The features listed below were added to DPOD. The following conventions are used in this document:

Many new dashboards in the APIC API-C product view, including APIs activity of APIs, latency, HTTP response codes and consumers.
New dashboard for comparing latency between API versions.
New dashboard for comparing API assembly policies between APIs or versions.
Several filters have been added to APIC API-C pages with auto-complete, such as catalog, space, product, plan, API name, API version and consumer and consumer application name.
Detection of API Connect early failed transactions improved significantly.

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Request and Response Size (requires firmware 7.6.0.8+ or 7.7.1.2+)

In the Transactions list page, results can be filtered using request and response size of the transactions.
Request and response sizes are displayed in the transaction details page.
Response size has been added to Activity Distribution dashboard.

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Non-Intrusive Extended Transactions ( requires firmware 7.7.1.1+)

Extended Transactions, which are transactions that span more than one monitored devices/services, are now being tracked in a non-intrusive way over HTTP protocol, without the need for processing policy instrumentation.
The pre v1.0.8, intrusive Extended Transaction functionality will be deprecated in the near future.

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Support for API Connect version 2018.2.5 compatibility mode.
New DPOD Roles to allow and revoke access to API Connect field such as API Name, Space and Plan names.
API Connect views can now be set as the default system view.
Service URL/URI Calls dashboards are now available in API Connect view.

User can choose between supporting more TPS but gathering less data per transaction, or collecting more data and supporting less TPS. This option is available during log target setup.

Providing a publisher to Splunk with a Splunk application as a reference implementation for the integration (requires firmware 7.7.1+).
Publishing more analytical data fields.
Simplify setup of implementing APM integration.

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New API Connect Recent Activity dashboard that displays a high-level overview of APIs activity.
The Early Failing Requests Dashboard in now also available in API Connect view.
Alerts can be generated based on some of APIs latency data.
Auto Setup Domains feature detects a Domain Reset to auto-setup it again.

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Users can now save favorite filter combinations and use them in subsequent sessions.
A new free text search field was added to the Transactions List page and Raw Messages Page where the user may enter a single value that will be searched across various data fields.
Service filter now supports auto completion.
All applicable filters support multi-select of values.
Users can now change the size of the series (number of values) that is displayed in charts of type "top N".
A recent notifications panel was added to The Navigation Bar. It displays the recent UI notifications for the user (not persisted).
A new "Share" button added. It allows sharing the current page (including filters, transaction ID etc.) by copying/pasting the current URL or by sending it via email
Time range filters now provides more options: last 10 minutes, start of day, start of week, this month.
Consistent behavior across pages of zoom into a transaction or use its value as a filter criteria.

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From time to time, DPOD customers may be required to install a new DPOD installation while preserving the data already collected. for example:
- Customer deployed DPOD Appliance mode at version v1.0.0 with CentOS 6.7 and now requires to migrate to CentOS 7.2 introduced at version v1.0.2+.
- Customer deployed DPOD on a virtual server but load increased and now requires a physical server.
- Customer deployed DPOD Appliance mode but wants to migrate to Non-Appliance mode (RHEL) to better comply with their organization security requirements and standards.
New procedure and tools were introduced to support customers with migration of an existing DPOD Store data to a new DPOD installation in each of the scenarios above.

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