AppDynamics SaaS Controller Enhancements

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When there is an update to an artifact, you can find the new version numbers in the following tables. Version numbers are also displayed on the Downloads Portal.

For the list of issues resolved in this release, see SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

For the list of known issues, see Known Issues.

Product / Component Summary Release Version Release Date
General

This release includes bug fixes. See SaaS Controller Resolved Issues.

 26.4.1 May 21, 2026
Accounts

To enhance security, administrators using local credentials in the Controller must now re-enter their current password before modifying user credentials on the Administration > Users page. This measure prevents unauthorized modifications to account credentials. See Administrative Settings Overview.

 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Alerting

You can now use the following predefined variable in HTTP request or email templates to include the AppDynamics database hostname in alerts:

${latestEvent.eventProperties.hostname}

This hostname, which is registered in the CMDB record, is required for proper correlation and incident management. See Predefined Templating Variables.

 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
End User Monitoring For Core Web Vitals, this release introduces the Interaction to Next Paint (INP) metric and deprecates the First Input Delay (FID) metric. 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
This release introduces the following enhancements to Core Web Vitals in the Controller UI:

  • Adds dedicated widgets in Browser Dashboard to display Core Web Vitals metrics.

  • Provides Core Web Vitals metrics for individual browser pages and sessions.

  • Displays Core Web Vitals metrics in Metric Browser.

  • Supports the configuration of custom alerts based on Core Web Vitals metrics.

  • Displays metrics at the 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles.

For more information, see Core Web Vitals の有効化.		 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Controller This release introduces the Edit Applications Name permission specifically for the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) applications. By default, this permission is included in the Admin and Administrator roles. See Edit Application Names. 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Controller
This release excludes the hystrix library and includes the following library upgrades:
Library From To
node-forge 1.3.1 1.3.3
netty 4.2.7.Final 4.2.8.Final
elasticsearch 6.4.1 6.4.2
rhino 1.7.14 1.7.14.1
minimatch 5.1.6 10.2.1
jsonpath 1.1.1 1.2.0
Dash Studio With this release:
  • standard deviation band is supported on the Time Series widget.
  • the ADQL Query field provides autocomplete suggestions as you type.

See Time Series Widget.

 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Database Monitoring Database Monitoring can now programmatically fetch the required access keys for HashiCorp Vault authentication. See Configure the HashiCorp Vault. 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Database Monitoring This release includes Blocking Session support for the PostgreSQL database. See Custom Database Events. 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Database Monitoring

This release supports the following MongoDB metrics:

  • QueryExecutor_Scanned
  • QueryExecutor_ScannedObjects
  • QueryExecutor_CollectionScans_NonTailable
  • QueryExecutor_CollectionScans_Total
See MongoDB サーバのメトリック.		 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Licensing

For the Agent-based Licensing account, you can now view the Usage(Bytes) and Usage(Count)storage usage metrics for each application in the License > Application level usage tree in the Metric Browser.

The storage metrics are currently available for Transaction Analytics, Browser Real User Monitoring, and Mobile Real User Monitoring applications. These metrics are supported on Events Service 26.1.0 or later. You can use the metrics to create health rules and monitor which application is consuming more storage and limit it. See License Metrics in Metric Browser.

Note:

To enable this feature, set the following flag:

appdynamics.licensing.usages.report.per-app.business-metrics.storage.enabled= true

Contact Cisco Support.

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for details.
26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Observability for AI Observability for AI now supports monitoring Cisco AI PODs. This enhancement provides comprehensive visibility into your Cisco AI PODs infrastructure and the enterprise AI applications hosted within it. See Cisco AI PODs Monitoring. 26.4.0 May 12, 2026
Note: With this release, the Log Tail widget will no longer be available on Custom Dashboards. You will not be able to create new instances of this widget, and any existing Log Tail widgets in older war rooms will be hidden.

Agent Management Enhancements

This release includes the following enhancements:
  • The supported agents now automatically release their licenses to the pool when disabled and reacquire them when re-enabled. This enhancement allows for more efficient license distribution across your environment and eliminates the need to terminate agent processes or restart applications to free up licenses for other agents. See Enable and Disable App Agents.
    Note: Contact support to enable this enhancement.

  • API support for agent upgrades. See Agent Upgrade API

  • Granular permissions for Machine Agents using tag-based access control, enabling administrators to assign View Agent and Edit Agent permissions specifically for Machine Agents on hosts selected by tags. This enhancement allows precise access management without requiring full admin privileges, improving security and operational control for managing Machine Agents at scale. See Role-based Access.