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Intelligent Alerting for Complex Applications – PagerDuty & AppDynamics
Posted by Marcus | Apr, 16, 2013 | In APM Best Practice, APM Thought Leadership, News
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Today AppDynamics announced integration with PagerDuty, a SaaS-based provider of IT alerting and incident management software that is changing the way IT teams are notified, and how they manage incidents in their mission-critical applications. By combining AppDynamics’ granular visibility of applications with PagerDuty’s reliable alerting capabilities, customers can make sure the right people are proactively notified when business impact occurs, so IT teams can get their apps back up and running as quickly as possible.
You’ll need a PagerDuty and AppDynamics license to get started – if you don’t already have one, you can sign up for free trials of PagerDuty and AppDynamics online. Once you complete this simple installation, you’ll start receiving incidents in PagerDuty created by AppDynamics out-of-the-box policies.
Once an incident is filed it will have the following list view:
When the ‘Details’ link is clicked, you’ll see the details for this particular incident including the Incident Log:
If you are interested in learning more about the event itself, simply click ‘View message’ and all of the AppDynamics event details are displayed showing which policy was breached, violation value, severity, etc. :
Let’s walk through some examples of how our customers are using this integration today.
Say Goodbye to Irrelevant Notifications
Is your work email address included in some sort of group email alias at work and you get several, maybe even dozens, of notifications a day that aren’t particularly relevant to your responsibilities or are intended for other people on your team? I know I do. Imagine a world where your team only receives messages when the notifications have to do with their individual role and only get sent to people that are actually on call. With AppDynamics & PagerDuty you can now build in alerting logic that routes specific alerts to specific teams and only sends messages to the people that are actually on-call. App response time way above the normal value? Send an alert to the app support engineer that is on call, not all of his colleagues. Not having to sift through a bunch of irrelevant alerts means that when one does come through you can be sure it requires YOUR attention right away.
Automatic Escalations
If you are only sending a notification and assigning an incident to one person, what happens if that person is out of the office or doesn’t have access to the internet / phone to respond to the alert? Well, the good thing about the power of PagerDuty is that you can build in automatic escalations. So, if you have a trigger in AppDynamics to fire off a PagerDuty alert when a node is down, and the infrastructure manager isn’t available, you can automatically escalate and re-assign / alert a backup employee or admin.
The Sky is Falling! Oh Wait – We’re Just Conducting Maintenance…
Another potentially annoying situation for IT teams are all of the alerts that get fired off during a maintenance window. PagerDuty has the concept of a maintenance window so your team doesn’t get a bunch of doomsday messages during maintenance. You can even setup a maintenance window with one click if you prefer to go that route.
Either way, no new incidents will be created during this time period… meaning your team will be spared having to open, read, and file the alerts and update / close out the newly-created incidents in the system.
We’re confident this integration of the leading application performance management solution with the leading IT incident management solution will save your team time and make them more productive. Check out the AppDynamics and PagerDuty integration today!
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Introducing AppDynamics for PHP
Posted by App Man | Mar, 18, 2013 | In Agile & DevOps, APM Best Practice, APM Thought Leadership, News, PHP
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It’s been about 12 years since I last scripted in PHP. I pretty much paid my way through college building PHP websites for small companies that wanted a web presence. Back then PHP was the perfect choice, because nearly all the internet service providers had PHP support for free if you registered domain names with them. Java and .NET wasn’t an option for a poor smelly student like me, so I just wrote standard HTML with embedded scriplets of PHP code and bingo–I had dynamic web pages.
Today, 244 million websites run on PHP which is almost 75% of the web. That’s a pretty scary statistic. If only I’d kept coding PHP back when I was 21, I’d be a billionaire by now! PHP is a pretty good example of how open-source technology can go viral and infect millions of developers and organizations world-wide.
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AppDynamics & Splunk – Better Together
Posted by Marcus | Dec, 13, 2012 | In APM Best Practice, News
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A few months ago I saw an interesting partnership announcement from Foursquare and OpenTable. Users can now make OpenTable reservations at participating restaurants from directly within the Foursquare mobile app. My first thought was, “What the hell took you guys so long?” That integration makes sense on so many levels, I’m surprised it hadn’t already been done.
So when AppDynamics recently announced a partnership with Splunk, I viewed that as another no-brainer. Two companies with complementary solutions making it easier for customers to use their products together – makes sense right? It does to me, and I’m not alone.
I’ve been demoing a prototype of the integration for a few months now at different events across the country, and at the conclusion of each walk-through I’d get some variation of the same question, “How do I get my hands on this?” Well, I’m glad to say the wait is over – the integration is available today as an App download on Splunkbase. You’ll need a Splunk and AppDynamics license to get started – if you don’t already have one, you can sign up for free trials of Splunk and AppDynamics online.
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Covis Software GmbH isolates problematic Web Service in 4 minutes with AppDynamics Pro
Posted by App Man | Aug, 06, 2012 | In Community News
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I received another X-Ray from Covis Software GmbH in Germany who provides CRM solutions. They’ve been managing their .NET application performance with AppDynamics Pro for several months now in production. In the below X-Ray (as documented by the customer), Covis were able to rapidly identify a poor performing remote web service call which was impacting their application, business transactions and end user experience of their customers.
If you would like to get started with AppDynamics you can download AppDynamics Lite (our free version) or you can take a free 30-day trial of AppDynamics Pro.
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