppDynamics. AppDynamics uses the Amazon CloudWatch API to obtain metrics in near real-time from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and applications. This combination of AppDynamics and AWS cloud-native monitoring helps identify and diagnose a variety of issues within a single Controller. For more information, see Customize Flow Maps .   Resolved Issues The following list notes key issues that were resolved this month:    Analytics Analytics search throws error “Current user does not have access to current account details” for all non-admin users (ANALYTICS-10851) Controller View button working correctly when using https endpoints (APMPLAT-7641) Object Instance Tracking: NullPointerException thrown when agent configuration is absent on all hierarchy levels (APMPLAT-11234) Potential Issues with blank line items display correctly for error snapshot (APMPLAT-11861) Invocation Trace is blank (APMPLAT-12073) Update the JRE bundled with the EUM Server to the latest 1.8.x release (EUMPLAT-131)   Database DB agent stops sending entity collectors data to all collectors (DBMON-5012) Server Metric Browser for SIM not working correctly after upgrade (SERVER-6610)   Platform Upgrade the Enterprise Console’s and Controller’s MySQL version to include the latest security updates (ECONSOLE-4183) EUM installer is bundled with MySQL 5.7.26 or the latest version (EUMPLAT-180) EUM license module shouldn’t be updated when someone accesses the license usage from the Controller UI (EUMPLAT-191) UI Highcharts are displaying graph times in UTC instead of the customer’s time zone (UIPLATF-7168)   Get Started Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components) Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.) AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes Extensions   Can’t find what you’re looking for? 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Table of Contents Feature Enhancements Resolved Issues Get Started Ask a Question   We have released the v4.5.11 Controller and Enterprise Console (actual date July 8), 😎  and v4.5.12 Controller and Enterprise Console (actual date July 31). Below are key product enhancements, recent agent updates and resolved issues in the month of July.   Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation .    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 / Dev-Ops Serverless APM for AWS Lambda is now generally available   ✓ ✓ Java Updated agent API package   ✓   Network Network Agent REST APIs Default Settings Updated   ✓   .NET Custom HTTP Discovery Rules for .NET Agent for Linux   ✓   AIOps Platform Boolean Health Rules   ✓     Serverless APM for AWS Lambda is now generally available We're delighted to announce that AppDynamics Serverless APM, which supports instrumenting AWS Lambda applications and microservices in Java, is now available to our SaaS customers through the AWS Marketplace. Serverless APM for AWS Lambda is generally available for SaaS Controllers, version 4.5.11 and later. Serverless APM requires a subscription through AWS Marketplace.    To learn more, read AppDynamics Provides Comprehensive Observability through Serverless APM for AWS Lambda .   Updated agent API package See, Java API User Guide for more details on the common use cases for the API.    Network Agent REST APIs Default Settings Updated The REST APIs for Network Agent version 4.5.7 or earlier are bound to all available network interfaces. With agent version 4.5.8, the REST APIs are by default bound to the localhost only. You can change this configuration using 'webservice_ip' parameter in the agent_config.lua file. This affects the docker and Kubernetes deployment of the Network Agent.   For more information, see:  Network Visibility with Kubernetes - Creating a Docker Image Install the Network Agent in a Docker Container   Custom HTTP Discovery Rules for .NET Agent for Linux This release brings the .NET Agent for Linux closer to parity with the .NET Agent for Windows by providing a feature preview for HTTP backend detection and naming using Custom HTTP Discovery Rules. Configure the .NET Agent for Linux to detect HTTP backends using URI segments, instead of detecting and naming the backend using the default autodiscovery rules that identify the backend based solely on the Host and Port. Using Custom HTTP Discovery rules is especially useful to detect and name HTTP backends behind an API gateway or portal. Defining the HTTP backend based on the URL segments in the Custom HTTP Discovery rule enables AppDynamics to resolve the HTTP backends to tiers properly, giving you accurate metrics for your API services.   See HTTP Backend Detection and .NET Backend Detection.   Boolean Expression to Evaluate Health Rule Conditions  You can now define a boolean expression using AND and OR operators to evaluate complex health rule conditions for entities in your application. The health rule is considered to violate if the boolean expression evaluates to 'true'.    The advantages of using a boolean expression are:  reduces the need to create multiple health rules to monitor various performance metrics. It allows you to evaluate complex criteria for multiple conditions in one go  well-calibrated boolean expression ensures reduced false alerts  easy to create and maintain health rules with complex evaluation criteria using simple condition names. Conditions are named as A, B, C and so on  allows the use of AND and OR operators to define a highly complex expression comprising a maximum of 8 conditions    For more information, see Health Rule Conditions and Configure Health Rule Conditions .       Resolved Issues Here is a list of key issues that were resolved this month:  Controller “Invocation Trace” is blank when navigating to “Snapshot > Slow calls and errors > Hotspots” (APMPLAT-12074) Database Custom POJO rules not working with agent version 4.5.8 (JAVA-5837) UI Highcharts are displaying graphs time in UTC instead of customer’s time zone (UIPLATF-7108) Platform Case sensitivity naming of “primary” and “secondary” in high availability (HA) deployments causes a NullPoint exception when Enterprise Console executes a job (ECONSOLE-4677) The JAR file ‘mysql-timezone-util.jar’ throws the error “Cannot determine system time zone.” when calling systemTimezone.getId() (PLATCPS-10919) Machine agent continues to monitor Non-APM containers when “sim.docker.monitorAPMContainersOnly” flipped to true (SERVER-6266)   Get Started Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components) Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.) AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes Extensions   Can’t find what you’re looking for? 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Table of Contents  Feature Enhancements Resolved Issues Get Started Ask a Question     Below are key product enhancements, recent agent updates, and resolved issues in the month of June. We did not have a Controller and Enterprise Console release, v4.5.10 was skipped.     Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation .      What are the highlights I should know about? These release highlights are 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 feature enhancement.   Enhancement User and Performance  Analyst Admin and Implementer Developer Executor Mode Thread Tracing ✓ ✓   Disable Agent API flag   ✓   Node.js Proxyless Support   ✓   Synthetics Private Agent On-Premises Enhancements   ✓   ✓   Simplify Network Agent Configuration on Multi-Tenant Hosts ✓ ✓ ✓ Monitor Java Application running on Windows   ✓  ✓   Capture More Information on Asynchronous Calls with Executor Mode Thread Tracing When the agent is in executor mode, transaction activity is tracked from thread to thread.  Benefits include: Reduces the agent's resource consumption for most use-cases Enables tracking thread hand-offs using the new agent API Improves reliability of last thread on tier asynchronous transaction demarcation Allows Service Endpoints to measure the response time of services implemented using asynchronous frameworks   For more information, see Threading and the Java Agent in 4.5.x Documentation   Disable All Calls to the agent-API Library with disable-agent-API Node Property This new kill-switch flag allows you to disable all calls to the agent-api library, The calls function as no-ops when disabled. See App Agent Node Properties for more information.   Node.js Agent Support for Libagent AppD has integrated libagent to Node.js agent, allowing it to support both proxy and libagent.   Synthetics Private Agent On-Premise Enhancements Now you can install the Synthetic Private Agent in any directory and test applications behind your firewall (previously available on SaaS only).  Other enhancements include: Firefox was upgraded from version 61 to version 66 ChromeDriver was upgraded from version 2.35 to version 2.37   Simplify Network Agent Configuration on Multi-Tenant Hosts Network Agent version 4.5.7 and Java Agent version 4.5.11 eliminate the need to separately configure the Network Agent in a multi-tenant setup when running multiple nodes on the same machine.   Monitor Java Applications Running on Windows You can now set up Network Visibility features to monitor Java applications running on Windows operating systems. You need a Network Visibility license to enable and use Network Visibility features. Refer to Windows System Requirements for more information.   For more information, see the Network Agent Release Notes .   Resolved Issues Here is a list of key issues that were resolved this month: Analytics Metrics on Analytics events stopped populating (ANALYTICS-11210) Metrics on custom events stopped populating (ANALYTICS-11211)   BRUM Resource timing information is not captured when applications are instrumented with the 4.5.8 and 4.5.9 JavaScript Agent and SPA is not set to true (BRUM-5122)   Controller Remote services no longer display the business transaction information in the hover when clicking on the edge (APMPLAT-6143) File “UnresolvedBackendCallInfoDao.jar” performs unsafe sort methods (APMPLAT-8298)   Machine Agent SIM process metrics stops reporting after couple of hours particularly on Windows 2012 R2 in customer environment (SERVER-6256)   Platform Timeseries chart widget in custom dash does not scale with large data sets (UIPLATF-6200) Dashboard widget does not show Green Color since Controller Upgrade to 4.5.9 (UIPLATF-6824) Major garbage collection icon shown for every data point on node -> memory tab (UIPLATF-6828) Get Started Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components) Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.) AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes Extensions   Can’t find what you are looking for? Need more assistance? Ask a question in the Latest Release forum. ... View more

Table of Contents Feature Enhancements Resolved Issues Get Started Ask a Question   Below are key product enhancements, recent agent updates, and resolved issues in the month of May. We did not have a Controller and Enterprise Console release, v4.5.10 was skipped.    Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation .   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 Java Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Split-Join Support      ✓ ✓ Amazon Corretto JVM certification (4.5.10)    ✓ ✓   ✓   .NET .NET Agent for Linux now supports access to Controller using proxy   ✓   Machine Agent Support for JRE 1.8.0_212   ✓   PHP Agent Support for phpredis version 4.1 (4.5.10)   ✓         Oracle Service Bus (OSB) Split-Join Support and Amazon Corretto JVM certification (4.5.10) The Split - Join can be a very useful tool to reduce the processing time of OSB services and out-of-the-box support enables full visibility into all the parallel activities within services implemented using this technique. Java agent has added support for OSB split-join and JMS and added exit support for Jetty Reactive HTTP Client and EUM support for Reactor Netty entry, plus JMS support for Mule 4.1.x and support for Amazon Corretto JVM v8 and v11. See Java Agent Notes, 4.5.10   The  Amazon Corretto openJDK distribution is now certified with the AppDynamics java agent ensuring support for users of this freely supported open JDK distribution can instrument critical production applications deployed on it    .NET Agent for Linux now supports access to Controller using proxy (4.5.11) The .NET Agent and .NET SDK for Linux now support proxy access to the Controller. You can configure the proxy in the AppDynamicsConfig.json file or by defining the relevant environment variables.    See  .NET Agent for Linux Environment Variables , .NET Agent for Linux Advanced Configuration Options , and Using .NET Core for Linux SDK , summarized in .NET Agent Notes, 4.5.11 Updates .   Machine Agent Support for JRE 1.8.0_212 (4.5.11) There is now support for JRE 1.8.0_212 is bundled with the Machine Agent on Linux. See Machine Agent Notes, 4.5.11 (Agent) Updates .   PHP Agent Support for phpredis version 4.1 (4.5.10)  See PHP Agent Notes, 4.5.10 Updates .     Resolved Issues The following list notes key issues that were resolved this month:    Analytics Exporting Analytics Report as .csv not working on Windows machine (ANALYTICS-9588)   Dotnet POCO business transactions are not identified in Azure Service Fabric app (DOTNET-3485)   Machine Agent Http proxy auth fixes - logging & toggle to prevent basic auth header removal (SERVER-5549)   Platform Selected server is not displayed for single metric selection on the configuration screen (UIPLATF-6598) Displaying Label in MB whereas the data is coming in bytes. (UIPLATF-6771) Custom Dashboard widgets go blank on Chrome browser after 4.4 upgrades (UIPLATF-6806)   Get Started Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components) Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.) AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes Extensions   Can’t find what you’re looking for? Need more assistance? Ask a question in the Latest Release forum. ... View more

Table of Contents Feature Enhancements Heads Up - What Else You Should Know Beta Programs Resolved Issues Get Started Ask a Question   In January, we released the v4.5.17 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.   Please note: customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation .    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 AIOps Platform Redesigned ServiceNow integration ✓ ✓   Business Insights Experience Journey Map Beta ✓   ✓ Cloud Native / DevOps IAM Role Designation for CloudWatch Integration     ✓   Ease of Use Added vizualization capabilities in Dash Studio ✓ ✓   ✓ Enhanced CRUD API for health rules and policies ✓ ✓   ✓     AIOps Platform ServiceNow users can now see which applications and services their infrastructure supports together with the customer experience they deliver, their business impact and technical health. Upon issues, users can seamlessly navigate from ServiceNow views right into AppDynamics, in context, for analysis and resolution.   To learn more about the .NET Core 3.0 support along with our support for key Azure technologies, view our webinar on November 20, and access our documentation .   Business Insights The Experience Journey Map beta provides customers with the ability to visualize all their most important journeys throughout the application. Customers will see these journeys in the context of performance to determine where investment can enhance the experience for the most number of users. SaaS customers can enroll in the beta via the registration form .   Cloud Native / DevOps We have added IAM Role Delegation to allow you to connect your Amazon account to AppDynamics. AppDynamics uses the Amazon CloudWatch API to obtain metrics in near real-time from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and applications. This combination of AppDynamics and AWS cloud-native monitoring helps identify and diagnose a variety of issues within a single Controller. For more information, see Customize Flow Maps .    Ease of Use Leverage the Health Status widgets in Dash Studio to display critical health information on your dashboards. Plus, all customers can now gain granular insights into performance trends across 2 different time periods by leveraging time range comparisons within the Time Series widget .    Manage more easily and programmatically automate your applications’ alerting at scale, with the enhanced CRUD API to programmatically configure, modify, delete and replicate your health rules and policies across numerous applications.   Heads up - What else you should know  To help you more easily understand the length of support, compatibility, and stability, AppDynamics will implement a calendar-based approach to versioning for all downloadable products starting March 2020. The release version format will reflect the date of release like so: YY. Mo. X (ex: 20.3.0 for a March 2020 release). For more information, read the FAQ here.   Share your feedback! Participate in a Beta today We’re currently running  three 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 Experience Journey Map beta available for all SaaS customers by completing the registration form . Sign up for the Beta program for our Lambda Python Serverless Tracer using our self service form. There's more information on our 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 — January 2020   Controller - Analytics Updating data collector config enabled for transaction analytics throws 500 ISE (ANALYTICS-11955) ADQL graphs display "no data found" when data is received (ANALYTICS-12005) Analytics unable to locate internal Events Service endpoint to connect Analytics with the Java Agent (ANALYTICS-12178) Analytics - Table widget is missing progress bar and toolbar ( ANALYTICS-12216) [4.5.17] Analytics fails to sync with controller if Access Key is changed by using License Rules   ( ANALYTICS-12270)   Dashboards Shared dashboard does not display health status of server widgets ( UIPLATF-8660)   Database Agent Fixed in 4.5.16.next - Rework event pipeline so it doesn't consume threads (CLUSTERMON-133) MSSQL: Hardware CPU %Busy issue (DBMON-5753) CLONE - None of the DB collectors are reporting after controller upgrade to 4.5.17 (DBMON-6201)   Enterprise Console The MySQL Timezone file now installs in the correct folder for the Enterprise Console Windows installation (ECONSOLE-5711) The table_definition_cache value was increased to prevent database schema upgrade failures (ECONSOLE-5747)   Node.js Nodejs agent does not capture stack trace on uncaught exceptions after v4.5.14 (DLNATIVE-2549)   Synthetic Private Agent IE11 agents lock up when attempting a URL measurement ( SYNTH-4271)   Services The script 'synthetic-sql-schema.sh' of the Synthetic Server installer fails if the environment has no JRE     ( SYNTH-4620) Provisioning pure On-premise license throws HMAC error ( SYNTH-4940)   UI Crash groups are now updated correctly with last seen timestamp for On-premise Controllers ( CDM-5802) The Incident drill down page now redirects to the appropriate application based on the application context ( SERVER-6935) The Machine Agent no longer shows availability greater than 100% ( SERVER-7930)     Get Started Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components) Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.) AppDynamics Upgrade Checklist For Any Release Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes Extensions   Can’t find what you’re looking for? 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