A typical application environment consists of different components that interact in a variety of ways to fulfill requests from the application's users:

• Web applications served from an application server
• Databases or other data stores
• Remote services such as message queues and caches

Splunk AppDynamics app agents automatically discover the most common application frameworks and services. Using built-in application detection and configuration settings, agents collect application data and metrics to build flow maps.

A flow map visually represents the components of your application to help you understand how data flows among the application components. For example, the business transaction flow map for a simple e-commerce application shows data flowing between web services, message queues, and databases:

Automatic detection lets you start exploring Splunk AppDynamics features quickly. As your understanding of Splunk AppDynamics matures and you identify areas unique to your environment, you can refine your application model.