Install and configure the following agents to append the Splunk log data with the request GUID, business transaction ID, and node ID. The Splunk Universal Forwarder that ingests these logs is configured to further augment the log data with the Splunk AppDynamics application name and tier name. This combined data facilitates correlation between the Splunk AppDynamics APM entities and Splunk logs for those entities.

• Java Agent
• .Net Agent
• Node.js Agent

The agent configuration utilizes Mapped Diagnostic Context (MDC) to improve the application logging. MDC allows you to store contextual information in a logging message. The MDC is a key-value store propagated between logging events. You can use it to store information and then include that information in every log message included in a single request.