Extensions and Custom Metrics

Using the Machine Agent, you can supplement the existing metrics in the Splunk AppDynamics Controller UI with your own custom metrics. There are many extensions currently available on the Cisco DevNet site. Some are created by Splunk AppDynamics and some have been created by users.

Similar to built-in metrics, your custom metrics are subject to the following Splunk AppDynamics features:

  • Automatic baselines and anomaly detection

  • Availability to display on custom dashboards

  • Availability to use in policies
  • Visibility of all metrics in the Metric Browser and on the Infrastructure tab (where you can display external metrics and Splunk AppDynamics metrics on the same graph)
Note: The first reported metric value is visible in the Server Visibility metric browser, but not in the Application Performance Monitoring metric browser. This is an expected behavior designed to optimize metric reporting and prevent memory overhead.