In September, v23.9 included enhancements to FSO Platform Developer Support, Cloud Native Application Observability, SaaS Controller and Agent, and On-premises Platform.
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In September, v23.9 included enhancements to FSO Platform Developer Support, Cloud Native Application Observability, SaaS Controller and Agent, and On-premises Platform.
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What new product enhancements are there this month? FSO | Cloud Native Application Observability | Agents | SAP | SaaS Controller | On-premises Controller | Where can I find additional information about product enhancements?
Advisories and Notices
Resolved and known issues
Essentials
What new product enhancements are there this month?
This month, there were enhancements to FSO Platform Developer Support, Cloud Native Application Observability, SaaS Controller and Agent, and On-premises Platform. Find the highlights under each heading below.
TIP | Each product category below includes a link to the product's complete Release Notes, where you can find more detail for each enhancement.
Full-Stack Observability (FSO), Developer Support
NOTE | There is no FSO Platform release for August 2023. For Developer Support enhancements, see the 23.9 FSO Platform Developer Support Release Notes.
Accounts sign-in process
The sign-in process for Cloud Native Application Observability customers has been updated. New customers will sign in through a new URL, while existing customers will continue using the existing URL. No action is required from users, who will be automatically directed to their correct login page.
Anomaly Detection
Anomaly Detection enabled for Kubernetes entities
Anomaly Detection is now enabled for various Kubernetes entity types. This feature allows automatic detection of anomalies and provides options for customization such as linking HTTP request actions, tuning sensitivity levels, and testing anomaly detection in different environments.
App Root Cause Analysis using Anomaly Detection
You can now view Pod readiness and liveness probe information can on the Properties panel of Pods, Workloads, Clusters, and Namespaces.
Cloud service expansions
We’ve extended now extend monitoring support for the following cloud services:
Amazon SNS
AWS KDA Flink application support
AWS Glue
GCP Cloud Run
GCP Cloud SQL
GCP Load Balancers
Differentiate between Lambda and APM domains
Now, you can differentiate between Lambda and APM domains, filter by Lambda entities, and view Lambda details in the unified service detail view and via the Properties panel.
Grafana plugin
The new version of the Grafana plugin includes the Include All toggle option.
Infrastructure Collector
The Cisco AppDynamics Infrastructure Collector now supports monitoring of Amazon ECS tasks and containers.
New artifacts
New versions of various AppDynamics artifacts have been released, including:
OTel Docker images
Cluster Collector Docker images
Infrastructure Collectors Docker images
AppDynamics Operator Docker image
AppDynamics Helm charts
Observe page enhancements
Enhancements have been made to entity Observe pages, including alert messages for unknown health rules and the ability to view the Violating Metrics chart for a metric expression associated with a health rule
Pattern detection for containers on Logs
Pattern detection is now available for containers on the Logs page, and the Log Pattern tab has been renamed to Patterns.
Specify attribute timestamp format for HTTP requests
When creating an HTTP request action, you can now specify the timestamp format for certain attributes.
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Cloud Native Application Observability* enhancement highlights
NOTE | See the Cloud Native Application Observability Release Notes page for the complete v23.9 enhancement details—released September 27, 2023. NOTE | As of 11/27/2023, now *Cisco Cloud Observability
Accounts sign-in process
The sign-in process for Cloud Native Application Observability customers has been updated. New customers will sign in through a new URL, while existing customers will continue using the existing URL. No action is required from users, who will be directed automatically to their correct login page.
Anomaly Detection enabled for Kubernetes entities
Anomaly Detection is now enabled for various Kubernetes entity types. This feature allows automatic detection of anomalies and provides options for customization such as linking HTTP request actions, tuning sensitivity level, and testing anomaly detection in different environments.
Cloud Services Expansion
We now support monitoring the following cloud services
Amazon SNS
AWS KDA Flink application support
AWS Glue
GCP Cloud Run
GCP Cloud SQL
GCP Load Balancers
Amazon ECS for Infrastructure Collector
The Cisco AppDynamics Infrastructure Collector now supports monitoring of Amazon ECS tasks and containers.
Grafana plugin
The 23.9 version of the Grafana plugin includes the Include All option toggle.
App Root Cause Analysis using Anomaly Detection
You can now view Pod readiness and liveness probe information can on the Properties panel of Pods, Workloads, Clusters, and Namespaces.
New artifacts
New versions of various AppDynamics artifacts have been released, including:
OTel Docker images
Cluster Collector Docker images
Infrastructure Collectors Docker images
AppDynamics Operator Docker image
AppDynamics Helm charts
Observe page enhancements
Enhancements have been made to entity Observe pages, including alert messages for unknown health rules and the ability to view the Violating Metrics chart for a metric expression associated with a health rule.
Specify attribute timestamp format for HTTP requests
When creating an HTTP request action, you can now specify the timestamp format for certain attributes.
Differentiate between Lambda and APM domains
Now, you can differentiate between Lambda and APM domains, filter by Lambda entities, and view Lambda details in the unified service detail view and via the Properties panel.
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Agent enhancement highlights
NOTE | See the AppDynamics v23.9 APM Platform (SaaS) Release Notes for the complete September 2023 enhancement details.
Analytics Agent
GA 23.9 September 15, 2023
This release replaces the deprecated javax.el 3.0.0 library with jakarta.el 3.0.4.
Cluster Agent
GA 23.9 September 26, 2023
The enhancements in this release include:
Cluster Agent uses container ID to correlate APM entities with Infrastructure entities. For Kubernetes versions >=1.25, you must configure the auto-instrumentation configuration file because container runtime uses cgroup v2 API in Kubernetes version 1.25 onwards. See Correlate Application Containers with App Agents (For Kubernetes version 1.25).
You can use the instructions mentioned at Install Cluster Agent with OpenShift Operator Bundle and Install Infrastructure Visibility with OpenShift OperatorHub Bundle to install Cluster Agent and Infrastructure Visibility respectively with the OpenShift OperatorHub bundle.
Flutter Agent
GA 23.9 September 11, 2023
Flutter Agent is now compatible with Dio 5.1.0.
IBM Integration Bus Agent
GA 23.9 September 27, 2023
With this release, Java Agent includes support for query statement on Couchbase database exit calls details.
There is now a new option, View Detection Rule in Business Transaction > Actions. Click this option to view the custom detection rule associated with a business transaction. See View Business Transactions in the documentation.
Private Synthetic Agent
GA 23.9 September 28, 2023
This release supports Private Synthetic Agent deployment in Red Hat OpenShift. See Set up PSA in Red Hat OpenShift in the documentation.
.NET Agent
GA 23.9 September 29, 2023
This release includes JIT instrumentation on Azure App Service with the coordinator.
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SaaS Controller enhancement highlights
NOTES | See the AppDynamics v23.9 APM Platform SaaS Controller Release Notes page for the complete September 2023 enhancements.
Alert and Respond
GA 23.9 September 29, 2023
When creating or editing an email action without a template, you can now add details including the name of the email action, preferred time zone, and the To, Cc, and Bcc recipients list.
Cisco Secure Application
GA 23.9 September 29, 2023
Cisco Secure Application now includes support for email-based alerts.
Cluster Monitoring
GA 23.9 September 29, 2023
When monitoring failed pods, you can now hide historic pod details in the new Historical Pods section. Find it under Pods > Filters in the Cluster Details view.
View Detection Rule option
GA 23.9 September 29, 2023
View the custom detection rule associated with a business transaction with the View Option Rule option, found in Business Transaction > Actions.
End User Monitoring
GA 23.9 September 29, 2023
The End User Monitoring update upgrades EUM to Java 17 to ensure that Java supported services remain secure and efficient.
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Where can I find additional information about product enhancements?
In Documentation, each product category has a Release Notes page where enhancements are described in detail on an ongoing basis. Links to the most recent versions are:
Cisco Full Stack Observability
Cloud Native Application Observability
AppDynamics APM Platform 23.x
On-premises AppDynamics APM Platform
Accounts Administration
AppDynamics SAP Agent
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Resolved issues
DID YOU KNOW? You can find ongoing lists of Resolved Issues on each Release Notes page by version. Sort the list on each page by headings, including key, product, severity, or affected version(s). Find Resolved Issues by Product here: • Cisco Full Stack Observability (FSO) Release Notes • Cloud Native Application Observability Release Notes • AppDynamics APM Platform, Resolved Issues for Agents and SaaS Controller • On-premises AppDynamics APM Platform • Release Notes for Accounts and Licensing • AppDynamics SAP Agent Release Notes
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Advisories and Notifications
Upcoming End of Support for Cluster Collectors <23.10 and required upgrade for continued Kubernetes monitoring
Cluster Collectors <23.10 are deprecated with support ending January 30, 2024. After this date, monitoring Kubernetes entities via the relationship pane will require an upgrade to Cluster Collector version >=23.10.
Essentials
ADVISORY | Customers are advised to check backward compatibility in the Agent and Controller Compatibility documentation.
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