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This page covers release information for the AppDynamics SaaS 23.12 release. For product updates, including release dates, support advisories, and end-of-life notices, see Product Announcements and Alerts Home.

Enhancements

The following tables list the enhancements included in the AppDynamics SaaS 23.12 release.

When there is an update to an artifact, you can find the new version numbers in the following tables. Version numbers are also displayed in the AppDynamics Downloads Portal.

Agent Enhancements

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Agent

Summary

Release Version

Release Date

Analytics Agent

This release includes:

An option to configure the TLS version for agent to Controller and Event Service communications. See Configure TLS for Agent Connections to Controller and Event Service.
Updates to the following third-party components.
Component Previous Version Upgraded Version
jakarta.annotation-api 1.3.5 2.1.1
jackson-annotation 2.15.2 2.16.0
jackson-core 2.15.2 2.16.0
jackson-databind 2.15.2 2.16.0

23.12.0

December 14, 2023

Android Agent There is no 23.12.0 release yet. - -

Apache Web Server Agent

This release:

Adds support for error detection using HTTP return codes. See Error Detection.
Includes support for RHEL 8 (glibc=2.28). See Operating Systems.
Upgrades the Azul JRE version to 11.66.
Introduces the AppDynamicsTlsProtocol parameter for the appdynamics_agent.conf file. This parameter allows you to change the TLS version that the agent utilizes to communicate with the Controller. See Configure the Apache Agent.
Bug fixes. See Agent Resolved Issues.

23.12.0

December 19, 2023

AppDynamics AWS Lambda Extension for Serverless APM

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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C/C++ SDK

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Cluster Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Cordova Plugin

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Database Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Flutter Agent

This release upgrades the following dependency:

Component	Previous Version	Upgraded Version
HTTP	0.13.3	1.1.0

23.12.0

December 20, 2024

Go SDK

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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IBM Integration Bus Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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iOS Agent

This release includes:

Compatibility support with Alamofire
Minor bug fixes

23.12.0

December 6, 2023

This release includes the following bug fixes:

CDM-9784
CDM-9773

See Agent Resolved Issues.

23.12.1

January 30, 2024

Java Agent

This release includes:

An option to associate error detection methods, log messages, and HTTP codes with business transactions. See Error Detection.
Support for JDK21. See JVM Support.
Bug fixes. See Agent Resolved Issues.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

Java Serverless Tracer

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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JavaScript Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Machine Agent

This release includes:

Support for excluding the Docker Container networks using DockerMonitoring.yml. See Configure Docker Visibility.
Bug fixes. See Agent Resolved Issues.
Upgrades to the following third-party components.
Component Previous Version Upgraded Version
logback-classic 1.2.10 1.4.14

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

MAUI Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Network Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Node.js Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Node.js Serverless Tracer

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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PHP Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Python Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Python Serverless Tracer

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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React Native Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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SAP

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Hosted Synthetic Agent

There is no 23.12.0 release yet.

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Private Synthetic Agent

This release includes the following enhancements:

You can now pull the agent images from DockerHub. This includes pre-built sum-heimdall, sum-chrome, and sum-api-monitoring images. To use the pre-built images, see Set up PSA in Amazon EKS with Docker Image, Set up PSA in Minikube with DockerHub, and Set up PSA in Azure AKS with Docker Image.
The sum-heimdall, sum-chrome, and sum-api-monitoring images are now using base image which is approved by Cisco AppDynamics security.
The following components are updated:
Components Updates
sum-chrome
Chrome browser and chrome driver is upgraded to version 119.x
sum-api-monitoring npm is removed
sum-heimdall
Upgraded the following libraries:
joda-time
commons-lang3
There are planned updates for component and library upgrades which are currently under development. Those will be part of the subsequent releases.

23.12.1

February 23, 2024

This release supports Synthetic jobs execution on Chrome version 119. See Configure Synthetic Jobs.

23.12.0

December 19, 2023

Xamarin Agent

This release includes the stack trace support for the hybrid applications that are built using Xamarin. The Crash Summary page now segregates the hybrid stack trace as native and Xamarin. It helps you to identify what type of code is causing the issue. See Crash Snapshots.

23.12.0

December 21, 2022

.Net Agent

This release includes:

Improved snapshot stability under the high load scenarios.
Support for container ID correlation with Cluster Agent. See Correlate Application Containers with App Agents (For Kubernetes version>=1.25).
A fix that allow correct error propagation when using sensitive filters.
Bug fixes. See Agent Resolved Issues.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

SaaS Controller Enhancements

Product/Component Summary Release Version Release Date

General

The Controller UI now displays the JavaScript Agent version for the browser application. Select the browser application in User Experience and the following pages display the Agent version:

Browser App Dashboard > Browser Snapshots: Go to View Options and select Agent Version.
Analyze: Select Agent Version from the Fields section.

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

ANALYTICS-15910
CONTRLRDEV-3046
CONTRLRDEV-3089
CONTRLRDEV-3094
CONTRLRDEV-3169

23.12.8

April 30, 2024

General

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

TMNT-7218

23.12.7

March 26, 2024

General

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

CONTRLRDEV-2503
DIS-615
TMNT-7108
TMNT-7118

23.12.6

March 13, 2024

General

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

ANALYTICS-15837
CONTRLRDEV-2684
DIS-618
STUDIO-5216

23.12.5

March 1, 2024

General

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

CONTRLRDEV-2378
CONTRLRDEV-2497
PRAGUE_UI-469
TMNT-7001

23.12.4

February 20, 2024

General

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

STUDIO-5197

23.12.3

February 2, 2024

Agent Management

You can now install .Net MSI Agent from the Agent Management UI. However, ensure that you use Smart Agent >= 24.1.0. See Install Agents.

23.12.3

February 2, 2024

Unified Observability Experience

You can now enable Google Core Web Vitals for Unified Observability Experience. 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.

Configure your JavaScript Agent in AppDynamics SaaS to send the following metrics to Cisco Cloud Observability:

Add the Core Web Vitals Widget
Update Columns in Pages & Ajax Requests
View Session Summary

After you enable Core Web Vitals, the Controller UI of AppDynamics SaaS displays the Core Web Vitals metrics. For more information, see Configure Google Core Web Vitals for Unified Observability Experience.

23.12.3

February 2, 2024

General

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

ALTCSAAS-2321
LIC-4582

23.12.2

January 22, 2024

General

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

CONTRLRDEV-2091
CONTRLRDEV-2235
CONTRLRDEV-2243
CONTRLRDEV-2253
TMNT-6904

23.12.1

January 8, 2024

Controller UI

This release includes product optimization and performance improvements.

23.12.0

December 19, 2023

Controller

This release introduces custom tags that enable you to associate key-value pairs with the entities. You import the tags from CMDB (using a sync utility) or the API sources to the Controller and associate them with the following entities:

Use Custom Tagging API to import the tags from CMDB or API.

These custom tags provide the following capabilities:

Correlate monitored entities to enhance usability and manageability.
Filter applications, tiers, nodes, servers, and synthetic pages.
Use the predefined tag variable, ${affectedEntity.tagValues} in your HTTP request template or in an email template.
Create custom dashboards for the entities that match the tag criteria.
Create health rules to monitor the entities that match the tag criteria. Health Rules API incudes the tag properties for the affected entities- NODES_BY_TAGS , PAGES_BY_TAGS, TIERS_BY_TAGS, APM_SERVERS_BY_TAGS, and SERVERS_BY_TAGS.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

This release upgrades the following third-party component.

Component	Previous Version	Updated Version
`zlib`	1.2.11	1.2.13

This release upgrades the TLS version:

Component	Old Version	New Version
TLS	1.2	1.3

See End of Support Notice: Disabling TLS 1.0 and 1.1.

Cluster Monitoring

This release includes the Availability Cluster Agent metrics and following purger settings for Controller:

sim.machines.deleteStalePods.maxLimit: To specify the number of stale pods and containers to be taken into account for deletion
sim.machines.offline.toStalePodTimeoutMillis: To specify the time in milliseconds when offline pods and containers are taken into account for purging.
sim.machines.pod.eviction.cronExpression: To provide the cron expression to run the pod purger.

See Controller Settings for the ClusterAgent.

You require administrator access to configure these settings. Contact customer support to configure the settings.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

Application Monitoring

This release includes the following settings for error detection:

An option to associate error detection methods, log messages, and HTTP codes with business transactions. This option is available with Java Agent 23.12.
Adds Web Server support for error detection using HTTP return codes. This option is available with Apache Web Server Agent 23.12.

See Error Detection.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

Alert and Respond

When you configure a health rule based on baseline, the baseline calculation now takes into account the daylight saving time. If your region has a daylight saving, contact your Accounts team to configure the baseline.read.time.zone property for your AppDynamics account. See Daylight Saving Time for Baseline Calculation.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

End User Monitoring

The Controller UI now displays the EUM Data in milliseconds. To enable this feature, the administrator must set the following Controller Settings to True.

ui.analytics.timestamp.includes.milliseconds

After you enable the above Controller Setting, the timestamp of the Browser Records display the time in milliseconds. See EUM Data.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

Synthetic Monitoring

This release adds the Manage Self Credential Vault permission. When the administrator assigns this permission to users, they can create and view the credentials they create in the credential vault. See User Permissions for Web and API Monitoring.

23.12.0

December 20, 2023

Agent Management

23.12.0

The Smart Agent provides the following enhancements:

Select a particular Java Agent to auto-attach to a specific Java service. See Auto-attach Agents to Applications.
Instrument multiple Java processes with different node names by using the auto-attach feature. See Install Agents with Smart Agent.

23.12.3

You can now install .NET MSI Agent by using Smart Agent >=24.1.0. See Install Agents.

Resolved Issues

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

Agent Resolved Issues

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Key	Product	Summary	Severity Level	Affected Version(s)	Release Version	Release Date
DOTNET-6391	.Net Agent	Improved configuration diagnostic logging.	Low	23.10.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
JAVA-12425	Java Agent	The agent creates data collectors on exit calls and the sensitive data filters do not filter the MIDCs data.	Medium	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
JAVA-12543	Java Agent	The network dashboard does not capture the JDBC socket activity. Logs show the socket object derived from the socket channel is null.	Medium	22.2.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
JAVA-12700	Java Agent	The agent reports too many events to Controller which causes the Controller to drop events randomly.	Medium	23.8.0 - 23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
SERVER-9154	Machine Agent	The machine agent registration fails when the `CPU\|1\|Flags` value is more than 1023 bytes.	Low	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
WEBSRV-1034	Apache Agent	Some agent created files have incorrect permissions assigned.	Medium	23.8.0, 23.10.0	23.12.0	December 19, 2023
CDM-9784	iOS Agent	iOS Agent does not apply some configuration options. Therefore, the Controller UI displays the incorrect values for the iOS applications.	Medium	23.9.0, 23.5.0	23.12.1	January 30, 2024
CDM-9773	iOS Agent	Improved the iOS Agent logging for the hybrid agents.	Medium	23.5.0	23.12.1	January 30, 2024

SaaS Controller Resolved Issues

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Key	Product	Summary	Severity Level	Affected Version(s)	Release Version	Release Date
ALTCSAAS-2321	Alert and Respond	Actions associated with the health rule with the affected entity type `ERROR` fail to trigger.	High	23.12.0	23.12.2	January 22, 2024
ANALYTICS-15837	Controller	When you edit a widget, the custom dashboard displays `500 Internal Server Error`.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.5	March 1, 2024
ANALYTICS-15910	Analytics	When you perform a Query Language Search and click Visulization, the time series chart types are disabled for some event types.	Low	23.12.0	23.12.8	April 30, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-3089	Controller	The reports do not display some properties after importing the report from Dashboards & Reports > Reports.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.8	April 30, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2422	Agent Management	The Type field at Agent Management>Agents>App Server Agents displays Dotnet irrespective of the the specified criteria.	Low	23.12.0	23.12.3	February 2, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2091	SaaS Controller	The Controller UI gives an `IllegalStateException` and displays the following error message: `Max number of active transactions reached:150`	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.1	January 8, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2235	SaaS Controller	User login sessions get timed out on the Controller UI.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.1	January 8, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2243	SaaS Controller	The Controller UI displays the following error message: `Error fetching overall health for servers.`	Low	23.12.0	23.12.1	January 8, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2253	SaaS Controller	Cannot access the shared dashboards, requests authentication.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.1	January 8, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2378	Controller	When a health rule is violated, the Server tab does not load and the Controller UI displays `HTTP 500 Internal Server Error`.	Low	-	23.12.4	February 20, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2497	Controller	The SaaS Controller UI related performance issues.	Medium	-	23.12.4	February 20, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-1945	Controller	Cannot access shared dashboard and it prompts for authentication.	High	23.11.0, 23.12.0	23.11.0, 23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-1315	Controller	Nodes are created or updated even when license limit is reached.	High	23.5.2	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-425	Controller	Nodes fail to register post restart when large number of nodes try to register simultaneously.	Medium	23.4.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-1711	Controller	The Controller reports log exceptions and does not communicate with agents as expected.	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-1719	Controller	`HTTP Status 400 - Invalid application id` is returned when you create an application.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-1458	Controller	When you click Configuration for Violations and Anomalies, there is no response.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-1148	Controller	Machine Agent properties are not visible in the Controller UI.	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-1338	Controller	Large number of nodes created without associated tiers or applications.	High	23.12.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CONTRLRDEV-2503	Controller	Controller stops responding with an `HTTP 503` error.	Medium	-	23.12.6	March 13, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-2684	Controller	Latency issues impact Controller performance.	Medium	-	23.12.5	March 1, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-3046	Controller	The Machine Agent does not report data to the Controller.	High	-	23.12.8	April 30, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-3089	Controller	The reports do not display some properties after importing the report from Dashboards & Reports > Reports.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.8	April 30, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-3094	Controller	While editing an existing Custom Dashboard report under Dashboards & Reports, if you do not make any changes on the Report Data tab, and click Save, Controller displays the following error message: `Please select a Custom Dashboard under the Report Data tab.`	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.8	April 30, 2024
CONTRLRDEV-3169	Controller	Database connections fail after increasing the storage of Amazon RDS.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.8	April 30, 2024
CLUSTERMON-4484	Cluster Monitoring	The sort function does not work on Servers > Clusters > `<cluster-name>` > Pods when you change the time range.	Low	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
CLUSTERMON-4498	Cluster Monitoring	The custom time range created on the Clusters page is not applied on the Metric Browser.	Low	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
DIS-615	Data Platform	The Snapshots page fails to load and displays an HTTP 500 error.	High	-	23.12.6	March 13, 2024
DIS-618	Data Platform	Events do not get created for overage health rules.	Medium	-	23.12.5	March 1, 2024
LIC-4582	Licensing	The Analytics Events stop reporting to Controller when the data storage capacity exceeds 100 GB. With this release, the data storage capacity is not restricted to 100 GB.	High	23.12.0	23.12.2	January 22, 2024
PRAGUE_UI-469	Controller	While adding or editing a license rule, matching criteria for applications does not work if you select Specified Applications on the Application Scope tab.	Medium	-	23.12.4	February 20, 2024
TMNT-6727	APM	The `Permission action not allowed` error displays when you are creating a new role with permissions.	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
TMNT-6904	APM	Custom dashboards display the `Invalid Baseline: -1` error message if you use the Time Series widget and select more than one data set.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.1	January 8, 2024
TMNT-7001	Controller	The Controller UI is slow and unresponsive.	High	23.12.0	23.12.4	February 20, 2024
TMNT-7108	Controller	Cannot access shared dashboards when the custom time range is set.	Medium	-	23.12.6	March 13, 2024
TMNT-7118	Controller	Custom dashboard displays `400 Bad Request` and Invalid EntityType errors.	-	-	23.12.6	March 13, 2024
TMNT-7218	Controller	The time series graph widget does not display application server hardware resources metrics data.	Medium	23.12.0	23.12.7	March 26, 2024
SYNTH-10000	Synthetic API Monitoring	If you select API Monitoring as the data source while adding a widget to the custom dashboard, then when you re-edit the widget, the previous configuration gets deleted.	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
SYNTH-10028	Synthetic API Monitoring	Cannot view metrics on the Sessions page for Synthetic API monitoring.	Medium	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
ALTCSAAS-2100	Controller	Email action names are displayed as random character strings.	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
BRUM-7851	Browser Real User Monitoring	In the JavaScript Errors dashboard, an incorrect error message appears under Error Instances. This issue occurs if the browser error record has no stack trace and the Controller tries to retrieve the stack trace.	Medium	23.11.0	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
BRUM-7949	Browser Real User Monitoring	JavaScript Agent does not report the errors that occur within the Angular application.	Medium	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
BRUM-7968	Browser Real User Monitoring	Many JavaScript errors appear as undefined without stack traces.	Medium	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
EUMPLAT-4549	End User Monitoring	The License page does not display the browser and mobile usage data.	Medium	-	23.7.0	December 20, 2023
EUMPLAT-4670	End User Monitoring	If a mobile application has a zero load for the network requests, the User Experience > Mobile Apps > Network Requests page incorrectly displays the following error: `500 Internal Server Error`	Medium	-	23.12.0	December 20, 2023
STUDIO-5197	Dash Studio	Cannot open or create dashboards.	Low	23.8.0	23.12.3	February 2, 2024
STUDIO-5216	Custom Dashboard	An error is displayed, or no data appears under My Dashboards.	High	23.12.0	23.12.5	March 1, 2024

Known Issues

23.12 Agent Known Issues

There are no known issues yet for the 23.12 agent releases.

23.12 Agent Management Known Issues

When you enter a search criteria in the Search field on the Agent Management page, the search is performed only on the page that is currently displayed instead of the entire list of agents.
The status of Smart Agent is not displayed correctly on the Agent Management page. If the Smart Agent is inactive, it is still visible on the Agent Management UI. If you trigger any deployment on the inactive Smart Agent, the task gets terminated.
You can view the status of the task in the log file under Task In Progress or History on the Agent Management UI.
The container node reuse feature is not supported for any agent.
Even though the Smart Agent upgrade is unavailable for Smart Agent < 24.4, the Upgrade action under Smart Agents tab is enabled. Therefore, the upgrade flow will fail only after the task is initiated.

23.12 SaaS Controller Known Issues

There are no known issues yet for the SaaS Controller 23.12 releases.