Past Controller Releases

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-2379
• PRAGUE_UI-469
• STUDIO-5198
• TMNT-7002

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-2089
• CONTRLRDEV-2242

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-2231
• LIC-4512

This release optimizes the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) API, and redundant RBAC calls to the backend are removed.

You can now create a policy for the following AppDynamics Config Warnings events:

• Controller Metric Registration Limit Reached
• Agent Metric Registration Limit Reached

See Configure Policies.

For a data unavailable scenario, you can now control the health rule evaluation to one of the following:

• Critical or Warning: The health rule considers this no data scenario as Critical or Warning condition, and the health rule status is shown in Red or Yellow, respectively.
• Unknown: The health rule considers the no data scenario as unknown, and the health status is shown in Grey.
• Healthy: The health rule considers the no data scenario as healthy, and the health rule status is shown in Green.

See Create and Configure Conditions.

These components are upgraded in this release:

These components are removed in this release:

• Linux kernel 
• GlassFish

When you add the ThousandEyes widget to the mobile application dashboard, you can:

• View ThousandEyes network metrics (packet loss, latency, and jitter) and network health in the context of mobile applications.
• Analyze the impact of network performance on mobile application performance
  • Analyze how latency, packet loss, and jitter affect end-user response time and application errors
• Identify whether the network is the cause of mobile application issues:
  
  • Network issue affecting a specific geographic location
  • Network issue affecting a specific domain
  • Network issue (latency) causing higher end-user response time
  • Network issue (packet loss) causing errors in mobile applications
  • Network issue (jitter) causing inconsistent user experience
• Narrow down the network issue to a specific domain and a specific location
• Forward the ThousandEyes test with the network issue to the NetworkOps team for further troubleshooting
• Troubleshoot the network issue by navigating to the ThousandEyes dashboard

See ThousandEyes Integration with Mobile Real User Monitoring.

To activate the integration, you need an active license of any of the following EUM licenses and an active subscription to ThousandEyes Network and Application Synthetics: 

• Real User Monitoring (SaaS) - Peak Edition
• Mobile Real User Monitoring (SaaS) - Peak Edition 

For the license entitlements, see License Entitlements and Restrictions.

Your data may travel outside your selected region if you use the ThousandEyes integration. For more information, see the Privacy Data Sheets for AppDynamics and ThousandEyes.

The following event subtypes are now supported to define the policy actions:

• Deployment Added
• Deployment Deleted
• Replicaset Added
• Replicaset Deleted
• Pod Added
• Pod Deleted
• Pod Phase Changed

On the Events page, New Cluster Events are now changed to Custom. See Configure Policy for Kubernetes Events.

This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-1893

This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-1805

You can now create a policy for the following AppDynamics Config Warnings events:

• Controller Metric Registration Limit Reached
• Agent Metric Registration Limit Reached

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• ALTCSAAS-2061
• CONTRLRDEV-1583
• TMNT-6690

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-1350
• CONTRLRDEV-1485
• CONTRLRDEV-1511
• CONTRLRDEV-1588
• DBMON-9307

When you create or edit an email action without a template, you can now enter the following details:

• Name of the email action
• Preferred time zone
• To, Cc, and Bcc recipients list

See Notification Actions.

This release includes support for email based alerts. See Alerts Using Cisco Secure Application. 

In the Cluster details view, the Historical Pods section is introduced under Pods > Filters. Therefore, you can now choose to hide the historic pods details while monitoring the failed Pods.

A new option, View Detection Rule is introduced in Business Transaction > Actions. You can click this option to view the custom detection rule associated with a business transaction. See View Business Transactions.

To ensure that the Java supported services remain secure and efficient, EUM is upgraded to Java 17.

This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-1205

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• DIS-153
• DIS-187
• STUDIO-5111
• TMNT-6547

This release includes bug fixes and optimizations to improve the customer experience.

AppDynamics Controller now supports the certificate chain for mutual TLS authentication. When you configure mutual TLS, you can do one of the following:

• Upload the .pem file that contains the chain of TLS certificates
• Copy and paste the Base64 encoded text that contains the chain of TLS certificates

See Configure and Enable Mutual TLS Authentication.

For a health rule, you can now use = Specific Value and != Specific Value to define the critical or warning criteria. See Create and Configure Conditions.

Upgrades to the following third-party libraries:

• Application Server Agents now maps the number of vCPU count received from Azure App Services to corresponding licenses.
• AppDynamics now calculates the licensed CPU Cores for Database Agents based on the quantity of Database Agents deployed multiplied by 4 per unique database host.
• An option to disable Analytics at the node level using the disable-dynamic-services agent property via Controller UI.
• From License > Account Usage, you can see the following information for ThousandEyes usage under Real User Monitoring Usage:
  • ThousandEyes tooltip describing a ThousandEyes event
  • Number of ThousandEyes measurements completed

Pagination has been implemented for the listing of applications and servers in the Add Rule and Edit Rule dialogs. The backend changes for the pagination improve the performance of loading data and allow for infinite scrolling.

Includes a new permission, Manage Credential Vault, to provide granular access control for managing the Credential Vault. See:

• Credential Vault for Web Monitoring
• Credential Vault for API Monitoring

• You can select connection speeds even when you run a Synthetic job on the Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) browser.
• You can create new Browser Synthetic scripted jobs using Python 3 only. However, you can edit an existing Python 2-based job and choose to update the job with Python 3.

See Configure Synthetic Jobs.

ThousandEyes Data Ingestion.

• Time Series widget and Metric Number widget support Analytics metrics.
• The Health widget supports health rules for Analytics.

See Data Binding.

This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• TMNT-6688

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CONTRLRDEV-1215
• CONTRLRDEV-1348
• NETWORK-6562

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• DIS-153
• DIS-187
• STUDIO-5111
• TMNT-6547

A new Controller Configuration flag (appdynamics.controller.apps.metric.refill.enabled.list) is introduced that retries metric aggregation if the metric aggregation times out. See Monitor Analytics Metrics.

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• CDM-9519
• EUMPLAT-4667
• PLATSE-1432
• PLATSE-1436

If your application has SAP ABAP servers, the Controller UI now displays the following changes:

• The Application > Tiers & Nodes page and the Flow Map view display the ABAP icon. Earlier, the C++ icon was displayed for SAP ABAP app servers.
• In Tiers & Nodes, the SAP ABAP Agent version displays the ABAP transport component version. And, the runtime version displays the NetWeaver ABAP platform runtime version.

You can now select the following sensitivity levels for Anomaly Detection to monitor Business Transactions:

• Sensitivity: High
• Sensitivity: Medium
• Sensitivity: Low

For example, you can select Sensitivity: High for business critical services so that no anomalies get undetected. Anomaly Detection detects anomalies even when the statistical confidence is low and you receive too many alerts. See Configure Anomaly Detection.

The account owner now gets an email notification when health rules with a large number of evaluating entities get automatically disabled. The email contains the following information:

• the name of the health rules
• the applications for which the health rules are disabled

To enable the health rules, you need to reduce the number of evaluating entities by applying additional entity filters. See Configure Affected Entities.

You can exclude data from the Custom Dashboard widgets for the period specified in Action Suppression. The metrics during the application maintenance or outage on your application can be inaccurate. So, you might want to exclude this information on the dashboard.

After you create an Action Suppression, enable the Exclude Maintenance Window checkbox while creating or editing the Custom Dashboard. Currently, this option is available in the following scenarios only:

• Non-recurring planned maintenance or unplanned outage.
• Objects of Action Suppression is Application for APM, BRUM, and MRUM applications. See Configure and Manage Action Suppression.
• Metric category is either Overall application performance and Custom.
• Single Metric value.
• In the Analytics page, if the metrics uses ADQL, the query must only use = operator in the Where clause to match the application name or key..

In Custom Dashboards, if you are using time series charts, the suppressed period appears blank and it helps you identify the application downtime. The widgets like pie charts, gauge, and metric value exclude the suppressed data from its calculation. For more information, see Exclude Data from the Custom Dashboard During Maintenance or Outage.

This release introduces a personal profile icon that includes the following details:

• List of tenants that you are allowed to access
• Links to the Help and Support related pages
• Link to access the Account portal

You can view this icon on the Controller UI if it meets the following conditions:

• The miniprofile.controller.enabled property is set to true in the admin.jsp page.
• The login is SSO enabled.

This release supports HTTP Strict Transport Security protocol for all AppDynamics SaaS endpoints.

Cisco Secure Application 

This release includes alerts for security attacks. See Alerts Using Cisco Secure Application. 

23.6.0

June 28, 2023

This release includes optimization and bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• ALTCSAAS-1628
• CONTRLRDEV-698
• CONTRLRDEV-734
• DBMON-9044
• LIC-3816

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• • STUDIO-5091
  • STUDIO-5095

This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

• • APMC-1395
  • IAM-4626, IAM-4282
  • TMNT-6361

Users can obtain one identity across Controller tenants and Accounts by completing an email address verification process. Once verified, users can use the same identity across multiple tenants and accounts, making it easier to manage their access and permissions.

See AppDynamics Global Identity Migration Experience - FAQ.

When you create or update a health rule for the type User Experience Browser Apps, you can now select the following metrics for the entities Pages or Virtual Pages:

• Visually Complete Time (ms)
• Visually Complete Time 50th percentile (ms)
• Visually Complete Time 90th percentile (ms)
• Visually Complete Time 95th percentile (ms)
• Visually Complete Time 99th percentile (ms)

These metrics are selected to evaluate the critical or warning criteria. You can now monitor the user experience by tracking how much time does it takes for all visual elements within the first screen (above-the-fold content) to load in an end user’s browser and get alerted for any issues. See Create and Configure Conditions.

You can now configure a policy to detect a failed HTTP request action. An HTTP request action fails due to various reasons such as incorrect payload, server unreachable, or gateway timeout. In such scenarios, the policy triggers and you can set up an automatic notification through email or message. You can take corrective action accordingly. See Configure Policies.

You can now request your Cisco Accounts team to extend the health rule violation status beyond the default auto-cancelation period.  The health rule violation status gets canceled automatically when the health rule continues to violate straight for 72 hours. See Troubleshoot Health Rule Violations.

When using Infrastructure-based Licenses (IBL), you have the option to enable license rules that help you conserve license consumption for a Cluster Agent when the system is unable to detect its vCPU information. In such cases, the Cluster Agent without vCPU information will be rejected and won't be registered. This helps you avoid consuming a license for the agent.

See Machine and Cluster Agent License Prioritization.

• A new list view is introduced that includes Last Viewed and Views in Last 7 Days columns and minor enhancements.
• The health widget now supports the within function for business transactions.