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AppDynamics: 13 concepts that caught my attention
A post AppDynamics Implementer Foundations Workshop reflection
Introduction
I recently attended the 5-day AppDynamics Implementer Foundations Workshop in Auckland, New Zealand. This course covered on-premise deployment of AppDynamics version 4.5.x and we got an opportunity to do multiple hands-on lab sessions along the way, and get a feel of the product. This article intends to be a reflection of what I learned and some key concepts that stood out for me.
Disclaimer: All views are a personal reflection only. Some information may differ should you compare it with their Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering or any other version of the product.
What is AppDynamics?
AppDynamics is an Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution offering you real-time view of your application and business health. In a nutshell, as David Wadhwani, CEO of AppDynamics shared in a keynote speech, “AppDynamics helps you move fast without breaking things, helps you follow things in an increasingly distributed environment, and lets you focus your teams on what really drives your business.”
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2019 report for APM puts AppDynamics as a market leader. Gartner defines APM suites as one or more software components that facilitate application monitoring to meet three main functional dimensions: Digital experience monitoring (DEM), Application discovery, tracing and diagnostics (ADTD), and Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps).
Their core Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solution does not just give visibility into an organisation’s IT ecosystem in the form of a neat Application Flow Map, but it also gives visibility into the lines of code that might be causing the system or service to run slow. With the right Database Agent installed, you can even see the if any database queries are resulting in a performance impact.
With Infrastructure Visibility, you get insights into the server’s performance like CPU and memory usage, disk I/O, plus visibility of issues in the…
