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AppDynamics - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
Product overviewDiscovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities

AppDynamics

Last update: May 15, 2023

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Product overview

Category

Product capabilities

Product website

Cisco AppDynamics

Product certifications

AWS Competency Program competencies and other certifications

AWS Migration and Modernization – Application Monitoring and Orchestration

AWS Marketplace

Link to subscribe or download

Not available

Tool deployment model

Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed

  • SaaS on AWS (vendor VPC)

  • Servers deployed on AWS (customer VPC)

  • Servers deployed on premises in customer environment

Compliance

  • Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

  • Payment card industry (PCI)

Service model

  • Full self-service – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by the customer or end-user

  • Self-service with vendor support – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by customer or end-user with the option of vendor support

  • Managed service (including partner-enabled service) – Deployment, management, and maintenance require professional services

Pricing model

Subscription

Discovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities

Category

Product capabilities

Discovery method

The ability to support one or more of the following discovery methods:

  • Agentless – Uses protocols or interfaces such as SNMP or WMI

  • Agent-based – Requires installation of software on the source resources, such as Linux or Windows servers

  • Login-based – Uses protocols, such as SSH and RDP, to log in to the source servers

Agent-based

Resources discoverable

The ability to discover servers, databases, storage systems, network devices, software processes, containers, and mainframes

  • Servers and operating systems

  • Databases

  • Software processes

  • Containers

Operating systems discoverable

  • Linux

  • Windows

  • Solaris

Other resources discoverable

No additional information

Discovery of resource profiles

The ability to discover the CPU family (such as x86 or RISC/PowerPC), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, or bandwidth

Physical and virtual servers and their profiles

Resource utilization data collection

The ability to collect time-series utilization data, such peak, average, median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes, and minimum sampling duration of 1 month

  • Physical and virtual server utilization data collection

  • Network utilization data collection

Application dependency level

The ability to discover application dependency and export dependency data:

  • Application and server dependency – Individual servers and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and software process dependency – Individual software processes, configurations, and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and code dependency – Individual programming code, configurations, and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and server dependency

  • Application and software process dependency

  • Application and code dependency

Visualization level

The ability to provide multiple-level visualization of applications:

  • All resource and applications – An entire on-premises or source environment with all resources and applications

  • Single application – A single application across its resources, end to end

  • Single application and its software processes – Individual software processes and dependencies that form an application

  • Single application and its programming code – Individual programming code and dependencies that form an application

  • All resource and applications

  • Single application

  • Single application and its software processes

  • Single application and its programming code

Database details discovery, source database system

  • Database engine

  • Database editions

  • Schemas

  • Database size

  • Runtime metrics (for example, server memory usage, client connections, transactions, batch requests)

Storage details discovery

The ability to discover storage details, such as systems, types, capacity, configuration, utilization, and object metadata

Not available

File system details discovery

Not available

Software details discovery

Not available

Container details discovery

  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

  • Azure Kubernetes Service

  • Docker

  • Google Kubernetes Engine

  • Kubernetes

  • Red Hat OpenShift

  • Rancher

License discovery

Not available

Data sovereignty support

The ability to keep discovered data within a specific geographic region

Not available

Data export ability

The ability to export the discovered data into a usable format, such as CSV or JSON

Not available