Enabling verbose logs for an AppDynamics machine or database agents can be invaluable for troubleshooting connectivity or network issues. Luckily, this is easily done by editing the conf/logging/log4j.xml file. By default, only the error level messages are sent to the logs: <root> <priority value=”error”/> <appender-ref ref=”FileAppender”/> </root> But you can modify this so that debug … AppDynamics: Enabling verbose debug logs for Agents
As an exploration of AppDynamics’ APM functionality, you may find it useful to deploy a sample application that can quickly return back useful data. The Java Spring PetClinic connecting back to a PostgreSQL database provides a simple code base that exercises both database and application monitoring. In a previous article, I went over the detailed … AppDynamics: Java Spring PetClinic and PostgreSQL configured for monitoring
As an exploration of AppDynamics’ APM functionality, you may find it useful to deploy a sample application that can quickly return back useful data. The Java Spring PetClinic connecting back to a MySQL database provides a simple code base that exercises both database and application monitoring. We’ll deploy the Java Spring PetClinic unto Tomcat running … AppDynamics: Java Spring PetClinic and MySQL configured for monitoring
The AppDynamics Machine Agent is used not only to report back on basic hardware metrics (cpu/memory/disk/network), but also as the hook for custom plugins that can report back on any number of applications including: .NET, Apache, AWS, MongoDB, Cassandra, and many others. In this article, I’ll go over the details to install the Machine Agent … AppDynamics: Installing a Machine Agent on Ubuntu 14.04
For full instructions on installing the AppDynamics Controller on Linux, see the official documentation. However, when you get to the step for installing in silent mode, it can be confusing because although it shows you how to specify the path to a response file and the keys available, it does not give you a sample … AppDynamics: Silent Install of Controller on Ubuntu and license directory