Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance referred as Virtual Appliance, offers robust solution to package, deploy and operate the Splunk AppDynamics software. This is a self-hosted deployment that reduces the onboarding time by streamlining the process. Virtual Appliance packages compatible versions of Splunk AppDynamics services, such as, Controller, Events, and End User Monitoring. Splunk AppDynamics components are containerized and deployed as Kubernetes^®(K8s) services packaged with the Virtual Appliance image.

Virtual Appliance supports add-on features such as:

• Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis that help you reduce the Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Identify (MTTI), see Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis
• Cisco Secure Application (CSA) that helps you to reduce the risk of security exposure, see Cisco Secure Application.

These add-on services are available for your environment based on your license agreement.

The following Splunk AppDynamics components are available along with the other infrastructure services:

• Controller
• Events Service
• End User Monitoring
• Synthetic Monitoring

To determine the component versions packaged with the Virtual Appliance OVA, see Virtual Appliance Package Contents.