The APM Agent (Java Agent) communicates to the Secure Application service through the Splunk AppDynamics Controller. This is a high-level architecture of Secure Application.

1. You install the supported APM Agent and then add the Secure Application license.
2. The APM-managed application runs and the APM Agent retrieves the data to send to the Controller.
3. The Secure Application service retrieves the application, tiers, and nodes data from the Controller.
4. The APM Agent communicates with the Secure Application service to check if the security is enabled for the application.
5. If the security is enabled, then the agent downloads the configuration along with the policies from the Secure Application service.
6. Based on the configured policies, the agent sends the security events to the Secure Application service.
7. The service collects all the data, analyzes the application behavior, and then provides the analyzed data to the Secure Application dashboard.