Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance Enhancements

Product / Component Summary Release Version Release Date
Custom Kubernetes Cluster Starting this release, you can deploy Virtual Appliance and infrastructure services on a custom Kubernetes cluster as an alternative to the bundled MicroK8s environment. See Install Virtual Appliance on Your Own Kubernetes Cluster. 26.1.0 June 18, 2026
General Starting this release, Virtual Appliance deployments on AWS use Cisco Secured Linux (CSL), which provides a CIS Level 2 compliant Ubuntu environment. See Components. 26.1.0 June 15, 2026
High Availability You can run the Controller on any machine regardless of the MAC bound addresses. This way the Controller functions as expected in HA environment after failover. 26.1.0 June 15, 2026
MCP Server You can now integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server with your AI assistant to centralize the configuration, deployment, troubleshooting, and management of your Virtual Appliance. See, Integrate an MCP Server to Manage your Virtual Appliance. 26.1.0 June 15, 2026
Virtual Appliance GUI You can now access the GUI to install services in the Kubernetes environment. See Install Splunk AppDynamics Services Using the GUI. 26.1.0 June 15, 2026
Virtual Appliance Upgrade The custom actions path has changed from the previous release. Therefore, you must migrate the custom script to the new path using a script. See Migrate Custom Actions. 26.1.0 June 15, 2026
EUM and Synthetic services require data migration to MinIO during restoration. For more information, see Migrate EUM and Synthetic Services Data to MinIO. 26.1.0 June 15, 2026

Third-Party Library Upgrades

The following libraries are upgraded as part of this release.

Module Component From To
Infrastructure and Orchestration MicroK8s 1.30 1.34
Calico 3.28.1 3.29.3
CoreDNS 1.11.3 1.13.2
Data Stores PostgreSQL ppg15 ppg17.7
Redis / Valkey 7.2.11 Valkey 9.0.0
Redis Sentinel / Valkey 7.2.11 Valkey 9.0.0
Streaming and Messaging Apache Kafka 3.9.1 4.1.1
Strimzi Operator 0.45.1 0.49.0
Schema Registry 7.9.3 8.1.0
Operators ECK 2.16.1 3.1.0
PGO 2.7.0 2.8.0
Ingress, Networking, and Security Ingress NGINX v1.11.5 v1.14.3
K8s Replicator v2.10.2 v2.12.1
Observability and Logging Fluent Bit 4.0.9 4.1.1
Metrics Server v0.7.2 v0.8.0
Alert Manager v0.26.0 v0.29.0
Node Exporter v1.7.0 v1.10.2
Kube State Metrics v2.10.1 v2.17.0
Storage MinIO RELEASE.2023-09-30 RELEASE.2025-07-23
Hostpath Provisioner 1.6.0 1.6.0