Business iQ Lab

Business Performance 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 Learning Lab you learn about AppDynamics Business IQ.

When you have completed this lab, you will be able to:

  • Enable analytics with the new Agentless Analytics Java Agent (v 4.5.15 +).
  • Configure HTTP data collectors.
  • Configure method invocation data collectors.
  • Understand dashboard components.
  • Build a business dashboard.


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

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Application VM

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If you are ready to learn how AppDynamics can help you monitor the health of your Business, let’s get started!


Next

We’ll check the Learning Lab prerequisites.