Release Notes

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This page covers release information for the installation, configuration, management, and deployment of the Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises platform components. For feature-related release information, see the Enhancements section. For product updates, including release dates, support advisories, and end-of-life notices, see Product Announcements and Alerts.

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Enhancements

The following table lists enhancements to the platform components in the on-premises 25.1.0 release.

When there is an update to an artifact, you can find the new version on the Downloads Portal.

Product / Component Summary Release Version Release Date

EUM Server

This release includes bug fixes.

See, Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises Resolved Issues.

25.1.1

April 10, 2025

Enterprise Console

This release includes bug fixes.

See, Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises Resolved Issues.

25.1.3

April 14, 2025

Enterprise Console and Controller

This release includes the following bug fixes:

ALTCSAAS-4437
ANLYTCS_ES-17302
BRUM-8261
DBMON-10992
DBMON-10989

See, Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises Resolved Issues.

25.1.2

April 2, 2025

Controller

This release includes bug fixes, see, Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises Resolved Issues.

25.1.1

February 27, 2025

Controller

Starting this release, Cisco AppDynamics will be known as Splunk AppDynamics.
Agent Management Enhancements.
The following libraries are upgraded:
Library From To
AWS JNI
2.22.0
2.25.60
Java pact-jvm-provider-junit 4.0.10 ICU4J 61.1
Zlib 1.2.13 1.3.1
Apache Log4j
1.2.15 2.17.2
Lucene
8.10.1 9.12
ICU4J
61.1 pact-jvm-provider-junit 4.0.10
Kerberos
1.21
1.21.3
The dnsjava library is removed.

25.1.0

February 6, 2025

Alert and Respond

In the Health Rule Violation Events report, you can now view the database collector name linked to a node that triggers an alert. This enhancement facilitates a quicker investigation of alerts by enabling the identification of the relevant collector from the list on the Databases page.

Previously, you had to examine each collector individually on the Databases page to find the node responsible for the alert. The alert now displays the database information in the following format:

<database_collector_name>:<database_name>:<node_name>

25.1.0

February 6, 2025

Application Monitoring

For the .Net applications, you can now associate error detection methods, log messages, and HTTP codes with business transactions. See Error Detection.

25.1.0

February 6, 2025

Custom Dashboard

You can now customize your event feed for databases and servers by adding filters to specific entities. See Event List.

25.1.0

February 6, 2025

Dash Studio

You can now edit dashboard variables while creating reports. See Scheduled Reports.

25.1.0

February 6, 2025

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Resolved Issues

Issue key	Product	Summary	Severity	Affects Version/s	Fix Version/s
EUMPLAT-6889	End User Monitoring	The EUM server fails to start after upgrading and provisioning the EUM licenses.	High	25.1.0	25.1.1
CONTRLRDEV-5112	Enterprise Console	The Custom HTTP URL option is inactive during agent installation through Agent Management UI when there is no Internet	High	24.7.1	25.1.3
ALTCSAAS-4437	Alerting	The Health Rule wizard is unresponsive when a large number of servers causes data loading issue.	-	-	25.1.2
ANLYTCS_ES-17302	Custom Dashboard	Shared dashboards with ADQL queries gives an error.	Medium	25.1.0	25.1.2
BRUM-8261	Browser Real User Monitoring	The Resource Details page in the browser snapshot does not display the resource names.	Medium	24.7.0 24.10.0	25.1.2
DBMON-10992	Database Monitoring	Unable to fetch Metric Browser data using REST APIs.	Medium	25.1.0	25.1.2
DBMON-10989	Database Monitoring	Sorting the table on the Home > Agent Management > Manage Agents > Database Agents page gives a 500 Server Error.	Medium	25.1.0	25.1.2
CONTRLRDEV-4292	Controller	The `sim.cluster.logs.cloudstore.enabled` Controller property was enabled by default.	Medium	23.9.1	25.1.0
CONTRLRDEV-4232	Controller	The Controller does not provide access to the CSV file in the application server deployment directory	Medium	24.7	25.1.0
CONTRLRDEV-4853	Controller	Controller experiences outage, slowness and performance issues.	Medium	25.1.0	25.1.1
CONTRLRDEV-4882	Controller	Browser Real User Monitoring applications associated to the Application Performance Monitoring applications are not displayed on the Controller UI.	Low	25.1.0	25.1.1
LIC-5650	Licensing	The Controller UI experiences a temporary visual glitch.	Medium	25.1.0	25.1.1
LIC-5690	Licensing	The License Summary page displays zero license units consumption.	Medium	25.1.0	25.1.1
SERVER-9881	Controller	Unable to sort the columns on the Servers page.	Medium	-	25.1.1
STUDIO-5354	Custom Dashboard	Shared dashboard displays an error if it contains Health Status widgets.	High	-	25.1.1
TMNT-8442	Custom Dashboard	Custom dashboard takes a long time to load if health rules are configured.	Medium	24.7.0	25.1.0
TMNT-8494	Controller	Some UI elements are not displayed or usable.	Medium	24.7.0	25.1.0
TMNT-8513 STUDIO-5337	Dashboards & Reports	The Dashboards & Reports > Reports page does not load.	Medium	24.5.0	25.1.0
STUDIO-5323	Custom Dashboard	Analytics widget does not refresh when you change the time range. This issue occurs if the legend is enabled.	Medium	24.7.0	25.1.0
ANALYTICS-16487	Analytics	The Controller cannot create an Experience Level Managment (XLM) configuration.	High	-	25.1.0

See AppDynamics SaaS Resolved Issues.

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Known Issues

Events Service

When you upgrade Events Service from 24.7.x to 25.1.0 using Enterprise Console, certain custom configuration properties are reset to default values. You may identify the changes and re-apply them to the respective files. This issue is not observed for fresh installations.

Workaround: You must backup the files before upgrading the Events Service.

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance Enhancements

Product / Component Summary Release Version Release Date

Anomaly Detection

Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance can now identify the root causes of a business transaction anomaly that originated in a server (infrastructure entity). In Top Suspected Causes, you can hover over a suspected cause to identify the call path between the originating entity of the business transaction and the server that caused the performance issue. See Examine the Top Suspected Causes.

25.1.0

March 11, 2025

Cisco Secure Application

The appdcli command tool introduces the appdcli run secureapp subcommand to support troubleshooting the deployment of Cisco Secure Application agents in your environment and automating admin tasks in air-gapped environments. This subcommand replaces the following commands:

appdcli run secapp_feedinit
appdcli run secapp_airgap_key
appdcli run secapp_feedupload

See detailed usage of command options:

25.1.0

March 11, 2025

Library Updates

The following libraries are now updated:

Library	Previous Version	Updated Version
`Elasticsearch`	`8.14.3`	`8.15.4`
`MySQL Community Server`	`8.4.1`	`8.4.3`
`MySQL Community Router`	`8.4.1`	`8.4.3`
`MySQL Community Operator`	`8.4.1`	`8.4.3`
`Cluster Agent`	`24.9.0`	`24.11.0`
`Cluster Agent Operator`	`24.9.0`	`24.11.0`
`Machine Agent`	`24.9.0`	`24.12.0`
`AppDynamics CLI`	`24.10.0`	`25.1.0`
`Bootstrap`	`1.0.1-20`	`1.0.1-31`

25.1.0

March 11, 2025

Agent Management Enhancements

This release includes the following enhancements:

Enhanced the interface to hide the Install Agent panel on the right pane. See View and Manage Agent Details.
Improved the Smart Agent inventory by displaying the last alive timestamp under Active for each Smart Agent. See Smart Agent Inventory.
Enhanced the Agent Management UI to include OS-specific default configurations for agent deployment. See Install Agents.
- Automatically detects the target host operating system during deployment.
- Applies appropriate configurations, utilizing Windows-compatible paths for Windows hosts and POSIX paths for Linux hosts.
Refined the installation and upgrade processes with a more intuitive user experience.
Introduced the capability to schedule deployments through deployment groups for increased flexibility. See Create Deployment Groups.

For Smart Agent updates, see Smart Agent Enhancements.

Agent Enhancements

The following table lists the Agent enhancements included in the 25.1.0 release.

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Agent

Summary

Release Version

Release Date

Analytics Agent

This release introduces support for importing root certificates on Windows Docker image. To specify the root certificate path, configure the APPDYNAMICS_EVENTS_CERTIFICATE_PATH variable. See Deploy Analytics in Kubernetes.

25.1.0

January 24, 2025

Android Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Apache Web Server Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Splunk AppDynamics AWS Lambda Extension for Serverless APM

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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C/C++ SDK

This release replaces OpenSSL with CiscoSSL 3.0.15-8.0.221.

25.1.0

March 6, 2025

Cluster Agent

You can now:

Auto-scale the replicas using Target Allocator. See Target Allocator and Configure Cluster Agent.
Use the new parameter, reuseNodeName, to reuse the node names when auto-instrumenting the Java Agent. See reuseNodeName at Auto-Instrument Configuration.
modify the namespaces in the UI because it takes the precedence over the YAML configuration.
The Cluster Agent and Operator images are upgraded to Golang 1.23.4.

See Cluster Agent Resolved issues for the bug fixes.

25.1.0

January 27, 2025

Cordova Plugin

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Database Agent

Support for pgvector monitoring. See Set up pgvector for Monitoring and pgvector Metrics.
Downgraded the MongoDB driver to 4.6.1 to support monitoring MongoDB <3.6.
Upgraded to the following third-party components:
Component Previous Version Upgraded Version
azul-jre
17.52
17.54
mssql-jdbc
7.4.1.jre8.jar
12.8.0.jre8.jar

25.1.0

January 28, 2025

Flutter Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Go SDK

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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IBM Integration Bus Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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iOS Agent There is no 25.1.0 release. - -

Java Agent

The Java Agent now assigns the container ID only when it detects a valid container ID. If it fails to retrieve the container ID after 15 attempts (approximately eight minutes), it logs an error and does not register agent with the Controller. However, the application will start as usual after the default timeout of one minute. In such cases, review the container or agent logs to resolve the issue.
Supports Micronaut 4.0.x - 4.6.x. See Java Supported Environments.
Records the HTTP 400 and 500 error code URLs in business transaction snapshots. See the enable-http-error-code-url-report node property.
Includes bug fixes. See Agent Resolved Issues.
Includes security updates for the following third-party components:
Library From To
commons-codec 1.15 1.17.1
commons-math 2.1 2.2

25.1.0

February 5, 2025

Java Serverless Tracer

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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JavaScript Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Machine Agent

Introduces Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) monitoring. Enable the sim.cluster.gpu.enabled account property to enable this feature. See Configure GPU Monitoring.
This feature introduces following metrics on the Servers List and Server Dashboard pages:

Page	Metrics
Servers List	GPU Utilization (%) GPU Memory Utilization (%)
Server Dashboard	GPU Utilization (%) GPU Memory Utilization (%) GPU Temperature (C) GPU Power Usage (W) GPU PCIe Tx Throughput GPU PCIe Rx Throughput

Introduces URL monitoring. Configure the urlMonitorConfig setting to enable this feature. See URL Monitoring Metrics.
Introduces an option to specify the maximum number of processes that Machine Agent can monitor. See Maximum Processes Monitored.
Upgrades the following vulnerable third-party libraries:
Component Upgraded Version
openssl
3.4.0
expat
2.5.0
zlib 1.3.1
jetty-server
9.4.56
giflib
5.2.1
jpeglib
2.1.5
ncurses
6.4
For bug fixes, see Agent Resolved Issues.

25.1.0

January 31, 2025

MAUI Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Network Agent

Upgrades the following third-party libraries:

Library	From	To
`curl`	8.7.1	8.11.1
`civetweb`	1.15	1.16
`libcap`	1.10.3	1.10.5
`lua`	5.4.6	5.4.7
`npcap-sdk`	1.01	1.13
`openssl`	3.2.2	3.4.0

25.1.0

January 29, 2025

Node.js Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

25.1.0

January 27, 2025

Node.js Serverless Tracer There is no 25.1.0 release. - -

.Net Agent

Includes the following improvement to Request Agent Log Files of .Net Agent:
- Automatically deletes log file when the log request is complete
- Supports Linux environment
Provides the following support for Apache Kafka:
- Entry and exit point detection
- Downstream correlation

See Kafka Instrumentation for .NET.

For the .Net applications, you can now associate error detection methods, log messages, and HTTP codes with business transactions. See Error Detection.
For bug fixes, see Agent Resolved Issues.

25.1.0

January 30, 2025

PHP Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Python Agent

This release onwards, the Python Agent supports Python 3.12.
Deprecates the support for Python 3.7. See End of Support Notice: Python 3.7.
Provides an option to monitor Generative AI applications that are built using Langchain and AWS Bedrock.
- Monitor Generative AI applications built by Using LangChain
- Monitor Generative AI Applications built using AWS Bedrock

25.1.0

January 20, 2025

Python Serverless Tracer

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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React Native Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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SAP

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Smart Agent

You can now use a separate user and group to install agents instead of the root user, which is used for installing Smart Agent. See Custom Configuration.
For bug fixes, see Resolved Issues.

25.1.0

February 5, 2025

Hosted Synthetic Agent

This release supports:

Chrome browser version 132. See Configure Synthetic Jobs.

Currently, the Chrome version 132 is supported only on the AWS locations and not on the Azure locations.
Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) multi-factor authentication method for your applications. See Authentication Methods.

25.1.0

February 23, 2025

Private Synthetic Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Xamarin Agent

There is no 25.1.0 release.

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Agent Resolved Issues

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Key	Product	Summary	Severity Level	Affected Version(s)	Release Version	Release Date
CLUSTERMON-5545 CLUSTERMON-5480	Cluster Agent	The Pod and container metrics are not displayed in the controller UI after upgrading Cluster Agent.	High	24.11.0	25.1.0	January 27, 2025
CLUSTERMON-5487	Cluster Agent	The Cluster Agent auto-instrumentation does not work for ARM64 .NET applications.	Medium	24.11.0	25.1.0	January 27, 2025
COSMOSX-2139	Smart Agent	The Smart Agent installation fails when using the Ansible scripts	Medium	24.10	25.1	February 5, 2025
COSMOSX-2092	Smart Agent	The Machine Agent proxy configurations are not retained during a rollback	Medium	-	25.1	February 5, 2025
COSMOSX-2050	Smart Agent	The Smart Agent duplicate process is created even when you run the stop command	Medium	-	25.1	February 5, 2025
COSMOSX-2142	Smart Agent	.NET Agent installation fails when Smart Agent is installed in a directory path with spaces	Medium	-	25.1	February 5, 2025
DBMON-10749	Database Agent	When you upgrade Database Agent from the Agent Management UI, it gives the following error: `This agent cannot be upgraded because an upgrade is in progress.`	Medium	24.9.0	25.1.0	January 28, 2025
DBMON-10712	Database Agent	Metric Browser does not display the server statistics.	Medium	24.8.0	25.1.0	January 28, 2025
DBMON-10702	Database Agent	The Query Details page displays an incorrect value for elapsed time for the SAP HANA database.	Medium	24.8.0	25.1.0	January 28, 2025
DBMON-10836	Database Agent	Unable to monitor Microsoft SQL Server clusters.	Medium	24.10.0	25.1.0	January 28, 2025
DOTNET-7425	.Net Agent	The .Net Agent does not fetch the container ID because it uses an incorrect environment variable to retrieve the Cluster Agent container namespace. Hence, the application and agent correlation fails.	Low	-	25.1.0	January 30, 2025
DOTNET-7429	.Net Agent	Business Transactions are not displayed for some .Net applications. This happens because the agent calls an index page without a forward slash (`/`) at the end of the URL. For example, the issue occurs when you use `localhost/mysite` instead of `localhost/mysite/`.	Medium	24.11, 23.4, 21.12.1	25.1.0	January 30, 2025
JAVA-13730	Java Agent	On Undertow server, the interface difference between various classes cause `ClassCastException`. This exception is recorded in every snapshot and the application monitoring is impacted.	Medium	All versions	25.1.0	February 5, 2025
JAVA-13755	Java Agent	The Java Agent logs an error message every time an application connects to the database. This error causes unnecessary alerts.	Medium	All versions	25.1.0	February 5, 2025
JAVA-13858	Cisco Secure Application	Some applications encounter class loading issues when SecurityManager is enabled in JDK8.	High	All versions	25.1.0	February 5, 2025
SERVER-9740	Machine Agent	The hardware monitor script takes longer time to collect the metrics. This is an intermittent issue.	High	24.9.0	25.1.0	January 31, 2025
SERVER-9779	Machine Agent	Cannot download Machine Agent logs from the Controller UI.	Medium	24.7.0	25.1.0	January 31, 2025
SERVER-9800	Machine Agent	The agent stops monitoring all the processes when it reaches the maximum limit of monitored processes per machine.	-	24.10.0	25.1.0	January 31, 2025

Agent Known Issues

There are no known issues for the 25.1.0 agent releases.