Release Notes

AppDynamics provides release information for Controller, on-premises, and agent releases, resolved issues, system requirements, and all current product updates. 

Resolved and Known Issues

These are the resolved issues for the agents, the Controller (on-premises or SaaS), and the on-premises platform in the 21.2 release. 

When artifacts are updated, they are listed with their new version numbers in the tables below. Version numbers are also shown in the AppDynamics Downloads Portal.

You can sort the table of resolved issues by key, version, and product, or use the search field to find resolved issues. The most recent releases appear at the top of the page.

Agent Resolved Issues

Controller (SaaS/On-Premises) Resolved Issues

On-Premises Platform Resolved Issues

Known Issues

Synthetic Services (Version 21.2.0)

Change in Synthetic job failure events behavior (in the 20.7.0. version) affects the alerting configurations. This change triggers alerts for wrong events. 

In this release:

• The events behavior is reverted to the standard behavior in Chrome, IE, and Firefox browsers. The issue still persists in Mobile Browser Emulation. 
• Non-alphanumeric characters do not display in script logs of the Synthetic sessions.

Agent Enhancements

Controller Enhancements

The Controller releases occur every six weeks. This page lists the SaaS and on-premises Controller enhancements included in the 21.2 release. See Resolved and Known Issues for the 21.2 Controller release.

Agent Installer 

• Machine Agent is supported in non-sudo installations.
• Agent Installer supports the Infrastructure Agent.  
  
• A new watchdog process is included with the Agent Installer Platform installation to monitor and ensure that agents are running properly.  
• When installing the Agent Installer Platform with systemd, a profile is created for the watchdog process instead of for individual agents.
• bash profiles for non-sudo installations are no longer created.

Analytics

• You can add alternative milestone events of the same event type.
• You can configure agent-side metrics in the Metric Browser. For more information, see Troubleshoot Analytics Issues.

Cloud Native Visualization

• Cloud Native Visualization introduces options to monitor the health and performance of entities. You can create and configure health rules to monitor the health of the entities. You can use anomaly detection to automatically detect anomalies with entities. This helps initiate remediation actions quickly. See 2021-09-03_03-42-28_Configure Entity Health
• You can now monitor the metrics of AWS instances with both basic (5 minute granularity) and detailed (1 minute granularity) monitoring. See 2021-09-03_03-41-33_Cloud Native Visualization Metrics Overview

Database Monitoring

• You can now monitor the MS SQL cluster instances. See Configure Microsoft SQL Server Collectors
• The top query statistics report for Oracle database now displays only the following statistic type data:

  • Buffer Gets

  • Cpu Time
  • Disk Reads
  • Elapsed Time
  • Executions
  • Parse Calls
  • Rows Processed
    See Database Activity Window
• You can use the SRV Record option for MongoDB. See Configure MongoDB Collectors
• Additional Couchbase metrics are added for the database monitoring. See Couchbase Metrics at Database Monitoring Metrics

End User Monitoring

Experience Journey Map

• You can customize how you analyze user journeys.

• You can customize naming of mobile views/activities with the SessionFrame API.

• You can filter by Internet Service Provider (ISP) for browser apps.

License Management

Controller 21.2.0 includes a new UI for managing infrastructure-based licenses.

Dash Studio (uic - 21.2.0)

Gauge Widget

You can now present metric data on a relative scale using the Gauge widget. See Dash Studio Widgets. 

Time Range Comparison

This feature is now available for Metric Number widget. See Time Range Comparisons.

On-premises Platform Enhancements

This page lists the on-premises releases that occurred for 21.2. For resolved issues, see On-Premises Platform Resolved Issues.

Enterprise Console

Version 21.2.8 – August 31, 2021

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Resolved and Known Issues for details.

Version 21.2.7 – May 3, 2021

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Resolved and Known Issues for details.

Version 21.2.6 – April 23, 2021

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Resolved and Known Issues for details.

Version 21.2.3 – March 15, 2021

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Resolved and Known Issuees for details.

Version 21.2.2 – March 8, 2021

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Resolved and Known Issues for details.

Version 21.2.1 – February 24, 2021

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Resolved Issues for details.

Version 21.2.0 – February 22, 2021

The following enhancements have been added to the Enterprise Console:

• MySQL version 5.6.50 and 5.7.32 is now supported.
• Libncurses and ncurses version 5 and 6 is now supported. 
• Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 8u172 is now supported. 

EUM Server

There is no 21.2.0 release of the EUM Server yet.

Events Service

There is no 21.2.0 release of the Events Service yet.

Geo Server

There is no 21.2.0 release of the Geo Server yet.

Synthetic Private Agent

There is no 21.2.0 release of the Synthetic Private Agent yet.

Synthetic Server

This release includes optimizations and bug fixes. See Release Notes for details.