Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

In this Lab you learn how to use Splunk AppDynamics to monitor the health of your application services.

Objectives #

In this Lab you learn how to use AppDynamics to monitor the health of your application services. You will need to complete this lab first before you start the other labs in this Workshop.

When you have completed this lab, you will be able to:

• Download the AppDynamics Java APM Agent.
• Install the AppDynamics Java APM Agent.
• Initialize the sample application with load.
• Understand the core concepts of AppDynamics APM
• Configure collection settings in the Controller.
• Monitor your application’s health.
• Troubleshoot application performance issues to find root cause.
• Monitor alerts in AppDynamic’s monitoring service based off of data captured by AppDynamics.

Workshop Environment #

The workshop environment has two hosts:

• The first host runs the AppDynamics Controller and will be referred to from this point on as the Controller.
• The second host runs the Supercar Trader application used in the labs. It will be the host where you will install the AppDynamics agents and will be referred to from this point on as the Application VM.

Controller #

You will be using the AppDynamics SE Lab Controller ↗ for this workshop.

Application VM #

Supercar Trader is a Java-based Web Application

The purpose of Supercar-Trader collection is to generate dynamic traffic (Business Transactions) for the AppDynamics Controller.