Enterprises are increasingly moving their applications to the cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the leading cloud provider. In this blog, I will provide some additional details on the expanded support of AWS monitoring.
20 AWS Monitoring Extensions
The AppDynamics platform is highly extensible to monitor various technology solutions that are not discovered natively. Our extensions collect metrics for a specific AWS component and pass them to the AppDynamics controller for tracking, creating health rules and visualizing in dashboards efficiently.
Here is the list of all the AWS monitoring extensions:
- AWS SQS Monitoring Extension
- AWS EC2 Monitoring Extension
- AWS ElastiCache Monitoring Extension
- AWS DynamoDB Monitoring Extension
- AWS AutoScaling Monitoring Extension
- AWS Billing Monitoring Extension
- AWS EBS Monitoring Extension
- AWS OpsWorks Monitoring Extension
- AWS ELB Monitoring Extension
- AWS RDS Monitoring Extension
- AWS ElasicMapReduce Monitoring Extension
- AWS RedShift Monitoring Extension
- AWS Route53 Monitoring Extension
- AWS SNS Monitoring Extension
- AWS StorageGateway Monitoring Extension
- AWS CloudSearch Monitoring Extension
- AWS Lambda Monitoring Extension
- AWS Custom Namespace Monitoring Extension
- AWS S3 Monitoring Extension
- AWS API Gateway Monitoring Extension
Customers can leverage all the core functionalities of AppDynamics (e.g. dynamic baselining, health rules, policies, actions, etc.) for all of these AWS metrics while correlating them with the performance of the application using the AWS environment. The AppDynamics platform is highly extensible to monitor various technology solutions that are not discovered natively.
AppDynamics Customers using AWS Monitoring
With AppDynamics, many of our customers have accelerated their application migration to the cloud while others continue to monitor cloud applications as the application complexity explodes with the move towards microservices and dynamic web services. As the workload on the these cloud applications grew, AppDynamics came to rescue by elastically scaling the AWS resources to meet the exponential demand for applications.
For example, Nasdaq accelerated their application migration to AWS and gained complete visibility into complex application ecosystem. Heather Abbott, Senior Vice President of Corporate Solutions Technology at Nasdaq, summarized their experience with AppDynamics. “The ability to trace a transaction visually and intuitively through the interface was a major benefit AppDynamics delivered. This visibility was especially valuable when Nasdaq was migrating a platform from its internal infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. We used AppDynamics extensively to understand how our system was functioning on AWS, a completely new platform for us.”