Server Monitoring Lab
Server Visibility Monitoring
Introduction
AppDynamics is a full-stack performance monitoring solution for your critical business applications that offers the following features:
- Consistent end-to-end application monitoring, regardless of environment, traditional, hybrid, or cloud-native.
- Accelerated cloud migration and enterprise-grade, end-to-end insights for your applications regardless of where they are deployed.
- Unified monitoring that enables you to quickly resolve performance issues before they become business problems, with three clicks to root cause.
You can optimize the total cost of ownership by leveraging existing personnel, processes, and training on AppDynamics platform for traditional, cloud, or hybrid deployments.
Objectives
In this Lab you learn about AppDynamics Server Visibility Monitoring and Service Availability Monitoring.
When you have completed this lab, you will be able to:
- Download the AppDynamics Server Visibility Agent.
- Install the AppDynamics Server Visibility Agent.
- Monitor server health.
- Understand the agent’s extended hardware metrics.
- Quickly see underlying infrastructure issues impacting your application performance.
Lab hosts / virtual machines
The lab environment has two hosts:
- The first host is where you installed the AppDynamics Platform and runs the AppDynamics Controller and will be referred to from this point on as the Controller VM.
- 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 VM
Application VM
If you are ready to learn how AppDynamics can help you monitor the health of your applications hosts let’s get started!
Next
We’ll check the Learning Lab prerequisites.