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Past Controller Releases
The Controller releases occur every six weeks. This page lists the past SaaS and on-premises Controller enhancements since 20.2.
23.11
SaaS Controller Enhancements
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General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.11.5 | February 14, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.11.4 | January 25, 2024 | |||||||||||||||
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.11.3 | December 22, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Database Monitoring | This release optimizes the Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) API, and redundant RBAC calls to the backend are removed. | 23.11.2 | December 13, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Alert and Respond | You can now create a policy for the following AppDynamics Config Warnings events:
See Configure Policies. For a data unavailable scenario, you can now control the health rule evaluation to one of the following:
| 23.11.1 | December 6, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Controller | These components are upgraded in this release:
These components are removed in this release:
| 23.11 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Anomaly Detection | In the Suspected Cause details page, the Top Deviating Metrics timeline now clearly displays the evaluation period of an anomaly. The evaluation time period is the duration in which the data is analyzed to detect the anomaly. From the timeline, you can now precisely identify the time when the issue started. See Troubleshooting Anomalies. | 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
ThousandEyes Integration with Mobile Real User Monitoring | You can integrate ThousandEyes with Mobile Real User Monitoring. This integration combines mobile application data from AppDynamics and internet network metrics from ThousandEyes to provide full-stack observability. When you add the ThousandEyes widget to the mobile application dashboard, you can:
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:
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. | 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Cluster Monitoring | The following event subtypes are now supported to define the policy actions:
On the Events page, New Cluster Events are now changed to Custom. See Configure Policy for Kubernetes Events. | 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Browser Real User Monitoring | You can now enable Google Core Web Vitals in Splunk AppDynamics SaaS while configuring the JavaScript Agent. Google Core Web Vitals is a set of metrics that measure the real-world user experience for loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability of the page. For more information, see Enable Core Web Vitals. | 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Unified Observability Experience (EAP) | Cisco introduces the all-new Unified Observability Experience, combining Cisco Cloud Observability and AppDynamics SaaS tenants to get to the root cause faster with logs. With the Early Access Program (EAP), you can see in-context logs for your applications and leverage the advanced log troubleshooting capabilities of Cisco Cloud Observability. Cisco Cloud Observability is Cisco’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) product for observing, securing, and optimizing large, managed Kubernetes deployments on public clouds (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift). For participation, AppDynamics SaaS tenants must be integrated with Cisco Observability Platform tenants. The Cisco Support team will perform this integration during the EAP phase. For information about Cisco Cloud Observability, see About Cloud Native Application Observability. This documentation mentions features that are currently in the early access phase. Cisco AppDynamics makes no warranties regarding these features, including performance, quality, or availability, and reserves the right to change the features and its documentation including the content herein at any time before making them generally available as well as never making them generally available. Any buying decisions should be made based on features and products that are currently generally available. | 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
General | Business Transactions are now mapped to the automatic transaction discovery rule. See View Business Transactions. | 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 | |||||||||||||||
Agent Management | You can now view all the installed agents on the Agent Management tab in the Controller UI. You can navigate using any of the following ways on the Controller UI to view the Agent Management tab:
| 23.11.0 | November 30, 2023 |
Agent Management Enhancements
- The auto-attach feature to detect and start the supported AppDynamics agents without modifying the start configuration of the applications.
- A command line utility, Smart Agent CLI, for buildtime workflows to automate install, upgrade and uninstall of supported AppDynamics agents (including Smart Agent).
23.10
Cisco Secure Application
This release includes support for OpenTelemetry. See Cisco Secure Application for OpenTelemetry.
Known Issues:
- Currently, Business Risk scores are not supported for Cisco Secure Application for OpenTelemetry. Because of that, you see incorrect Business Risk scores shown on the Business Transaction Flow and List views. Also, the Business Transaction page shows zero (0) Total Attacks even if there are attacks shown on the Attacks page.
- For Controller versions <= 23.9.0, the application dashboard for OpenTelemetry monitored applications will not have the security widget available. To resolve that issue, upgrade to Controller >= 23.11.0.
23.9
SaaS Controller Enhancements
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date | ||||||
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General | This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.9.3 | November 24, 2023 | ||||||
General | This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.9.3 | November 9, 2023 | ||||||
General | You can now create a policy for the following AppDynamics Config Warnings events:
This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.9.2 | October 24, 2023 | ||||||
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.9.1 | October 5, 2023 | ||||||
Alert and Respond | When you create or edit an email action without a template, you can now enter the following details:
See Notification Actions. | 23.9.0 | September 29, 2023 | ||||||
Cisco Secure Application | This release includes support for email based alerts. See Alerts Using Cisco Secure Application. | 23.9.0 | September 29, 2023 | ||||||
Cluster Monitoring | 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. | 23.9.0 | September 29, 2023 | ||||||
General | 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. | 23.9.0 | September 29, 2023 | ||||||
End User Monitoring | To ensure that the Java supported services remain secure and efficient, EUM is upgraded to Java 17.
| 23.9.0 | September 29, 2023 |
23.8
SaaS Controller Enhancements
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General | This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.8.3 | August 31, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.8.2 | August 28, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
General | This release includes bug fixes and optimizations to improve the customer experience. | 23.8.1 | August 15, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alert and Respond | AppDynamics Controller now supports the certificate chain for mutual TLS authentication. When you configure mutual TLS, you can do one of the following:
| 23.8.0 | August 14, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For a failed HTTP request action, you can now view the affected entity name in the notification (email or message) that you receive by creating a policy. You can also access the details of the affected entity by using the affectedEntities predefined variable in an HTTP request template or an email template. See Predefined Templating Variables. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Controller | Upgrades to the following third-party libraries:
| 23.8.0 | August 14, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
License Usage |
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License Rules | 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. | 23.8.0 | August 14, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synthetic Monitoring | Includes a new permission, Manage Credential Vault, to provide granular access control for managing the Credential Vault. See: | 23.8.0 | August 14, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23.8.0 | August 28, 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ThousandEyes Integration with Browser Real User Monitoring | Support to manually unlink domains and stop data ingestion from ThousandEyes tests. See | 23.8.0 | August 14, 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dash Studio |
See Data Binding. | 23.8.0 | August 28, 2023 |
23.7
Application Monitoring Enhancements
This release includes IIB Agent support for Ansible using Agent Management. See Ansible Configuration for IIB Agent.
SaaS Controller Enhancements
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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General | This release includes the following bug fix. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.7.5 | October 4, 2023 |
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.7.4 | September 28, 2023 |
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.7.3 | August 28, 2023 |
General | This release includes minor bug fixes. | 23.7.2 | August 8, 2023 |
General | A new Controller Configuration flag ( This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.7.1 | July 26, 2023 |
General | This release supports Keyboard Accessibility with top-to-bottom and left-to-right navigation on the Controller UI. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
Application | If your application has SAP ABAP servers, the Controller UI now displays the following changes:
| 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
Alert and Respond | You can now select the following sensitivity levels for Anomaly Detection to monitor Business Transactions:
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. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
Alert and Respond | When you configure action suppression, you can now specify an unplanned maintenance window or downtime period (start and end time) that happened in the past. This option is useful when you want to exclude the metrics reported by the agents during the unplanned maintenance or downtime period from reporting and analytics. See Configure and Manage Action Suppressions. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
Alert and Respond | 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:
To enable the health rules, you need to reduce the number of evaluating entities by applying additional entity filters. See Configure Affected Entities. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
Custom Dashboard | 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:
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. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
APM | This release introduces a personal profile icon that includes the following details:
You can view this icon on the Controller UI if it meets the following conditions:
| 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
APM | A new Controller setting, roles.admin.high.performance.controller.enabled , is introduced that resolves the performance issues while managing high volume of application permissions. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
EUM Cloud (SaaS) | This release supports HTTP Strict Transport Security protocol for all AppDynamics SaaS endpoints. | 23.7.0 | July 5, 2023 |
Dash Studio | This release supports defining the Databases variable. See Dashboard Variables and Database Metrics. | 23.7.0 | July 31, 2023 |
23.6
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Cisco Secure Application | This release includes alerts for security attacks. See Alerts Using Cisco Secure Application. | 23.6.0 | June 28, 2023 |
23.5
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Accounts/Licensing | When you create license rules, you can enable a setting to prevent agents from registering if the host has no vCPU information to conserve license consumption for a Cluster Agent. See Wait for vCPU Information Before Registering Agents. | 23.5.1 | June 12, 2023 |
Cisco Secure Application | This release includes Business Risk Factors. See Monitor Business Transactions. | 23.5.0 | May 30, 2023 |
General | This release includes optimization and bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues. | 23.5.0 | May 24, 2023 |
23.4
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.4.3 | June 28, 2023 |
Accounts/Licensing | When you create license rules, you can enable a setting to prevent agents from registering if the host has no vCPU information to conserve license consumption for a Cluster Agent. See Wait for vCPU Information Before Registering Agents. | 23.4.3 | June 28, 2023 |
Dash Studio | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.4.2 | May 16, 2023 |
General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.4.1 | May 11, 2023 |
ThousandEyes Integration with Browser Real User Monitoring | You can integrate ThousandEyes with Browser Real User Monitoring. This integration combines application data from AppDynamics and internet network metrics from ThousandEyes to provide full-stack observability. When you add the ThousandEyes widget in the browser application dashboard, you can:
See ThousandEyes Integration with Browser 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:
For the license entitlements, see License Entitlements and Restrictions. If you have an existing ThousandEyes integration, add and save the ThousandEyes credentials again for this integration to work. | 23.4.0 | May 2, 2023 |
Accounts | 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. | 23.4.0 | April 10, 2023 |
Alert and Respond | 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:
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. | 23.4.0 | April 10, 2023 |
Alert and Respond | 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. | 23.4.0 | April 10, 2023 |
Alert and Respond | 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. | 23.4.0 | April 10, 2023 |
AppDynamics for OpenTelemetryâ„¢ | AppDynamics for OpenTelemetryâ„¢ introduces transaction snapshots in a waterfall view. The waterfall view allows you to quickly determine which calls consumed the transaction time for a given snapshot. You can click a segment to view the resource wait time for its business transaction. See View OpenTelemetryâ„¢ Data in the Controller UI. | 23.4.0 | April 25, 2023 |
Cisco Secure Application | This release adds Business Risk metrics for Alerts. See Alerts Using Cisco Secure Application. | 23.4.0 | April 28, 2023 |
Licensing | 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. | 23.4.0 | April 10, 2023 |
Dash Studio |
| 23.4.0 | April 26, 2023 |
23.3
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Cisco Secure Application | This release includes .NET Agent Runtime Event support for Cisco Secure Application. This is for both .NET Core, and .NET Runtime. See Cisco Secure Application Requirements, and 23.3 SaaS Controller Known Issues for the Cisco Secure Application known issue. | 23.3.0 | March 30, 2023 |
23.2
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General | This release includes the following bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 23.2.3 | May 05, 2023 | ||||||||||||
Alert and Respond | 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. | 23.2.2 | April 11, 2023 | ||||||||||||
General |
| 23.2.1 | March 28, 2023 | ||||||||||||
Database Monitoring | This release includes support for PostgreSQL certificate-based login. See Monitor SSL-enabled PostgreSQL Database. | 23.2.0 | March 16, 2023 | ||||||||||||
Dash Studio | This release includes support to add browser and mobile applications' Geo Dashboard map in the Iframe widget. See Iframe Widget. | 23.2.0 | March 6, 2023 |
23.1
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Cisco Secure Application | This release includes:
| 23.1.0 | January 31, 2023 |
22.12
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date | ||||||||||||
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General | This release includes:
| 22.12.5 | April 19, 2023 | ||||||||||||
General | This release includes:
| 22.12.4 | March 29, 2023 | ||||||||||||
General | This release includes bug fixes for Alert & Respond, Database Monitoring, and Platform Sustaining Engineering. See the following bugs in the SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 22.12.3 | March 15, 2023 | ||||||||||||
General | The following enhancements have been added to the Controller:
This release includes bug fixes for Platform Sustaining Engineering. See the following bugs in the SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.
| 22.12.2 | January 11, 2023 | ||||||||||||
General | This release includes bug fixes for Alert & Respond, Analytics, Browser RUM, and Platform Sustaining Engineering. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.12.1 | January 11, 2023 | ||||||||||||
Alert and Respond | When you configure actions suppression for servers, you can now select the following object scope:
| 22.12 | December 12, 2022 | ||||||||||||
Analytics | IBL usage details are now shown by default on the Configuration page. To hide IBL usage details, set the CONFIG_EXCLUDE_ANALYTICS_LICENSE_USAGE flag to false . See Collect Transaction Analytics Data. | 22.12 | December 12, 2022 | ||||||||||||
Dash Studio | This release includes support for GeoMap Iframe synchronization with the global time range. | 22.12 | December 19, 2022 |
22.11
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Cisco Secure Application | This release includes beta support for .NET Framework. See Cisco Secure Application Requirements. | 22.11.0 | November 30, 2022 |
Dash Studio | Nested variables support for nodes and business transactions. See Dashboard Variables. | 22.11.0 | November 21, 2022 |
22.10
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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General | This release includes bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.10.6 | April 10, 2023 |
General | This release includes bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.10.5 | February 28, 2023 |
General | This release includes bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.10.4 | January 12, 2023 |
General | Summary messages are now added to Custom Events Actions. | 22.10.3 | November 29, 2022 |
Dash Studio | The sorting on the Shared column in Custom Dashboard list has been disabled. | 22.10.2 | November 14, 2022 |
Alert and Respond | Improved the error message for MTLS error messaging. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.10.1 | November 4, 2022 |
Dash Studio | Bug fixed for Analytics widgets on custom dashboards. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.10.1 | November 4, 2022 |
Alert and Respond | You can now enable the mutual TLS authentication method to secure the traffic for sending alerts (HTTP request actions) from AppDynamics Controller to third-party endpoints such as Slack, PagerDuty and ServiceNow. This mutual authentication method eliminates malicious attacks by verifying that the alerts received on the endpoints are from AppDynamics only. See Configure and Enable Mutual TLS Authentication. | 22.10.0 | October 24, 2022 |
Alert and Respond | When a custom event occurs, you can now view its associated details such as custom event type, property names, and property values in the email digest that you receive. See Create a Custom Event and Email Digests. | 22.10.0 | October 24, 2022 |
22.9
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Cisco Secure Application | Includes updates to the Global Filter. See Monitor Application Security Using Cisco Secure Application. | 22.9.0 | 09/28/22 |
Dash Studio | Includes support for Nested variables for tiers. | 22.9.0 | 09/28/22 |
Dash Studio | Disables sort on Shared column in Custom Dashboard list that wasn't working correctly. The sort functionality will be added in a later release. | 22.9.2 | 11/14/22 |
Licensing | Includes a fix to the License Service that was preventing the Analytics Agent from sending data to the Events Service. | 22.9.1 | 09/22/22 |
Synthetic API Monitoring | You can now configure the API requests using the GUI. See Configure API Monitoring Jobs. | 22.9.0 | 09/12/22 |
You can now view the console logs under Session Summary. See Synthetic API Monitoring. |
22.8 Release
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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General | This release includes bug fixes for licensing, Dash Studio, and Browser RUM. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues for details. | 22.8.2 | 11/14/22 |
Alert & Respond | A bug was fixed to ensure that actions are disabled or enabled based on the global action suppression flag. | 22.8.1 | 08/02/22 |
Cisco Secure Application | You can now monitor security of the business transactions using Cisco Secure Application. See Monitor Business Transactions. | 22.8.0 | 08/01/22 |
Alert & Respond | You can now create health rules and policies to monitor the APIs and trigger alerts when the API metrics and the synthetic events deviate from their normal behavior. See Alerts for Synthetic API Monitoring. | ||
Dash Studio | Datagrid widget is now supported in AppDynamics Data Query Language queries. See Data Binding. | ||
Synthetic API Monitoring | You can now import API collections of Postman to the API monitoring jobs. See Configure API Monitoring Jobs. |
22.7 Release
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Account Management | This release includes the ability to create multiple users at one time. See User Management. | 22.7.0 | July 10, 2022 |
Dash Studio | This release adds support for browser application variables. See Variables in ADQL Queries. | 22.7.0 | July 25, 2022 |
22.6 Release
Product/Component | Summary | Release Version | Release Date |
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Experience Journey Map | Custom labels are available to rename end user events in user journeys. See Add a Custom Label. | 22.6.0 | June 23, 2022 |
Mobile RUM | Mobile Sessions are no longer created from the following end user events occurring in the background:
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Dash Studio | Some buttons on the Dashboard and Widget properties panel are relabeled and reorganized. See Dash Studio Widgets. | ||
Alert & Respond | Bug was fixed to ensure actions are enabled/disabled during restart depending on action suppression flag. | 22.6.1 | August 4, 2022 |
Synthetic Browser Monitoring | Bug fixed to enable users with edit permission to edit the API monitoring collections. |
22.5 Release
22.5.1
This release corrects an issue regarding the preservation of business transaction configurations for Business Journeys. See Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues.
22.5.0
Agent Installer
This release includes:
- Java Hybrid Agent installation with OpenTelemetry enabled (optional). See Agent Installer and Custom Installation Method.
- Machine Agent upgrade and rollback (Windows). See Upgrade and Rollback the Agents and Deploy an Agent Using the Agent Installer API.
- Machine Agent installation with Server Visibility (Linux and Windows) and .NET compatibility Mode (Windows). See Enable Server Visibility and .NET Compatibility Mode with Agent Installer.
Mobile Real User Monitoring
The 22.5.0 Controller release includes the following enhancements:
- A setting to enable or disable crash reporting. See Disable Crash Reporting.
- A setting to enable or disable auto-symbolication. See Disable Auto-Symbolication.
- A management tool for uploaded mapping files. For iOS mapping files, see Upload the dSYM File. For Android mapping files, see Manually Upload Mapping Files.
Synthetic Monitoring
The Synthetic web and API monitoring APIs are released. See Synthetic Monitoring API.
Database Monitoring
This release includes new Microsoft SQL server metrics. See Database Monitoring Metrics.
22.4 Release
22.4.0
Agent Installer
This release includes the Tier Naming Rules feature and changes to the Node Name format. Existing customers using the Agent Installer will automatically have their Node names changed to the new format, see Node Name Format.
Dash Studio
This release supports viewing ThousandEyes data for the past 90 days. See Configure the ThousandEyes Dashboard.
22.3 Release
22.3.2
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See the 22.3 Controller Resolved Issues for details.
22.3.1
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See the 22.3 Controller Resolved Issues for details.
22.3.0
Analytics
The following configurations were added to enhance audit logging:
Configuration Name |
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ANALYTICS_METRIC |
ANALYTICS_SAVED_SEARCH |
ANALYTICS_BUSINESS_JOURNEY |
ANALYTICS_XLM |
ANALYTICS_LOG_SOURCE |
ANALYTICS_AGENT_SCOPE |
ANALYTICS_API_KEY |
See Controller Audit Log.
End User Monitoring
When you create a Controller Audit scheduled report, you can filter the data by EUM_CONFIGURATION
filters.
Database Monitoring
Added the Number of Sessions column on the Queries page. See Database Queries Window.
Cluster Monitoring
- The log collection works even if the AWS account display name contains a plus (+) character.
- An option to save the logs in the S3 bucket or in the Controller filesystem by using the
sim.cluster.logs.s3.enabled
Controller setting. See Enable Log Collection for Failing Pods.
Dash Studio
Support for running a custom query for any metric. See Data Binding.
AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry
AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry is a new service to ingest and visualize OpenTelemetry data. See AppDynamics for OpenTelemetry documentation.
There are known issues in the 22.3 release. See Known Issues for details.
22.2 Release
22.2.4
This release includes support for asynchronously correlated business transactions for mobile sessions. See the 22.2 Controller Resolved Issues for details.
22.2.3
This release includes bug fixes. See the 22.2 Controller Resolved Issues for details.
22.2.2
This release includes bug fixes. See the 22.2 Controller Resolved Issues for details.
22.2.1
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See the 22.2 Controller Resolved Issues for details.
22.2.0
Analytics
This release includes a UI enhancement that displays license availability and usage for applications that can enable Application Analytics. See Collect Transaction Analytics Data.
Agent Installer
This release includes support for installing the Machine Agent on Windows using the Agent Installer. See Agent Installer and Deploy an Agent Using the Agent Installer API.
Browser Real User Monitoring (RUM)
This release includes a set of features for monitoring and troubleshooting JavaScript Errors:
- The JavaScript Error dashboard displays metrics for all JavaScript error in a browser app.
- The Summary dashboard displays metrics for a JavaScript error.
- The Instance table lists each occurrence of a JavaScript error.
- The Troubleshooting functionality locates the error in an uploaded source map and source file.
See JavaScript Error Dashboard for more information.
Synthetic Monitoring
This release includes support for the configuration of multiple schedules for a Synthetic job. See Configure Synthetic Jobs and Configure API Monitoring Jobs.
Dash Studio
This release includes support for the Gauge widget in a ThousandEyes query. See Configure the ThousandEyes Dashboard.
21.12 Release
21.12.1
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See the 21.12 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.12.0
Browser Synthetic Monitoring
You can now display or hide the Schedule End Date column in the job list view.
Browse Real User Monitoring
This release includes a dashboard for monitoring and troubleshooting JavaScript Errors:
- The JavaScript Error dashboard displays metrics for all JavaScript errors in a browser app.
- The Summary dashboard displays metrics for a JavaScript error.
- The Instance table lists each occurrence of a JavaScript error.
- The Troubleshooting functionality locates the error in an uploaded source map and source file.
Cisco Secure Application
You can now monitor the security of the .NET applications by using Cisco Secure Application. See Application Security Monitoring.
21.11 Release
21.11.3
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.11 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.11.2
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.11 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.11.1
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.11 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.11.0
End User Monitoring
A new base-page cookie consent setting for requiring cookie consent for business transaction correlation with End User Monitoring. See Cookie Consent Management.
Database Monitoring
You can now view the following roles/states of the
replicaset
and sharded cluster:primary
secondary
startup
recovering
startup2
unknown
arbiter
down
rollback
To view these roles on the Topology tab, you need the Database Agent >= 21.9.0.
The Couchbase collector is enhanced to display the Filter by Phases in the Queries page and elapsed time is displayed for the phases report in the Activity page. See Database Queries Window and Database Activity Window.
Licensing
A new setting to prioritize Machine and Cluster Agent consumption of an infrastructure-based license. See the "Machine/Cluster Agent Prioritization" section on License Rules.
AppDynamics Mobile Application Enhancements
The AppDynamics 21.11.0 mobile application documentation is enhanced:
- User documentation includes the flag to enable push notifications
- General improvements
AppDynamics iOS Sample App Enhancements
The AppDynamics 1.0 iOS Sample App was released on November 17, 2021.
Synthetic Monitoring
This release introduces a new Synthetic API Monitoring product. Synthetic API monitoring can be used to monitor the availability and performance of public or private APIs. See Synthetic API monitoring.
21.10 Release
20.10.0
Agent Installer
This release includes APIs to support upgrades for the Machine Agent and Java Agent on the Linux environment. See Agent Installer Platform Service API.
Dash Studio
This release includes these enhancements to the Metric Number widget:
- A new Horizontal Alignment property. See Dash Studio Widget Properties.
- The Reverse Trend Color and Compared Value Only options under the Compare Time Range property. See Time Range Comparison.
21.9 Release
21.9.5
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.9 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.9.4
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.9 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.9.3
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.9 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.9.2
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.9 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.9.1
This release includes an improved URL filter for APIs and fixes some bugs. See the 21.9 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.9.0
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See 21.9 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.8 Release
21.8.4
This release includes bug fixes and optimizations. See the 21.8.4 resolved issues given in 21.8 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.8.3
This Controller release includes an improved URL filter for APIs and fixes some bugs. See the 21.8.3 resolved issues given in 21.8 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.8.2
This Controller release includes improved URL filter for APIs. See PLATSE-224 in the 21.8 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues for details.
21.8.1
The Controller has upgraded jQuery to 3.5.1 and AngularJS to 1.8.2. See 21.8 Controller (SaaS) Resolved Issues.
21.8.0
License Management
License error messages have been updated for infrastructure-based licenses. See License Errors and Troubleshooting.
License Entitlements
The Mobile Real User Monitoring Pro (SaaS) retention entitlement has changed for Event Data. See License Entitlements and Restrictions.
Dash Studio
- You can click on the Metric Number widget to access the ThousandEyes dashboard. See Configure the ThousandEyes Dashboard.
- A new Previous Time Range option is available with the time range comparison feature. See Time Range Comparisons.
Experience Journey Map
You can now filter Experience Journey Map by region and city. See Filter User Journeys.
21.7 Release
Controller 21.7.0 Release
Dash Studio
With this release, you can:
- Access tests from every account group instead of just the default account group.
- Click on the Metric Number widget to access the ThousandEyes dashboard.
See Configure the ThousandEyes Dashboard.
21.6 Release
Controller 21.6.5 Release
The 21.6.5 released with upgrades to JavaScript libraries and several bug fixes. See Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.6.4 Release
The 21.6.4 released with a bug fix. See MQS-1273 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release
Controller 21.6.3 Release
The 21.6.3 released with bug fixes. See ANALYTICS-13663 and LIC-1257 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.6.2 Release
The 21.6.2 released with a bug fix. See IAM-1926 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.6.1 Release
The 21.6.1 released with bug fixes. See DBMON-8138 and MQS-1267 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.6.0 Release
Licensing
With an infrastructure-based license and Controller >= 21.6.0, you can use a new API to retrieve license usage information by application and by host. See License API.
Database Visibility
The user interface of the Queries Execution Plan window for Oracle and MSSQL database is updated as part of the explain plan enhancements. See Database Query Execution Plan Window.
21.5 Release
Controller 21.5.6 Release
The 21.5.6 released with upgraded JavaScript libraries and bug fixes. See Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release for details.
Controller 21.5.5 Release
The 21.5.5 released with a bug fix. See IAM-1925 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.5.4 Release
The 21.5.4 released with a bug fix. See EUMPLAT-2086 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.5.3
The 21.5.3 released with a bug fix. See MQS-1268 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.5.2
The 21.5.1 released with bug fixes. See DBMON-8137 and DBMON-8139 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.5.1
The 21.5.1 released with a bug fix. See MQS-1261 in Past Resolved and Known Issues by Release.
Controller 21.5.0
License Management
For infrastructure-based licenses in Controller 21.5.0:
- The license summary drill-down dashboard allows you to filter usage data by time and view a list of agents connected to a license rule.
- When looking at license usage and license rules, you can view and sort applications with analytics enabled.
Database Visibility
The Controller audit report can fetch the audit log for the Remove literal flag. See Controller Audit Log and Configure Query Literals Security.
The user interface is updated. You can:
- Return to Queries page from the Query Details page. See Database Query Details Window.
- Check the number of database nodes for each collector on the Databases page. The number of nodes is included in both card and list view. See View Overall Database and Server Performance.
- Navigate between different nodes of the cluster on the database Dashboard. See Database Dashboard.
21.4 Release
Account Management Enhancements
AppDynamics has enhanced user management and security for customers choosing to use AppDynamics to authenticate their users.
Enhanced Security
- You can now have a single user identity for all your SaaS Tenants and across your entire SaaS environment.
- You can have a single identity extended to the Account Management Portal.
- All first user accounts authorize using a validated email.
- Administrators can no longer create or update user passwords. Users now create and update their own passwords using an updated password security policy.
Enhanced User Management
Administrators can now:
- Use a single interface to centrally manage all their users regardless if they have rights on the Tenants themselves.
- Delete users that have an inactive status.
- View Tenants and licenses associated with users.
Experience Journey Map
- (SaaS only) You can create custom views to filter the Experience Journey Map by specified user journeys. See Create a Custom View.
- You can filter the Experience Journey Map by custom user data. See Custom User Data Filter.
Database Visibility Enhancement
- You can now monitor the MS SQL cluster instances. See Configure Microsoft SQL Server Collectors.
- You can now use the Kerberos authentication for the DB2 and Oracle Collector. See Configure IBM DB2 Collectors and Configure Oracle Collectors.
License Management
- When viewing license usage, you can customize the time range on the License Summary dashboard.
ThousandEyes Integration with AppDynamics
AppDynamics and ThousandEyes integration delivers a full-stack solution, which enables you to identify network-related performance issues to reduce the impact on critical applications. See ThousandEyes Integration with AppDynamics.
21.3 Release
Dash Studio (21.3.1)
Simple Navigations
You can now navigate from one dashboard to the other using Single Click Action option. See Dash Studio Widgets.
Dash Studio (21.3.0)
You can now set performance baselines in a Time Series widget by adding a Threshold value. See Dash Studio Widgets.
Cisco Secure Application
AppDynamics introduces Cisco Secure Application to monitor the security of APM-managed applications. The data from the managed application is scanned for any security issues and displayed in a real-time dashboard. Secure Application is bundled within the Java Agent and is available from the 21.3.0 release onwards with the purchase of an additional SKU.
21.2 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 thewatchdog
process instead of for individual agents. bash
profiles fornon-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.
Database Monitoring
- 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 (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.
21.1 Release
Dash Studio (21.1.0)
Grouped Widgets
You can now group two or more widgets on a single card or on their respective cards. See Dash Studio Widgets.
Label Widget
You can now apply these properties to modify the appearance of the Label widget:
- Font Color
- Font Size
- Horizontal Alignment
- Vertical Alignment
See Dash Studio Widgets.
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