AppDynamics SaaS Controller Enhancements

Note: The software for the update described in this release note may be provided to select customers as an early release prior to GA. Release notes provided during such early access period may have certain inaccuracies such as missing documentation and are subject to change at the sole discretion of Cisco or Splunk, as applicable.


Product / Component	Summary	Release Version	Release Date
AI Agent Monitoring	This release introduces the AI Agent Monitoring feature that provides end-to-end visibility of the large language model (LLM) based applications. You can monitor applications, infrastructure, databases, and GenAI workloads in a single view, with key insights into token consumption, request volume, and latency. With this feature, you can: benefit from enhanced flowmaps, transaction snapshots, vector database monitoring, and GPU resource tracking. correlate LLM activity with business transactions, detect anomalies, and quickly identify performance issues to ensure optimal AI model efficiency and resource utilization.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Anomaly Detection	You can now use the following anomaly violation API to fetch a list of all the anomaly violations and suspected causes for an application: `GET <controller_url>/controller/anomaly/rest/api/v1/applications/{applicationId}/anomalies`	25.10.0	October, 2025
Alerting	For a business transaction anomaly and a database anomaly, you can now view the issue summary and actionable recommendations generated by AI. AppDynamics SaaS uses AI to correlate all the metrics associated with an anomaly and generates comprehensive summaries of the issue and the top three suspected causes, which helps you to understand the issue better. It ranks the top three suspected causes and provides recommendations on how to resolve the issue. This saves your time because you do not need to manually correlate various metrics by referring to multiple dashboards within the Controller to understand the issue. This enhanced anomaly detection provides a better user experience and information access to reduce the mean time needed to detect the root cause and resolve the issue.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Alerting	For creating health rules, you can now use the new baseline Adaptive Weekly Trend - Last 3 Month. The adaptive baseline configuration is designed to provide more robust and reliable health rule evaluation by minimizing the impact of outliers in metrics data. Unlike traditional dynamic baselines, which can be significantly skewed by sudden spikes or anomalies, the adaptive baseline caps the effect of such outliers, maintaining a more accurate reference point for health rule evaluation. Note: This documentation mentions a feature that is currently only available as an early preview ("Beta"). Splunk AppDynamics reserves the right to change the Beta and its documentation including the content herein, at any time, for any reason, and without notice or compensation to you before making it generally available as well as never making it generally available. This documentation is not a guarantee of future product features and should not be relied upon in making any purchasing decisions. Actual product results may vary from forward-looking statements due to factors including but not limited to: changes in Splunk AppDynamics and third-party technologies, factors related to the economy and target markets, acquisitions of other companies, the hiring and termination of personnel, and other factors. Please refer to the full terms at https://www.splunk.com/en_us/legal/appdynamics-limited-license-agreement.html for details.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Alerting	You can now create an alerting template for API Monitoring endpoints.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Alerting	For Mutual TLS Configuration, you can now restore a previously used TLS certificate and use the restored certificate for authentication.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Alerting	In the Alert & Respond dashboard, when you toggle Health Rules option to ON or OFF for an application, a confirmation message now appears, clarifying that your action will affect all health rules configured for that application. You must confirm to proceed with the change.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Alerting	In the Create Health Rule wizard, you select all entities such as All Business Transactions in the Application, All Tiers in the Application in the Affected Entities tab and configure a Critical Criteria or a Warning Criteria for these entities. When you save the health rule, you now get a message that the health rule will be applied all the entities.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Controller	This release introduces `metric-data-v2` API that enables you to retrieve metrics at 1 minute granularity for 24 hours duration from last 8 days.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Controller	When you right click and select Drill Down into Call Graph on any Potential Issues of a snapshot, it opens a new tab that displays the call graph that was selected in the snapshot. This functionality is unsupported for errors. The drill-down auto-selects the call graph with the Slow and Slow HTTP in the new tab, whereas for the error type of calls the slowest call is selected by default.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Controller	This release introduces `metric-data-v2` API that enables you to retrieve metrics at one minute granularity for `24` hours duration from last eight days.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Controller	With this release, you can proactively configure a renewed certificate prior to the expiration of the current certificate. The Controller automatically uses the valid certificate found in either the Identity Provider Certificate or Identity Provider Rollover Certificate field.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Custom Dashboard	This release supports organizing Custom Dashboards using tags. You can filter and group the dashboards by those tags on the dashboard list page.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Custom Dashboard	This release supports: dashboard purging. You can now use the Last Viewed filter, and select multiple old dashboards to delete them. You can filter by last viewed more than `n` number of weeks, months, or years. pagination on the list view.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Dash Studio	Dash Studio adds the Include Historical Nodes option for the following widgets: Time Series Pie Metric Number For the Time Series and Pie widgets, this option is available only when you select one of the following criteria: Named Name Starts With Name Ends With Within For the Metric Number widget, this option is available when you select Nodes under Show me data for, select an application, and then select Historical under Query Options.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Dash Studio	With this release: dashboard does not auto-refresh in the edit mode pagination is supported on the list view	25.10.0	October, 2025
Database Monitoring	You can now use Smart Agent to manage Database Agent on Windows.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Licensing	On the License Summary dashboard, you can now view the session replay license usage information for a time period. This session replay license usage comprises the license usage count for browser session replay and mobile session replay. Based on this information, you can: allocate license for browser real user monitoring and mobile real user monitoring applications. estimate the license required for applications based on consumption. plan license purchases during renewals. In Metric Browser, you can view the following session replay license metrics: Limit (License Units) Limit (Sessions) - applicable for only Agent-based Licensing accounts Usage (License Units) Usage (Sessions) - applicable for only Agent-based Licensing accounts Browser Session (Count) - applicable for only Infrastructure-based Licensing accounts Mobile Session (Count) - applicable for only Infrastructure-based Licensing accounts You can use these metrics to create health rules and policies and get alerts when your session replay license metrics exceed the threshold. For more information, see Alerts for License Metrics.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Licensing	For the Infrastructure-based Licenses accounts, the delayed fallback mode is now enhanced and enabled by default to avoid license usage spikes and loss of information from the rejected agents. When the system cannot detect its vCPU information, instead of rejecting the agents for few minutes before they start consuming fallback units, the agents are let in and register with 0 license units to report the data. If the vCPU count is still unknown after specified time (few minutes), they start consuming the fallback license units. With this enhancement, the Allow agents to temporarily register with 0 units on hosts lacking vCPU information toggle is now enabled by default on the Create APM License Rule page. You can't disable this toggle. Previously, this toggle was called as WAIT FOR VCPU INFORMATION BEFORE REGISTERING AGENTS.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Licensing	In the Infrastructure-based Licensing accounts, you can now create license rules for End User Monitoring (EUM) to allocate the total license units among the Browser Real User Monitoring (BRUM) and Mobile Real User Monitoring (MRUM) applications based on your usage patterns. This feature helps you to efficiently manage the AppDynamics SaaS licenses in your applications.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Licensing	On the License Summary dashboard, you can now view the license units used by the SAP APM agents. Note: By default, the SAP APM Units information is disabled on the Controller UI. Contact Cisco Support to enable it.	25.10.0	October, 2025
Reports	The Controller Audit report can now be downloaded directly from the UI. You can access this feature by navigating to Dashboards & Reports > Reports, right-clicking the Controller Audit report type, and selecting Download Report Now.	25.10.0	October, 2025

Agent Management Enhancements

You can now:

manage Machine Agent custom extensions using Smart Agent 25.10. This support is available for the extensions that are added to the monitors directory. You can view the number of extensions available for a specific Machine Agent by navigating to the Extensions column in Agent Management UI under the Machine Agentinventory. To get the details of the extension, you can select the required Machine Agent, then click Details.
use the Actions > Export Grid Data to export all the data encompassing all the pages.
view the latest tasks that are in progress under the Started on column of the Task In Progress tab.
view the latest finished tasks under Finished on of the History tab.
delete required Smart Agent from UI without waiting for the purging time duration.