Release Notes - VMware Tanzu Tile

• Added advanced configuration option to override the name of the Splunk AppDynamics Service exported by Splunk AppDynamics Service Broker. The overridden name of the service must have prefix as appdynamics.
• Fixed missing image in MarketPlace UI.

• Splunk AppDynamics Buildpack now supports Application Container Correlation for Node.js application when used in tandem with Splunk AppDynamics Platform Monitoring Tile v4.7.237 or later.
• Added (obfuscated) Account Access Key Secret field. This field can be used with versions 4.7.x and later of the Splunk AppDynamics buildpack, and version 4.19.2 and later of the Java buildpack. We recommend that you update both the APM tile and Java or Splunk AppDynamics buildpacks to the latest version, in order to use this field. The unobfuscated field is deprecated and will be removed starting from version 5.0 of the APM tile.

Support for obfuscation of the Account Access Key requires changes to the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable used by buildpacks and the APM Service Broker tile. The new Account Access Key Secret field can only be used if both the buildpack and tile versions support this change. Using the obfuscated field will change the representation in VCAP_SERVICES to:

VCAP_SERVICES[“appdynamics”][“credentials”][“account-access-secret”] = { “secret”: “<access_key>“}

VCAP_SERVICES[“appdynamics”][“credentials”][“account-access-key”] = “<access_key>”

The Splunk AppDynamics extension buildpack, adds multibuildpack support for .NET Core Linux, .NET Core Windows, .NET HWC, Python and Golang applications.

Java support added to the Splunk AppDynamics Extension Buildpack.
Splunk AppDynamics Extension Buildpack now supports Advanced configuration for the Java Agent.
When Splunk AppDynamics Extension Buildpack is used in tandem with the java_buildpack sensitive information is automatically masked.

The Splunk AppDynamics Application Analytics Agent is no longer part of this tile.
Splunk AppDynamics Application Analytics for VMware Tanzu is released as a separate tile on the Pivotal Network.

Added Splunk AppDynamics Buildpack
.NET applications supported by hwc buildpack can be instrumented now by using the Splunk AppDynamics Buildpack in tandem with hwc_buildpack (v3.0 or later) using multibuildpack approach.
Must use cf CLI v6.38 or later and HWC Buildpack v3.0 or later to use multibuildpacks.

Platform Metrics has been moved and managed as a different tile, Splunk AppDynamics Platform Monitoring for VMware Tanzu, starting this release.
The tile now contains Splunk AppDynamics Service Broker and Splunk AppDynamics Transactional Analytics.

Features

• Improvements to the Splunk AppDynamics Dashboard Application.
• Simplified SSL enabled communication configuration between tile and Splunk AppDynamics Controller.
• Set the certificate in the security-config of the BOSH Director, the tile picks it up automatically. For information, see Security Page.

Features

• Simplified SSL configuration for Splunk AppDynamics Controllers, but importing DigiCert Root CA automatically to key store.
• Dashboard improvements.

Features

• Improvements to the Splunk AppDynamics Dashboard Application.
• Fixes issues noticed on Splunk AppDynamics Dashboard Application installation on some private cloud deployments.

Features

This major release now contains an Splunk AppDynamics Machine Agent and an extension that talks to a custom nozzle and collects KPI metrics from the cloud-foundry environment. Also, a dashboard application is included that automatically generates the custom dashboard on Splunk AppDynamics Controller. For more information, see Splunk AppDynamics KPI Dashboard and Metrics.

The tile contains:

• Splunk AppDynamics Service Broker, for instrumentation of applications
• Splunk AppDynamics Machine Agent, for collecting KPI metrics through Loggregator
• Splunk AppDynamics Dashboard Application, for displaying the above collected metrics in a neat UI dashboard on controller

Limitations

The tile requires having VMware Tanzu Ops Manager: v2.0.7 or later.

The tile cannot be used for OpsManager with Cloud Foundry versions later than v2.0.7, since the Loggregator component (reverse_log_proxy) needed for extracting the KPI metrics is not exposed.