Release Notes

AppDynamics Dash Studio is a next generation dashboard designer that you can use to quickly build dashboards. It supports running a custom query for any metric in Dash Studio, see Data Binding.

You can also use the following features in Dash Studio:

• Metric functions: Supports Value, Minimum, Maximum, Sum, Count, and Current.
• Iframe widget: It allows you to embed data in your dashboards from another dashboard or website. See Iframe Widget.
• Dashboard Variables: Includes support for Nested variables for tiers. See Dashboard Variables.

For more information, see Dash Studio.

To ensure that the Java supported services remain secure and efficient, AppDynamics on-premise service is upgraded to Java 17. This upgrade is available on Linux and Windows operating systems.

The following third-party component is upgraded:

Infrastructure-based licenses offer license packages for Application Performance Monitoring (APM), End User Monitoring (EUM), and Application Analytics. Each package includes a combination of AppDynamics Agents based on the single metering unit. It uses CPU core as the single metering unit.

Each agent fetches from a single metering unit. Infrastructure-based Licensing can support diverse applications and provide better license usage estimates.

For infrastructure-based licenses in Controller 23.7.0:

• 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 Summary and License Rules, you can view and sort applications that have analytics enabled. See Observe License Usage .
  

You can use this information to estimate the license usage and purchase licenses accordingly. 

You may want to suppress actions on specific servers during your maintenance window. While configuring Action suppression for servers, you can select the following in Object Scope:

• Servers:
  • All Servers
  • Servers within the specified subgroups
  • The specified servers
  • Servers matching the following criteria - Starts with, Ends with, Contains, Equals, Matches Regex
• Subgroups:
  • All Subgroups
  • The specified Subgroups

You can now:

• Monitor the MS SQL cluster instances. See   Configure Microsoft SQL Server Collectors .
• Use the Kerberos authentication for the DB2 and Oracle Collector. See Configure IBM DB2 Collectors and Configure Oracle Collectors.
• View the costly operations along with the warnings in the execution plan. See  Database Query Execution Plan Window
• View additional Cassandra metrics such as Dropped Mutations, Max Partition Size, Messaging Latency, Read Failures, Repair Age Percentage, and Write Failures. See  Database Monitoring Metrics.
• View additional Couchbase metrics at   Database Monitoring Metrics .
• View the user interface of the  Queries Execution Plan  window for Oracle and MSSQL database that helps you determine the most efficient execution plan for your queries. With this feature, you can do the following:
  • Choose a different schema to explain an execution plan.
  • Optimize the query to improve its performance.
  • If you are using Oracle database, you can view the cached execution plan details along with the top plan operations and the referenced objects.
    For more information, see  Database Query Execution Plan Window Features .
• View the following additional Oracle Server metrics:
  • Response Time per Txn
  • User Transaction Per Sec
  • Enqueue Deadlocks Per Sec
  • Data Dictionary Hit Ratio
  • Cluster Wait Time (Sec)
  • PGA (MB)
  • SGA (MB)
  • Memory Allocated (MB)
  • Memory Allocated Used %
  • Recycle Bin Size (MB)
    See  Database Monitoring Metrics .
• View  the following additional Microsoft SQL server metrics:
  • Active Worker Threads
  • Available Threads
  • Free Log Space in tempdb (MB)
  • Percent Used Log Space in tempdb
  • Requests Waiting for Threads
  • Total Threads
  • Used Log Space in tempdb (MB)
  • User Processes Blocked (min)
  • Workers Waiting for CPU
    See   Database Monitoring Metrics .
• Connect to PostgreSQL database. See  Monitor SSL-enabled PostgreSQL Database.
• Fetch the audit log for for the Remove literal flag in the Controller audit report. See Controller Audit Log   and   Configure Query Literals Security .
• 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.

Support for Gradle 7.

You can:

• Monitor your most important entities and metrics at a glance by using Customize home screen.
• View all events across entities and identify correlations using centralized event feed.
• View key monitoring data in detail with entity centric page and navigate between related entities with ease.
• Get alerted immediately for critical events through  push notifications and seamless integration with messaging tools such as PagerDuty, Slack, SMS.

Java Agent

Java Agent includes:

• Support for JDK19. See JVM Support.
• Bug fixes for Software AG webMethods version 10.x. 
• Support for Apache Tomcat, http4s Blaze Client, Scala, and WebSocket frameworks. See Java Agent Frameworks.
• The Dynamic Services JAR Signing configuration property to enable  automatic JAR signing of the dynamic services. It identifies vulnerabilities in the dynamic service workflow. Also, it prevents loading and executing code from a malicious dynamic service. See Dynamic Server Jar Signing .
• Support for Micronaut 2.0 applications entry and exit points. See Java Supported Environments.
• Support for WSO2 API Microgateway. See Java Supported Environments.

Supports gRPC so that the application can make direct calls to the methods on the other application. It helps you to have distributed applications and services. It provides availability for cross-application Business Transactions and supports cross-BT correlation for NodeJS Agent. See gRPC Support for the Node.js Agent.

• Python applications require a Java proxy to communicate with Java applications in the containerized environment. So, Python Agent includes the following:
  • Ability to configure Java Proxy in a containerized environment

  • Backend resolution improvement to identify service proxy as the backend

• Python Agent is supported on ASGI-based FastAPI framework (v0.72.0 - v0.73.0)

• Python Agent supports Alpine Linux. See  Python Supported Environments .

MYSQL upgrade to 8.0 version fails in Controller. This issue occurs because of the Controller's deprecated parameters.