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In September, releases included the 22.9 versions of AppDynamics SaaS Controller, AppDynamics Cloud, and the Account Management Portal.
In this article…
What release highlights should I know about?
Heads Up - What else should I know about?
Resolved and known issues
Essentials
What’s new in this month’s feature enhancements?
What’s new? The following release highlights include the newest features and capabilities this month. Check out the table below to see who in your organization may be most interested in or impacted by each highlighted enhancement.
PRODUCTS / ENHANCEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
USER & PERFORMANCE ANALYST
ADMIN & IMPLEMENTER
DEV OPS
AppDynamics Cloud
Anomaly detection test mode
✓
✓
Azure Disk and Azure LB support
✓
K8s custom event for OOM-killed pods
✓
Pre-defined health rules for K8s entities
UI for filtering is enhanced
✓
✓
✓
Agents
Cluster Agent
✓
Java Agent
✓
✓
Machine Agent
✓
Private Synthetic Agent
✓
SaaS Controller
Dash Studio: Nested variables for tiers
✓
✓
Synthetic API: GUI configuration
✓
Root cause analysis includes service instances
✓
NOTE | Product enhancements are described in detail, and on an ongoing basis, on the respective documentation portals • AppDynamics (CSaaS) Release Notes • AppDynamics Cloud Release Notes
AppDynamics Cloud Highlights
NOTE | See the complete AppDynamics Cloud Release Notes in our documentation portal.
Anomaly detection configuration
With the newly-released test mode in the Anomaly Detection API, you will be able to confirm that anomaly detection is working as expected before running it on services in production. In addition to enabling and disabling test mode, you will be able to use the API to observe test mode alerts.
Anomaly Detection in AppDynamics Cloud (GA 22.9, Released September 23, 2022)
Azure Disk and Azure LBs are now supported
Azure services are now expanded to include both Azure Disk and Azure Load Balancers.
NOTE | For your existing Azure Cloud Connections, you will need to edit the connection to enable Disk and/or Load Balancers.
See Azure Disk Storage. (GA 22.9, Released September 23, 2022)
K8s custom event for OOM-killed pods
This Kubernetes custom event is generated on the pod entity, so you can more easily correlate which pods were killed due to being out of memory—for an improved troubleshooting experience. (GA 22.9, Released September 23, 2022)
Pre-defined health rules for K8s entities
More new predefined health rules for Kubernetes entities reduce your time to value and improve MTTI. Detect and prevent issues by proactively monitoring resource usage, whether enough pods are running, and error count. (GA 22.9, Released September 23, 2022)
Root Cause Analysis now includes service instances
Root cause analysis (RCA) has been extended to include service instances, guiding you to the right data and therefore reducing troubleshooting time and MTTI. (GA 22.9, Released September 23, 2022)
UI for filtering is enhanced
Small changes to the filtering bar on both service and service instances pages contribute to greater ease of use when working with our query language. They are:
Syntax highlighting
Queries are now directly displayed in the drop-down view
Health status is now shown as an alias, rather than as a numerical value
(GA 22.9, Released September 23, 2022)
Agent Update Highlights
NOTE | See the full 22.9 Release Notes for a complete, ongoing, sortable, and filterable list of Agent enhancements
Cluster Agent
For AppDynamics Operator and Cluster Agent:
Images have been upgraded to Go language version 1.19.
The Alpine docker image has been updated to 3.16.2
(GA v22.8 Released September 27, 2022)
Java Agent
Java Agent v.22.9 includes two new node properties:
Allows agent module export. See appagent-export-pagackes
Disables dynamic services during the agent startup. See disable-dynamic-services
In addition, dynamic services JAR signing is now enabled by default. See Dynamic Services JAR signing (GA v22.9 Released September 27, 2022)
Machine Agent
New option allows you to specify a custom JRE location for Machine Agent on Windows. Find out how to enable this feature here.
Timestamps are now automatically added to the Machine Agent’s log4j configuration.
See the Release Notes for a short listing of upgraded libraries.
(GA v22.9 Released September 27, 2022)
Private Synthetic Agent
By eliminating the need for an external database (Postgres), Private Synthetic Agent v22.9 has a reduced infrastructure requirement. See Install the Private Synthetic Agent (Web and API Monitoring). (GA v22.9, Released September 3, 2022)
SaaS Enhancement Highlights
Dash Studio: nested variables for tiers
Customers with a large number of applications have already been able to utilize application variables for re-use from one application to another. This update allows you to create tier variables so users only see those designated tiers in an application (rather than all the tiers). (GA v22.9 Released September 27, 2022)
Synthetic API: GUI configuration
Now, you can create a Synthetic API monitoring job through a simple, user-friendly UI. No development skills are needed. Debugging and fixing are also much easier. (GA v22.9 Released September 12, 2022
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What else should you know?
New self-paced Premium University courses are available
In September, the AppDynamics University team released new self-paced courses for Premium University subscribers. Read the details here,
Updates to the University Group here in Community
Introducing AppDynamics University’s own blog, University Updates, located in the AppDynamics University Group. There, you’ll find announcements about new learning products from teacher-led to self-paced courses—as well as accreditation and learning plans. The Instructor edition of the Community Member Spotlight series has moved here too.
The University Group area has a new landing page banner you can use to find your way around the site faster. It includes links to the new University Updates blog, as well as the Ask a Question and Articles & FAQs areas.
TIP | As always with any Community content, you can subscribe to receive notifications by area, topic, or individual post.
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Resolved issues
Now, you can sort the complete Release Notes in AppDynamics documentation by any heading, including product, severity, version information, and release date. They are updated on an ongoing basis.
The following key issue was resolved this month.
ANALYTICS 14514 - Make Funnel Watch Visibility version-dependent.
LIC 3050 - Licensing producing negative maxDailyDocuments for Event Service.
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Essentials
PLEASE NOTE | Customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation.
Download Essential Components (Agents, Enterprise Console, Controller (on-prem), Events Service, EUM Components)
Download Additional Components (SDKs, Plugins, etc.)
How do I get started upgrading my AppDynamics components for any release?
Product Announcements, Alerts, and Hot Fixes
Open Source Extensions
License Entitlements and Restrictions
Can’t find what you’re looking for? Need assistance? Reach out in the Community Forums!
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