How AppDynamics works
The AppDynamics Business Observability Platform gives you a powerful view into the performance of your entire stack through the lens of your business. Here’s how we do it.
Learn how AppDynamics helps you be proactive and align your organization around the insights most impacting your business.
Data Collection
Data collection begins with AppDynamics Agents and the Controller. Agents are plug-ins or extensions sitting across your entire application ecosystem that monitor the performance of your application code, runtime, and behavior. Agents are managed centrally using a user interface or advanced CLI with local orchestration using the Smart Agent. The Controllers receive real-time performance data from the agents, visualize your application performance, and send instructions to the agents.
Auto-Discovery and Mapping
AppDynamics auto-discovers the flow of all traffic requests in your environment and dynamically creates a topology map to visualize performance across the application ecosystem.
Digital Experience Monitoring
Closely follow the digital experience of your users and get ahead of issues with web, mobile or synthetic transaction monitoring. Monitor key metrics across any device, browser, API or third-party service to make sure emerging issues don't become major problems.
Business Transaction Monitoring
AppDynamics observes and supports key business transactions which are made up of all the services that fulfill and deliver user-initiated requests. Business transactions include critical user experiences like logins, shopping cart additions and checkouts that drive revenue and conversion.
Anomaly Detection
Baseline performance and set alerts to identify and resolve issues before your customers or employees notice. AppDynamics anomaly detection ensures that no issue escapes detection with immediate, automated alerts.
Root Cause Diagnostics
Focus on supporting optimal business outcomes and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) with insights that help your IT teams prioritize and resolve the most problematic business transactions in seconds, before they impact the user experience.
Full-Stack Analytics
Make better decisions immediately with the most useful transaction and end user data impacting key metrics like conversion and revenue. Observe what matters most to the bottom line and take quick action to stay ahead of your digital transformation goals.
Custom dashboarding
In just a few clicks, build custom dashboards with AppDynamics Dash Studio featuring a modern, highly customizable and easy-to-read interface. Get application performance insights across your full stack, now including ThousandEyes network intelligence for unparalleled visibility.
Data Collection
Data collection begins with AppDynamics Agents and the Controller. Agents are plug-ins or extensions sitting across your entire application ecosystem that monitor the performance of your application code, runtime, and behavior. Agents are managed centrally using a user interface or advanced CLI with local orchestration using the Smart Agent. The Controllers receive real-time performance data from the agents, visualize your application performance, and send instructions to the agents.
Auto-Discovery and Mapping
AppDynamics auto-discovers the flow of all traffic requests in your environment and dynamically creates a topology map to visualize performance across the application ecosystem.
Digital Experience Monitoring
Closely follow the digital experience of your users and get ahead of issues with web, mobile or synthetic transaction monitoring. Monitor key metrics across any device, browser, API or third-party service to make sure emerging issues don't become major problems.
Business Transaction Monitoring
AppDynamics observes and supports key business transactions which are made up of all the services that fulfill and deliver user-initiated requests. Business transactions include critical user experiences like logins, shopping cart additions and checkouts that drive revenue and conversion.
Anomaly Detection
Baseline performance and set alerts to identify and resolve issues before your customers or employees notice. AppDynamics anomaly detection ensures that no issue escapes detection with immediate, automated alerts.
Root Cause Diagnostics
Focus on supporting optimal business outcomes and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) with insights that help your IT teams prioritize and resolve the most problematic business transactions in seconds, before they impact the user experience.
Full-Stack Analytics
Make better decisions immediately with the most useful transaction and end user data impacting key metrics like conversion and revenue. Observe what matters most to the bottom line and take quick action to stay ahead of your digital transformation goals.
Custom dashboarding
In just a few clicks, build custom dashboards with AppDynamics Dash Studio featuring a modern, highly customizable and easy-to-read interface. Get application performance insights across your full stack, now including ThousandEyes network intelligence for unparalleled visibility.
"Real-time information gives us the ability to focus on today's problem. Not yesterday's problem. By differentiating between the two, we can prevent tomorrow's problem. "
Heather Fry
Director of Product Development, Paychex
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The Age of Application Observability
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Why AppDynamics?
AppDynamics drives business outcomes by putting application health in the context of your business, while providing unparalleled observability across tools, services and infrastructure on the backend.
What Is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?
APM allows businesses to identify potential issues, ensure optimal use, and provide a seamless user experience online.