AppDynamics App iQ Platform AppDynamics Essentials

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AppDynamics App iQ Platform
AppDynamics Essentials
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AppDynamics Essentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Download AppDynamics Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Lite and Pro Editions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Controller UI Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
AppDynamics Mobile App . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
AppDynamics Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
AppDynamics Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Deploy AppDynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
License Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Applying or Updating a License File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
License Entitlements and Restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Platform as a Service Integrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Deploy AppDynamics for Azure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Install AppDynamics for Azure App Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Install the AppDynamics Azure Site Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Install the AppDynamics .NET Micro Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Install AppDynamics for Azure Service Fabric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Install AppDynamics for Azure Cloud Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Sensitive Data Collection and Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
AppDynamics Universal Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Install the Universal Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Install the Universal Agent on Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Install the Universal Agent on Linux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Permissions for Running the Universal Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Runtime Agent Repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Universal Agent CLI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Universal Agent Rulebooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Universal Agent Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Standalone Machine Agent Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Java Agent Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
.NET Agent Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Analytics Agent Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Network Agent Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Dynamic Configuration Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Rulebook Configuration Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Universal Agent REST APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Troubleshoot Universal Agent Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Manage Users and Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Roles and Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Account Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Application Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Business iQ Analytics Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Custom Dashboard Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Database Visibility Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
End User Monitoring Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Server Visibility Permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
External Authentication Providers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
LDAP Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
SAML Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Metrics and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Metric Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Metric Data Resolution over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Percentile Metrics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Monitor Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Monitor Application Change Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Events Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Monitor Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Alert and Respond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Configure Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Event Simulation Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Health Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
JMX Health Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Configure Health Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Notification Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Email Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Diagnostic Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Cloud Auto-Scaling Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Remediation Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
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Remediation Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
HTTP Request Actions and Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
JIRA Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Custom Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Build a Custom Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Action Suppression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Predefined Templating Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Email Digests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Troubleshoot Health Rule Violations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Dashboards and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Virtual War Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Widgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Specify Metrics in Multiple Entities Using a Wildcard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Custom Dashboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
Create and Manage Custom Dashboards and Templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Import and Export Custom Dashboards and Templates Using the UI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
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AppDynamics Essentials
Welcome to the AppDynamics App iQ Platform, version 4.4!
AppDynamics helps you to understand and optimize the performance of your
business, from its software to infrastructure to business outcomes.
This documentation introduces you to the AppDynamics App iQ Platform. It describes concepts and procedures for the App iQ Platform
that are common across the AppDynamics product modules, from Application Performance Monitoring to Application Analytics, End
User Monitoring, and more. It also covers the Controller UI, the browser-based console you use to understand, tune, and troubleshoot
your application environment.
To report issues with the documentation, email the AppDynamics docs team at [email protected].
New to AppDynamics? Collaborating
Getting Started Manage Users and Groups
AppDynamics Concepts Custom Dashboards
Deploy AppDynamics Virtual War Room
Platform as a Service Integrations Health Rules
Product Homes Other Resources
Application Monitoring Community Forums and Knowledge Base
End User Monitoring AppDynamics Help Center
Database Visibility AppDynamics Exchange
Server Visibility Support (login account required)
Application Analytics
Watch the Video
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Getting Started
On this page:
Get a Controller
Log in to the Controller UI
Install AppDynamics Agents
Connect the Agent to the Controller
Enable Notifications (Configure an Email Server)
AppDynamics Roadmap
This topic gives you an overview of how to get started quickly with the AppDynamics App iQ Platform, from getting a Controller to start
deploying agents.
Get a Controller
The first step in using the AppDynamics App iQ Platform is to get a Controller. The Controller sits at the center of an AppDynamics
deployment. It's where AppDynamics agents send data on the activity in the monitored environment. It's also where users go to view,
understand, and analyze that data.
You can get a Controller by starting a free trial at www.appdynamics.com.
After creating your account and starting your trial, you can choose whether to install the Controller yourself or use a Controller hosted
by AppDynamics.
If you choose a SaaS Controller, the Controller is hosted for you and you do not need to install the Controller.
If you choose an on-premises Controller instance, follow the instructions in the AppDynamics portal to download the Controller.
You can download the Controller, like most installable components of the AppDynamics App iQ platform, from the
AppDynamics download center at https://download.appdynamics.com/.
If you are just investigating or learning about AppDynamics, you'll probably want to start with a SaaS Controller. It's the quickest way to
get started. If you're ready for a closer look at AppDynamics, however, and interested in an on-premises deployment in the long term,
see AppDynamics Platform for details on such deployments.
Log in to the Controller UI
Once you have installed the Controller or arranged for a hosted Controller, you can log in to the Controller UI.
For a SaaS Controller, you will receive an email from the AppDynamics Operations team containing the URL and access
details for your hosted Controller instance.
For an on-premises Controller, you log in using the administrator credentials you created during the installation.
Install AppDynamics Agents
Once you have a Controller, the next thing you'll do is install AppDynamics agents in your environment.
The AppDynamics product module types use different types of agents. For example, for application monitoring, you need one of the
AppDynamics App Agents.
For most types of agents, you can use the Agent Download Wizard in the Controller UI to get started quickly. The first time you log in to
the Controller UI, the Agent Download Wizard appears. Follow the instructions in the wizard to install agents in your application
environment. You can access the wizard directly from the home page in the Controller UI.
For more information on installing an app agent, use the following links:
Install the Java Agent Install the .NET Agent Install the PHP Agent Install the Python Agent Install the Node.js
Agent
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Set Up and Access Browser Instrument iOS Instrument Android Install the Database C/C++ Application
RUM Applications Applications Agent Agent
Connect the Agent to the Controller
If you are using the agent download wizard, the wizard automatically configures the settings for connecting the agent to the Controller. If
you download agents directly, you need to configure the Controller connections.
The following graphic shows the connections the agents use to reach the platform. Naturally, they vary depending on whether you are
using the on-premises or SaaS AppDynamics platform.
It's possible that you will need to adjust the configuration of network components, such as firewalls or proxies, to permit traffic from the
agent to the Controller. The connection is single directional, meaning that agents always initiate the connections to the Controller.
Enable Notifications (Configure an Email Server)
To send notifications, such as health rule violation notifications, the Controller needs to be configured to use a valid email (SMTP)
server.
For a SaaS Controller, you can use the SaaS-provided SMTP Server or your own SMTP Server. For an on-premises Controller, you
need to configure an SMTP server after installation.
See Enable an Email Server for information on configuring an email server.
AppDynamics Roadmap
After you've installed agents and restarted your applications, AppDynamics automatically builds an environment of your application. You
can see the model in the dashboards and flow maps view of the Controller UI.
As it monitors your application workload, AppDynamics determines what's normal for your environment and applies sensible defaults for
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detecting abnormal activity and application errors. You can likely start using and benefiting from AppDynamics immediately, without
touching the instrumentation configuration. However, when you're ready, you can optimize the configuration to make best use of
AppDynamics for your environment and requirements.
The following timeline describe what a typical getting started journey may look like.
First Day with AppDynamics
1. Get a Controller
2. Download and install AppDynamics agent.
3. Add users to the Controller UI.
4. Configure Email/SMS settings to enable notifications. For SaaS, an SMTP server is preconfigured. For an on-premises
Controller and SMS configuration, see Enable an Email Server.
5. Get to know the AppDynamics defaults, such as built in health rules and baseline calculations.
6. Learn about the key performance indicator metrics.
7. Explore the ways that the different AppDynamics products work together.
First Week with AppDynamics APM
1. Create and organize your business applications.
2. View and customize flow maps.
3. Create custom dashboards.
4. Verify or adjust your tier groups, nodes and remote services.
5. Customize your health rules.
First Month with AppDynamics APM
1. Tune your service entry points.
2. Manage user roles and groups, or connect the Controller to an external authentication provider.
3. Capture contextual information, information points and data collectors.
4. Extend your health rules with custom actions.
5. Create custom metrics or add integration modules to AppDynamics.
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Download AppDynamics Software
On this page:
Download AppDynamics Software with cURL
Validate Software Package Downloads
After you sign up for an account on www.appdynamics.com, you can download available AppDynamics software packages on the AppD
ynamics Download Center (https://download.appdynamics.com/).
Where applicable, AppDynamics also publishes software for distribution on package manager repositories such as RPM, npm, pip,
NuGet, and others. For products that are available via package manager, you can find relevant instructions to retrieve and install the
software in the installation documentation.
When you download files, always copy or transfer the files in binary mode. If you want to transfer a file you have downloaded on
Windows to a Linux machine, use binary mode in your transfer program when you move the file to the destination Linux environment.
Download AppDynamics Software with cURL
The following steps demonstrate how to use cURL to get the latest version of an AppDynamics software download:
1. Authenticate to the AppDynamics domain and store the resulting session ID in a file. For example:
curl -c cookies.txt -d 'username=<USERNAME>&password=<PASSWORD>' https://login.appdynamics.co
m/sso/login/
2. View the latest version of each available product by getting the following URL: https://download.appdynamics.com/download/d
ownloadfilelatest/
curl https://download.appdynamics.com/download/downloadfilelatest/
3. Inspect the response (or parse via script) to find the "download_path" of the latest version of the product in which you are
interested.
4. Get the download as follows. Pass the session information (stored in cookies.txt, in the example) and replace <URL_TO_FILE>
with the appropriate download_path value in your request:
curl -L -O -b cookies.txt <URL_TO_FILE>
Validate Software Package Downloads
You can use checksum validation and, for certain packages, a digital signature to validate software you download from the
AppDynamics Download Center.
Checksum Validation
Click the Checksums link beneath a software package on the AppDynamics Download Center to display the package's MD5 checksum
and its SHA256 checksum. After your download completes, run a checksum tool and compare the results against against the checksum
information from the download center.
Digital Signatures
AppDynamics digitally signs the following packages using a certificate signed by a publicly known certificate authority:
.NET Agent
AppDynamics Controller for Windows MSI installer
AppDynamics digitally signs the following packages using a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) key:
Java Agent
Standalone Machine Agent
Standalone Machine Agent RPM package
Python Agent pip package
The AppDynamics PGP public key is hosted on https://pgp.mit.edu under the User ID "[email protected]". If you are unfamiliar
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with using a PGP signature to validate a software package, see the tutorial on the AppDynamics Community Knowledge Base.
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Lite and Pro Editions
On this page:
AppDynamics Lite Features
Transition from Pro Trial to AppDynamics Lite
You can try AppDynamics Pro free for 15 days by signing up for an account on the AppDynamics Portal. At the end of the trial period,
AppDynamics Self-Service Pro Trial transitions to the free product edition, AppDynamics Lite.
AppDynamics Lite Features
AppDynamics Lite provides the same application monitoring and troubleshooting features as AppDynamics Pro, with a few limitations
as described here.
AppDynamics Lite includes the following license units:
1 unit of Java APM
1 unit of .NET APM
1 unit of PHP APM
1 unit of Node.js APM
1 unit of Python APM
1 unit of Web Server APM
1 unit of Database Monitoring
6 units of Server Monitoring (via Standalone and .NET Machine Agents)
The data retention period is restricted to 24 hours.
For End User Monitoring, AppDynamics Lite provides access to a subset of features of the Pro product, as described in Browser RUM
License and Mobile RUM Licenses.
AppDynamics Lite restricts queries to the last 24 hours both from the user interface and via API. In addition, you can manage five
applications on AppDynamics Lite, as well as on AppDynamics Self-Service Pro Trial and Standard editions. To retain history greater
than 24 hours and have unlimited applications, upgrade to AppDynamics Pro.
See http://www.appdynamics.com/pricing/us/ for information on changing or buying licenses.
Transition from Pro Trial to AppDynamics Lite
When the trial period ends and AppDynamics detects an expired AppDynamics Pro Trial license, the Controller resets all agents. See
information on resetting app agents in Manage App Agents.
After the reset, the Controller limits agent registration to one each of the Java Agent, the .NET Agent, the PHP Agent and the Node.js
Agent. The Controller permits the first agent of each type to register and use a license.
AppDynamics recommends you uninstall any agents you don't use. For instructions on how to uninstall an agent, see the uninstall topic
corresponding to your agent type under Install App Server Agents.
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