APM: Parts of agent not working after switch from Oracle Java to OpenJDK

Products

• CA Application Performance Management (APM / Wily / Introscope)

Issue/Introduction

Our App team switched and upgraded their JRE from Oracle JRE 1.8 to OpenJDK v11. 

After this upgrade, their Java agent (Introscope v10.7) seem to be broken in several aspects. 

The agent no longer shows the GC Monitor folder and database show only {database} as a folder name.

The application is running in Liberty on the following JRE:

sh-4.4$ java -version
openjdk version "11.0.17" 2022-10-18
IBM Semeru Runtime Open Edition 11.0.17.0 (build 11.0.17+8)
Eclipse OpenJ9 VM 11.0.17.0 (build openj9-0.35.0, JRE 11 Linux amd64-64-Bit Compressed References 20221031_559 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
OpenJ9   - e04a7f6c1
OMR      - 85a21674f
JCL      - a94c231303 based on jdk-11.0.17+8)

 

Environment

Release : APM Java Agent 10.7.0

Cause

OpenJDK 11 is not supported by APM Agent 10.7

Resolution

OPenJDK 11 is not supported by APM Agent 10.7

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleId=130729#/

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/release-announcements/CA-Application-Performance-Management-Compatibility-Guides/2146?r=2&r=1&r=1&r=1